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Finding Esther In 1926, Emma Alice Smith, aged 16, cycled off from her home in Waldron, East Sussex, England, headed for the railway station. She was never seen again. Eighty-three years later, a fictionalized account of her disappearance has been made into a film by the local dramatics society The Waldron Community Players - which has led the police to reopen her case as a possible murder investigation.

World's First Garbage Truck Powered by Garbage A town in Britain has recently demonstrated its new "'leccy vehicle" - an electric garbage truck that is fueled by the garbage it collects.

So anyway, one photographer sent a daguerreotype of the Obama inauguration along to another photographer whose wife then found the first photographer in a Gigapan picture also taken at the inauguration. Since the daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 and GigaPan was spun off in 2008 (and was itself the result of R&D deployed as part of the Mars Rover mission) that puts nearly 170 years between the two. Which is, I dunno, kinda neat really.

Fifty years ago today, February 3rd 1959 a small plane carrying musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson from a stop in Clear Lake Iowa to another show in Moorehead Minnesota on their Winter Dance Tour (pics from a show in Green Bay Wisconsin) crashed in a snowstorm, killing all three musicians as well as the 21 year old pilot. This was not the "day the music died"- three great talents died, their music never will.