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The Dust Bowl of The 1930

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute, March 1936. (Dorthea Lange/Library of Congress/LC-USF34-T01-009093)

The 1930s were some of the driest years in American history. Eight long years of drought, preceded by inappropriate cultivation technique, and the financial crises of the Great Depression forced many farmers off the land abandoning their fields throughout the Great Plains that run across the heart of mainland United States. Continue reading →

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Homemade Suitcase Vehicle (Every Traveler’s Dream)

He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in ChangshaHe Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha, Hunan province, China May 28, 201401_home-made-suitcase-vehicleHe spent nearly a decade  modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The ‘suitcase-scooter’ has a top speed of up to 20km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 50-60km after one charge.

Source: Reuters