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  • Namibia: Helicopter Safari

    Everyone who visits Namibia wants to go on a safari – there are game parks and private farms all over Namibia that will drive you through the bush on a 4×4 outfitted with bench seats so you can “ooh” and “aah” over the endless animals and landscape of the country.  And of course, there’s Namibia’s…

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  • Boys Beware: Views on Homosexuality in 1961

    For a change from the standard fare offered on YouTube, it’s fun to stop by occasionally at the Prelinger Archives, a diverse collection of thousands of preserved films from the ages, all available for download in the public domain.  In addition to being interesting, the collection offers insights on changing attitudes over the years.  Most…

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  • Silly AFN Commercials

    If you’ve had the pleasure of watching the Armed Forces Network which is produced for U.S. military and many other categories of government employees serving overseas, you’ll remember those irritating commercials.  After you’ve been without AFN for awhile, according to many people, the feeling you have for these commercials becomes a fondness.  But this takes…

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  • Found film: Cowboy Outfit – Yellowstone!

    One more installment in the “found film” series. This series of photos came to us via eBay from an unknown camera. The first and fourth photos feature a little girl – one posing in a cowboy (-girl) outfit, and the other is from what looks like a camping trip perhaps. They appear to be from…

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  • Photos from the Oregon Country Fair

    Since 1969, the Oregon Country Fair has been a gathering of the wacky, existing as a three-day fair in Veneta (near Eugene) with a counterculture theme that attracts as many as 45,000 visitors.  This year, those visitors included us.  We had great food, met interesting people, and heard lots of great music (even buying a…

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