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Abraham Lincoln, The Physical Man. Let us read William Herndon's account beginning with a description of Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father: "He (Thomas Lincoln) was, we are told, five feet ten inches high, weighed one hundred and ninety-five pounds, had a well-rounded face, dark hazel eyes, coarse black hair, and was slightly stoop-shouldered. His build was so compact that Dennis Hanks used to say that he could not find the points of separation between his ribs ... was sinewy, and gifted with great strength, was inoffensively quiet and peaceable, but when roused to resistance a dangerous antagonist. " "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods" wrote Lincoln in the Fell autobiography.

More details are found in the sketch he furnished John L. Scripps. "He (Thomas Lincoln) settled in an unbroken forest, and this clearing away of the surplus wood was the great task ahead. "In June the entire party, including Offut, boarded a steamboat going up the river. "Mr. "Returning to Herndon: “Mr. Online Books : "Golden Guide Hallucinogenic Plants" - pg 1-10. HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTSby RICHARD EVANS SHULTES Illustrated by ELMER W.

SMITH. GOLDEN PRESS - NEW YORK 1976 Western Publishing Company, Inc. .Scanning and html by loplop, Aug '99 Maintained by Erowid.org FOREWORD Hallucinogenic plants have been used by man for thousands of years, probably since he began gathering plants for food. The hallucinogens have continued to receive the attention of civilized man through the ages. CONTENTS.Contents...1-10...11-20...21-30...31-40...41-50...51-60...61-70...71-80...81-9091-100...101-110...111-120...121-130...131-140...141-150...151-156...Index What Are Hallucinogenic Plants? Hallucinogenic plants have been featured on many postage stamps: (1, 6) Amanita muscaria, (2) fruit of Peganum harmala, (3) Atropa belladonna, (4) Pancratium trianthum, (5) Rivea corymbosa, (7) Datura stramonium, (8) Datura candida, (9) Hyoscyamus niger. WHAT ARE HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS? Paramount among the hallucinogens of religious significance is the peyote cactus. Contents Next. Talented young artist from Yangon, Myanmar Video. The Fantastic in Art and Fiction.

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images. NASA Web App Lets You Control Space & Time in 3D. NASA has released its "Eyes on the Solar System" 3D environment, a free web browser-based application that lets you navigate a 3D version of the solar system. The app uses video game technology to let you control your point of view from anywhere in our solar system, speeding up time so you can see the motion of the planets, their satellites and NASA spacecraft. SEE ALSO: How NASA Plans to Make Astrophysics Fun With an Ambitious Social Game We tried the Eyes on the Solar System app (download here), which first requires a download of the Unity Web Player for Mac and PC. Once you've done that, you can fly around beautifully produced models of all the planets, asteroids and the Sun. Or you can enter custom modules created by NASA that highlight missions such as Juno, the recently launched probe that's currently on a five-year mission to Jupiter.

According to NASA: You can even keep tabs on the current locations of NASA spacecraft, with the help of NASA's actual mission data. Get the app here. ViewDNS.info - Your one source for DNS related tools! Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Triggerpit. The GNU Image Manipulation Program.

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