Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia’s east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as “Sydneysiders”. As of June 2020, Sydney’s estimated metropolitan population was 5,367,206, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state’s population. Nicknames of the city include the ‘Emerald City’ and the ‘Harbour City’.
Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal archaeological sites. Around 29 clan groups of the Eora Nation inhabited the region at the time of European contact. During his first Pacific voyage in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to chart the eastern coast of Australia, making landfall at Botany Bay and inspiring British interest in the area. In 1788, the First Fleet of convicts, led by Arthur Phillip, founded Sydney as a British penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Phillip named the settlement after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Penal transportation to New South Wales ended soon after Sydney was incorporated as a city in 1842. A gold rush occurred in the colony in 1851, and over the next century, Sydney transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural and economic centre. After World War II, it experienced mass migration and became one of the most multicultural cities in the world. At the time of the 2011 census, more than 250 different languages were spoken in Sydney. In the 2016 Census, about 35.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 45.4% of the population reported having been born overseas, and the city has the third-largest foreign-born population of any city in the world after London and New York City. Between 1971 and 2018, Sydney lost a net number of 716,832 people to the rest of Australia but its population has continued to grow, largely due to immigration.
Despite being one of the most expensive cities in the world, Sydney frequently ranks in the top ten most liveable cities in the world. It is classified as an Alpha Global City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has an advanced market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing and tourism. There is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as Australia’s financial capital and one of Asia Pacific’s leading financial hubs. Established in 1850, the University of Sydney was Australia’s first university and is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities. Sydney is also home to the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, opened in 1826.
Sydney has hosted major international sporting events such as the 2000 Summer Olympics. The city is among the top fifteen most-visited cities in the world, with millions of tourists coming each year to see the city’s landmarks. Boasting over 1,000,000 ha (2,500,000 acres) of nature reserves and parks, its notable natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, Royal Botanic Garden and Hyde Park, the oldest parkland in the country. Built attractions such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House are also well known to international visitors. The main passenger airport serving the metropolitan area is Kingsford Smith Airport, one of the world’s oldest continually operating airports. Established in 1906, Central station, the largest and busiest railway station in the state, is the main hub of the city’s rail network. (Wikipedia)
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking possibly one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time.[a] It remains to this day the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew much public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.
RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster.
Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith, who went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with a gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants, and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger “marconigrams” and for the ship’s operational use. The Titanic had advanced safety features, such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors. The ship was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each of which were capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats; the Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch while the ship was sinking. Together, the 20 lifeboats were capable of holding 1,178 people—which was only about half the number of passengers on board, and only one-third of the number of passengers that the ship could have carried at full capacity (this was consistent with the maritime safety regulations of the era). In addition, when the ship sank, many of the lifeboats that had been lowered were only about half full.
Titanic had departed from Southampton on 10 April 1912, then stopped at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, before heading west towards New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time. The collision caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and laid five of her sixteen watertight compartments open to the sea; she had been designed to survive the flooding of up to four compartments. Some passengers and crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a “women and children first” protocol for loading lifeboats. At 2:20 am, the ship broke apart and foundered, with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene, and took on board an estimated 710 survivors.
The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage, both at the huge loss of life and at the regulatory and procedural failures that had led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements in maritime safety. One of the most important results of the inquiries was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety today. In addition, there was an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications that had increased the number of fatalities, and as a result, several new wireless regulations were put in place around the world.
The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 by a Franco-American expedition sponsored by the United States Navy. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (2,069.2 fathoms; 3,784 m). Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, depicted in numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only being surpassed by her sister ship HMHS Britannic; however, she is the largest sunk while in service as a liner, as Britannic was in use as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. (Wikipedia)
Today, the Titanic rests, disintegrating at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 12,405 feet below the water’s surface. Take a look at a collection of amazing underwater images of the ship.
