Definitely an early Mopar in the field, the slant six is still there but all else rusted away

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The oldest door is still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian' rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person.

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CH-53E Super Stallion
The heavy-lift helicopter of the Marine Corps can carry a 26,000-pound Light Armored Vehicle, 16 tons of cargo 50 miles and back, or enough combat-loaded Marines to lead an assault or humanitarian operation. Though powerful enough to lift every aircraft in the Marine inventory except the KC-130, the CH-53E Super Stallion is compact enough to deploy on amphibious assault ships, and has the armament, speed and agility to qualify as much more than a heavy lifter.

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The Flatiron building. Funny how you remember the name of something like that.

One in SF as well.
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Several cars and a motorcyclist wait for their turn to cross the intersection of 9th and Main streets, ca. 1925. A traffic control booth is perched above the street on the corner, with a man at the helm changing the traffic signals. McColloch Drug Co. is open for business offering a soda fountain as well as lunch. The adjacent building, at 859 9th Street appears to be vacant. A clock on a building at the opposite corner reads 12:55.

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What's the strangest weapons/items soldiers have carried into battle?
Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter DSO was an officer of the Parachute Regiment who dropped into Arnhem during World War Two. He had difficulty remembering passwords so always carried an umbrella to wave at sentries to identify himself.
He also once disabled a German armoured car by poking the umbrella through the vision slit and into the driver’s eye! He also led a bayonet charge during the battle whilst wearing a bowler hat and waving his umbrella and once calmly walked across a street under fire to rescue the pinned down Chaplain, Father Egan. When Father Egan pointed out the street was under gun and mortar fire he said “Don’t worry, I’ve got an umbrella”, put it up and walked both of them back to safety under it.

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Laid down: 1 March 1939 - USS Tautog (SS-199), a Tambor-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tautog, a small edible sport fish, which is also called a blackfish.
One of the most successful submarines of World War II, Tautog was credited with sinking 26 Japanese ships, for a total of 72,606 tons, scoring second by number of ships and eleventh by tonnage earning her the nickname "The Terrible T."

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The Hidden Apaches: Grenville Goodwin’s Description of the Sierra Espuelas Apache Camp found in Chihuahua in 1931
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The excitement of seeing a target rich environment?

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Dick!

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Not just a target rich environment, a sitting duck target rich environment. The USAF could eat that convoy up in a heartbeat. It would be like the "Highway of Death" in Kuwait. I saw the results first hand a couple of days after it happened. It was not pretty.

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A couple more photos, some gruesome, here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/05/the-highway-of-death.html

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Knife grinders in France 1902, they worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth.

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BEHIND THE "GLAMOUR"...The other side of LAUGH IN's joke wall 1968.

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OK I'll bite... high beam and... smoke screen?

My 1948 Chevy pickup had a floor mounted starter switch.
If this is an old vehicle, perhaps starter and high beams.

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Years ago I had a Mercedes sedan, with a foot operated washer pump....

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I have a 1968 Dodge D100 truck and it has the high beam switch on the floor like that and a little higher up it has the windshield washer foot pump thing also, but it looks like a rubber bulb thing.


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Far out man.

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One is for the high beams the other one controls the "seek/next station' feature on the radio. Common on mid 70s to mid 80s Chrysler high line cars.. (New Yorker, etc..)

Interesting! I've owned or worked on several antiques with foot switches for low/high beams (mostly 30s and 40s vintages) but never knew that anyone adopted foot switches for other purposes.

My current antique (1938 Buick) has one of these switches for high/low and starter is also foot actuated, but not via one of these switches... To start the car you insert the key, turn a switch on the column to make the ignition hot, then pump the gas pedal once to start the engine. There is a switch attached to the carb which is actuated by the movement of the throttle, and also cuts off (stops sending juice to the starter) once there is sufficient vacuum moving through the carb to indicate the engine is running. Pretty neat design.

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OSHA would have loved that.

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Thanks Craig and Kach. I remember the first time I watched the show.

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And in Asheville, NC
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1,911 miles of track had been laid when workers of the Central Pacific Railroad met those of the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory on May 10, 1869. With the driving of the last spike travel across North America was reduced from six months to just about one week.

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That's really cool!

This should be in the pics that I took thread, but whatever.

We have a small plot in the middle of our property where there used to be a barn. At some point while the PO had the property a storm came through and damaged the barn. Someone came along and offered to take the barn the rest of the way down if they could have whatever wood they wanted. The PO put barbed wire around the plot. It's got a big pile of wood and crap, and then other detritus (wood, metal, concrete, etc...) laying around that's grown over with grass, poison ivy, etc.... The wife has been out the past two weekends trying to clean the plot out (wants to turn it into a garden). I wasn't too worried last weekend because it was cold, but this weekend it was warm, so I was a little worried about her running into snakes. I've convinced her that there's probably too many snakes in the big wood pile to move it, so we'll burn it in place. Yesterday, just moving a few odd boards here and there I ran across 5 or 6 snakes (lost count) and all but one of them were copperheads. In the past year, I've probably seen 5-6 snakes, and at least 2 of them were copperheads.

This is one of the guys that I ran across yesterday. He's probably the biggest that I've run across (his head is the biggest that I've seen). Fortunately, copperheads are relatively small snakes. If they were 5-6' long with big heads, they'd be a lot more scary.
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I wonder how many housewifes even know what a tap and die set is?

The wife and I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Art a couple weeks ago.
Seems like the land of 10,000 lakes doesn't have clean enough water for them, so they have to bring it all the way from Italy.

I would rather it be purified in the waters of lake Minnetonka.

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