Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

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Fake Books708 viewsThe hollowed-out books provide places to hide your stash.
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Reservation Tipi708 viewsPlateau Indians continued to put up tipis even after they moved into regular houses, and some still use them to house visitors (especially white tourists looking for the authentic Indian experience, who pay lucrative fees for the privilege), or to sleep in during hot summer months (because it was better than the air conditioning supplied by the housing contractors).
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Looking South from Sarah and Mike's708 viewsThe Lake Ballinger shore is overgrown with lilypads and lined with trees, rushes, and shrubs of all sorts. In some cases you can hardly see the houses.
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022708 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022708 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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The Amphitheater at Aphrodisias707 viewsThe theater was built in the late first century BC under the patronage of Gaius Julius Zoilus, a native of Aphrodisias who had become a slave of Julius Caesar but was freed by his heir Octavian. Returning to his birthplace a wealthy man, Zoilus initiated a vast building program, of which the Amphitheater was one of the first fruits.
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12 minutes to Second Contact707 viewsSeems like the Moon has a long way to go to annularity - will it make it in time?
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Atmosphere707 viewsSide seemed like a small town with a relaxed, good-natured ambience, notwithstanding the hordes of crazed barbarians from all over the world come to watch the eclipse.
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Waterway707 viewsThe main street of Perge is actually a divided highway, with a 2-meter-wide water channel running down the middle.
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Middle of Column707 viewsI'm guessing, on the basis of the bow in her hand, that the figure depicted here is the Greek goddess Artemis the Huntress.
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Nymphaeum707 viewsThe Nymphaeum was a monumental fountain, built in the second century AD, at the end of the colonnaded main street by the Acropolis.
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Yali707 viewsWaterside houses like these are known as yali in Turkish. They are found on both sides of the Bosphorus but especially the Asian side. They are usually second homes for the very wealthy.
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