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I am trying to cultivate a new community: [email protected]. The name is lovingly stolen from a slogan of the 99% Invisible podcast: always read the plaque.

The community highlights informative signage: monuments, memorials, interpretive signs, and simple plaques. Some posts may be historically significant, others may be interesting novelties or touching memorials to good people who have passed. You never know what interesting thing has been left there, right out in the open for all of us to read.

The article has some interesting information about European passports, too.

The rise of tourism in North America and Europe in the mid- to late 19th century caused difficulties for the existing passport and visa systems in Europe and in 1861, France abolished passports and visas, with the rest of Europe following suit.

By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, passport requirements were nonexistent nearly everywhere in Europe and the United States. The First World War brought new concerns for international security, prompting the requirement of passports and visas to travel abroad.
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the U.S. passport requirement was only a war measure that officially ended when President Wilson left office in 1921. The U.S. was not a member of League of Nations – despite it being the brainchild of its aforementioned president – and did not require passports for international travel again until Nov. 29, 1941, mere days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/drawerofdrawings/art/Lady-of-the-Lake-1103759815

If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA ... but a textual description of the same algorithm may not be suppressed, then where exactly should the line be drawn?

Ibis used to put this brake housing stop on some of their frames.

They also had a foot for a frame pump peg:

I wish more bike companies still had a sense of humor.

(Neither picture is mine.)