On this day
June 17
9 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- The flag that lasted three years
A country adopted a flag in 1992. Two weeks later, the UN, the Olympics, and foreign embassies banned it.
2019 7 years ago
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- Learning to write a phrase in Hindi
My wonderful wife wrote a gracious message on my Facebook wall for Father’s day. In her message she mentioned, “joie de vivre.” Not knowing what this…
2015 11 years ago
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- 500 million visualized
With the Stanley Cup in the news again as Chicago won its third Stanley Cup in six years, Chicago’s Adler Planetarium made an infographic revealing that…
2013 13 years ago
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- The Pigeon Dance
Doesn’t it look like the pigeons on this book cover are doing a line dance? There should be a line dance called The Pigeon. Here’s how…
2011 15 years ago
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- Spudart the webcomic
For the longest of long times I’ve been thinking about starting a webcomic. But I didn’t know what characters to do. Or what to name it.…
2009 17 years ago
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- The 3,033 States of America
Let’s delete all the 50 states and use counties instead. We could have 3,033 states. Here’s what the map would look like. (take a look at…
2008 18 years ago
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- I want to visit Amsterdam
After seeing the photos in this post and this post, I want to visit Amsterdam. I love Chicago’s river. Amsterdam’s river here has such neat little…
2005 21 years ago
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- Chicago Cubs homerun hitters since 1990
There have been 15 Cubs since 1990 who hit 20 or more homeruns in one season. There have been 9 Cubs since 1990 who hit 30+…
2002 24 years ago
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- window washers
Window washers are a recurring theme in my photography. I put up a window washer gallery.