Author: DXO
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North Park Nature Center Panoramas Through Time
From 2003 to 2010 I took wide-angle panormas of the North Park Nature Center, a huge expanse of land in the middle of the city with all sorts of hills, prairies, and ponds.
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Lockport, IL, September 2003– Canal Building
Lockport, IL is a cool little town founded in 1830. It is one of those key cogs in the rise of commerce that is easy to forget. I spent a couple hours in Lockport in September 2003 before an appointment. Here are some pics. Here’s some text from their city website: Lockport’s rich canal heritage…
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Islamist Web Site Indicates Top Insurgent Is Badly Wounded
May 24, 2005By JOHN F. BURNS and TERENCE NEILAN BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 24 – An Internet site used by the group Al Qaeda in Iraq said today that its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been wounded, and it asked for Muslims to pray for his recovery. “Let everybody know that the injury of our leader…
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Math
Here’s an “On The Same Day” that must be hitting the math world hard: George B. Dantzig Dies at 90; Devised Math Solution to Broad Problems While making calculations for the Air Force in 1947, Dr. Dantzig developed the simplex algorithm, which enabled mathematicians, economists and others to consider large numbers of variables in broad-reaching…
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Lincoln Park Zoo Lion House
Here’s a look at the ceiling of the Lion House at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The Chicago Commission on Landmarks recently granted it preliminary landmark status. Here’s some text about it from the Inside Newspaper: Now known as the Kovler Lion House, the Beaux-Arts and Prairie-style building exemplifies an important period in Chicago…