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Duque de Bragança

#52020
September 30, 2015, 08:51:37 AM
Devil Doctor, the Watcher of Time. Not too bad.

lustindarkness

#52021
September 30, 2015, 09:31:29 AM
San Francisco in 1851 was still in the gold rush right? Cool pic.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Syt

#52022
September 30, 2015, 09:41:10 AM
Quote from: lustindarkness on September 30, 2015, 09:31:29 AM
San Francisco in 1851 was still in the gold rush right? Cool pic.

It would be. It had ca. 25,000 inhabitants in 1850. So not sure which part of town the picture is from - I'm guessing outskirts? Harbor looked more like this:



EDIT: According to the Wikipedia article on the Gold Rush, the first picture shows Portsmouth Square.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Brain

#52023
September 30, 2015, 09:42:03 AM
Gay.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#52024
September 30, 2015, 09:43:30 AM
And this is Portsmouth Square these days, part of Chinatown:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

lustindarkness

#52025
September 30, 2015, 09:55:54 AM
Always cool to compare the old pics with the new ones.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

DGuller

#52027
September 30, 2015, 10:44:12 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on September 30, 2015, 10:29:47 AM
Quick, buy that hill nobody seems to want.
While you were saying this, 160 years have passed.   :hmm: It's true what they say about Canadians.

Eddie Teach

#52028
September 30, 2015, 10:49:34 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 30, 2015, 10:44:12 AM
It's true what they say about Canadians.

That they're afraid of the dark?  :huh:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ideologue

#52029
September 30, 2015, 11:08:53 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 30, 2015, 04:07:10 AM
White Wizard, The Master of Time (I picked the last letter of last name, as I have no middle name).

Flare Warrior, Rogue of Asia.

Turns out I'm more like Curtis LeMay than I thought.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Eddie Teach

#52030
September 30, 2015, 11:30:11 AM
Crazed Professor, the Mistake of the Future  :showoff:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

katmai

#52032
September 30, 2015, 12:04:11 PM
Killer Stalker the Assassin of the future.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

crazy canuck

#52033
September 30, 2015, 12:19:52 PM
Sonic Cyborg, the Consort of Lust.

I like it. :D

Josquius

#52034
September 30, 2015, 12:44:32 PM
Quote from: Syt on September 30, 2015, 08:47:14 AM
San Francisco, 1851.



I would like my job printed.
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