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Old Photos: One Day In The Soviet School

Continuing with the old Soviet photos, the next batch was taken at a typical school.
Wood-shops were very popular in schools even in my day, not to mention 30-40 years before that, when people were still rebuilding after the war.
In this photo the kid is learning pyrography or wood burning. Many parents received these works of [...]

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Old Photos: When Weather Forecasters Weren’t Entertainers

One of my favorite scenes from the movie Apollo 13 is when a bunch of engineers remap the spaceship’s trajectory with nothing but a pen, paper and a slide rule.
Note: this is not the exact scene but close enough.

This almost seems impossible in this day and age, when we delegate all of our [...]