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Early explorer John Fremont described them as the most repulsive tree in the vegetable Kingdom

These images seek to reinvigorate the genius of the Blues and give praise to the pioneering Prometheus-like "thieves' who stole this energetic and powerful expression at the crossroads

View spanning mouth of San Francisco Bay

Headless Plane

NASA's First Launch Football WWI Gas Masks displayed forA new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla: the Bumper 2, an ambitious two stage rocket program that topped a V 2 missile base with a Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then record altitudes of almost 250 miles, higher than the International Space Station's orbit. Launched under the direction of the General Electric Company, Bumper 2 was used primarily for testing