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ASSIGNMENT! Photography + Memory. So many of our memories are informed by images of moments we don’t actually remember. But they happened, right? NPR wants to know: Do you have a #fakememory based entirely on old photos you've seen of yourself? Moments you think you remember only because you’ve seen a picture?

Here's one, from our former intern Jim Tuttle: "I don't have an actual recollection of being photographed with a bottle of whiskey in my grandparents' kitchen (I was 9 months old),” he says, “but my knowledge of that place and my family (made during Labor Day weekend, 1986) make it easy to imagine the incident as if it were a real memory.

For an upcoming series on photography and memory, NPR wants to know: What memory do you want to save for the future – in a photo? Share your #futurememories on Instagram to show us the people, things or events the “future you” wants to remember.

Like the one at the top of our current reporter kits at NPR -- we're pretty sure these will look very different someday. We're all tied to our smartphones now, but how will we be communicating in the future? And newspapers, how will we consume news and the media?

Use the hashtag #futurememories, and make sure to tune in for the series on All Things Considered later this month.

Now a humble parking lot, the Washington Coliseum has seen a lot in its days. Malcolm X once spoke there, circus lions jumped through hoops there — and on Feb. 11 1964, The Beatles played their first-ever U.S. concert there.

In the 50 years since that day, a lot has changed. The building fell into disrepair after being sold, and for 10 years was a transfer station for Waste Management.

Still, on any given day, beautiful shafts of light can been seen spilling through the circular windows in the vaulted ceilings onto the abandoned clusters of stadium seating lurking in dark corners along the walls.

Long Exposures Of A Creepy Garage (Also, The Beatles!)

Most of the sports in the Winter Olympics involve great physical strength or agility. The goals are easy to understand: to go faster, to jump farther or more spectacularly. But one Olympic sport — curling — is as much about strategy and physics as physicality.

Curling is some combination of bowling, bocce ball, billiards and chess — all on ice. Oh, and there's sweeping involved, too, so throw some basic housekeeping into that mix. It's one of those sports people love to mock for not really being a sport. But don't tell that to Kevin White, an instructor at the Potomac Curling Club in a Washington, D.C., suburb where about a dozen newbies like me gathered on a recent weekend for a lesson.

7 Facts And 3 Gifs: Hellooo Curling