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The folks I play with call that the Beer Question. Two people certain they're correct - eventually we decide on one answer. If it's wrong, the person who chose it pays the check.

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Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money.
The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million.

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The venerable Meyer Drake Offenhauser engine with double overhead cams and four valves per cylinder was the hot setup in champ car racing for over 40 years.The block and head are all a one piece casting, no head gasket to blow. No other engine was successful for so long a period. It's a thing of beauty.

It's surprising how hard it is to get more info on that. You'd think it would be all over the place.

Once you know to search for "women's bank of Denver" you can at least find the Wikipedia page for it, even if it's barely a footnote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Bank_of_Denver

But this page has a better bit of history (wrapped around one of the women in particular).
https://boettcherfoundation.org/judi-wagner-the-power-of-modest-consensus-building-leadershipand-a-little-luck/

It's a huge photo so just including the link.
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Try Googling, "Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 1974."
No quip, but I erroneously assumed everyone was aware of this. I was in high school when this passed, and I was thrilled by the news. Even so, in college I was still presented with three majors suitable for females, Nursing, Elementary Education, or Mrs.
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I'd have to be a bit older to have known about this, and as you can imagine, by the time I was going through school, this sort of thing wasn't talked about much. I think the only thing that I ever remember hearing about in any history class concerning women's rights was suffrage.

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On 15 March 1945, Private First Class Silvestre Santana Herrera, Company E, 142d Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, single-handedly captures a German strongpoint near Mertzwiller, France, then provides covering fire while his squad eliminates a second despite suffering grave injuries.
Herrera (born in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico, on 17 July 1917) was given to the care of his uncle in El Paso, Texas after his parents died of the Spanish flu. He lived much of his youth in El Paso with his uncle and then his wife Ramona and their three children before moving to Phoenix, Arizona.
He was drafted into the Texas National Guard, 36th Division after the U.S. entered the war, and it was only then that he learned the truth about his uncle and that he wasn't even a U.S. citizen. Despite his uncle's insistence that the U.S. Government couldn't even draft him and that he didn't have to serve, he still decided to do so, stating that he would rather go and fight than have someone else die in his place.
Today, as Perrera's unit advances near Mertzville, they encounter several German machine gun positions. For his actions, PFC Herrera will be awarded the Medal of Honor on 23 August 1945. His citation will read:
˝He advanced with a platoon along a wooded road until stopped by heavy enemy machine-gun fire. As the rest of the unit took cover, he made a 1-man frontal assault on a strong-point and captured 8 enemy soldiers. When the platoon resumed its advance and was subjected to fire from a second emplacement beyond an extensive minefield, Pvt. Herrera again moved forward, disregarding the danger of exploding mines, to attack the position. He stepped on a mine and had both feet severed but, despite intense pain and unchecked loss of blood, he pinned down the enemy with accurate rifle fire while a friendly squad captured the enemy gun by skirting the minefield and rushing in from the flank.˝
In 1946, Herrera will also be awarded Order of Military Merit (First Class) by the Mexican Government. He will be granted U.S. citizenship shortly afterwards.
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Which actor/actress nailed their role so well that no one else will be able to live up to their performance?
Thats easy.
Mel Brooks read a screenplay by Andrew Bergman poking fun at the old west, especially racism, and fell in love with it. He wanted to embrace the absurdity of racism, and get people to laugh at the least funny of the darker segments of America’s history. He gathered some great writers, including Bergman, and told them, “Don't be polite”.
Originally Brooks wanted Richard Pryor to star in the movie as Sheriff Bart, but Warner was, as usual, to chicken**** to make any waves, anywhere. Eventually they insisted because of past drug use Pryor wasnt insurable. So Brooks made Pryor a writer (as even when cast as Bart Pryor was heavily involved in the screenplay), at first unaccredited and unpaid. Later Warner relented and provided both.
So Brooks tapped Clevon Little, someone Pryor recommended from the cast call.
Little’s portrayal of Bart was genius, and he brought the character to a level Pryor wouldnt have been able to find. Not that Pryor wouldn't have killed the part, and delivered funny (he IS Richard Pryor, after all!) but it would have been a very, VERY different film, without a lot of the nuances you found with Little’s smooth,
suave character playing off of
Harvey Korman,
Gene Wilder (so glad John Wayne didn't say yes!),
Slim Pickens and, of course,
Madeline Kahn, who was absolute genius, and should have won best supporting actress (yes, she was nominated)… although there’s no shame in losing to Ingrid Bergman.
But Little “stole the show”, as even though he wasnt as well known as most of the cast he made the movie his against some really great actors. I honestly cant think of a single actor who could have made that movie better playing that role.

