Archive for August 6th, 2012

Aug

PART OF PORTLAND UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Terwilliger Parkway, 1911

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Aug

This 1950’s cereal premium was powered by ordinary baking soda

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Aug

The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bomber

Pilot Paul Tibbets waives from Enola Gay’s cockpit before
taking off for the bombing mission

The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

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Aug

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

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