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Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More via Open Culture[Shared]

We may have yet to develop the technology of time travel, but recorded music comes pretty close. Those who listen to it have experienced how a song or an album can, in some sense, transport them right back to the time they first heard it. But older records also have the much stranger power to conjure up eras we never experienced. You can musically send yourself as far back as the nineteen-twenties with the above Youtube playlist of digitized 78 RPM records from the George Blood collection.

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Every day at 2:46 pm, a bell is struck in Ōfunato to commemorate the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami. The #sound spreads out over the land and the water.

A bell ringer noticed that even on days when the sea was choppy--even on stormy days--when the bell rang, the waters grew calm & still. Was it respect? Remorse? He wrote the question a stone and tossed it into the waves.

That night he dreamed the waves were speaking to him. "It's like a lullaby," they said. "It calms us."

The mayor and developers sat behind a table at the public hearing.
Totemo Isogashii stood and spoke.
"I understand why you want to site the marina here," she said. "But it will damage the ecology of the #sound, which plays important roles as a nursery for fish and capturing sediment." (1/3) #wss366

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"Rebellion is not a 'her'. Rebellion designates with neutral Spivak pronouns." The rover's voice was flat, but conveyed irritation.
"Sorry." Kiki blushed.
He touched Kiki's shoulder. "Do not repeat your mistake and you have lear..."
Tav growled.
Silhouetted by flames, the mastiff turned towards the #sound of heavy breathing.
Kiki shifted to UV and saw something huge crashing through the understory.
Eccentricity spied a familiar IR signature that gave him comcern. 3/x
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