Parthenon & Ebbets

PARACLES builds!
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PARTHENON: most perfect building ever?
It was built to honor ATHENA.
13-ton columns -- 46 of 'em!
That's 2 and a half thousand years ago, yo!
ATHENS!!

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The mistake of '98: Brooklyn absorbed into New York City.
Charles Hercules Ebbets, ticket-taker to team owner.
Bought property in Pig Town, and abandoned part of Brooklyn.
His ballpark was the The Great Modern Ballpark in 1913 with 25,000 seats.
Too few! In 1932 he added 7,000 more.
The park was intimate all over. It took up ONE city block.
Luv dem Bums and Clowns and Sym-Phony Band!

Satellite & Transistor

The 1st communications satellite = July 10, 1962
TELSTAR = 3 Earth stations: U.K., France, Maine
The 1st image broadcast was the American flag.

The 1st televisions hit the stores in '54.
By the late 60's you got red blood on yer screen.

It is 238,000 miles to the moon.
Roundabout the average center-to-center distance.
About 30 times the diameter of the Earth.

The TRANSISTOR was invented in 1947!
[they won the Nobel Prize for it]
Bell Labs y'all!! [lasers, cellphones, touchtones ... ]

ACCUTRON watches use oscillating tuning forks.
They are electronicall driven wristwatches and they are FRESH.