the more things change, the more they stay the same
Left: the Ziegfeld Follies of 1924. Right: the 1975 Broadway production of “A Chorus Line.”
Left: The “Ghost Fleet” of Mallows Bay on the Potomac River in Maryland, the site of nearly 200 shipwrecks dating from the Revolutionary War to the present. About half the wrecks are wooden and composite ships hurriedly built during WWI. Right: HMS Crested Eagle, a Thames paddle steamer abandoned during the Dunkirk evacuation, in the shallows on Zuydcoote Beach near Dunkirk. It is believed that 300 British troops died when she was bombed and caught fire. [Donarreiskoffer photo].
Left: Ford Model T assemby line, 1923. Right: Tesla assembly line.
Left: Elvis Presley, 1957. Right: Taylor Swift, 2023. Michael Hicks photo.
Left: Winston Churchill (r) as a prisoner of the Boers in South Africa, 1900. Right: Ukrainians freed from Russian captivity on Feb. 8, 2024.
Left: D.W. Griffith, wearing a straw hat, directs Miriam Cooper in his film "Intolerance" (1916). Right: Director Stanley Kubrick talks with Tony Curtis on the set of “Spartacus” (1960).
Left: Soldiers wade through a stream during a patrol in South Vietnam, Summer 1968. Right: Soldiers set off for a foot patrol after disembarking from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan, Sept. 4, 2018.
Left: Texas dust storm. April 1935. Right: Phoenix dust storm, August 2012.
The Wright brothers achieve the first powered flight, Kitty Hawk, NC, December 17, 1903.
The Perseverance rover leaves tracks on Mars, February 14, 2023.
