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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix

Hacker News·4 months ago
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Many connoisseurs of architecture are enthralled by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and I M Pei, who shared a belief that form follows function, or, as Wright had it, that form and function are one.

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Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online
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Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online

Hacker News·4 months ago
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Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.

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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber
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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber

Hacker News·5 months ago
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Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

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The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It
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The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

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The 80-second clip above captures a rocket launch, something of which we've all seen footage at one time or another. What makes its viewers call it 'the greatest shot in television' still today, 45 years after it first aired, may take more than one…

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