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My foggy town Ootacamund or Ooty
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this is another old photo from the archives. i took this in edinburgh, scotland, in october 1991. i had just met florian while backpacking in ireland, but he'd gone back to munich, and i didn't know if i'd ever see him again. while in edinburgh, i called him from a red telephone box, and in a single phone call, everything changed. :-) flickr is an amazing phenomenon. it makes the world a much smaller place -- like connecting me with bootpainter, fellow libra, who's from edinburgh, and was…
The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London during December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 to Tuesday 9 December 1952, and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather. Although it caused major disruption due to the effect on visibility, and even penetrated indoor…
