SHORPY - THE 100 YEAR OLD PHOTO BLOG
This awesome, wonderful photo site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century. Be sure to view the pictures in the full sized format - you can get lost in these pix

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ELENA'S BIKE RIDE THROUGH CHERNOBYL
"Radiation will stay in the Chernobyl area for the next 48.000 years, but humans may begin repopulating the area in about 600 years - give or take three centuries. The experts predict that, by then, the most dangerous elements will have disappeared - or been sufficiently diluted into the rest of the world's air, soil and water. If our government can somehow find the money and political will power to finance the necessary scientific research, perhaps a way will be discovered to neutralize or clean up the contamination sooner. Otherwise, our distant ancestors will have to wait untill the radiation diminishes to a tolerable level. If we use the lowest scientific estimate, that will be 300 years from now..." - from Elena's journal