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Say “fromage”!…

Photographer Michael Hughes has a novel approach to those snaps of famous landscapes that anchor the average vacation slide show…  he substitutes a tourist trinket for the real thing…

Read all about it, and see other examples in this Daily Mail Online piece.

As we hit the souvenir stands,we might recall that it was on this date in 1890 that the first state chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a “lineage-based” (female descendants of “those who aided in achieving American independence”… ” between between 19 April 1775 (Battle of Lexington) and 26 November 1783 (withdrawal of British Troops from New York)”  [More details here]…  Living members include Laura Bush, Rosalynn Carter, Elizabeth Dole, Janet Reno, and  Bo Derek.

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October 11, 2008 at 1:01 am

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