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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB88 on March 04, 2008, 10:01:09 PM
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teach a history lesson. tell us interesting things.
next poster/professor begins.
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The caveman didnt invent fire.
It was actually caused by a careless vacationer traveling through a wormhole that left his fire burning from a recent BBQ
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annnnnd we're off.
:cool:
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In 1922 the Texas Cattleman's Association challenged the US Army to a horse race from Dallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio. They each put up their best riders. Took 4 days ~ the Soldier sent back feed to the Cowboy to make sure he could finish the race. :) One of my favorite stories ever. I could go on & on about it, but I won't.
"Army At Dawn" has a small account of it.
"Terrible Terry Allen" gives more interesting tidbits.
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The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut
It is actually a small rodent that is part turtle and part mole (crunchy outside and chewy inside)
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Roman legions that proved disloyal or displayed cowardice in battle were punished by the killing of one out of every ten men, from what I understand it was at the hands of his fellow legionnaires.
From Decem = Latin for ten. This gave us the word decimate
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March 4, 2008:
Three days after the 35th birthday of someone who bought a Green car in homage to the Green Bay Packers; Brett Favre retires from the NFL. Going back to days in my youth I remember seeing Don Majkowski throw a touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe at Milwaukee County Stadium.
A year or two later an unknown guy from down south was in our Wisconsin huddle and started a streak of true greatness. Besides the NFL records he was a man of true stature in the local community, and someone who is and forever will be truly respected for as long as time counts on. A consummate hero, yet actually the guy next door, Brett Favre is someone who you, at the same time would be in awe of his presence, and yet he would go out of his way to make you feel at home.
If given the chance this historian would sit down with him, talk about the next season, and literally get down and beg for him to give it one more shot. The team is the youngest in the league, and if he would remember the 1996 team was also one of the youngest teams in the league. the potential is there, all he has to do is show up and sling that pigskin around. This is not the ramblings of a Packers fan just hoping for the team to do well, this is someone who sees the true joy he plays with, and honestly would love to see nothing more than another image of an exuberant Brett throwing a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
Watching him play excited fans across the world. Watching him win elated fans across the world. Just watching him do most anything made Wisconsin citizens orgasm. His streak has been compared to Cal Ripken's and in some circles surpassed it based on the physical brutality of football in comparison to baseball. Lance Armstrong himself today called Brett Favre "the true ironman". The adversity he has played through is a mountain of hardship most anyone I know could not and would not go through.
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A Man for the ages.
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Hawaii consists of eight main islands.....Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lânaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. seven of those those islands were formed from volcanic magma sources, yet the island of kaho'olawe has a structural base consisting not of lava........but rather hundreds of tons of fine swiss chocolate.
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Every 7 years there is a river in Colorado that reverses it's direction for one day. Scientists are still puzzled why this happens. The river is extremely flat and has high banks. The best theory is that there are underground reservoirs downstream that build up pressure over time, and when the upstream water source hits a cyclical low, the downstream pressure overcomes the upstream source and the water runs backwards until the pressure drops in the downstream underground reservoir.
That's a true story that I just made up. I dedicate it to Moray and the other global warming freaks who cherry pick data collected without consistent methodology over the last thousand years to "prove" that man-made CO2 is the most significant factor in global temperature changes over the last couple decades. And for those who skipped thermodynamics in school, if you melt ice in hot tea, the net energy of the system (original ice plus hot water) remains the SAME. The ice got warmer, the water got colder. There is no net change in energy, it's just spread out a little differently. So quit using that retarded analogy because it makes no sense except to the ignorant or deliberately deceptive.
:lol
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The United States Coast Guard is the OLDEST branch of the armed forces to serve on a continuious basis since it's inception as the Revenue Cutter Service. It also has one more battle streamer than all the other branches of the armed forces.
I'll let you guys do the research to find out which one we have that no one else has.
Also the US Coast Guard has only had one person awarded the Medal Of Honor....who was it??? Any of our Marines should know this one since it's taught in Marine Corp basic training.
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The modern version of the toilet was created by Sir Thomas Crapper.
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And the modern bra was invented by Otto Tittslinger.
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Originally posted by eagl
Every 7 years there is a river in Colorado that reverses it's direction for one day. Scientists are still puzzled why this happens. The river is extremely flat and has high banks. The best theory is that there are underground reservoirs downstream that build up pressure over time, and when the upstream water source hits a cyclical low, the downstream pressure overcomes the upstream source and the water runs backwards until the pressure drops in the downstream underground reservoir.
