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A motorcyclist died during a ride to protest helmet laws: State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets. Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been...

Columbus Park, in Chicago's Austin neighborhood: Today, ISO-100, 1/80 at f/8, here. The Chicago Park District describes the park: [Designer Jens] Jensen's vision for Columbus Park was inspired by the unimproved site's natural history and topography. Convinced that it was an ancient beach, Jensen designed a series of berms, like glacial ridges, encircling the flat interior part of the park. In the center area, following the traces of sand dune, he created a "prairie river" flowing from two brooks. Two...

World Financial Center, six weeks after 9/11: 20 October 2001, Kodak DC4800 at ISO-100, 1/180 at f/4.5, 18mm, approximately here You can see off to the right the Millennium Hilton covered in red cloth, and the damage to the center WFC building near the bottom.

Louise: October 1984, Canon AE-1P, 70-210mm, Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded

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Sunrise over Lake Michigan: April 1993, Canon EOS Rebel using Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, approximately here.

The British Museum: 11 February 2001, Kodak DC-4800 at ISO-100, 1/180 at f/2.8, 6mm, here.

Dusty Baker walks from the mound to the dugout at Wrigley Field for the last time as manager of the Cubs: 1 October 2006, ISO-200, 1/800 at f/6.3, 200mm, here.

It's impressive, isn't it, that four of the last seven Illinois governors earned felony convictions and jail time? Rod Blagojevich was today found guilty on 17 of 20 counts. From the Trib: This marks the second time in less than a year that the 54-year-old Blagojevich, the only Illinois chief executive ever impeached and ousted from office, had been convicted of a crime. The jury at his first trial last summer found him guilty of lying to theFBI, though that panel deadlocked on all the other counts....

Scotland, on the Kyle of Lochalsh train: 23 June 1992, Kodachrome 64, Canon T-90 with Tamron 35-210mm f/4.5-5.6, exposure unrecorded, probably about here.