Pictures of the United States.

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-21-2020, 05:00 AM

How to buy, prepare and use suet in an 18th century fashion.

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-23-2020, 06:02 AM

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-23-2020, 08:30 AM

San Francisco activists fought a plan to build a Los Angeles-sized network of freeways in San Francisco, and won. Sources:
1. Johnson, K. M. (2009). Captain Blake versus the Highwaymen: Or, how San Francisco won the freeway revolt. Journal of Planning History, 8(1), 56-83.
2. Mohl, R. (2002). The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt. Civil Rights Research. http://www.prrac.org/pdf/mohl.pdf.

In April of 2017, Bertha, the massive tunnel-boring machine successfully completed digging a nearly 2 mile deep-bore tunnel under Seattle. The tunnel will carry traffic from the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which had been damaged and deemed seismically unsafe after an earthquake. The tunnel will be much less intrusive than the wall-like Viaduct structure, which cuts Seattle off from its waterfront, and the tunnel, new surface street, and transit will take care of the Viaduct’s 110,000 vehicles per day.Why did Seattle move the highway from above ground to below ground? What we're the replacement options considered? How did Seattle settle on the deep bore tunnel, one of the most expensive options possible, as a replacement for the Viaduct? What was that process like?
Resources on this topic:
Bloomberg: "Stuck in Seattle": https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...
Seattle Times: "Bertha's woes grind on": http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-n...
Seattle Times: '8-lane highway' on Seattle's waterfront: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-n...

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-23-2020, 08:34 AM

Resources:
A. http://www.redmondhistoricalsociety.o...
B. https://www.nreionline.com/retail/lif...
C. Michael Southworth (2005) Reinventing Main Street: From Mall to Townscape Mall, Journal of Urban Design, 10:2, 151-170, DOI: 10.1080/13574800500087319

Produced by Dave Amos in sunny Sacramento, California.
Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.

The journal article isn't posted for public viewing just yet, so here's my draft (PDF). I'll update this link when it goes public: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mtrmadc0bwp...
Link to the pedestrian mall spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-24-2020, 06:31 AM

Tucked away near the borders of Vermont and Massachusetts is a small area of land believed to be the focal point for a wide variety of unexplained and mysterious phenomena. It is a place of outstanding natural beauty, but also one of great danger. Join us this week, as we take a look at the mysteries of the Bennington Triangle.

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-26-2020, 11:49 AM

Rising 435 metres from a small site on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row, 111W57 (111 West 57th Street) is the thinnest skyscraper ever constructed. Full story here - https://www.theb1m.com/video/building...

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-27-2020, 08:59 AM

While overshadowed by the Boston Tea Party, the 1772 Gaspee Affair can be seen as the beginning of the events that led up to the battles of Lexington and Concord. The History Guy recalls the little remembered conflict between the Colony of Rhode Island and the Royal Navy that predated "The Shot Heard Around the World," by more than a decade. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.