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- Press Release: Congresswoman Norton Introduces Bill to Permit Marijuana Use in Public Housing
- High Times: Inside Washington DC’s Pop-Up Marijuana Markets
- GW Hatchet: Marijuana-gifting parties shift from large events to intimate gatherings
- Associated Press: Washington D.C. has a marijuana loophole — you can’t sell it, but you can ‘gift’ it
- Washington City Paper: Joint Custody – The Story of Marijuana Post-Legalization
- DCist: Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Pot Activist Who Handed Out Joints Near The Capitol On 4/20
- NPR: D.C. Marijuana Market: Stuck In A Gray Zone
- DCist: For Sale – One Car And Its 250-Pound Ear Of ‘Fishy Corn’
- CNN: DC pot activists arrested at 4/20 Capitol Hill protest
- Fox News: 4/20 celebration leads to 7 arrests by US Capitol Police
- WTOP: On 4/20, DC pot advocates plan provocative protests
- Washington Post: Marijuana advocates vow to smoke pot and get arrested on steps of U.S. Capitol
- CNN: DC activists planning pot giveaway, Capitol Hill ‘smoke in’
- COMPLEX MAGAZINE: How to Organize A Pro-Cannabis Demonstration With Over 4,200 Free Joints
- New York Times: Marijuana Group Passes Out Free Joints for Trump’s Inauguration
- Fox 5 DC: Pro-pot protesters prep for Inauguration Day
- Hartford Quilt #3
- Hartford Quilt #2
- Hartford Quilt
- Breitbart: Pot Advocates Try to Smoke Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Nomination for Attorney General Job
- Snopes: 4,200 Free Joints to Be Given Away Before Trump’s Inauguration
- The Independent: Cannabis activists to hand out thousands of free joints at Donald Trump’s inauguration
- Washington Times: DEA disappoints medical marijuana advocates with refusal to reclassify
- Philly Voice: Giant marijuana joints, Sanders supporters among Broad Street marchers on DNC Day 1
- Washington Post: About that ‘bud summit’ at the White House — pot activists are still waiting
- Washington Post – Letter to the Editor: The D.C. Council’s marijuana club ban inadvertently creates the ‘smokeasy’
- Washington Post: On Day 1 of legalization, Bowser submits bill to prevent ‘pot clubs’
- Dusting off the cobwebs that have collected on NikolasSchiller.com
- Quoted today’s in DelMarVaNow
- Washington Post: Odds are increasing that D.C. will vote on legalizing marijuana — despite Congress
- Results of the Shareholder Resolution Vote
- Full Text of Ballot Initiative 71
- My First Shareholder Resolution
- Overdubbed in Turkish on Voice of America
- Are We Eating Fishy Food? on Voice of America
- E&E News: ‘Fishy food’ cars attract stares, promote GMO labeling
- Washington Post: Mobile protest art draws gawkers in D.C.
- The Right2Know March for GMO Labeling
- DC Colonist Cartoon: “Court Declares State Voters Tax Exempt in D.C.” – Washington Evening Star, March 13, 1940
- Text of the Department of Justice’s “Cole Memo” – June 29, 2011
- Text of the Department of Justice’s “Ogden Memo” – October 19, 2009
- “Official: Medical marijuana in D.C. by May 2012” by Victor Zapana, Washington Post, July 29, 2011
- DC Colonist Cartoon: “Keep Out of U.S. Elections” – Washington Star, November 5, 1940
- Photograph of the Vigil for the 40 Year Anniversary of America’s War on Drugs
- DC Flag Day in the Flesh
- Cameo on the History Channel’s “How the States Got Their Shapes”
- The Triumph of the Humanities By Stanley Fish, New York Times
- America the Beautiful
- Photographs from the top of Pike’s Peak
- Hello from the base of the Contiental Divide
- Photographs of Backpacking in the San Isabel National Forest
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The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults, and a correction request
|| 4/2/2008 || 12:25 pm || Comments Off on The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults, and a correction request || ||
I was recently directed to the the National Archives’ Digital Vaults webpage. After the flash animation was loaded up, I was greeted by a nice visual interface (above) that shows various items that are digitally scattered within the vault.
I was surprised to have multiple aerial photographs being shown at once, so I decided to look at one. I clicked on an aerial photograph of San Francisco and I noticed that it was labeled as a Birds-Eye view. Now this might not seem like a problem because for most people there is no difference between a bird-eye view and an aerial view, but there is. Birds do not fly straight toward the earth (well some do), rather they usually fly parallel to the earth, so their viewpoint (or eye) shows the horizon. Aerial photographs are measured by their angle from nadir (directly above), and the more oblique the angle (percentage off nadir), the more like a birds-eye view the photograph becomes. Even the discussion on Wikipedia’s article on the Bird’s Eye View makes the case that there is a difference between aerial and bird’s eye using historical examples. Last but not least, the actual record (below) calls the photograph aerial, not bird’s eye.
After looking through the rest of the records related to aerial photography in the National Archives’ Digital Vaults, I found that the Grand Canyon photograph is a birds-eye view and the “birds-eye view” of Orlando, Florida is mislabeled. Maybe they will fix this?
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