Post an old photo of interest from your photobucket account. This is a San man.

[applegrove]

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His people have some of the most diverged branches of the Y chromosome...they're our family.

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[Kali]

1. I just posted a pile in the cool/exotic/rare animal thread

may have used up my DU bandwidth allotment

[applegrove]

2. I saw. Your post inspired mine.

[Kali]

3. aw

cool! ok I will go find something interesting and older

[cyberswede]

4. 1935

My mom on her first day of school

[applegrove]

11. What a great picture to have!

[Rhiannon12866]

20. OMG! What a special and adorable photo!

[harmonicon]

5. That's not really true, you know. (nt)

[applegrove]

8. But I just saw a family tree by peoples. The one where our common ancestor was not

150,000 years ago but 400,000 years ago. The San people were at the top. I'll go look for it. (later) I couldn't find it to verify. Found other information. Fixed my OP. Thanks.

[harmonicon]

13. I understand that, but it's just not that simple.

It's not as if there were San people that split into two groups, one which remained the San and another which became everyone else. Throughout humanity's existence, these splits have been happening, and one of the first was between one group which would go on to include the San and another group which would go on to include most other people, but there are changes in both.

Then of course it's further complicated by new discoveries that many non-Africans have Neandertal or Denisovan DNA, groups which split from the main branch of humanity which came about in Africa hundreds of thousands of years before any changes would happen that would lead to the existence of a group like the San.

I take - and appreciate - your point that we're all related, but there are a number of reasons that simplifying these ideas doesn't sit completely right with me.

[applegrove]

16. You are correct. From what I read when I quickly perused the internet on the topic

it is not that simple at all. I'll change my OP. And thanks. I too like good information.

[Aristus]

6. A pic of my paternal grandfather:

He served in the Coast Guard in World War II. I remember looking at this pic as a kid, and thinking he looked like a movie star.

[cyberswede]

7. He does look like a movie star!

Vary dashing!

I love old photos.

[Aristus]

10. People see this pic, then look at me and ask:

So what happened to you?

[applegrove]

9. Those are big moviestar eyes. Bug eyes!!!

[Kali]

12. ok, I will keep it to two

I am pretty sure this was the first picture I posted to DU. A Coral Bean flower. There are tropical varieties that grow to tree size but ours freeze back in the winter. They bloom in late May and early June, but they only put out leaves if it rains. The leaves are beautiful light green about the size and shape of a cottonwood or poplar or aspen with smooth margins. This one is growing up through a wait-a-minute shrub, the greenery is its leaves, not the Coral Bean. They set large pods that contain 5 to maybe 20 bright red (coral!) beans about the size of a kidney bean. Also called Indian Beans. Supposed to be poisonous or hallucinogenic, but I have never tried them.

edit: when I looked at the enlarged post version I can see leaves. to the left and in the lower right are coral bean leaves so whenever I took this it was a rare wet June, probably.




This is an OLD picture.



The man with the rusty stain on his shoulder is my Great Grandfather and the woman in the wheel chair is his Mother. This was at the picnic and rodeo held every summer for her birthday. They would make an arena by parking buggies/wagons and cars in a big circle. I think they had steer roping and probably some bronc riding if somebody had a bucking horse, but mosty it was roping as that was the main skill most used in their work.

[applegrove]

15. How cool is it to have evidence of real cowboys in your family tree. And to have actual

pictures of the great greats in your family. Put this and the details (names, dates, anecdotes) on ancestry.com and until the end of time descendants will be able to enjoy your great, great grandmother and those she loved on that summer's day .... one more time.

[Kali]

17. some of it is already there, I am sure

lots of relatives into doing that. I may get more into it when I have actual time. As it is I barely have time to fool around on DU

[HarveyDarkey]

14. Me and the best animal companion I've ever had, circa 1983

RIP Toby

[In_The_Wind]

19. Toby was a handsome lad.

imo: The owner wasn't bad looking either.

[applegrove]

32. I love collies. My aunt had one when I was a kid. Such pretty dogs.

[HarveyDarkey]

33. He was an oversized Sheltie actually

mistaken often for a Collie because of his size.

[applegrove]

34. Still beautiful.

[HarveyDarkey]

39. That he was

and a real sweetheart too. Had him 16 years before we had to say goodbye.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Around 1990 or so, I did a term paper on the history of LSD for a Sociology course.

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The coolest thing I found (and it's because of the personal connection) was information about how
Cary Grant was one of the celebrities who was being treated with LSD by his therapist. I think I
found this picture in a small article in the back of a 1956 Newsweek.
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The personal connection? Around 1962, at school they gave us the vaccine against polio. The local
newspaper had sent out a photographer and he chose me to "model" for the article. My headshot
has the same look of ecstatic joy as Grant's does (although my hand wasn't in the picture). The
polio vaccine had been eyedroppered onto a sugar cube -- also a common delivery method for
acid at the time. My mouth was wide open and the sugar cube was sitting on my tongue. I felt a
hilarious connection with him because of this.
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Technically, I no longer had this photo in Photobucket -- and I lost the newspaper article/photo
of young Master MiddleFingerMom years ago, but it was one of my favorite pictures of myself ever.
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And this picture is hilarious with or without my backstory.
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[Rhiannon12866]

21. A photo of "myself and my cat" I once posted on DU.2. LOL!

[ZombieHorde]

26. Hilarious picture. nt

[7wo7rees]

37. That pic of you is still in my Photobucket

I have posted it as recently as last month.

Classic catface.

[HipChick]

40. That pic made its rounds on the internet..

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

22. My mom & dad

Post-WWII, say '46 or '47

[Callalily]

23. What a fabulous photo!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. jewelry that I made several years ago - bracelets and necklaces

[ZombieHorde]

27. Very nice. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. thanks, ZombieHorde

[ohiosmith]

25. Monks in the Forbidden City.

[LWolf]

29. Here are two.

[Ptah]

30. Lifting

[LancetChick]

31. My mother, my garden and a woman with an appalling sense of fashion.

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Mom:
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Hydrangea:
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Melons:
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[HarveyDarkey]

35. I had a post hidden because of that last photo

just sayin'

[LancetChick]

36. Thanks, I just deleted it.

[MissV]

38. My grandfather and great-grandfather and great-uncles.

I believe this taken around 1917.