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Smudge · 2017-03-13 01:07:17

The longest, left-breaking wave in the world located in Chicama, Peru.

Three-person chess.

Bilbao Department of Health

Photographer Thierry Legault shot what may be the coolest view yet of the today’s solar eclipse: the
International Space Station’s weird little silhouette flying across a thin sliver of visible sun.

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Smudge · 2017-03-13 17:58:22

You could say she's well hung.? Am I right?

JFK and Jackie watch first America’s Cup Race, Newport, Rhode Island, 1962

Niihau is the westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii. A single family has owned the island for more than 150 years and — even though it’s only 17 miles from resort-lined Kauai — Niihau remains surprisingly insulated from the outside world. Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (1800–1892) purchased Niʻihau and parts of Kauaʻi from Kamehameha V in 1864 for $10,000 in gold. The island is currently managed by brothers Bruce Robinson and Keith Robinson.

The island has no roads (dirt trails navigate its arid, bushy terrain), no cars, no stores, and no Internet. Its sandy beaches see more wildlife than human footprints. Sleepy Hawaiian monk seals dot the coast and schools of sharks have been known to swim remarkably close to empty shores.

To this day, only Niihauans, the Robinsons (the descendants of the title-holding family), and the occasional invited guest are allowed there (or near the dozens of homes in the island’s only settlement, Puuwai).

San Juan de Dios, Oswaldo Ramirez

Emmeran · 2017-03-13 18:22:33

Smudge wrote:
Niihau is the westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii. A single family has owned the island for more than 150 years and — even though it’s only 17 miles from resort-lined Kauai — Niihau remains surprisingly insulated from the outside world. Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (1800–1892) purchased Niʻihau and parts of Kauaʻi from Kamehameha V in 1864 for $10,000 in gold. The island is currently managed by brothers Bruce Robinson and Keith Robinson.

The island has no roads (dirt trails navigate its arid, bushy terrain), no cars, no stores, and no Internet. Its sandy beaches see more wildlife than human footprints. Sleepy Hawaiian monk seals dot the coast and schools of sharks have been known to swim remarkably close to empty shores.

To this day, only Niihauans, the Robinsons (the descendants of the title-holding family), and the occasional invited guest are allowed there (or near the dozens of homes in the island’s only settlement, Puuwai).

There appears to be a fence cutting across the entire south end of the island.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ni%E2 … 60.1574878

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

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choad · 2017-03-13 20:20:07

Smudge wrote:
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Niihau is the westernmost and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii. A single family has owned the island for more than 150 years and — even though it’s only 17 miles from resort-lined Kauai — Niihau remains surprisingly insulated from the outside world.

Another way of saying it's reeked a long time of entitled Haole arrogance. The Descendants was filmed there.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/t … story.html

Paywalled, absent a private window.

related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lono

Smudge · 2017-03-13 20:39:06

I've never even heard of this place prior to today. How remarkably exotic.

whosasailorthen · 2017-03-13 22:14:30

I sailed by this island on the boat this past summer. Got withing 1/4 mile. It's pretty damned deserted, from what I can tell.

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Zion Natl. Park

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Somewhere, 1993, Adam Beresewicz

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Duluth Public Library, 1980, Gunnar Birkerts

Shibam is often called “the oldest skyscraper city in the world” or “the Manhattan of the Middle East”
and “the Chicago of the desert”. It is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on
the principle of vertical construction. The city has some of the tallest mud buildings in the world, with
some of them over 30 meters (100 feet) high, thus being early high-rise apartment buildings. In order
to protect the buildings from rain and erosion, the walls must be routinely maintained by applying
fresh layers of mud. (Wikipedia)