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The Appian Way, built in 312 BCE. This famous Roman road is still in use today! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657732256.jpg The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread! Today in History -- On today’s date 94 years ago, Saturday, July 7, 1928, something happened that has been said to be “the greatest thing that ever happened” when machine-sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. Also on today’s date, but 142 years ago on Wednesday, July 7, 1880, noted American inventor & engineer Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960), “The Father of Sliced Bread” was born in Des Moines, Iowa. According to Wikipedia: Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire & it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which produced their first slices on July 7, 1928. Their product, “Kleen Maid Sliced Bread,” proved to be a great success. Battle Creek, Michigan has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread pre-sliced by Rohwedder’s machine; however, historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek’s claim. The bread was advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.” This eventually led to the popular catch-phrase, “It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.” The popularity of the above-mentioned catch-phrase is believed to derive from it’s use in 1952 by the famous American comedian Red Skelton (1913-1997), when he stated in an interview with the “Daily Times” newspaper of Salisbury, Maryland, “Don’t worry about television. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.” Rohwedder’s original bread-slicing machine is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The undated left-hand photograph depicts the bespectacled visage of Otto Rohwedder, “The Father of Sliced Bread,” who was born in Des Moines, Iowa on today’s date 141 years ago, July 7, 1880. The right-hand photograph depicts an advertisement for sliced bread that appeared on page eight of the Friday, July 6, 1928 edition of the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune announcing the introduction of sliced bread on Saturday, July 7, 1928. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657732256.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657732256.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657732256.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657732256.jpg |
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The world's last commercial ocean-going sailing ship - Pamir - rounding Cape Horn, 1949. _ Pamir was a four-masted barque (a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts), built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg in 1905. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. She was handed over to Italy in 1920 as part of war reparations (WWI). In 1924, the F. Laeisz Company bought her back and put her into service in the nitrate trade again. Laeisz sold her in 1931 to the Finnish shipping company of Gustaf Erikson, which used her in the Australian wheat trade. During WW2, New Zealand captured it from the Finnish corporation, as war loot basically, and didn't return it until 1948. The last owner was a German company that used it as a school ship and modernized it (Adding a motor and modern necessities. Though the propeller fell off during a voyage). Eventually even this failed to make the ship profitable and the company couldn't afford to take care of the ship. On 21 September 1957, she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores. A nine-day search for survivors was organized by the United States Coast Guard Cutter Absecon, but only four crewmen and two cadets were rescued alive, from two of the lifeboats. It was reported that many of the 86 men aboard had managed to reach the boats, but most died in the next three days. The sinking made headlines around the world; it was a national tragedy in Germany. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657742759.jpg The original design of Mount Rushmore before funding ran out in 1941 |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg Washington, D.C., in 1919. Street lunch vendor. An early food truck. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg The situation was critical for this soldiers using this road. They had just been ambushed a few moments earlier but the German machine gunner was shot. His body is lying behind the machine gun ammunition cases. One of the Americans has most likely been hit as there is an American helmet lying on the ground near the hedge on the left. Two GIs are ready to open fire with their M1 Garand Rifle. “We didn’t feel safe in the hedges; we were like rabbits waiting for the hunters. The arrival of the replacements had reassured us, of course, but there was still something there that stopped us from feeling comfortable. Red Ferris (one of the platoon leaders from ‘A’ Company, 175th) had just send two of his men to reccy the ground ahead. Those damned hedges were really deadly and we never knew what was waiting for us on the other side. Everything was quiet. Almost too quiet. Even the birds were silent. We had tried various methods of advancing through the network of hedges; two guys up front, as we did now, or a platoon running from one hedge to the next, with another platoon hidden in the undergrowth behind to provide covering fire and so on and so on.” Lieutenant John S, Allsup, 175th Infantry Regiment. Source: Objective Saint-Lo by Georges Barnage http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg The Circular Bridge on the Mount Lowe Railway, north of Los Angeles, c. 1910. (Metro Library and Archive) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657746982.jpg |
