Researchers have determined that the columns were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a cataclysmic explosion 760,000 years ago
The blast, 2,000 times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, created the Long Valley Caldera, a massive 10-by-2-mile sink that includes the Mammoth Lakes area. It also covered much of the eastern Sierra Nevada range with a coarse volcanic tuff, or ash fall.
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Crawdad Blues, Benny Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra (1923)BTW, the original file name was “crawdadd_64kb.” I guessed the band and song name correctly, but missed the date by three years. TRUE.
The Native-American Origins of Gumbo
Some people need just one swift backhand.
Germanium is transparent in the infrared spectrum.
Not The Babylon Bee Dept.: NASA says planets, galaxies and other heavenly bodies will no longer be referred to by “offensive” nicknames.
.Cnoc Fada is about 4,000 years old but its cranky ghost is younger.
[Top image: Flipped photo of the Rakotzbrücke, aka Devil’s Bridge, Gablenz, Germany. Original image found here.]
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Very cool oddness. Bendito Machine is a series, and this is No. 6. You are allowed to start from the beginning with Bendito Machine I.
“Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Görkem Şen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound.”
Luna Lee plays ZZ Top’s La Grange on a Gayageum and it works. Her story and more here.
“You know when a long haired dude shows up in a cowboy hat, leopard spotted duster and rattle snake boots some shit is about to go down.”
Name another bluesman whose video of a soundcheck garners 19.4 million views. Having just woken up, he yawns, flicks a booger and then busts it out. Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of a kind.
Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.
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You Tell Her – I Stutter, The Georgians (1923).
The Georgians were a subset of the Paul Specht Orchestra. Specht had a gig at the Hotel Alamac in New York City in 1920. The orchestra played music for dancing in the ballroom and afterwards a smaller version of the group that went by the name of the Georgians played in the cocktail lounge.
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Comparison of Quetzalcoatlus vs. Cessna 172 .
Black Mambo Dog Hats are sold out… thank God.
Metallic Pony Ant workers are gamergates and can reproduce without Metallic Pony Ant queens. BTW, their painful sting might kill you.
[Top & bottom images from Children of the Streets (London 1954).]
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Tacky Raccoons 