The kids behind the voices of the “Peanuts” characters in the 1960s.
Ha! Now that is cool!
Peanuts creator Charles Schultz thought it was important for the children on the animated adaptation of his comic strip to have the voices of actual children. The kids who were cast for the roles were all around the age of their onscreen counterparts, with Cathy Steinberg being only 4 years old when she was hired to play the role of Sally Brown. She was discovered living next door to producer Lee Mendelson.
Similarly, the voice Charlie, Todd Barbee, was discovered thanks to his father, Chuck, who was Mendelson’s director of photography.
For people who grew up with the Peanuts gang, it’s interesting to finally see “the kids behind the voices.”
These two photos both feature the same giant tortoise named Jonathan. The photo on the left was taken in 1902 and the photo on the right was taken in 2017! Jonathan was born in 1832 and today he is 186 years old!
Jonathan, the oldest known living animal in the world, lives on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Most animals don’t even come close to outliving their owners. The tortoise is the rare case where you may have to arrange for someone to care for your pet after YOU die.., and then even after the next persons!
The first vacuum cleaner. (Made by Siemens, in Germany, 1906.)
If you think the vacuum cleaner that you have now is a pain in the neck, imagine hauling this behemoth of a machine around the house while you try to clean up. At the time Siemens referred to these mechanized monsters as “dedusting pumps.”
These machines weighed around 660 pounds! If you wanted to “dedust” your home with one of these things it was no small effort. Thankfully, a better version of this “dedusting pump” was on the horizon, and it didn’t weigh as much as a car!
A rare photo showing a 19-year-old Jimi Hendrix during his time in the US Army, where he trained as a paratrooper in 1961.
Before he was a legendary guitar musician, Jimi Hendrix was serving in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army where he trained as a paratrooper. He trained at Fort Campbell, Kentucky after joining the military in lieu of serving time in prison for car theft. Hendrix wasn’t a fan of the military, and he really hated training.
Eventually, he received a discharge and ended up getting back to his guitar.
Tragically, his mainstream career would span only four years. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, but alcohol and drugs took their toll on him, and he ended up choking to death on his own vomit, while asleep and overdosed on sleeping pills.
Sad.
Grandpa Munster, 1965
Can’t you hear the theme music now? The Munsters aired from 1964 to 1966. Grampa Munster was played by Al Lewis. He had a lab beneath the Munsters’ home where he was always cooking up some weird scientific experiment. The magazine he’s looking at here is what gets me!
Too funny!
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State was a real doozy!
On May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington State. For two months prior to the explosion, a series of earthquakes continually rocked the state while St. Helens spewed steam. It was obvious that the volcano was going to erupt, but it was just a question of when. At 8:32 a.m., a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that came from directly beneath the mountain triggered the largest rock slide in history.
Following the landslide, a gas charged, partially molten rock and high pressure blast of steam exploded out of the mountain, following a series of smaller bursts that spewed ash and pumice as lava flowed freely from the mountain.
Does one major volcanic eruption generate more climate-altering gas than that produced by humans in their entire history?
This argument that human-caused carbon emissions are merely a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases generated by volcanoes has been making its way around for years.
Well…, the devil is in the details.
If you’re looking at carbon dioxide emissions only, that’s not the case. But volcanoes spew out billions of tons of poisonous gasses as well, like Sulphur and chlorine, in addition to carbon dioxide.
It’s a typical case of manipulating the facts with word games to suit your narrative.
Yes…, one major volcanic eruption generates more pollution, in general, than that produced by humans in their entire history, which only includes the last 160 years by the way, which is when people started to burn fuel to run engines, machines and other equipment.
There are other natural sources of air pollution as well.
Methane is emitted by the digestion of food by animals.
Smoke and carbon monoxide are produced by wildfires. During periods of active wildfires, this smoke can make up almost 75% of all air pollution by concentration.
Vegetation, in some regions, emits environmentally significant amounts of Volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
It turns out that The Earth is pretty adept at handling its own air pollution in its own ways.
The Earth doesn’t need our help one way or the other.
The Earth will still be here, doing its own thing, long after we are gone.
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