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The cast of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) endured a grueling, week-long course at boot camp instructed by technical advisor Dale Dye. Tom Hanks, who had previously been trained by Dye for the Vietnam war scenes in "Forrest Gump" (1994), was the only one of them who knew it would be a hard and uncompromising experience: "The other guys, I think, were expecting something like camping in the woods, and maybe learning things while sitting around the campfire." All the principal actors, except for Matt Damon, underwent several days of grueling army training. Damon was spared so that the other actors would resent him and would convey that feeling in their performances. All but one of the principal actors voted to quit, as they found it too arduous. The one dissenting voice was Hanks, who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Naturally, his vote counted the most, so the rest of the actors were obligated to complete their training. Hanks revealed that the film captured only a fraction of Omaha Beach's importance "We were interlopers, of course," Hanks said. "We had the audacity and the hubris to think that somehow we could capture some of what that place means in the history of the world. It turned out we sort of did, but at the end of the day, all you can do is kind of like bow your head in understanding of, you know, the great providence that had happened there." "I don't think anybody who has some semblance of historical knowledge, or even without it, can go to a place like that--and they are scattered all over France, they're scattered all over Europe--and not take pause there, and think, 'What would I have done if I had been a 19-year-old kid there on that day?'" Hanks recalled feeling like he'd visited a "holy place" when he went to the real Omaha Beach. In 2006, Hanks was inducted into the US Army's Ranger Hall of Fame as an honorary member, largely thanks to his portrayal of Captain John Miller http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657830766.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657830766.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657830766.jpg Every five years Amsterdam welcomes scores of tall ships and hundreds of other historical ships from all over the world for the greatest nautical spectacle in the world called Sail Amsterdam. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657830766.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657830766.jpg |
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77 years ago, the last of the 40 Luftwaffe aircraft captured by the Allies, including aircraft such as the Arado Ar 234, Messerschmitt Me 262, and Dornier Do 335, arrived at Cherbourg, France (July 8, 1945). The aircraft were flown to France by members of “Watson’s Whizzers.” The aircraft were then hoisted aboard H.M.S. Reaper, and delivered to the United States for testing and evaluation. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657894410.jpg Red Canyon Arch on Hwy 12 in Utah http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657894410.jpg VICTORY SHIPS One byproduct of the war was that is was a driver of innovation. When Liberty Ships proved to be too slow and too small to carry the vast loads of supplies needed to ensure victory, the US responded by launching a new ship-building program to solve the problem. The result was the Victory Ship, a faster, larger vessel with a modern steam turbine engine that propelled it forward, allowing it to join high speed convoys on its way to deliver cargo. All of the ships’ names ended with the word “Victory” except the 117 Victory Attack Transports - named instead after state counties. A total of 531 Victory Ships were built. Most had a combined crew of Merchant Marines and naval personnel. No Victory Ships were lost to U-Boat attack - the bane of the Liberty Ship - but Japanese kamikazes sunk three in April 1945. Most Victory Ships were used to carry much-needed supplies, but the Navy converted 97 of them to carry troops. Those ships took part in Operation Magic Carpet, the effort that brought our men home after the end of the war. The troop versions of the Victory Ship could hold 1,600 men in the cargo holds – converted with bunks and hammocks stacked three high. This National Archives Photo ID 520918 shows Victory Ships lined up at a U.S. west coast shipyard for final outfitting before being loaded with supplies for Navy depots and advance bases in the Pacific. Ca. 1944. 208-YE-2B-7. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657894410.jpg In 1952, USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) performed a unique submarine-to-airship rescue when it towed the disabled K-86 blimp and its 10-man crew for 40 miles to NAS Key West http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657894410.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657894410.jpg July 10, 1942 - The sharp-eyed crew of a US Navy Catalina spots the month-old wreckage of a Japanese A6M Zero fighter on the remote Alaskan island of Akutan. Recovery of the largely-intact plane allowed aviation experts to study and fly the Zero, teaching US pilots how to exploit its weaknesses. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657901765.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657901765.jpg The two photos above: Loading Oil at The Crump Oil Station, Ora, California. Image taken 1908-1909 by Walter J. Nichols of Coalinga. Ora was a train stop just east of Coalinga where oil cars would be filled up with crude oil. These oil cars would then be shipped to refineries, such as the Hanford Gas & Power Company. This is one of my favorite "occupational" postcard images because it shows how casual the danger of crude oil was taken. Crude oil is highly flammable and just seeing this man standing next to a spigot of flowing oil with no eye protection or safety equipment of any kind is mind-blowing. The best part is the oily board that was laid down between the loading platform and the rail car which he used to cross over to the oil tank to close it off. OSHA would have a heart attack. Oklahoma City had a similar loading area. During WW2 much of the oil that won the war came from one square mile in OKC. The trains were loaded with oil at breakneck speed, and the oil spillage on the ground was huge. After the war, and the slowdown of that oil field, they just put down some topsoil, and ignored it. Years later a bank wanted the are e for a branch and discovered what an environmental mess it was. It was a superfund site and cleaned up. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657901765.jpg The routines of camp life of the 31st Penn. Infantry (later, 82d Penn. Infantry) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum, Washington, District of Columbia, during the Civil War in 1861. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657901765.jpg These progressive high school girls learn the finer points of auto mechanics in 1927. Typical staged photo about like the stock photos of today. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657901765.jpg |
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