harles Lindburg is known mainly as the aviator who first flew solo across the Atlantic. But Lindburg was also involved in leading-edge scientific research & invention, and he was associated with .
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Conservative
onservative attitudes, positions and behavior emphasize and prioritize stability and safety. If it’s not really broken, it’s not really urgent to fix it. Look before you leap. While changes may recommend themselves, there are always transient implemention costs, and not infrequently there are losses & losers, and even permanent drawbacks & downsides. Liberal is not …
Superhuman emergency strength
uperhuman emergency strength is most often illustrated in the lifting of automobiles off victims pinned underneath, by a rescuer who is not a powerful person, and not athletic. The lesson taken & offered is, that when it is really needed, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary strength – which is not in itself a remarkable, …
Treesearch, US Forest Service Publications the U.S. Forest Service online library
reesearch is the site [1. U.S. Forest Service website] that provides easy access to a database of tens of thousands of Forest Service research papers, documents and projects from across a span of many decades. The Forest Service itself is divided administratively into six Regions and corresponding Research Stations, each of which has historically addressed …
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Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments
nsel Adams was a successful commercial photographer & artist with a long career. But in 1941 he contracted with the government to record scenes in National Parks and public lands. This body of work became legal public property, and the set of 220 images is now becoming fully available to the public. Many are familiar …
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