A view of the bow and railing of the RMS Titanic.Two of Titanic’s engines lie exposed in a gaping cross section of the stern. Draped in “rusticles”—orange stalactites created by iron-eating bacteria—these massive structures, four stories tall, once powered the largest moving man-made object on Earth.A view of the bow of the RMS Titanic.A view of the bow of the Titanic from a camera mounted on the outside of the Mir I submersible.A view of the steering motor on the bridge of the Titanic.A view of the bathtub in Capt. Smiths bathroom. Rusticles are observed growing over most of the pipes and fixtures in the room.With her rudder cleaving the sand and two propeller blades peeking from the murk, Titanic’s mangled stern rests on the abyssal plain, 1,970 feet south of the more photographed bow. This optical mosaic combines 300 high-resolution images taken on a 2010 expedition.Detached rusticles below port side anchor indicating that the rusticles pass through a cycle of growth, maturation and then fall away. This particular “crop” probably was in a five to ten year cycle.Rusticle hanging from the stern section of the RMS Titanic showing secondary growths during maturation.Rusticles growing down from the stern section of Titanic.China dishes are part of the debris left from the wreck of the Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.The prow of the Titanic.This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows a pair of shoes, lying in close proximity, are, while the visible remains of the victim have disappeared, suggestive evidence of where a victim of the Titanic disaster came to rest.This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows The remains of a coat and boots, articulated in the mud on the sea bed near Titanic’s stern, are suggestive evidence of where a victim of the disaster came to rest.This photo provided by the Institute for Exploration, Center for Archaeological Oceanography/University of Rhode Island/NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, shows The remains of a coat and boots, articulated in the mud on the sea bed near Titanic’s stern, are suggestive evidence of where a victim of the disaster came to rest.An officer’s cabin window on the Titanic’s boat deck starboard side.Starboard wing propeller from Titanic shipwreck.The low pressure cylinder head of the port steam engine of the shipwrecked Titanic.Cooking pots from Titanic shipwreck.An electric meter for the electric light from the compass of the Titanic was recovered from the shipwreck.The stoking ports of a boiler in the debris field of the shipwrecked Titanic.The insides of a power turbine of the Titanic lie on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.The prow of the Titanic, as she lies on the Atlantic Ocean floor south of Newfoundland.An intact glass pane from the window of Captain Edward J. Smith’s cabin hangs open on the Titanic.A ceramic bowl and other debris from the Titanic litter the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.A hull fragment from the Titanic lies on the ocean floor.An opening on the starboard side of the ship’s hull could be damage from the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg on April 14, 1912. About 1,500 people died when the ship sank, breaking in two.
From 1951 to 1955, German photographer Rico Puhlmann studied fashion design, art design, and art history at Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin). Initially, he had worked as fashion styler for magazines such as Burda Moden, Constanze, and the Textil-Report since 1955. Simultaneously, he worked as fashion photographer. His fashion photos were published in leading German and international fashion magazines and journals such as Stern, Petra, Constanze, Brigitte, and the French Vogue since the early Sixties.
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French animal rights activist and former actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.
Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a “locomotive of women’s history” and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth. Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963). For her role in Louis Malle’s film Viva Maria! (1965) she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.
Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. Bardot is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, having been fined five times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France. She is married to Bernard d’Ormale, a former adviser to Marine Le Pen, France’s main far-right political leader. Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received awards from UNESCO and PETA. Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the “50 Most Beautiful Women In Film”. (Wikipedia)
Take a look at the beauty of young Brigitte Bardot from the 1950s through these stunning color photos.
Bristol is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, to the north; and Somerset, to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England.[6] The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English “the place at the bridge”). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts; however, it was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol’s modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK; the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK’s most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was named the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and won the European Green Capital Award in 2015. (Wikipedia)
A bookmobile or mobile library is a vehicle designed for use as a library. They have been known by many names throughout history, including traveling library, library wagon, book wagon, book truck, library-on-wheels, and book auto service.[1] Bookmobiles expand the reach of traditional libraries by transporting books to potential readers, providing library services to people in otherwise underserved locations (such as remote areas) and/or circumstances (such as residents of retirement homes). Bookmobile services and materials (such as Internet access, large print books, and audiobooks), may be customized for the locations and populations served.
Bookmobiles have been based on various means of conveyance, including bicycles, carts, motor vehicles, trains, watercraft, and wagons, as well as camels, donkeys, elephants, horses, and mules. (Wikipedia)
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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time[1] and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music’s recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era’s youth and sociocultural movements.
Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon’s previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after their first hit, “Love Me Do”, in late 1962. As their popularity grew into the intense fan frenzy dubbed “Beatlemania”, the band acquired the nickname “the Fab Four”, with Epstein, Martin and other members of the band’s entourage sometimes given the informal title of “fifth Beatle”.
By early 1964, the Beatles were international stars and had achieved unprecedented levels of critical and commercial success. They became a leading force in Britain’s cultural resurgence, ushering in the British Invasion of the United States pop market, and soon made their film debut with A Hard Day’s Night (1964). From 1965 onwards, they produced records of greater sophistication, including the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and enjoyed further commercial success with The Beatles (also known as “the White Album”, 1968) and Abbey Road (1969). Heralding the album era, their success elevated the album to be the dominant form of record consumption over singles; they also inspired a greater public interest in psychedelic drugs and Eastern spirituality, and furthered advancements in electronic music, album art and music videos. In 1968, they founded Apple Corps, a multi-armed multimedia corporation that continues to oversee projects related to the band’s legacy. After the group’s break-up in 1970, all principal members enjoyed success as solo artists and some partial reunions have occurred. Lennon was murdered in 1980 and Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001. McCartney and Starr remain musically active.
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart, most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million). The band received many accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and each principal member was inducted individually between 1994 and 2015. In 2004 and 2011, the group topped Rolling Stone’s lists of the greatest artists in history. Time magazine named them among the 20th century’s 100 most important people. (Wikipedia)
Beatle fan frenzy in Los Angeles peaked each August from 1964 to 1966. The band performed at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 23, 1964, In 1965 they again performed at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 29th and 30th. On Aug. 28, 1966, they performed at Dodger Stadium.
Aug. 18, 1964: About 500 fans crowded into Los Angeles International Airport to see the Beatles, who were enroute to San Francisco for a concert at the Cow Palace.March 15, 1964: Beatle fans scream at a local Fox West-Coast Theater during rebroadcast nationally by closed-circuit TV of the band’s recent concert in Washington D.C. Tickets were $2.50 per admission. April 25, 1964: Crowd gathers at the Hollywood Bowl to buy tickets for the Beatles August 23, 1964 performance. The Bowl was one of several locations selling tickets. The line of teenagers snaked for several blocks. The concert was sold out in three hours.Aug. 18, 1964: Girls weep with joy after viewing arrival of Beatles’ plane at Los Angeles International Airport.Aug. 23, 1964: Officer Robert Yocum informs Beatle fans Chelie Mylott and Melody Yapscott, right, that they’ll have to move from their spot in front of the Hollywood Bowl. The girls had no tickets but hoped to get them from scalpers or sneak in. Aug. 23, 1964: The Beatles, top center, quickly file into waiting car following press conference at a North Hollywood teen-ager club. Their next stop was for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl.Aug. 23, 1964: The Beatles, top center, quickly file into waiting car following press conference at a North Hollywood teen-ager club. Their next stop was for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl.Aug. 23, 1964: Beverly Kellogg is one of thousands of fans waiting for the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl.Aug. 23, 1964: Fans watching Beatles in concert at the Hollywood Bowl.Aug. 23, 1964: Fans screaming during Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl.Aug. 24, 1964: Actress Nancy Olson helps an girl throught a Beatles reception line during a charity event. From left is George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.Aug. 25, 1964: Beatle fans run pass barricades and rush policemen in effort to reach Bel-Air home where the band was staying. The fans were stopped before reaching the band.Aug. 25, 1964: Beatle fans run pass barricades and rush policemen in effort to reach Bel-Air home where the band was staying.Aug. 25, 1964: The Beatles, from left: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, relax on lawn of rented Bel-Air mansion.Aug. 25, 1964: Ringo Starr plays the role of quick-draw artist as he gets the other Beatles in his sights during rest day for the band at a Bel-Air mansion.Aug. 26, 1964: Members of the Beatles Boosters Fan Club display their anger over traffic ticket given Paula Glasser, left when they pursued car carrying