Savoie side-paddle steamer on Lac Leman
Launched in 1914, the same year that saw:
- Ford Motor Company announce an 8-hour workday and minimum wage of $5/day
- Pancho Villa's troops take the Mexican state of Chihuahua
- Charlie Chaplin make his film debut
- Austrian Archduke Franze Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo plunging the World into WWI
- Baseball legend Babe Ruth make his major league debut
- The Panama Canal inaugurated with the steamship USS Ancon
- The last known passenger pigeon "Martha" die in a Cincinnati zoo
- Pope Benedict XV become the 258th pope
- First Battle of the Marne near Paris. Over 2 million fight and 500,000 killed/wounded.
- Joseph Kennedy Sr. marry Rose Fitzgerald in Boston
The passage of time does not necessarily mean change . . .
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- Panasonic DMC-GF1
- f/5.0
- 20mm
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