Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
The NOAA Wave Pool (also concatenated as “Wavepool”) is a kinetic sculpture created by Jim Sanborn. It is located in the courtyard of Silver Spring Metro Center 4, on the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) campus in Silver Spring, Continue reading NOAA Wave Pool
Everyone wants to be recognized for something. This has resulted in an explosion of different ways to be recognized, ranging from spending money to get your own trophy (or get your name engraved on a brick, or monogrammed shirts, or…) Continue reading Awards and Honors
The Naval Observatory photo gallery has been updated with a new responsive design. The old design was “responsive,” but the images were too small, and the JavaScript was awkward. In July 2007, as part of a science partnership with the Continue reading US Naval Observatory
The photo collection supporting Kathleen’s attendance at NI2003, the 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, was updated to a new responsive design. Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the conference allowed Kathleen to brush up on her Portuguese, see nurses Continue reading Brazil
Checklist of World Heritage Sites visited in the United States. This is a dynamic list, with plans for checking off more sites in the future. ✔︎ means “visited,” and ✖︎ means “need to visit.” Mesa Verde National Park – ✖︎ Continue reading World Heritage Sites, United States
Last week, a penguin completed an epic migration that lasted a couple years and thousands of miles. When measured in penguin distances, it encompassed more miles than Neil Armstrong traveled going to the moon and back in his celebrated “one Continue reading Epic penguin migration
More will be added as I find them, but here are almost half a dozen Off Duty articles about living in Japan.
Several hundred items were published in the Yokosuka Seahawk and I no longer have copies of most of those stories. It will take me considerable time to convert the articles I still retain. These were scanned from the printed originals. Continue reading Seahawk
Just because. Delta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGnrEacX2Rc British Airways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedV-KyXWO4 British Airways revised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ9Xpzi4qkU Turkish Airlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hCN6cVuqM Qantas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2btt98pKlA Middle Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOw44VFNk8Y