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Pennsylvania—there are only 9 more days to get out and make your voice heard in this election. Join Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia for a community rally. Have questions about registration or polling locations? Visit IWillVote.com For ASL feed, please tune in here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85381952026 -------------------------------------- Follow Vice President Kamala Harris! Kamala's Twitter:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Tiktok:    / kamalaharris   Kamala’s Instagram:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Twitch:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Facebook:    / kamalaharris   Kamala's Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kamalaharris #KamalaHarris #Harris2024 Kamala Harris 681K subscribers My plan will allow Medicare to cover in-home health care for seniors. This is a matter of dignity, and it's born out of a personal experience, after I cared ...

Just performed GLORY with my brother @JohnLegend at the Final @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris Rally on Election Eve in Philadelphia. Vote tomorrow. Let’s make history. pic.twitter.com/u3AzzxqZMc — COMMON (@common) November 3, 2020   COMMON just performed GLORY with @JohnLegend at the Final @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris Rally on Election Eve in Philadelphia. Vote tomorrow. Let’s make history.

Now @springsteen and @donwinslow join forces, to show that @realDonaldTrump has let the USA down! #VOTE #VoteBidenHarris2020 #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #Springsteen #AmericaNeedsPennsylvania https://t.co/zawb2Ahx09 — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) October 13, 2020

by Gregg Chadwick Eadweard Muybridge Muybridge Animal Locomotion, plate 288 circa 1887 ©  University of Pennsylvania  | uarc@pobox.upenn.edu "....'See how curiously,' said Mr. Muybridge, referring to a photographic series (Plate 288 shown above) of one of our most prominent University baseball nine, 'and yet how perfectly, this plate illustrates the occurrence of an error in catching.' True enough. In the successive pictures the ball is muffed, strikes the player's thigh, runs up under his arm and across his back, while he is looking eagerly on the wrong side for it." - The  Pennsylvanian , 1886  In the 19th century the railroad, the telegraph and the camera transformed our experience of space and time.  JMW Turner's painting  Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway  documents in oil paint the beginnings of this perceptual shift.  In Turner's work, the powerful steam engine races from the painting's perspectival vanis...

by Gregg Chadwick Henri Maillardet's Automaton at The Franklin Institute  In November 1928, the fire scarred remains of a mechanical boy were dropped off at The Franklin Institute  in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Left in pieces, it took months of painstaking work to reassemble the automaton. Little was known about the history of this extraordinary object. Like the automaton in Brian Selznick's magical, graphic novel  The Invention of Hugo Cabret  and Martin Scorsese's wonderful film adaptation of the book now simply entitled  Hugo , the machine itself provided the clue to its origins. When the complicated cogs and mechanisms were repaired and the machine was rewound for the first time in decades, the automaton's hand began to draw.  Remarkably the machine's mechanical memory, held four drawings and three poems  (illustrated below). One of the poems finished with a signature in French, "Ecrit par l'Automate de Maillardet." The mechanic...

Springsteen and the E Street Band Perform "Higher and Hiigher" at the Philadelphia Spectrum on October 20, 2009 Listening to Bruce cover Jackie Wilson's classic is getting me ready for my birthday on Friday.