“I understand it like this, I was talking with an Ohio State Trooper who told me it’s like seeing with one eye closed. It’s a lot harder,” Romanchuk said.

But I know also that even those words will decay over the course of deep time—blasted from the stone by desert wind, eaten from it by atmospheric moisture, or lost in translation. For language has its half-life too, its decay chain. The written history of humanity is only around 5,000 years old, when cuneiform first emerged. Our language systems are dynamic, our inscription systems vulnerable to destruction or distortion. Most ink is perishable in direct sunlight, fading within months toward invisibility. Even if lettering is inscribed in durable substances, there is no guarantee that it will be legible to future audiences. Today perhaps a thousand people in the world can understand cuneiform.

Actress Anna May Wong is depicted as one of the pillars of the “Four Ladies of Hollywood” gazebo on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Officials say someone climbed the public art piece and sawed off a statue of Marilyn Monroe. (Photo: Richard Vogel/AP)

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Kelly Birkey demonstrates his custom-built Cub Cadet with a forklift attachment. The Paxton, Illinois, resident has restored or customized numerous Cub Cadets and prior to that restored larger International Harvester tractors over the years. Some of his work will be featured at the Historic Farm Days July 11-14 at Penfield, Illinois, and the Half Century of Progress Show Aug. 22-25 at Rantoul, Illinois.

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His restoration or customizing process begins with removing everything down to the frame. The frame is then placed on a rotisserie he made that turns so he can paint it and apply the finishing touch. Once that’s completed, he’ll begin putting the pieces and motor onto the frame.

A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper takes measurements while investigating an accident scene. (Archive photo)

Landscape lighting doesn’t have to be the focal point of your outdoor living space to enhance its look and function.

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The belly of Onkalo is not the deepest place that I have been, but it seems at this point the darkest. I have a strong sense of the weight of time above and around us, bearing down on veins and tissue.