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April 19, 1919-May 8, 1996

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Web Mail Web Mail and Email information SMTP2Go Worldwide SMTP Server If all else fails, this will allow you to send email from anywhere. Ebay TV Guide Google News Drudge Report Fandango Tower Theaters Wikipedia Amazon Advocate Local Movies Paypal How to send me money Air Nav Aero Planner Postal Calculator Global Incidents Eurekalert .

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Violet's Summer Adventure

Violet's Spring Escape

Violet's Trip to See Stars and Stellafane

Violet runs off to Freeport

Violet gets a job

Denial is not a river

Kevin and Kel

Shoe

Funky

Stone Soup

Doonesbury

Sherman

Zits

Rhymes with Orange

The Other Coast

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee

La Cucaracha

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The Comics Page at Universal Press Syndicate

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Joe Cartoon Home of the Joesterizer Frog Blender

Real Guide to Streaming Media

Live Cameras

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Weather

Intellicast.

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Dan Checkoway's Metar list

Dan's Free site

Clear Sky Clocks

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Chicopee

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Purolator

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Medical

Aviation Medicine

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Medical Register, for medical supplies

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Markets

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Fidelity

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Nation Ass of Securities Dealers

SEC

MSFT

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Travel and Airlines

Matt Barrett's Greek Travel Guides Fantasy Travel, if you are going to Greece, you need a Greek travel agent. This one is the best. Santorini Hotels, http://www.book-santorini-hotels.com Tra velocity (saber) Travel City Expedia Fare Compare Fodors Delta Airlines Untied Airlines United Airlines Air France Sky High Airlines Safer Travel Directory State Department Travel Info State Department Travel Warnings CDC Travel Info WHO Travel Info Mexico Vacation Information Packing lists for trips Health Problem Map

Safer Travel for people with Allergies Travel Guard Travel Insurance Travel Quest Flight Aware, Tracking and charts American Airlines Air Canada Sky Bus CanJet Airlines USAIR Continental Northwest Southwest Druk Air The only way to get to Bhutan American Express BDL Airport Helpful Travel Tools Orbitz Site 59, for last minute travel Seat Guru Airliners.net Airline meals.net Travel Zoo

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Astronomical Stuff

FAR Laboratories, The best telescope systems, mounts and accessories

Electric Telescope Where to get one.

DynaPod, The best telescope mounts and accessories

Stump Pod, A way to mount your Telescope on a stump or railing

Piece Pod , The best Eyepiece holders in the world!

Helio-Pod , Solar Finders for your telescope, how else are you going to find the sun?

InventionMart, Great inventions for Telescopes

Tales of The Lazy Star Gazer

Flash Astronomy resources and tips for Flash Astronomers and Star Gazers

Reflector.org of the STARS

Arunah Hill Natural Science Center

5As

NERAL, North East Region of the Astronomical League

Stellafane

Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

Dyna-Pod, My design of light weight Tension Leg Tripods

Pielock's Planetarium and Collectors Resource

Junies Astronomy

Universal Astronomics, Binocular and Telescope Mounts

The Astronomy Shoppe, Astro-Glow and Unitron Parts

Willmann-Bell, Astronomy Books

Howie Glatter's Collimators and lasers

Sky and Earth Science

Astronomy For All

Tele Vue Optics

Hands On Optics

Orion Telescopes

Astro Surfing Links

Scope Stuff

Greenwich

Astronomy Technology Today

Sky & Tel Magazine

Astronomy Magazine

Starlight Learning and News in Space

Clear Sky Clocks

NELPAG

IDA

Earth and Moon Viewer

Space Weather

Klipsi

I also have a Photo section with lot of pictures from astronomical events.

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Satellite Tracking

Heavens Above

NASA J-Pass

SkyWatch

Dr. T. S. Kelso's two line elements

Black Sun Expeditions

Black Sun Expeditions preferred Vender link list

Rif's Digital Photo Album

All Images Copyright 1990-2009 by A. Rifkin. If you would like to copy these images for noncommercial application, you can do so, as long as I get photo credits. If you want to use any of these for commercial use, please contact me for arrangements. These images represent only a small fraction of my image library.

Content created 1990-2009 by Alan Rifkin;
licensed under a Creative Commons License.
         (style cribbed from jwz)

Antikythera Machanism and Greece Odyssey 2009

Work on the new observatory on Breezy Hill

Mooney Factory Tour 11-2004

BVI Expedition of March 2003

Alaska Trip, June 2002

Adirondack Trip 222 July 2001

Maine Trip

The Bearfest of Belfast Maine, 2000

Grand Cayman Island Trip

Santa Fe and Taos Trip

Hawaii trip

Zion Utah Trip Images(only a few)

The View from the back window

Another View from the back window

My two Favorite Ladies

The Graduate

Mom 77

Mom and Pop, a long time ago

My Cousin Eli

My Cousin Evan

My Cousin Evan 2

A nice place to visit on Martha's Vineyard

A nicer place to visit on Martha's Vineyard

My toy

My toy Box (my toy box goes in my toy!)

