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major crimes unit hq

from the wire posted in television by chewing_the_scenery

In season two of The Wire Daniels and his crew start running their investigations out of a small building on this dead-end road not far from the marine terminals in Southeast Baltimore.

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floridita

from comedians in cars getting coffee, jerry seinfeld, tiny fey posted in television by crabapple

Jerry Seinfeld picks up Tina Fey in a 1967 Volvo and they head to this Cuban restaurant in Harlem for some awkward conversation in the Crackle series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

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clement st. cafe

from the wire posted in television by chewing_the_scenery

This is the former location of the Clement Street Cafe, the favorite bar of the Baltimore dockworkers in season 2 of The Wire. The building was converted into custom town homes sometime after filming.

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göbekli tepe

from neolithic sites, archaeology posted in history by pete_nice

Located in the Anatolia region of SE Turkey, this archaeological site is one of the earliest examples of human construction.

The site is a tell (or a mound created from years of human occupation to form a cone truncated with a flat top) that is 49 ft/15 m tall and 984 ft/300 m in diameter. The excavation revealed several rooms and more than 200 massive pillars in 20 different circles, many with ornate carvings.

What boggles the mind about Göbekli Tepe was that it was constructed before the development of agriculture- an estimated 10,000 years BCE. To put that in context, the Pyramids of Giza started construction in 2584 BC.

The neolithic people who constructed this site were hunter-gatherers that used flint-knapped tools to scrape and chisel the construction. As a National Geographic writer put it in an article called "The Birth of Religion":

Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

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maine geneneral hospital

from stephen king posted in literature by crabapple

The American writer Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, ME.

Today, the hospital is called the Maine Medical Center, and contains the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital (named after the former First Lady).

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