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 | Ashley Freese, Paula (nee Gamble) King and Donna (nee Gamble) Freese Ashley Freese, Paula (nee Gamble) King and Donna (nee Gamble) Freese in Colorado March 2015. |
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 | Asst Sec Joseph Henry Brigham. Served as a Senator from Ohio ans as the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. |
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 | Astounding Science Fiction Nov 1942. Catherine and Henry had a huge body of work, both individually and as collaborators. One of their stories was "The Twonky", a cautionary tale about over-reliance on technology and authoritarian entities. It was first released in the November 1942 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine.It was released under the pen name Lewis Padgett which was one of the pseudonyms used by Henry and Catherine when they collaborated.
In 1996 the Hugo Award for science fiction literature added a retro category to allow work written before there was a Hugo award to be recognized. In 2018 The Twonky was awarded the Hugo Retro Award for Best Short Story of 1943.
In 1898 National Public Radio on their show "Science Fiction" did a radio version of the story faithful to the original magazine story. |
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 | Astro 1 The Astro-1 instrument package extending out the open shuttle cargo bay doors. |
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 | Astro 1. Four instruments made up the Astro-1 Observatory: the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE), and the Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT). The Astro ultraviolet telescopes photograph the UV sky (imaging), measure the energy distribution of UV wavelengths (spectroscopy), and analyze the intensity and orientation of UV light (photometry and polarimetry). The Astro X-ray telescope uses spectroscopy to measure the energy distribution of X-ray photons.
By using more than one instrument, Astro-1 gathered different types of information at the same time on the same objects. It was the first observatory that could simultaneously take ultraviolet pictures of objects, study their ultraviolet and X-ray spectra, and determine brightness and structure through photometry and polarimetry.
Astro-1 viewed targets ranging from our solar system’s backyard to the depths of the cosmos. The target list included virtually every kind of object in the astrophysical sky, from tightly grouped clusters of stars to large, tenuous nebulas. |
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 | Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Often presented as part of the flight this is actually part of a flight simulation. |
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 | Astronaut's Proud Family. The Kingston (New York) Daily Freeman, Saturday, May 6, 1961 page 7. |
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 | Athena Lee Athena Lee |
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 | Athena Lee Bass. Athena Lee Bass. |
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 | Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Postcard. Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. |
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 | Atlanta Roundhouse Ruins. Atlanta was largely destroyed in the Civil War. Some things like this railroad round house were destroyed by fleeing rebels to prevent the assets from being used by the Union Army. Much more was destroyed when the Union Army left. Fires and explosions set to destroy military assets spread and destroyed much of the city. |
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 | Atlanta Slave Market. Atlanta Slave Market. Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, Photographed by George N. Barnard sometime in September to November of 1864. |
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 | Atlanta. Atlanta Georgia. |
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 | Atlantis STS-76 from Mir. Atlantis STS-76 as seen from the Russian space station Mir. |
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 | Attack on Fort Darling. The attack on Fort Darling or the battle of Drury's Bluff was a naval amphibious battle fought in an attempt to test the defenses of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. The fort was well defended and the Union forces were forced to turn back. |
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 | Attack on the Wagon Train. Pictorial history of King Philip's War by Daniel Strock Jr. Published by Horace Wentworth, Boston 1853. Page 104. |
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 | Aubrey Russell Avery Aubrey Russell Avery |
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 | Audrey (Reynolds) Diggins Audrey (Reynolds) Diggins |
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 | Audrey Reynolds Audrey Reynolds |
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 | Audrey Reynolds Audrey Reynolds |
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 | Audrie Flagg Illinois, Joliet, Joliet Central High School, 1919 |
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 | August William Sylk. Denise Crosby and son, August William Sylk. |
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 | Augustus Belnap. Pioneers and prominent men of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah pioneers book publishing company, 1913. |
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 | Aurora 7 & Logo Before & After. Aurora 7 & Logo Before & After. |
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 | Aurora 7. The Aurora 7 space capsule is now on permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.
The Mercury capsule was capable of keeping and astronaut alive and returning him to Earth and nothing more. Yet that was enough to cause trouble for Carpenter. The start of that trouble was a malfunctioning yaw sensor. Due to bad data the computer was keeping the spacecraft misaligned. Realigning the spacecraft used more fuel than the mission called for.
On the ground the flight controller sent a constant stream of orders via capcoms for Carpenter to conserve his fuel. Carpenter wasn't worried. After the first orbit the computer lit the low fuel warning light. Carpenter promptly covered it with a piece of tape so it wouldn’t bother him.
He did his best to conserve the remaining fuel while accomplishing the experiments he was tasked with. He also experienced "fireflies". Mysterious flashing lights that were first seen by John Glen when he accomplished America's first orbital space flight. Carpenter was able to determine they were nothing more than frost coming off the capsule itself.
He was accused of inattention which other than investigating the "fireflies" wasn't the case. He was also accused of panicking which, flight recordings of his medical data, his heart rate, blood pressure, etc. show that wasn't the case.
