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This is real footage from 120 years ago.
None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...
We have no guarantee we'll be happy, we just hope that we will. We hope we'll overcome whatever problems confront us and if we lose hope we despair. Happiness corresponds with peace of mind and a key to that is warm-heartedness. Developing compassion brings courage and self-confidence; warm-heartedness and intelligence bring peace of mind.
#Utterly_useless_facts 😊
1. When you say "a, e, i, o, u" your mouth gets smaller with each vowel you say.
2. You don't really wash your hands; They actually wash each other while you stand there and watch. (Imagine)
3. If a man says you're ugly, he's being mean. If a woman says you're ugly, she's envious. If a little kid says you're ugly, you're ugly.
4. Things are not on fire. Fire is on things.
5. When you say 'forward' or 'backwards', your lips move in those directions.
(yes, just like that)
6. The word 'Australia' has three A's, all of which look the same but are pronounced differently.
7. If You Rip a Hole in a Net, There Are Actually Fewer Holes in It than there were before.
8. This sentence "All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life." is actually correct.
9. Sometimes you have to sing the whole alphabet in your head just to find the next letter.
10. The latest scientific research has shown that you can travel on an aeroplane without announcing it on Social media.
11. What's more dangerous than running with scissors?
Falling on them (imagine).
12.Lazy fact #1725402648207549
You are too lazy to read that number
13. “Dammit I'm Mad " backwards is still "Dammit I'm Mad".
14. Nothing is behind Your Back. it is always in front of your back.
15. Most of the time, the people who tell you to calm down are the same people who made you angry in the first place.
16. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
It's not fun to say, but ironically, this is the medical term for the fear of long words.
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15 things to do with your father while he is still alive. I lost mine 8 years ago.
1. Ask him what he was like at your age because once he was the same age you are right now & Watch his face light up as he tells you stories from when he was younger
2. Record his laugh when he tells one of his signature jokes. Someday you will replay the video over and over just to hear it again
3. Ask him about the proudest moment of his life. (Odds are he will say when you were born)
4. Ask him his favourite songs
Listen to them together, laugh, sing and be happy. These will become your most cherished memories in years to come
5. Take a picture of him doing something he loves. Watching tv, gardening, playing the guitar, anything. When you look back these will be the pictures that will make you smile the most
6. Tell him you love him even if it's something you don't normally do.
7. Tell him you are proud to be his son/daughter This will mean more to him than you realise (even if he doesn't show it)
8. Listen to music from his youth and watch him turn from dad into a young man again
9. Take a short video of him talking about something random sacred Someday even the ordinary things he said become
10. Bring up something you are thankful for from years ago
11. Ask him what it was like for him growing up
12. Call him for no reason
Don't take being able to do this for granted.
Someday you would give anything to hear his voice again.
13. Take a picture of just the 2 of you together
14. Ask him to show you an old photo of him because seeing him young will remind you that he wasn't always Dad
15. Tell him something you are struggling with, no matter what age you are Because even when your grown it means the world to him to feel like he can still help
Let him give you advice, even if you don't need it because one day you will give anything to hear his voice guiding you again