Photo: An early all-girls basketball game in the Philippines

 

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“P.I. : Filipino girls playing basketball (early 1900’s). (Worcester); 1855; 1900/1910.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclphilimg/x-1855/phld038. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.

Basketball is a huge sport in the Philippines. In trying to figure out how that happened, I came across this image in the archives University of Michigan Library Digital Collections, which includes lots of images from the early interactions of the US in the Philippines.

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Happy Friday the 13th!

Photos: Angry Birds in the Wild

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Angry Birds in the Wild

This is going to make my dog mad …

This is Vesta. She is a dog. Despite what Google says about her.

I recently uploaded some photos to Google Photo Backup. One thing it does is automatically group images with similar content and then label them things like “Food” or “Flowers” or “Beaches.” There’s even a “Dogs” one, which features plenty of photos of my dog. And then today I discovered a new one, also featuring my dog. Here it is:

Scenes from Montreal

Seems like a good day for a dog picture

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This was taken by the stepson.

 

360-degree Google Street View Experiment 3: NYC Central Park

A third experiment with using Google Streetview app’s 360-degree photo, this time in New York City’s Central Park.