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	<title>Pursuits : Elizabeth Thomsen</title>
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		<title>Trying to Catch the Setting Sun</title>
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I was on my way home from work yesterday when I distracted by the amazing pinkish sky to my left.  Between the trees, I caught sight of the fiery ball of the setting sun low on the horizon. It looked nearby, and I felt like I could catch it.  So I turned the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/flickr/setting-sun/</link>
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		<title>The First Alice in Wonderland Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Alice in Wonderland movie is only the latest film adaptation of Lewis Carroll&#8217;s novel.  There have been over twenty earlier versions.  It&#8217;s hard to give an exact number &#8212; do you want to count the X-rated musical version, the animated sequel Alice in Wonderland in Paris, and the direct-to-TV Muppet version? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/childrens-literature/the-first-alice-in-wonderland-movie/</link>
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		<title>Hot Peppers for a Cold Gray Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my least-favorite time of year &#8212; the dull, damp, gray days when you know it&#8217;s almost spring but it feels like winter will never end.  I hate the lack of color and light.  When I feel like this, it&#8217;s time for phototherapy: I go to the supermarket to stealthily photograph the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/flickr/hot-peppers-for-a-cold-gray-day/</link>
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		<title>Photo a Day: Still Keeping Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started doing Project 365 on January 1, taking and posting a photo every day.  This is my third attempt, and it&#8217;s more difficult than it sounds.  There are a lot of days that I feel too busy or just feel uninspired and hate having to scrounge around the house desperately looking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/flickr/photo-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Pizza from Clara&#8217;s Depression Cooking</title>
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Clara Cannucciari, the 94-year-old star of Great Depression Cooking with Clara, cooks pizza, one of her favorite foods.  Clara likes her pizza pretty simple, the way her mother made it, without &#8220;all this fancy stuff that they put in now, we couldn&#8217;t afford that, but we were happy with the plain pizza.&#8221;  
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/youtube/pizza-from-claras-cooking/</link>
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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
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		<title>National Archives Joins Flickr Commons</title>
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The U.S. National Archives has joined the Flickr Commons.  I love the National Archives collection &#8212; it was one of the first significant digital collections I discovered online, and I remember how thrilling it was to be able to explore it.  I still spend a lot of time on their site, but I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/flickr/national-archives-joins-flickr-commons/</link>
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		<title>Bobsleigh Team, 1931</title>
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A great vintage winter sports shot of a well-dressed bobsleigh team from the Flickr Commons collection of Nationaal Archief, the National Archive of the Netherlands.   I think this looks like a still from a screwball comedy film from the 1930s.
&#8220;Bobsleigh. Team members of the five men sleigh keeping the sled in balance. Location [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/flickr/bobsleigh-team/</link>
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		<title>Clancy Hayes Campaign Song for Nixon/Lodge</title>
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You never know what you&#8217;ll find when you go searching around on YouTube.  I have written here before about searching for the song Peoria.  I was hoping to find a performance of the song by Bob Scobey&#8217;s  Frisco Band that I remembered from my childhood, but instead I found a lively performance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/politics/clancy-hayes/</link>
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		<title>YouTube&#8217;s Music Discovery Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube&#8217;s  Music Discovery Project is a great new tool that produces playlists of music videos.  Enter a name, and you get back a playlist of videos by that artist, a list of related artists, and a &#8220;mix tape&#8221; of videos of your artist and similar performers.  You can deselect any videos you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethomsen.com/video/youtubes-music-discovery-project/</link>
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