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Photographer Joe Rosenthal,
stanley polska who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal. He was a good and honest man, he had real integrity, Anne Rosenthal said.His photo, taken for The Associated Press on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlingt
stanley cup on National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954 and known officially as the Marine Corps War Memorial, commemorates the Marines who died taking the Pacific island in World War II.The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century. The photo actually shows the second raising of the flag that day on Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island. The first flag had been deemed too small. What I see behind the photo is what it took to get up to those heights mdash; the kind of devotion to their country that those young men had, a
stanley cups nd the sacrifices they made, Rosenthal once said. I take some gratification in being a little part of what the U.S. stands for. He liked to call himself a guy who was up in the big leagues for a cup of coffee at one time. The picture was an inspiration for Thomas E. Franklin of The Record of Bergen County, N.J., who took the photo of three firefighters raisin Fjfr Where the Dollar Sign Comes From
They used to be more than just a San Francisco novelty. In the late 19th century, cable cars were a widely used public transit solution in cities across the United States鈥攊ncluding Los Angeles. There, they repla
stanley cup ced the city first generation of streetcars, horsecars, and brought real estate development to previously inaccessible terrain, encouraging the growth of the city first streetcar suburbs. When it opened on October 8, 1885, the Second Street Cable Railway was L.A. first mechanical street railway. In a city that had never seen a streetcar move without hearing the clip-clop of horses ; hooves, the new cable cars were a technological marvel. Based on the design of a London-born engineer named Andrew Hallidie, who founded San Francisco Clay Street Hill Railway in 1873, the railway used a 75-horsepower engine to pull a constantly moving steel cable. The cars moved by gripping the cable, which was hidden in a conduit beneath Second Street. To stop, they released it. Better than Horsecars Cable cars offered several advantages over horse-drawn streetcars. They were clean and quiet; since their motive power came from a remotely located engine, the only noise they emitted was the high-pitched ring of the cable moving through it
stanley taza s conduit. Horses tended to foul the streets and were spooked easily. They also performed well on hilly terrain. Horses struggled to overc
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