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The is under tornado watch this afternoon as the storm front that battered New Orleans last night passes through Florida.

Since I'm in the Valley of the Sun, I went past my old stomping grounds at Tempe Diablo. I watched the minor league complex being built in 2005.

"Flopnik" and similar headlines after the Vanguard TV-3 failure, 65 years ago today. Its failure led to congressional hearings that eventually created .

The view of the Moon, and Earth behind it, earlier today. This was seen from the furthest away a human-rated vehicle has been from Earth.

A icon is returning to ! was a popular stop for space workers and astronauts from 1965 for the next 50 years. It became a Mexican restaurant in 2005 until 2020. New owners are bringing back the original name, but no idea what the menu will be. No online presence yet I can find.

August 28, 1993 was the 30th anniversary of the civil rights march in DC. I happened to be in town on business, and filmed the anniversary march. It was a massive exercise in 1st Amendment rights, from NAACP to UAW to Nation of Islam. The video runs about 30 minutes.

I got a kick out of the little boy waving around the Communist newspapers.😊

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This is the front page of the evening paper my parents would have seen when they came home on November 22, 1963. We lived in a suburb about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

The closest thing the had to a community newspaper in 1963 was the Cocoa Tribune, which published in the evening. This is their front page the evening of the assassination, November 22, 1963. (Cocoa Tribune was later absorbed into what became Florida Today.)

Our newspaper, Florida Today, didn't exist in 1963. The closest major newspaper was the Orlando Sentinel. This is their front page the day after the assassination.

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