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[GH85Carrera]

The German 7th Panzer Division in France, 1940


Navajo Code Talkers


Nice toy room!

[kach22i]

https://www.milspecwiring.com/RaceGrade-MSW-272-Steering-Wheel_p_2257.html

Your Price Each: $9,475.00

[kach22i]

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/12o7uqx/reinforced_concrete_dissolved_by_years_of_dog/?rdt=48287


Also dissolves wood fence posts.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Looks like someone is setting up a chicken house. With that many feeders they must be planning on a decent size flock.

[GH85Carrera]

Kansas/Oklahoma state line on Route 66






World's Largest Ball of Twine.
Banana for scale about 1/3 down from the top - Look closely, it kind of blends in with the twine!




19 bookshelves with 50,000 book fell over in domino style after the first bookshelf gave way. The library was closed for one day so the mess could be cleaned up. Lorain Public Library in Lorain, Ohio (1971)

[CurtEgerer]

[GH85Carrera]

The Type 89 Rokuo-Sha machine gun camera! Made during wartime in Japan, this gun is one of many interesting pieces of technology crafted during the war.
Mounted on the inside of a plane, this gun was used to train gunners and sometimes aid in combat. The 35mm film would turn with the pull of the trigger and document a gunner's accuracy. In battle, this machine gun showed the targets that were hit and helped determine the success of missions.


The slow loris is a unique small monkey found in Southeast Asia. What makes it special is that it is one of the few primates that can produce venom. It has special glands in its elbows that create a toxin, which is quite unusual for a monkey. This toxin helps protect it from predators and makes it a fascinating animal to study.
When a slow loris feels threatened, it uses its venom in a clever way. It licks the toxin from its elbows and then mixes it with its bite. This combination can cause a lot of pain to whoever gets bitten. The slow loris does not attack often, but if it does, it can deliver a painful surprise. This is part of how it stays safe in the wild.
The slow loris is not just interesting because of its venom, but also because it is often seen as cute with its big eyes and slow movements. However, people need to be careful not to touch or handle them, as they can be dangerous. Protecting slow lorises and their habitats is important, especially since they are threatened due to habitat loss and wildlife trade.

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[GH85Carrera]

Cost of equipping a WWII GI.




FORT CUSTER, 1880. Shortly after Custer's annihilation in 1876, construction started on Fort Custer near present-day Hardin (50 miles east of Billings, Montana). Standing behind the horses toward the right were American Indian scouts. Five large troop barracks were at the right of the parade track.
During its peak, the fort had 70 buildings, 6-700 soldiers, and hundreds of civilian workers. During the 1890s, the fort had a Crow Indian cavalry troop as well as Buffalo Soldiers, Black American troops. The fort was closed in 1898 when soldiers were needed for the Spanish-American War.
Fort Keogh, near present-day Miles City, had a similar design. Each site resembled a small town; neither had fortress walls. Text and small-file Photoshop restoration of image by Gary Coffrin. always, I hope PC users will click image to enlarge/clarify.

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[GH85Carrera]

[oldE]

For now, at least.

Best
Les

[GH85Carrera]

Personnel muster on the flight deck of USS Lexington CV-16 - March 1944
Original Color Picture
LIFE Magazine Archives - JR Eyerman Photographer WWP-PD

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

In an extraordinary display of raw power and maternal instinct, a protective elephant mother defends her herd against a bold Cape buffalo in the heart of Kenya’s wild plains. What began as a tense standoff escalated into an unforgettable moment — the elephant forcefully lifted the buffalo into the air with a single tusk after a fierce head-on confrontation.
Nature doesn't hold back.
Photo Credit: Kimberly Maurer | Captured during a wild safari moment in Kenya
That buffalo effed around and found out, don't mess with an elephant.




The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). This was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. It was among the first computers based on silicon integrated circuits (ICs). The computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers from the late 1970s, such as the Apple II and TRS-80. At around 2 cubic feet in size, AGC held 4,100 IC packages.
The AGC has a 16-bit word length, with 15 data bits and one parity bit. Most of the software on the AGC was stored in a special read-only memory known as core rope memory, fashioned by weaving wires through and around magnetic cores, though a small amount of read/write core memory was available.
Astronauts communicated with the AGC using a numeric display and keyboard called the DSKY (for “display and keyboard,” pronounced “DIS-kee”). The AGC and its DSKY user interface were developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and first flew in 1966.


What a difference 70 years makes: 3.75 MB in 1956

[thingmon]

Originally Posted by oldE

For now, at least.

Best
Les

Rumor has it adult diapers are a thing.

[CurtEgerer]

[GH85Carrera]

The Blue Goose', Hermann Göring's custom built Mercedes 540K Roadster from its initial order in 1937, through its capture by 101st paratroops in 1945.




In 1939, a graduate student named George Dantzig at UC Berkeley arrived late to a statistics class where Professor Jerzy Neyman had written two unsolved statistical problems on the blackboard as examples of difficult challenges. Mistaking them for homework, Dantzig solved both within a few days and submitted them. Weeks later, Neyman excitedly informed him that he had unknowingly solved two of the most challenging unsolved problems in statistical theory. This remarkable achievement not only contributed significantly to the field but also earned Dantzig his doctorate.

[rockfan4]

For me, this is page number -

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