I agree. You should see the stuff I delete immediately...but I was in my workshop cleaning most of the day. A/C FTW!

Folks, just exercise a little restraint.

Last season for my Osprey nest!

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Before he became the well-known creator of "The Twilight Zone," Rod Serling was a young, 5'4" paratrooper in the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division. As one of "The Angels", Rod did not meet the height requirements for the parachutes, but talked his way into the regiment anyway.
While the division was on New Guinea, Jack Benny came by to perform for the Angels and Rod was able to write and perform in a small skit that was broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. It was a sign of things to come for Serling.
During the Angels' campaign on Leyte in late 1944, T-4 Serling and the Suicide Squad kept busy eliminating enemy bunkers and defensive positions. While high in the island's mountains, the regiment could only be resupplied by air and one day Rod watched in horror as a heavy crate landed squarely on his good friend PVT Melvin Levy's shoulders, killing him instantly. Rod marked Melvin’s grave with a Star of David in honor of his friend’s Jewish heritage. It was the first of the war's many difficult experiences that affected, perhaps even haunted, Rod, in addition to a wound to his knee that plagued him for the rest of his life.
During the Angels' campaign to liberate Luzon, Rod and the Demolitions team kept busy with the dangerous job of blasting countless grass-covered pillboxes and blockhouses, many of which were heavily defended. On one occasion, Rod found himself staring down the barrel of a Japanese rifle. Luckily one of his buddies was quicker and shot the enemy soldier.
In one Manila neighborhood, Rod and the other Angels were enjoying an impromptu celebration by the newly-liberated Filipinos when the Japanese began shelling the area. Noticing a wounded Filipino woman out in the open, Rod rushed into the fire to carry her to safety, an action to earned him the Bronze Star.
After the war, Rod turned to writing to "face his demons" and went on to become one of televisions most well-known, and award-winning, screenwriters, playwrights, television producers, and narrators. He also was a passionate teacher at Antioch College (Ohio) and Ithaca College (New York).
Known to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day, Rod died on June 28, 1975. May we all remember these words spoken before his death: "for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized".

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During her first season of "The Avengers," Diana Rigg was dismayed to find out that the cameraman was being paid more than she was. She demanded a raise, to put her more on a par with her co-star, or she would leave the show. The producers gave in, thanks to the show's great popularity in the United States.
Rigg was reportedly the first person ever to do kung fu on-screen. In 1965, stunt arranger Ray Austin went to his producers and said, "Listen, I want to do this thing called kung fu." They said "Kung what?" and insisted that Emma, like her predecessor, Cathy Gale, stick to judo. Instead, Austin secretly taught Rigg kung fu.
According to Patrick Macnee in his book "The Avengers and Me," Rigg disliked wearing leather and insisted on a new line of fabric athletic wear for the fifth season. Alun Hughes, who had designed clothing for her personal wardrobe, was suggested by Rigg to design Emma Peel's "softer" new wardrobe.
Series writer Brian Clemens noted in an interview the sexual chemistry that particularly existed between Steed and Emma Peel, and the common question of "Will they ever go to bed together?" Clemens' attitude toward the characters was that they already had done, and this was the next day. Patrick Macnee and Rigg confirmed later in interviews that they had decided their characters had a casual sexual relationship, "but just didn't dwell on it."

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These four sisters (l.-r.), Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie and Ruth Crisman, photographed in 1886, near Custer County, Nebraska, knew how blessed they were to have each other, as so many other women suffered the loneliness of the frontier.
“It was a frontier saying that homesteading was a gamble: ‘Yeah, the United States Government is betting you 160 acres of land that you can’t live on it eight months.’” —Edith Eudora Kohl in her homesteading memoir, Land of the Burnt Thigh Solomon Butcher.

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Does it ever!

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How hot is it? This hot.

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Thirty-two original members of Company A of the 4th Infantry Division's 8th Regiment assembled for a group photo in Normandy. The company had hit Utah Beach on June 6 with 190 men. By mid-July, the men shown were all who were left.

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A family getting ready to cruise in their 1903 Cadillac Model A Tonneau.

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Yeah; it's photoshopped. Here is a link to the (much less revealing) original: https://www.reddit.com/r/mariasharapova/comments/fac4w2/gone_with_the_wind/

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Bismuth Crystals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth
It has a half-life more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe. So not very radioactive.

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My mom drove me around in one of those. Later, the trouble of setting it up was bothersome, so I just stood up on the seat. If mom hit the brakes hard her right arm came out to brace me. Even 40 years later if she hit the brakes, be ready to get whacked with her right arm coming over as an automatic reflex.

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Women washing clothes next to a wooden water tank in Texas, 1910.