the band. Others in front from left, are Kay Zar, Mickie Tummino and Sue Richman. In rear from left are Darlene Valdes, Sue Stafford and Yvonne Salinas.Aug. 23, 1965: The Beatles secret hideway became a mob scene when girls learned it was no longer a secret.Aug. 25, 1965: Beatle fans, from left, Paula Glasser, Kay Zar, Mikki Tummino and Sue Candiotti took turns flying with pilot Russell O’Quinn in rented helicopter to visit the band. They took turns flying at 300 feet over the Beatles’ rented home in Benedict Canyon.Aug. 29, 1965: Photographers at press conference for the Beatles before their performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Seated on right is Paul McCartney with Ringo Starr partly visible behind him. Standing on right is John Lennon.Aug. 29, 1965: The Beatles at press conference before their performance at the Hollywood Bowl. From left is George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Poster is for their movie “HELP!.”Aug. 30, 1965: Police and security guards try to hold crowd of youngsters from reaching Beatles as the band prepare to leave Hollywood Bowl in an armored car.Aug. 30, 1965: Beatle fans get trampled as the band leave Hollywood Bowl in armored car in background. When the armored car stalled, fans rushed past police lines to reach the vehicle. The armored car was re-started and left.Aug. 28, 1966: Two teenage Beatle fans find themselves in handcuffs as well as tears after they scaled Dodger Stadium wall and ran onto field during concert. They were hustled out.Aug. 28, 1966: Crowd watching the Beatles perform at Dodger Stadium.Aug. 28, 1966: The Beatles perform on stage at Dodger Stadium – near second base. From left is George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it is the world’s third- or fourth-most extensive country by geographic area. The United States shares significant land borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south as well as limited maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, and Russia. With a population of more than 331 million people, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.
Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes with Great Britain over taxation and political representation led to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which established the nation’s independence. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across North America, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states; by 1848, the United States spanned the continent. Slavery was legal in the southern United States until the second half of the 19th century, when the American Civil War led to its abolition. The Spanish–American War and World War I established the U.S. as a world power, a status confirmed by the outcome of World War II. During the Cold War, the United States fought the Korean War and the Vietnam War but avoided direct military conflict with the Soviet Union. The two superpowers competed in the Space Race, culminating in the 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the moon. The Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991 ended the Cold War, leaving the United States as the world’s sole superpower.
The United States is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, and other international organizations. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Considered a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, its population has been profoundly shaped by centuries of immigration. The United States ranks high in international measures of economic freedom, quality of life, education, and human rights; it has low levels of perceived corruption. However, it has been criticized for inequality related to race, wealth, and income; use of capital punishment; high incarceration rates; and lack of universal health care.
The United States is a highly developed country, accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP, and is the world’s largest economy by GDP at market exchange rates. By value, the United States is the world’s largest importer and second-largest exporter of goods. Although its population is only 4.2% of the world’s total, it holds 29.4% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share held by any country. Making up more than a third of global military spending, it is the foremost military power in the world and internationally a leading political, cultural, and scientific force. (Wikipedia)
