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- Largest solar farm in each state, territory, and province
- Cities pronounced the same, but spelled differently
- Working list – Favorite fictional spies of film and TV
- Ugly two-digit Interstate Highway segments and thoughts on how to improve them
- The global network of subsea digital communication cables and the coastal hub cities that stand to benefit from them
- Working list – Favorite spy sagas based on true events
- City names containing two or more first names
- Geography of underground co-location data centers
- Working list of continuous flow/displaced left-turn intersections in the USA
- Classic cartoon and comic strip rivals/adversaries
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Category Archives: movies
Classic cartoon and comic strip rivals/adversaries
Archie vs. Reggie Batman vs. Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, and other villains Buck Rogers vs. Killer Kane Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck Bugs Bunny vs. Elmer Fudd Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam Dagwood vs. Mr. Dithers Dexter vs. Susan “Mandark” … Continue reading
Posted in art, cartoons, Communications, culture, entertainment, family, film, fun, historic preservation, history, movies, pictures, satire, Television, writing
Tagged art, cartoons, characters, comic strips, drawing, fun, funny, TV
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Creating LA’s starlit aura – “The Mirage Factory”
What an outstanding book! Perhaps, my favorite the best city biography ever read. Author Gary Krist simply nails it with The Mirage Factory. It’s entertaining, enthralling, infuriating, and thoroughly engaging to read. You will definitely learn some amazing and eye-opening … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, book reviews, books, branding, business, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, demographics, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, film, fun, geography, Geology, government, highways, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, industry, infrastructure, injustice, land use, marketing, movies, music, nature, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, racism, reading, Religion, rivers/watersheds, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, technology, theaters, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, Women, writing
Tagged book reviews, books, California, Gary Krist, history, LA, Los Angeles, silent films, The Mirage Factory, urban biographies, water
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Favorites of 2021 – TV/music/books/film
Here’s my list of the best for 2021, as updated through 12/30/21. This post will continue to be updated as needed through the end of 2021. Enjoy! TV Comedies Ted Lasso The Wonder Years The Conners American Auto Solar Opposites … Continue reading
Posted in art, book reviews, books, culture, entertainment, film, fun, history, literature, movies, music, music reviews, songs, Television, video, writing
Tagged books, cinema, documentaries, film, movies, music, television, TV
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Civil Rights Era bus boycotts and the heroes who led the way
To honor the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tomorrow (January 15) and Rosa Parks upcoming birthday on February 4, the following post identifies the peaceful bus boycotts that took place during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, charities, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, government, historic preservation, history, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, injustice, movies, peace, pictures, politics, racism, social equity, Statistics, transit, transportation
Tagged bigotry, boycotts, bus boycotts, bus systems, Civil Rights, integration, mass transit, racism, segregation, transit
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“Rut-Roh” – Favorite animated dogs of TV and movies
A little fun heading into the weekend with a listing of favorite animated dogs from television and movies. The top 5 are listed in bold, while the remaining ones on my list are listed ignored by bullet points. If there … Continue reading
A quartet of historic Upper Peninsula theatres
Hope you enjoy these theatre photos as much as I have photographing these entertainment venues this past week.
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, Cities, culture, downtown, entertainment, film, historic preservation, history, land use, movies, pictures, placemaking, theaters, third places, tourism, Travel
Tagged Upper Peninsula
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Everyone loves an adorable tugboat!
From Canada to Australia, from Russia to the United Kingdom, and from South Africa to the USA, the entire world loves an adorable tugboat. The varied images of youth-oriented book covers, animated television series, poems, and motion pictures provided below … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, art, book reviews, books, Canada, civility, Communications, culture, education, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Great Lakes, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, Language, movies, pictures, planning, Poem, rivers/watersheds, Russia, shipping, Television, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, tugboats, UK, underwater preserves, urban planning, water trails
Tagged Alice, Annie, Bill, books, Chubby, Doug, Hercules, love, Mavis, Mickey, Mighty, movies, Noah, Pip, poems, Pug, Sam, Scout, Scuffy, ships, Spike, Tambov, Tank, Tessie, Theodore, Timmy, Toby, Tommy, Toot, Tough, Tubby, Tuffy, tugboats, Tugga, tugs, TV, Walter
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Top ranked Atomic Age books and movies
While this list is not meant to be all-inclusive, it does list the top books and movies read or seen on the topic of the Atomic Age and/or nuclear war. They’re presented in the order of how I would personally … Continue reading
Posted in art, atomic age, book reviews, books, entertainment, film, history, movies, Science, video
Tagged atomic age, documentaries, entertainment, media, nuclear, plutonium, videos
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