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Yup, same here. My mom is 87 now and still does the same thing. "My first car" that had one of those rickety car seats I rode in:

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Only marginally safer than this, but our generation survived:

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Soldier of Three Armies: Yang Kyoungjong was born on March 3, 1920 in Shin Eui Ju, Korea, during the time Japan ruled his country. In 1938 at the age of 18, he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army, to fight against the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Japanese Border War. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia during 1939, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labor camp. The Second World War had begun, and in 1942, due to the shortage of manpower faced by the Soviets in it's fight against Germany, he, along with thousands of other prisoners, was pressed into service in the Red Army and sent to the Eastern Front. In 1943, during the Third Battle of Kharkov in Ukraine, he was taken prisoner by the German Wehrmacht and was then pressed into service in an Heer ostbattalion, fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France, close to Utah Beach. Following the D-Day landings by Allied forces in Normandy on June 6, 1944, Yang was captured by American paratroopers of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was sent to a POW camp in Britain where he remained until the war's end in May 1945. In 1947, he moved to the United States, settling in Evanston, Illinois where he lived out the rest of his life. He married and raised a family of three children, two sons and a daughter. Yang passed away on April 7, 1992. He apparently rarely, if ever, spoke of his incredible wartime experiences, and it wasn't until years after his death that his story was brought to public light. _ Pictured is Yang Kyoungjong after his capture by American troops. Normandy, France. May 1944. Colorized by Marina Amaral.

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On July 20th, 1903 the Ford Motor Company shipped its first vehicle, the Ford Model A, a little over a month after the company was founded.
Three days later the first Ford Model A was owned by a dentist in Chicago named Ernest Pfennig.
Image: Henry Ford in 1933, thirty years after his first Model A was shipped, sitting in his then vintage Ford Model A next to a very vintage horse and carriage

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Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 July 1944" (National Archives)

That's a whole lot of whoop azz right there.

If P38 Lightning fighter and A20 light bomber had a child..

(oh yeah, Henry Ford and the subsequent bersterd auto generation killed me great-grandpa's premier saddle shop.)

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When I first saw Marionberry jelly in the PNW I thought it was a spoof on a certain ex-mayor :D

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26 years ago today "Kingpin" was released. One damn funny movie!

"You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels!"

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OK, so who here would have stopped for her? :eek:

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Miners in the Serra Pelada gold mines in Brazil, 1980

^ nice batch!


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Country store on a dirt road on a Sunday afternoon in Gordonton, North Carolina
- July 1939

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Duel!

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Sometimes, fact is stranger than fiction.
There are often jokes about the A-10 Warthog's most famous feature, it's General Electric GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Gatling cannon, and how they should mount the big BBBBBRRRRTTTTT on a warship or a truck.
The irony is, they DID. Both in fact. The Dutch company Signaal, now known as Thales Nederland, took the same GE GAU-8 Avenger Gatling cannon mounted in the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft and mounted it on warships for use as a Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) for point self-defense against incoming missiles and aircraft. The system is known as the Signaal Goalkeeper

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I thought Duel was boring.
I remember Stuckeys
Funny, I just saw this the other day.

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^ EV version of a gas can.

Duel was the made for TV movie that put Spielberg on the map. To this day my brother and I quote the line "Some sort of souped up diesel" that Dennis Weaver stated in a whiney voice.

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They do a spoof of it on King Of Queens when Doug spends their tax refund on an Ice Cream Truck....

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????? is it me or is a big piece of the plane missing?

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That was good. Did you see the Godfather spoof on Modern Family?

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I asked my wife and she said "no"

Random

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Just out for a Sunday drive.

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This is the oldest door in the UK but also the only one assignable to the Anglo Saxon period. It can be found in Westminster Abbey, in the passage leading to the Chapter House.
A detailed study of the door showed that the wood was felled after 1032 AD and that the door was constructed sometime in the 1050s. This was during the reign of King Edward the Confessor, who built the Norman Abbey which was consecrated in 1065.

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An early ambulance operated by St John. The patient was placed in a coffin-like sidecar and the lid was closed for transport. There was however a couple of hatches.

This will get the patient to the hospital quicker.

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For four decades, former Nebraska homesteader-turned-frontier photographer Solomon D. Butcher posed homesteader families and their livestock in front of their humble homes in the central part of the state. In 1886, two years after William H. Moore Sr. and his family moved from Elkhart County, Indiana, to homestead near Sargent, Custer County, Butcher photographed the former Hoosiers on their homestead.

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Two women Soviet snipers on the Eastern Front, 1943

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Will Miltimore was a Great American Cattle Drive cowboy from Oklahoma, as well as a member of the Texas Longhorn Association. This photo was taken in 1995 as part of the cattle drive; Will was listening to Annie Golightly as she sang cowboys songs in her trailer one rainy night in Wyoming.
Will was a rancher and had also worked in construction. He was born Aug. 22, 1937, in Glencoe, Oklahoma and passed away in April 2005 in Cleburne, Texas.
Photo by Lara Hartley with the Miles City Star.
Contributing Institution: Range Riders Museum, Inc.

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P.T. Barnum & Bailey's combined circus performers, circa 1924
It is sad that the fat man and fat woman are no longer uncommon enough to be a circus freak.

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Pictured is the interior of the Gem Theater in Deadwood, South Dakota, where Ella La Rue appeared in April 1877. Notice the boxes on the upper left side where patrons enjoyed trysts in privacy behind heavy curtains.