2012-11-18
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photo 16:52:00
This is a 1960s postcard of the Army Corps of Engineer’s model of the Mississippi river basin, built in Clinton, MS. Approved in 1943, the model wasn’t finished until 1966, and it was made obsolete by computer models (as opposed to hydraulic ones) within a decade.
It’s now abandoned and decaying.
(via chriswoebken; thanks)
2012-02-24
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quote 18:43:05
“ As we drive out to the new dock wall, the car’s sat nav shows us sailing out into the Thames - the map has not yet been updated for a project that has literally redesigned the coastline of Essex. ”
Yes, it’s from the Evening Standard’s Life and Style section, but Supersize superport: London Gateway by Kieran Long is a surprisingly good read about the new container port being constructed on the Thames estuary. (via iamdanw)
(via iamdanw)
2010-02-09
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photo 14:00:55
Amphibious bus on the river Clyde (news story).
Photograph by Danny Lawson, via the PA.
2009-01-27
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photo 13:45:00
Nancy Stallworth and Emil Tolimieri holding hands on banks of the Tombigbee River below ante-bellum Riverview mansion where they are attending a morale-boosting party for cadets at nearby Army Flying Academy. Columbus, Mississippi. 1943.