That's a true story that I just made up. I dedicate it to Moray and the other global warming freaks who cherry pick data collected without consistent methodology over the last thousand years to "prove" that man-made CO2 is the most significant factor in global temperature changes over the last couple decades. And for those who skipped thermodynamics in school, if you melt ice in hot tea, the net energy of the system (original ice plus hot water) remains the SAME. The ice got warmer, the water got colder. There is no net change in energy, it's just spread out a little differently. So quit using that retarded analogy because it makes no sense except to the ignorant or deliberately deceptive.
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You're way under V sub mca.
Why you've chosen to reference my name to something I've never said, equating climate to a glass of tea and an ice cube, i'll never know. I've never said anything of the sort. As well, I'm not a GW freak. I simply present the science as it stands.
You are correct in your thermodynamics lecture...net E state is neutral in your example. The difference in you ideology is.... the planet is not a glass of iced tea. Figure it out below.
Thermodynamic systems
Energy transfer is studied in three types of systems:
Open systems
Open systems can exchange both matter and energy with an outside system. They are portions of larger systems and in intimate contact with the larger system. Your body is an open system.
Closed systems.
Closed systems exchange energy but not matter with an outside system. Though they are typically portions of larger systems, they are not in complete contact. The Earth is essentially a closed system; it obtains lots of energy from the Sun but the exchange of matter with the outside is almost zero.
Isolated systems
Isolated systems can exchange neither energy nor matter with an outside system. While they may be portions of larger systems, they do not communicate with the outside in any way. The physical universe is an isolated system; a closed thermos bottle is essentially an isolated system (though its insulation is not perfect).
Why a college educated, line officer doesn't see the difference... I shudder to think.
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Originally posted by Hornet33
It also has one more battle streamer than all the other branches of the armed forces.
I'll let you guys do the research to find out which one we have that no one else has.
Eh ... easy. Military battle of the bands most gay folkband look. :D
http://www.uscg.mil/band/images/Dixie-Chrissmall.jpg
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...that comedian Chevy Chase's maternal grandfather was a brilliant tactician that was crucial to both the Doolittle raid AND the victory at the Battle of Midway?
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did he go... na nannanananaana?
:confused:
:D
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The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung and was used by the Egyptians in 2000 BC.
I don't want to know how it was used:noid
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The attack on Baltimore in the War of 1812 which saw the burning of the White House was launched from Bermuda. ;) The attack eventually led to the penning of the Star Spangled Banner when the British forces were unable to take Fort Henry.
http://www.sacredclassics.com/keys.htm
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Democracy was formed on Pirate ships.
Harr!
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September 17, 1862 Battle of the Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Bloodiest day in American history.
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Coconuts are still nonmigratory and always will be.
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Nelson suffered from chronic seasickness.
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Coconuts are still nonmigratory and always will be.
then how did they get to hawaii?
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then how did they get to hawaii?
They were "from" there... they didn't have to "get" anywhere.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Mac
Now "What came first? The Coconut Palm or the Coconut?"
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At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed due to it's swearing.
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Coconuts do not migrate. The swallows that carry them around do however. Whatever you do, don't look up when they are flying over! :O
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Whatever you do, don't look up when they are flying over! :O
Same with reindeer
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or flyin monkeys...
*shivers*
Mac
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All diamonds will eventually turn to graphite.
Until 1834, it was illegal for any soldier of the U.S. Army to carry the American flag into battle.
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That's the first I've heard of that...we alled carried diff sizes of American Flags.
Mac
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The Battle of Brices Cross Roads at Baldwin, MS was a turning point that sent Union forces retreating back to Memphis. General Forrest's Cavalry turned the tide and it was one of the few Confedereate victories in Mississippi.
There is ONE single grave of a Union Soldier who was wounded at the battle, and staggered some 10 miles away to a southern homestead. The family fed and gave basic medical care, but the soldier later died of his wounds, at a small farm 1 mile south of Wheeler, Mississippi.
His grave is located on a small rise right off the Wheeler/Baldwin Road, and is one of the few SINGLE American soldier's graves in existance that is recognized with an official war-dead headstone.
The soldier had to traverse my ancestor's family farm to get there.
ROX
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In 1922 the Texas Cattleman's Association challenged the US Army to a horse race from Dallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio. They each put up their best riders. Took 4 days ~ the Soldier sent back feed to the Cowboy to make sure he could finish the race. :) One of my favorite stories ever. I could go on & on about it, but I won't.
"Army At Dawn" has a small account of it.
"Terrible Terry Allen" gives more interesting tidbits.
In 1976 there was a cross-country horcerace, - across the USA- some 4000 miles if I recall it correctly.
Contestants were groups of various breeds from across the world.
The Arab team won, second were the Icelandic ponies (!)
After the long race came a 100 mile race. The Icelanders won that one.
