Random Object Photographs

My first looked just like this one. Grandad's '65 Plymouth Fury III with a 318ci 2-barrel in it.View attachment 755732
My first was a 1965 Belvedere. It had the slant 6 and a Frigiking add on AC that hung under the dash. That sucker would freeze your right knee off. It only had 36,000 miles and I paid $250 for it in 1970.
 
I always take pictures of cool sky's and backgrounds to use in different pictures. A before and after.

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Leszczków WWI Cemetery 1914
The sign at the cemetery reads (in Polish):
WAR CEMETERY OF 1914

HERE ARE BORNE SOLDIERS OF THE RUSSIAN AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY WHO FELL DURING THE BATTLE OF OPATOWKA ON NOVEMBER 1–3, 1914. THE CEMETERY WAS ESTABLISHED AFTER THE END OF THE FIGHTING IN NOVEMBER 1914.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SOLDIERS BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY IS NOT EXACTLY KNOWN.

ACCORDING TO DATA FROM 1929, THERE WERE 12 SINGLE GRAVES AND 8 MASS GRAVES HERE, IN WHICH 327 SOLDIERS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY AND 150 SOLDIERS OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY WERE BURIED. ACCORDING TO OTHER SOURCES, THE NUMBER OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SOLDIERS MAY BE 257. THE NAMES OF THE SOLDIERS BURIED IN THE CEMETERY ARE NOT KNOWN.

IT IS KNOWN THAT THEY CAME FROM, AMONG OTHERS, THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN 89TH REGIMENT INFANTRY AND FROM RUSSIAN REGIMENTS: 69TH RYAZANSKY, 70TH RYAZHSKY AND 72ND TULSKY. IN ALL THE MENTIONED RUSSIAN REGIMENTS, A VERY MANY POLES FROM THE LUBLIN REGION, OPATOW AND SANDOMIERSK LAND, AS WELL AS FROM THE LIPNIK MUNICIPALITY, SERVED. SOLDIERS OF POLISH NATIONALITY ALSO SERVED IN AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN UNITS.

ORIGINALLY THE CEMETERY COVERED A LARGER AREA, BUT OVER THE YEARS IT [WAS] GRADUALLY OBLITERATED AND FELL INTO FORGETFULNESS.

IN THE 1990s, THE CEMETERY WAS TREATED, THE AREA WAS FENCED AND A SYMBOLIC GRAVE WAS PLACED THERE.

THE BOARD WAS DEVELOPED BY YOUNG PEOPLE FROM LESZCZKÓW. CO-FINANCED BY THE "ACT LOCALLY XI" PROGRAMME, THE ACADEMY OF PHILANTHROPY DEVELOPMENT IN POLAND, AND THE POLISH-AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION.
 
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