U.S. Flag But Each Star Is Scaled To Their State’s Population and Geographical Position.
American Demographic Flag
Year: 2021
Re-construction on the highways
South Central Manitoba highway work.
Various Critters
Walrus taking a snooze on a submarine.
Giant in the fog.
Harvest. Deer is okay.
Bison in Yellowstone.
The domesticants.
Yawning leopard.
Pelicans.
Caribou at full gallop.
Photogenic lion.
Another Girl, Another Planet
“Another Girl, Another Planet”
I always flirt with death
I look ill but I don’t care about it
I can face your threats
And stand up straight and tall and shout about it
I think I’m on another world with you
With you
I’m on another planet with you
With you
You get under my skin
I don’t find it irritating
You always play to win
But I won’t need rehabilitating
I think I’m on another world with you
With you
I’m on another planet with you
With you
Another girl, another planet
Another girl, another planet
Space travel’s in my blood
There ain’t nothing I can do about it
Long journeys wear me out
But I know I can’t live without it
I think I’m on another world with you
With you
I’m on another planet with you
With you
Another girl is loving you now
Another planet is holding you down
Another planet
Striking Skyscraper in Chicago
Aqua is an 87-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago designed in the Modern architectural style.
Aqua was designed by Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, and it is her first skyscraper project. This is the largest project ever awarded to an American firm headed by a woman. Loewenberg & Associates are the architects of record, led by James Loewenberg.
The building contains 55,000 square feet (5,100 square meters) of retail and office space, in addition to 215 hotel rooms (floors 1-18), 476 rental residential units (floors 19-52), and 263 condominium units & Penthouses (floors 53-80). Aqua is the first downtown building to combine condos, apartments and a hotel.
The name ‘Aqua’ was assigned to the building by Magellan Development Group LLC. It fits the nautical theme of the other buildings in the Lakeshore East development, and is derived from the wave-like forms of the balconies; the tower’s proximity to nearby Lake Michigan also influenced the name.
Sustainability was also an important factor in Aqua’s design. Gang and her team refined the terrace extensions to maximize solar shading, and other sustainable features will include rainwater collection systems and energy-efficient lighting. The green roof on top of the tower base will be the largest in Chicago.
| Construction started | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Completed | 2009 |
| Cost | US$300 million |
| Owner | Aqua Realty Holdings LLC |
| Height | 261.8 m (859 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 87 1 below ground |
| Floor area | 1,990,635 sq ft (184,936.0 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 24 |
Imagine having cocktails on the 75th floor balcony. One hell of a view. And drinking a few cocktails is the only way I would walk onto that balcony.
Las Vegas in the early days
The Mighty Vegas Strip today.
The Beginnings…
Las Vegas started as a stopover on the pioneer trails to the west, and became a popular railroad town in the early 20th century. It was a staging point for mines in the surrounding area, especially those around the town of Bullfrog, that shipped goods to the rest of the country.
With the proliferation of the railroads, Las Vegas became less important, but the completion of the nearby Hoover Dam in 1935 resulted in growth in the number of residents and increased tourism.The dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of the city, formed Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States.
The legalization of gambling in 1931 led to the advent of the casino hotels for which Las Vegas is famous. Major development occurred in the 1940s, “due almost entirely” to the influx of scientists and staff from the Manhattan Project, an atomic bomb research project of World War II.
American organized crime figures such as Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and Meyer Lansky managed or funded most of the original large casinos. The rapid growth of Las Vegas is credited with dooming the gambling industry development of Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other major gambling centers in the 1950s.
Historical Heritage Wall
In downtown Winnipeg is Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park. Upper Fort Garry was a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company’s Fort Gibraltar established by John Wills in 1810 and destroyed by Governor Semple’s men in 1816 during the Pemmican War. Fort Garry was named after Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company. It served as the centre of fur trade within the Red River Colony. In 1826, a severe flood destroyed the fort. It was rebuilt in 1835 by the HBC and named Upper Fort Garry to differentiate it from “the Lower Fort,” or Lower Fort Garry, 32 km downriver, which was established in 1831. Throughout the mid-to-late 19th century, Upper Fort Garry played a minor role in the actual trading of furs, but was central to the administration of the HBC and the surrounding settlement. The Council of Assiniboia, the administrative and judicial body of the Red River Colony mainly run by Hudson’s Bay Company officials, met at Upper Fort Garry.
In the park is a heritage wall. The wall is made out of steel and using LED lights historical events are depicted along the wall. Audio is also provided.
Interesting Photos
France
Giant crypt in Saudi Arabia
Mt. Etna
North Dakota Sunset
Harvard University
Cats and their love for small spaces
Garbage dumpsters
Amish raising a barn in New York state
Nuremberg rally headed by the evil and attended by the brain washed
Florida flood
Moving cattle in the Netherlands
Lightning storm over England
US soldiers with Dutch children dressed in traditional garb 1944
Really Bad Rock Band Names
If you think Nickelback, Smashing Pumpkins, Limp Bizkit and The Bare Naked Ladies are funny mindless band names, you haven’t heard anything yet. The guys who thought up the names below must have been pouring through thesauruses while pumped up on a vodka cocaine mix.
The List in alphabetical order:
Abracadaver
Adickdid
Afrodiziac
Alcoholocaust
Anus the Menace
Baldilocks
Bassholes
Blood Sledge Electric Death Chickens
Bondage A Go Go
BowWowWowHaus
Broadzilla
Bulimia Banquet
Cap’n Crunch and the Cereal Killers
Crappy the Clown and the Punch Drunk Monkies
Deepthroat Shotgun
Dick Duck and the Dorks
Disgruntled Postal Workers
Doris Daze
Dow Jones and the Industrials
Drunken Ugly Basement Brothers
Endangered Feces
Evil Beaver
Fat Welfare Moms On Dust
50 Naked Midgets
The Fred Mertz Experience
The French are from Hell
Frumious Bandersnatch
GangGreen
The Gaza Strippers
Duckbutter
Electric Al and the Poison Dart Frog McNuggets
Epileptic Disco
Ethyl Merman
The Fartz
Fearless Iranians From Hell
The Hostile Amish
Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program
Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds
Lubricated Goat
The Morning Shakes
Organic Condom Mazda Drugs
Porn on the Cob
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Super Sonic Soul Pimps
Titty Bingo
UFOFU
Vomit Launch
The Whip-M-Out Girl’s
Willie Nelson Mandela
Zombies Under Stress
Zombina & The Skeletones
Zorro and the Blue Footballs
Zsa Zsa
Zulu Leprechauns
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