Some horse :D
Edit: the great race was won by a mule. So I guess the other results apply to horses. Would have been interesting to have camels too ;)
Book here:
http://www.greatamericanhorserace.com/index.html
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Cuthbert Collingwood, who was Nelson's deputy at Trafalgar, and some argue the real man behind the victory, would scatter acorns around the countryside wherever he walked in England to ensure that there was enough oak to sustain the shipbuilding industry and Britains dominance at sea.
It is rumoured that he is responsible for a large percentage of the oak trees currently standing in England.
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The Assassin movement, called the "new propaganda" by its members, was inaugurated by al-Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah (died in 1124), probably a Persian from Tus, who claimed descent from the Himyarite kings of South Arabia. The motives were evidently personal ambition and desire for vengeance on the part of the heresiarch." (heresiarch: leader of heretical group) "As a young man in al-Rayy, al-Hassan received instruction in the Batinite system, and after spending a year and a half in Egypt returned to his native land as a Fatimid missionary. Here in 1090 he gained possession of the strong mountain fortress Alamut, north-west of Qazwin. Strategically situated on an extension of the Alburz chain, 10200 feet above sea level, and on the difficult by shortest road between the shores of the Caspian and the Persian highlands, this "eagle's nest," as the name probably means, gave ibn-al-Sabbah and his successors a central stronghold of primary importance. Its possession was the first historical fact in the life of the new order.
THE ASSASSINS by Philip K. Hitti
From _The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp_, edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog.
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great bits.
:)
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12 men have walked on the moon.
Armstrong, Aldrin, *Conrad, Bean, *Shepard, Mitchell, Scott, *Irwin, Young, Duke, Cernan and Schmitt
9 are still alive. All are in their 70's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V9quPcNWZE
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Abraham Lincoln's dog when he was in office was named Fido.
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Cuthbert Collingwood, who was Nelson's deputy at Trafalgar, and some argue the real man behind the victory, would scatter acorns around the countryside wherever he walked in England to ensure that there was enough oak to sustain the shipbuilding industry and Britains dominance at sea.
It is rumoured that he is responsible for a large percentage of the oak trees currently standing in England.
Is he the one who always carried them with him, and used his walking staff to poke holes at good spots for them?
Anyway, to WW2
LW ace Werner Mölders suffered badly from airsickness, but his passion for flying was strong enough for him to grind teeth and get through.
He had an encounter with the South-African Ace "Sailor" Malan,in an epic fight between the Spit I and Me 109E. Mölders tactics brought him on Malan's tail, but Malan reversed the situation with some stunning turning and peppered Mölders full of bulletholes.
Malan was famous for leaving his opponents in a shock or wounded for morale reasons, - he wanted them to live to tell the tale how they got hammered. Morale issue. Maybe that saved Mölders who humpled home and crash-landed. He did not participate in the BoB after that because of his injuries.
Mölders was actually shot down and captured by the french in the Battle for France. The English put emphasis on getting LW POW to Britain, but the French were to slow there...So Mölders was back in action after the fall of France.
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June 25th 1876
Sioux and Cheyenne warriors under Crazy Horse, Gall and others defeated Col. (Brevert Lt. Gen.) George A. Custer and men of the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Custer, ignoring warnings from his Crow and Ree scouts, split his forces and attacked what was probably the largest gathering of plains Indians there had ever been.
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<snip>Also the US Coast Guard has only had one person awarded the Medal Of Honor....who was it??? Any of our Marines should know this one since it's taught in Marine Corp basic training.
Douglas Munro
Also....Kahoolawe is (or was) the "artillery range / practice range" for Naval Ships conducting wargames. Blew up a truck there once with a 5"/38 :) Not the kind of place you want to live!
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tripl5 is actualy a woman that whines about everything and eats puppys
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You used to be able to buy mummies by the pound, and they were dirt cheap.
The 100 years war lasted 116 years... which is like starting a war on March 8th 1892 and having it finally end tommorrow.
George Washington fought 9 major battles, but only actually won 3.
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The attack on Baltimore in the War of 1812 which saw the burning of the White House was launched from Bermuda. ;) The attack eventually led to the penning of the Star Spangled Banner when the British forces were unable to take Fort Henry.
http://www.sacredclassics.com/keys.htm
That's Fort McHenry.
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Abraham Lincoln's dog when he was in office was named Fido.
Abraham Lincoln's dog was in office, and later changed his name?
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John Adams writing upon Americas founding principles to his friend and colleague Thomas Jefferson June 28th, 1813.
..."The general Principles, on which the Fathers Achieved Independence, were the only Principles in
which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite . . . . And what were these general
Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all those Sects were United: And
the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and
which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.
Now I will avow, that I then believed, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity,
are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty,
are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System. I could therefore safely say,"
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