Mooney Ditching Video (30meg)

Mooney Ditching Video lower res (7.5meg)

Mooney Ditching Video lower res (850k)

The Spa Cat Baxter

The Cat 2

The Cat 3

Stellafane Images 98

Stellafane 1996, Pink House

Stellafane, 1996 Arunah's Fitts

Stellafane, 1996 Swap tables

Stellafane, 1996 John

Stellafane, 1996 Al & Ali

Stellafane, 1997 Swap Tables 6:30 AM

Stellafane, 1997 Swap Tables 10 AM

Stellafane, 1997 Everyone's Picture, Saturday Night

Stellafane 1998, Everybody's picture at the talks (900k)

Stellafane 1998, David and Bob

Stellafane 1998, Bob and the Kids

Stellafane 1998, Youngest Stellafaner (Michala, 3.5 months old)

Stellafane 1998, Swap tables, Friday

Stellafane 1998, Swap tables, Saturday

Stellafane 1998, A Satisfied Customer

Stellafane 1998, Is this the Anonymous Astronomer?

Stellafane 1998, The Stars, after a successful morning swap

Stellafane 1999, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 1999, The mood of 99, Rain

Stellafane 2000, Swap tables at 5AM in the fog

Stellafane 2000, Swap tables at 7AM

Stellafane 2000, Stella-Newt

Stellafane 2000, View from the Club House

Stellafane 2000, Phil Harrington, his Home page

Stellafane 2001, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 2001, Al Nagler and John Dobson

Stellafane 2001, The Pink Clubhouse

License Plates Seen at Stellafane 2001

Stellafane 2002, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.8m)

Stellafane 2002, Everybody's picture at the talks Hi view (1.6m)

Stellafane 2002, the Youngest Stellafaners ( one is David Levy's grand daughter ), Meet John Dobson

Stellafane 2002, David Levy and Carolyn Shoemaker with Violet

Stellafane 2002, Al of Yummy Vue and Al of Tele Vue enjoying Fig Newtonians

Stellafane 2003, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 2004, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2005, Everybody's picture at the talks (5.1m)

Stellafane 2005, The Flander's Pavilion Arriving

Stellafane 2005,The new observatory nearing completion

Stellafane 2005, John Dobson- Blowing out his 40" Pitch Lap birthday cake's 90 candles

Stellafane 2007, Everybody's picture at the talks

Arunah Hill Days 2000

Arunah Hill from air Aug 97

Arunah Hill Days 1997

Arunah Hill from air July 99

Arunah Hill from Air, Collection

Winter Star Party 2007

Winter Star Party 2007 Sunrise

Tux

Rick Meets Tux for the first time

Tux gets the red carpet treatment for the trip home

HM 2

HM 1

PG

PG

C6

L6

C13

L13

Things to avoid hitting when flying out west

Jeff and Deb's Wedding

More Jeff and Deb

and more Jeff and Deb

Jeff and Deb's Nepal adventure

Jeff and Deb's India adventure

The Labor Day Party

Dion-Gaarde Wedding Photos

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Other Rifkin's, No relation to any of them

A. Rifkin Company, Bank Bags

Alan Rifkin, author of Signal Hill

Alan Rifkin, Lobbiest from Annapolis

Alan Rifkin, Writer of astronomy articles, Computer genius and Telescope maker- Wait that is me, and you are in the right place

Adam Rifkin

Rifkin Travel

R & A Mangaement, Rifkin and Assoc. Acquisition, Management and Cable

Jeremy Rifkin, political

Ron Rifkin, Actor

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Miscellaneous

ZD Help Channel

ZD Drive Finder

ZD Hard Disk Help

Down Load PC Medic

ZD NT support

Ocean Data Equipment Corp

Live from the Western Wall

The Mooney Home page

The Mooney Junction Home page

Mooney events

Babel Fish - translate sites & text

Computer Viruses

Computer Hoaxes

Computer Hoaxes and Viruses

Gibson Research

Movie Data base

Web Wayback Machine

Birthday Lookup

Parallel Bible

Periodic Table of Elements

Sailing Index

N Number Lookup

Flight Tracking

Aircraft Registry

FAA Registry

NTSB accident database

Airport ID changes

First National Bank of Pryor

GTE DUAT

Help Desk

Common Errors in English

Patent Search

Welcome to RealAudio !

Traceroute

Speed Test Speakeasy

Speed Check

Net Check

Stroud's CWSApps List - Front Page

Tu Cows

Global Positioning System (GPS)

DeLorme Mapping products

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Unconnected Sites on hold.
They are also for sale cheap, call if interested

Valley Planning

Brooks Neylon

Front end lifters.com

Fiber Art Center. org

Fiber Art Center.com

Foundation for Fiber Art.org

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