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Smells Like Updogsarebarking

Two Venezuelan Boy Scouts, Rafael Petit, left and Juan Carmona, right, examining their boots after tramping 25 miles a day for two years in order to attend the Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington the left Caraca, Januray 11, 1935 arriving in Washington today, DC June 16, 1937

WOAH! via LOC

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Curly Risers

1963, the year Curly W was born/porn

above is a replica of the very first Curly W hat.  The Washington Senators (version 2) wore this cap from 1963-67

there’s Curly W, and then there’s everything else, which is nothing

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Irony Eyes Cody

President Jimmy Carter dons an Indian headdress as he chats with Iron Eyes Cody, the ‘concerned Indian’, during a ceremony at the White House at which the President met with leaders of Keep America Beautiful, Inc on the eve of tomorrow’s observance of national Keep America Beautiful Day.  Washington, DC, April 21st, 1978 [Corbis]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU ALL ITALIAN/ZERO NATIVE AMERICAN MAN!!!

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NFC East Likely To Succeed

celebrate the living, while it lives

a look back at RFK Stadium

love it how RFK still (barely) stands, while Texas, Giants & Veterans stadiums have all gotsen demolished!!!!  SO LONG DUMPHOLES!!!

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Cave of Unforgotten Dreams

did you know that there’s a giant cavern underneath the Lincoln Memorial, filled with stalactites and stalagmites???????

how do we know this?  somehow, someway, when wees was a kid, we had the über-rare chance to take a tour underneath Abe’s chair, and while our memory has receded over the years (college does that to you), we have never forgotten about that tour.  we even started having crazy flashbacks when watching the fellowship run round in the Mines of Moria!!!  it’s true!!

yo, juss CHECK OUT THIS TOUR FOOTAGE FROM 1988!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! including a close-up of Mutt & Jeff drawings on a wall!!!!!!!!!!!  incredibles!!!!!!!!!!

well, we took a recent look into it and apparently tours do happen, but remain rare, if not next to impossible to take.  we’re sure 9/11 made it even more impossiblerer!!!

somehow these peoples below were able to make it happen back in 2008, so there is hope!!!

here are some other people who remember taking the tour… decades ago

National Park Service’s GeoStory of the Lincoln Memorial

1961 newspaper article about the cavern

help me help you and lets finger out how we can take a tour of the basement of the Alamo Lincoln Memorial!!!  write your congresswoman today!!!!!!!

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