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Pat's safari pictures

Safari 2008 538edited
Originally uploaded by pat4886

My brother Pat recently volunteered in an orphanage in Africa. Here are some of his pictures from a photo safari he took.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google:

"Search millions of historic photos

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

WOW....VERY cool...

Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel - NYTimes.com

Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel - NYTimes.com:

"Google Earth has embraced a frontier dating back 17 centuries: ancient Rome under Constantine the Great."

This just gets more and more cool! wow.

Google Trends: tour de france

Have you seen GoogleTrends? Very cool. It is the technology that was in the News for being able to find flu outbreaks faster than the CDC. So I was playing with it. Notice a few really interesting things from the Tour de France search. First the relative popularity of the searches. The US ranks way down on the list.

Google Trends: tour de france

1.	France
2.	Netherlands
3.	Belgium
4.	Denmark
5.	Australia
6.	Switzerland
7.	Germany
8.	United Kingdom
9.	United States
10.	Austria

Then also note the large drop off in popularity after Lance Armstrong retired the first time.

Marrow transplant may have cured AIDS - Yahoo! News

Great news if true!

Germany: Marrow transplant may have cured AIDS - Yahoo! News:

"An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide."

Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook | Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures

Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook | Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures:

"Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, writer

Dr. Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, author of Mr. and Mrs. Prince How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend, tells the remarkable true story of a pre-Civil War African-American family in New England. Mr. and Mrs. Prince uncovers the lives of those who could have been forgotten and brings to light a history that's intrigued but eluded many until now."

very interesting!