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  • A classic New York golf course vanished. 80 years later, it reappeared in the Midwest

    08/31/2025 2:35:14 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 28, 2025 | Brendan Quinn
    Before all this, the seaside stretch of Lido Beach, a mere hour outside Manhattan, clung to a fading postcard of its former self. The one with new money elites frolicking along the shoreline. The one with flappers dancing the night away, hair bobbed, frills shimmering. The one with the Lido Hotel in the middle of it all — six stories high and flamingo pink. The gall it took to build this thing. A remnant of the Roaring Twenties. Four hundred and forty rooms, a 9,000-square-foot ballroom, the oceanside solarium. The elaborate, rococo-inspired mega-hotel was built by the same architectural firm...
  • Astronomers Discover Rare Object in Perfect Sync with Neptune's Orbit [2020 VN40]

    07/16/2025 9:06:49 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 15 replies
    The Daily Galaxy ^ | July 16, 2025 | Jessica Bennett
    In a groundbreaking discovery published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has confirmed the existence of a rare object located far beyond Neptune. Known as 2020 VN40, this trans-Neptunian object is in a unique orbital resonance with the giant planet Neptune. For every ten orbits Neptune completes, 2020 VN40 completes one orbit around the Sun. This rare alignment provides key insights into how objects in the outer solar system behave and evolve over time. The research, which draws from extensive observations made by the Large Inclination Distant...
  • Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle mix of

    10/13/2023 4:28:01 PM PDT · by FLNittany · 33 replies
    youtube ^ | 1976 | Boz Scaggs
    Boz along w/ what would become Toto. I saw him a few years ago in WPB at the Kravis Center. It was confirmed - he's the coolest musician alive.