Clive Alderman with wagon and horses. Hillsboro, West Virginia, 1918Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Railroad Station, 1910Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, New York City, 1908New York City’s public transportation in 1913.Group of people waiting for their train to arrive at Conomo Station in Essex County, Massachusetts. 1904Horse drawn ladder truck, Somerville, New Jersey, 1909Homes of immigrant families on Marginal Street, Boston, Mass., 1909Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio; 19104th and Main Street, Los Angeles, California, 1900Champaign, Illinois, 1915Indoor portrait of a family in Denver, Colorado between 1904 and 1915. One boy holds a page from the Denver Post on his lap. An Underwood typewriter, bureau with fold-out desk, a bed, and a potbelly stove are in the room. City Hall construction 1912-13, Oakland, CaliforniaMarket Street toward ferry, San Francisco, Calif., April 1906Employee Parking lot at Standard Oil, Richmond Calif., 1915Ouray from Blow-out Canyon, Colorado, 1901Salt Lake City, Utah, 1909Boyd Park Jewelers Watch Repair Department, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1914Steamers and sailing ships in harbor at Portland, Oregon, 1910Fourth St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1906Bank Building at the SE corner of Third Street and Broadway, Santa Monica, California, 1900Looking up 1st Ave. from Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, 1900The Barge Office adjacent to Battery Park near the present-day site of Staten Island Ferry in lower Manhattan, 1900.Guadeloupean woman at Ellis Island, 1911Congress Street, looking north. Portland, Maine, circa 1910.Fifth Avenue, New York 1908Sidewalk on Olive Street looking west from Seventh Street. St. Louis, Missouri, 1900A newsboy stands in the rubble of street repair work on Olive Boulevard looking west toward Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, ca. 1907.Main Street, Woodstock Illinois circa 1910Main Street in Juliaetta, Idaho. 1910Luther and Ida Allen, center, on their wedding day in 1912. Lincoln, Nebraska.Indiana, 1908Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1900Boston Braves Stadium, 1914, Hank Gowdy batting.Atlanta’s first motorized delivery truck was a Cadillac used by Excelsior Laundry Company in 1906.Washington DC, 1914Kids Swimming in Lake Elizabeth, Pittsburgh, early 1900s.Lousville, Kentucky Steamboat at Dock, 1906Young Western Union Messenger, Houston, Texas, 1917A streetcar in San Diego in 1915 on 5th and Broadway.Venice, CA in 1913 on Windward Avenue. The banner is announcing a game between the Chicago White Sox and Venice Tigers.Blockade of people on Front St., Nome, Alaska, July 1, 1900.Snowed-in public school, Valdez, Alaska, 1910.Brooklyn Navy Yard, dry dock No. 4. Circa 1910.Texas South-Eastern Railroad Engine, 1906W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, right of center in black hat, and other investors at an oilfield on the Shoshone Anticline near Cody, Wyoming, around 1910.Dock Street Market looking north from the 100 block of Spruce Street in Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1910Some of the boys working in the Saxon Mill. Spartanburg, South Carolina. May 1912.Philadelphia City Hall ca. 1910Main Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1910.El Cajon Boulevard, near San Diego, California, 1910Los Angeles Times Building 1910St. Charles Avenue from Canal Street. New Orleans 1910.Decatur, Arkansas, 1910Mary H. Miller on a floating dry dock in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Drive-in theater, Florida, 1965Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951Customers arriving by car at a ‘fly-in drive-in’ theater, New Jersey, 1949Usher, drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951Drive-in theater, Los Angeles, 1949Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951Gilmore Island, Los Angeles, 1949Gilmore Island, Los Angeles, 1949Drive-in theater, Connecticut, 1955Drive in movie theatre marquee, late 1940s or early 1950sWhitestone Bridge Drive-in Movie Theater, the Bronx, New York, June 20, 1951.As a publicity stunt Les Davis (on top of the screen) lives in a tent on top of a drive-in movie screen in 1955 ConnecticutRancho Drive-in Theater, San Francisco, 1948A Joel McCrea movie at the Rancho Drive-in Theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948Kids enjoy one of the four double-seated glider swings in the mini-playground at the Rancho Drive-In Theater, San Francisco, 1948Aerial view of a ‘fly-in drive-in theater,’ with plane in parking lot, 1949Drive-In Fly-In Theatre, East Dennis, Mass., 1949Whitestone Bridge Drive-in Movie Theater, the Bronx, New York, June 20, 1951.A uniformed drive-in theater attendant hands a clip-on speaker to the driver of convertible while the car’s other passengers watch, New York, early 1950s.A drive-in theatre in Chicago, 1950A drive-in theatre in Los Angeles, 1930sA drive-in theatre in Camden, New Jersey, 1930sDuring their 50s heyday there were over 4,600 drive-in movie theatres across the States.Uniformed lot boys sell tickets to the drivers of the cars swarming around them.Actor Charlton Heston as Moses with arms flung wide appearing in motion picture The Ten Commandments as it is shown at a drive-in movie theatre in Utah in 1958A four-screen drive-in theatre in 1953, where movies are beamed in all directions from a projector in the centre of the parking lot.Attendant Bud Grote hands an in-car speaker to Thomas Speakman at San Pedro Outdoor Theater , May 1948