After 3 orbits and just shy of 5 hours, reentry began 3 seconds late. This ended up causing him to overshooting his re-entry target by about 250 miles.
After learning from NASA that the recovery crew were at least an hour away, Carpenter crawled out of the cramped, hot capsule. He dropped a life raft into the ocean, and took the time to relax and think about the mission. When the recovery divers swam up to the raft three hours later, Carpenter offered them some food from his survival kit.
More than anything this pointed out the biggest flaw of the Mercury era. The orbiting astronaut, an experienced test pilot wanted to be in command of his mission, but so did the Flight Director who was an engineer. Eventually the Gemini missions became more complex and the balance of power forever shifted in the astronaut's favor.
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 | Aurora Il 1875. Aurora Il 1875. |
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 | Aurora, Kane, Illinois. 1867 Aurora, Kane, Illinois. 1867 |
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 | Austin Swift. Austin Swift. |
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 | Austin W Wheelock. The Wheelock Family in America 1637-1969 by Walter T. Wheelock. Page 78. |
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 | Aux Sable Village. A history plaque at the Aux Sable Illinois and Michigan canal locks and aqueduct at Aux Sable. |
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 | Avenatti Charged. His career ended in disgrace when he was convicted of extortion. |
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 | Avery and Louise (nee Hale) Wheelock Avery and Louise (nee Hale) Wheelock |
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 | Avery Beach Hotel. Avery Beach Hotel. |
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 | Avery Beverages Avery Beverages - Sherman Francis Avery founder of Avery Beverages in Connecticut is the fifth great grandson of James Avery. The business still exists but, it is no longer owned by Avery family. |
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 | Avery Beverages. Avery Beverages. |
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 | Avery Company Peoria. The Groton Avery Clan Volume II page 811. By Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery. Cleveland 1912. |
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 | Avery Coonley House. Avery Coonley House. |
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 | Avery Gaul. The New York Herald, September 17, 1922, section 7, page 5. |
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 | Avery Hall. The University of Nebraska Chemistry Laboratory building was in 1916 named Avery Hall in his honor. |
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 | Avery Harrison and Rae Una (nee Smith) Wheelock with a seat from their Ferris wheel ride Avery Harrison and Rae Una (nee Smith) Wheelock with a seat from their Ferris wheel ride |
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 | Avery House Mount Clemins, Michigan. Avery House Mount Clemins. Picture extracted from a panoramic map of Mount Clemins published by the Macomb Company of Michigan in 1881. |
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 | Avery House, Ft. Collins. Avery House, Ft. Collins. |
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 | Avery Island Clan. Town & Country Magazine, New York, February 1979 page 85. |
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 | Avery Island Wildlife. Today in spite of the salt mining, oil production and the Tabasco Sauce production facilities the island is a preservation spot for wetlands and a wildlife sanctuary. |
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 | Avery Island. When is an island not an island? Avery Island is actually a geological formation known as a "salt dome". It stand above the surrounding area which is all wetlands. At it's highest point it is 163 feet above sea level. This makes it the highest point on the Gulf Coast. The original French explorers called it "Ile Petite Anse" or Little Cove Island.
The first family to settle there was the Marsh family who grew sugar cane there. Their land eventually came under the control of Daniel Dudley Avery and his wife Sarah Craig (Marsh) Avery. In the late 1800's the land would be renamed Avery Island in honor of Daniel Dudley Avery.
Map extracted from the United States Geological Survey, Delcambre, Louisiana, 7.5-minute Quadrangle map. 1994 version. |
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 | Avery Library. Elroy founded the Avery Library and Historical Society. This would evolve into the New Port Richey Public Library. |
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 | Avery Memorial Park. The first major project of the Avery Family Association was the creation the James Avery monument. Located on the very site of the Avery house. Some of the ruined foundation and chimney are still there.
The monument is a 23-foot-high polished granite column topped off with a bronze bust of James Avery. The bust was designed by famed sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt who is the 7X great grandson of James Avery.
Photo from The Grotan Avery Clan |
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 | Avery Memorial. In 1900 the Avery Memorial was dedicated. A tall granite column topped off with a bronze bust of James. The nearby piles of stone are the remnants of the homes chimneys. The base is engraved with the generations of Averys that occupied the home.
Captain James Avery 1656-1700
Captain James Avery Jr. 1700-1728
Colonel Ebenezer Avery 1728-1752
Elder Park Avery 1752-1797
Lieutenant Park Avery Jr. 1797-1821
Youngs Avery 1821-1837
Park William Avery 1837-1868
James Denison Avery 1868-1894
Picturesque New London and its environs, Groton, Mystic, Montville, Waterford, at the commencement of the twentieth century; notable features of interest, by American Book Exchange, New London, Connecticut, 1901. Page 190. |
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 | Avery Mountain. Avery Mountain. |
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 | Avery on 57th Street. Avery on 57th Street. A self portrait painted 1943. |
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