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Pencils Down! GOOD AFTERNOON! The weather may still call for shorts, but Indignity has settled into our autumn routine. Even the latest-starting educational institutions have left vacation long behind; the teachers among us are teaching, the students among us are learning, and we have arrived at the final day of September—which means it is once again time for our GETTY IMAGES ROUNDUP. To keep you, the readers, supplied with visually appealing, topically appropriate, and legally licensed images in our newsletters, Indignity maintains a paid subscription to the Getty Images service. Because even the lowest available tier of the Getty plan still offers more photos and illustrations than we generally use, and because we want to make sure all of us get our full money's worth, at the end of each month we prepare a bonus collection of images to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate. For your edification, and in tribute to all the learners out there wrapping up one instructional unit and moving on to the next, we present our visual review on the subject of TEST.  Chart by George Mayerle for the purpose of TESTing vision, 1907. Courtesy National Library of Medicine. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).  Australian Team, 1878: The first Australian TEST team which came to play cricket in England; back row: Frederick Spofforth, Conway, Allan, 2nd row: Bailey Horan, Garrett, Gregory, A Bannerman, Boyle, front row: C Bannerman, Billy Murdoch and Jack Blackham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)  LDSD retrieval, June 28, 2014. NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) is lifted aboard the Kahana recovery vessel. The LDSD launch tested technologies for landing large payloads on Mars. During the engineering flight, the saucer-shaped first "flown" TEST vehicle climbed to over 180,000 feet (about 55,000 meters) in altitude and went as fast as four times the speed of sound. NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate funded the LDSD mission, a cooperative effort led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Artist NASA. (Photo by Heritage Space/Heritage Images via Getty Images)  Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, (18--?). The painter, whoever he or she was, was probably working in the 19th century, but has inherited several features of the 17th-century monochrome masters, such as Pieter Claesz of Haarlem (1597-1660): such features include the crack in the stone ledge, which serves both as a sign of transience and a TEST of verisimilitude. But instead of flowers, lemons, butterflies, and dewdrops, the painter has introduced a different mystery of the creation: electricity. On the right is a hand-powered electrostatic generator which sends electricity to a Leyden jar in the foreground and sets off the ringing of "Franklin bells" in the red and blue jar, as the two hanging clappers are alternately attracted and repelled between the three inverted cups. Creator: Paul Lelong. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)  Darrel Sandford right) and Robert Wilson left) members of the Federal Fire Department Hazardous Materials Ventura County Group pour a neutral absorbent onto a suspicious substance that leaked from a trash area outside the 1600 block of North Moorpark Road in the Park Oaks Shopping Center Thursday afternoon. The officials were called to the scene when a cleaning crew discovered the mess and it began leaking onto the pavement. TESTing will be done to determine the exact type of substances found. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)  Captain Boynton attacked by a dog-fish: Illustration depicting Captain Boynton attacked by a dog-fish in the Straits of Messina on his journey TESTing his survival suit. Dated 19th Century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)  Martin B-26B-25-Ma Marauder "Flak-Bait" Twin engine medium bomber. Wing Span 2,160 cm (850 in.), Length 1,780 cm (701 in.), Height 660 cm (260 in.), Weight 10,886 kg (23,999 lb). Project engineer Peyton M. Magruder designed the Glenn L. Martin Company's B-26 Marauder in response to an Army Air Corps specification issued in January 1939. This specification also caught the attention of North American Aviation, Inc., and that firm responded with the B-25. War fever caused the Air Corps to forego a prototype TEST stage and both bombers went from the drawing board straight into production. The consequences were deadly for men flying the Martin bomber. The Army threatened to withdraw the aircraft from combat, but Marauder crews stuck with their airplane. By war's end, they had lost fewer airplanes than almost any other combat unit and compiled a notable war record. The NASM B-26B-25-MA nicknamed 'Flak-Bait' (AAF serial number 41-31773) survived 206 operational missions over Europe, more than any other American aircraft during World War II. Artist Martin Aircraft Co. Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images  Kannappa, a hunter, who offers his eyes during a TEST of his devotion, is shown on the verge of gouging out his eye with an arrow in order to replace the damaged eye of the linga. He places his right foot on one of the linga’s eyes so he knows where to place his own eye. At this point, Shiva’s arm emerges from the linga and grabs his wrist to stop him. A five-hooded snake rises behind the deep blue mukhalinga, set in a carefully molded pitha placed on a stepped plinth. Artist unknown, 1830 (Photo by Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images)  Imposed View of John F. Kennedy's Assassin's Bullet. This is a picture of bullet which went through Kennedy and Connally. The bullet TEST fired through a corpse.  (May 1966) Rear view of the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU), worn by TEST subject Fred Spross, Crew Systems Division. The Gemini spacesuit, backpack and chest pack comprise the AMU, a system which is essentially a miniature manned spacecraft. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)  United States detonating an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia in the first underwater TEST of the device, 1946. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)  IN THIS PHOTO: Faribault and St. Paul, MN., Wednesday, 8/29/2000. Erin Sellner Ward, head of the Sellner Manufacturing Company of Faribault, the company that makes the Tilt-A-Whirl, stood in front of a Dizzy Dragon's ride under final assembly at the plant. It doesn't have the stature of Skyscraper or the thrilling uncertainty of Chaos, but the Tilt-A-Whirl, one of the tamest of the State Fair's 68 rides, has stood the TEST of time. Sellner family legend has the Tilt-A-Whirl debuting in Herbert Sellner's kitchen in Faribault, Minn. The prototype involved a chair placed on the kitchen table, with Herbert's boy Art in the chair, and Herbert rocking the table back and forth. Art enjoyed that so much, Herbert built a carnival ride based on the same principles. That was in 1926, which makes this the 75th anniversary of the Tilt-A-Whirl. It's still produced in Faribault by Sellner Manufacturing Co., run today by Herbert's great-granddaughter, Erin Sellner Ward. (Photo By BRUCE BISPING/Star Tribune via Getty Images) Thank you for reading the Indignity Getty Image Roundup, or at least looking at the pictures! We remain grateful for your continued interest and support. Enjoy previous installations of Indignity Image Roundup. WEATHER REVIEWS New York City, September 29, 2025★★★ The clouds covering the day let sun through now and then—sometimes fully but briefly opening a gap, sometimes partially thinning to let the light intensify. The indoor air was stifling, even with the windows open, but outdoors was easeful. Honeylocust leaves were accumulating on a Lexus. Geese grazed upslope in the park and fresh wet goose turds were scattered and trampled on the path. By late afternoon the sun was down to a blur, just a little too bright to be round, yet the sky was still bright enough for a hand to cast a shadow on a page. The weather app said the number that went with the cool temperature was 78 degrees. EASY LISTENING DEP'T.HERE IS TODAY'S Indignity Morning Podcast! Here is the Indignity Morning Podcast archive! ADVICE DEP'T.HEY! DO YOU like advice columns? They don't happen unless you send in some letters! Surely you have something you want to justify to yourself, or to the world at large. Now is the perfect time to share it with everyone else through The Sophist, the columnist who is not here to correct you, but to tell you why you're right. Direct your questions to The Sophist, at indignity@indignity.net, and get the answers you want. SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of sandwiches selected from British Everyday Cookery, published by Whitcombe and Tombs in 1910 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all. EGG AND SARDINE SANDWICHES.
Twelve sardines, 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 oz. butter, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, pepper, mustard, and cress. Skin and bone the sardines; then pound them with the yolks only of the eggs and the butter slightly melted, the lemon juice, and seasoning. Place between thinly buttered slices of bread, and add a thin layer of mustard and cress if in season. If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net . SELF-SERVING SELF-PROMOTION DEP'T. Indignity is presented on Ghost. Indignity recommends Ghost for your Modern Publishing needs. Indignity gets a slice if you do this successfully!
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