A break from “news” with a focus on music, art, photos, history, and sports. Occasional glimpses into my life.
White Sox win first pennant in 40 years
Unfortunately the Dodgers got 2 wins and 2 saves from Larry Sherry to win the series.
My dad was a big White Sox fan and used to tell me about this series so it always makes me think about him—plus this was the year of my birth so that was a very big year for him personally.
I’ve always been fascinated by the process of building tunnels …
Immersed tube is what it sounds like: constructing sections above ground that are then immersed and connected together.
Using engineering genius the Venetians — refugees from nearby towns seeking shelter from Visigoths and later Attila the Hun around 500-550 AD — turned a series of swampy islands into a real city and then into the global center of commerce by the 9th century, well before the time of Marco Polo in the late 13th century.
https://youtu.be/77omYd0JOeA?si=QcsfQ_SwjlqkKk0H
As the population grew they encountered the usual problems with growing cities — fresh water and waste disposal — and once again employed engineering genius to solve them in simple, effective and efficient ways.
Venice was the capitol of the Republic of Venice, for 1100 years a global power until conquered by Napoleon in 1797.
The Great Slave Lake in Canada, in the Northwest Territories, is over 2,000 feet deep, deepest in North America.
https://youtu.be/vZ8HQadZ__I?si=R6KkoIjOSezFUKKr
I have never heard of it. Learn something new every day!
And yes, the name seems a little odd but it’s named after a family named “Slavey”. Also kinda odd, but then lots of names are odd when you really think about it …