Not just another brick in the wall. this guy's making a statement.

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Literally laughed out loud because that is so me. Drives my wife crazy.



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^ Great caption!


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A postcard with 305 mm Italian howitzer, captured probably in 1917 by the German-Austro-Hungarian forces on the Isonzo Front. The gun carriage was known as a De Stefano carriage. Usually employed on rails, the wheels could however have tracks attached, as above, for use in rough terrain.

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Control rooms under DC's Arlington Memorial Bridge, locked up and out of use since 1976. The drawbridge was last raised on February 28, 1961. (Atlas Obscura)

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Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed Calamity Jane, the original Wild West woman, as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion.
Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life.
In his lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography, Author Richard Etulain traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.

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Illinois inventor Joseph Glidden strategically marketed his 1874 patent for barbed wire, which he named “The Winner,” to Texas Panhandle ranchers, and he found immediate success.

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I've wasted a few hours on Ancestry as well!

Thought you might like this:

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Ps - thanks for all the great contributions to a great thread. A bright spot in my day to be sure!

I researched my family tree and found Isaac Newton back there. At least I got his good looks.

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B29 Fun Fact: I read somewhere recently that the B29 actually recorded more overall kills than the P51 during WWII.

"The B-29 had five “sighting stations” that were equipped with what was an analog computer. The computer compensated for airspeed, gravity, temperature, humidity and calculated the amount of “lead” required for the bullets to hit the target. All the gunner had to do was track it long enough for the computer to do its thing. Each gunner had the ability to bring one or more of the bomber’s turrets to bear on the target."

A friend of mine in Strandwood Elementary 6th grade got me into cartooning. He had more talent, but we had a lot of fun, making some cartoons that were pretty good. He once did a bomber with way too many bombs and missiles under the wings, in the same exaggerated way of this one. It was brilliant. Bruce Ryland was his name.


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^ anyone recognize her without doing a search?

A young Debbie Reynolds?

Donna Reed ?

Well it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It's Isaac's DNA that makes you so smart.

Rachel Devine?
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Yessir.

FIFI was in town last month,for fleet week,weather didn't cooperate!