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@catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Broadway Tower, England.
Looks replica-ish to me.
Yes, it looks like an 18th or 19th century neo-Gothic folly.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
A “petroglyph” (new word to me) from 8000BC.
As interesting, if not more, is Göbekli Tepe, which has archeologists stumped.
It is a fully formed neolithic temple, which somewhat predates any stone founded city, and has no indication of the sort of human habitation needed to organize, build, and service a temple cultus. It seems to have been built by hunter-gathers (pre village, pre agrarian), who yet had 3 dimensional plastic art form of animals carved out of stone, rather than petroglyphs which were carved into stone.
10,000 year old art -- for reference these are more than twice as old as the Pyramids at Giza.
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Speaking of VW's. My family had a 1957 (or '58) VW. It had no fuel gauge, rather an auxiliary tank. You had to keep track of how far you had driven since the last fill up to know when to gas up.
You did have an auxiliary fuel tank, with a gallon's capacity.
That changed in 1962 with a real gas gauge.
https://www.thegoldenbug.com/en/air-cooled_vw_history/d3/beetle_changes
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@ivorythumper that was a fun film.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I’ve not seen that IT but I’m intrigued.
Movie was average. The story behind Sutton Hoo is nucking futs on a number of levels.
Please love yourself.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
I’ve not seen that IT but I’m intrigued.
Movie was average. The story behind Sutton Hoo is nucking futs on a number of levels.
@aqua-letifer I agree-- both the leads just looked old and dowdy. not a particularly interesting story line, but an interesting subject matter.
