Receipt

This is a piece of cuneiform. Cuneiform is some the earliest known writing in the world, from the "Fertile Crescent" (modern day Iraq). This piece is about 4,500 years old. It's a receipt for a donation of some sheep and goats to a temple.

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Green Meanies

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Hovercrafts

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Tea for Three

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The Inferno

Dante's Inferno. Part of the Divine Comedy.

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Old School Studying

We didn't always have iPads and computers. The open book is "A Collection of English Proverbs" printed in 1678. The closed book is "Essays," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, printed in 1866.

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Logger

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Watch Your Step!

condemned

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Reaching

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Autumn's Coming

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Collapse

In an abandoned house. The entire structure will eventually fall to the left.

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Tiny Shore

These tiny shells (the smallest ones are about 3 mm) have been placed inside a normal sized Conch shell.

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Worker

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Crosses

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Ho-Ho-Ho

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Copal

Copal is the technical name for amber, which is basically fossilized tree sap. This amber happens to have some tiny ants (each about 2mm) embedded in it. It's about 12 million years old.

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Bird's Eye View

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Sputnik

The object is to get the spiked ball out of the cage. It's pretty hard.

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Zoom!

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Came with dinner

Chinese take-out always comes with your fortune.

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Johnny Appleseed

A giant Johnny Appleseed from a local apple festival.

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Too Hard!

One left over from the kids. It's a little beat up, but we want to save it.

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Sunday afternoon at the park

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Cloudy in NYC

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