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IWO JIMA.
Original caption: SC-3 Searchlight Control radar unit. Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Oct., 1945. ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION. (NARA

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Packard DR-980 9 cylinder radial Diesel engine. Only about 100 were ever built, but they were eventually certified airworthy.....in 1930! This engine produced 225 horsepower continuously at 1,950 RPM. The usual Diesel challenges of vibration and strong exhaust smell caused many pilots to dislike them, but the design still proved to be reliable and very economical to operate.
A DR-980 set an 84 1/2 hour endurance record for flight on one tank of fuel in 1931. This record would go on to stand for 55 years..

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Charles Lee with 60-Inch Telephoto Lens
Charles Lee, engineer at Eastman Kodak Company's Hawk-Eye Works, stands beside the giant 60-inch, F/6.0 telephoto lens, built for the U.S. Air Force. It will be used in aerial reconnaissance photography. The lens, shown here without its cover, consists of five class elements, of which two are visible. The circular tubing surrounding it is an electronic heating device to keep the lens in proper focus at high altitudes up to ten miles. 1948. The camera uses 9 inch wide rolls of film 500 feet long.

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German ground crew checking the tires on the Heinkel He 177 Greif. Although externally it looked relatively conventional, almost every aspect of the He 177 introduced technical innovation and complexity. This was true even for the landing gear, the complex design meant that changing a wheel on the He 177 could take up to two hours.

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These weren't just "oaks" - they were planted between larch and spruce so that they would grow tall and straight, which means the navy oak forests are rather unusual.

The US Navy has done the same to assure a supply of white oak for future restorations of the USS Constitution..

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Since 1797, when USS Constitution was launched, “the best white oak” (as stated by Secretary of War Knox) of sufficient size and clarity has been a paramount concern for the survival of the ship. With each 20th century restoration, obtaining solid wood hull planks and ships’ knees has become increasingly challenging.

Nearly two generations and three restorations ago, white oak trees at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), in Crane, IN, were designated for USS Constitution. At the time, as the 1973 work on the ship began, the U.S. Navy noted: “Seasoned white oak,…needed in the…overhaul of…CONSTITUTION, was difficult to…procure.” Capt. Vernon P. Klemm, USN, suggested that the Navy grow its own white oak for Constitution. On May 8, 1976, CDR Tyrone G. Martin, Constitution’s commanding officer, and H. Robert Freneau, Secretary of the Navy Special Assistant, dedicated the ceremonial “Constitution Grove” at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, Indiana. One hundred and fifty white oak trees spread over the 64,000-acre base were designated for Constitution.

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IWO JIMA.
Air Force personnel receiving coffee from "Coffee Shop Number 2" on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION. (NARA)

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Nowhere else in the country, except Louisiana, could you post this sign. And Louisiana natives know what it means.

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Post war auction yard full of CCKWs. The GMC factories produced more than 300 trucks per day, for five years in a row

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March 21st - on this day in 1964, the Soviet Union made another attempt to conduct the first soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The launch took place from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur, using a Molniya-L rocket.
The spacecraft was the fourth in the Ye-6 series to be launched. E-6 n°6, as it was called, never reached orbit, though, due to a failure of the launch vehicle's Blok I stage. This was the fourth of eleven failures of Soviet lunar landers in a row. In January, 1966, Luna 9, the 12th lander launched, succeeded in achieving humanity's first landing of a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 lander by about 4 months.

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The X-43 is the fastest jet-powered aircraft on record at approximately Mach 9.6, flying at approximately 7,000 mph at 110,000 feet in altitude and setting the current world speed record for an air-breathing vehicle.
A winged booster rocket with the X-43 placed on top, called a "stack", was drop launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. After the booster rocket (a modified first stage of the Pegasus rocket) brought the stack to the target speed and altitude, it was discarded, and the X-43 flew free using its own engine, a scramjet

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"Manhattan switchboard operators", part of a shoot by Eliot Elisofon for LIFE magazine, 1962.
Actual legs as workplace trip hazards!

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I knew his daughters, Elin and Jill, well. My Mom was best friends with Joan, who married Whitney Towers are Eliot passed.

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I own the house next to Joan and Whitney...now owned by other.

Joan and Whitney treated me amazingly well. RIP.

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The Ford Motor Company GAA V8: The Best Sherman Motor
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Newly built F4U Corsair and F6F Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific theatre, USA, 1944. On October 1, 1940, the XF4U was the first single-engine US fighter to exceed 400 mph. Not only was she fast in a straight line but also in a dive too, attaining speeds of up to 550 mph.

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The 1921 Oldsmobile Truck that was the original “Beverly Hillbillies” car today is in the Ralph Foster Museum, located on the College of the Ozarks campus. The Ozarks were where the Clampett family first lived before they struck it big in oil and moved to California in the show..

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My sister, and my wife, started college around this same time. Both said "screw that!" to such limitations, both got engineering degrees instead (petroleum and chemical, respectively). Attached are pics of my sisters and my wife with me, and my wife in college.

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The Horse Manure Problem of 1894
The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine.
In other words, cities reeked. As Morris says, the “stench was omnipresent.” Here are some fun bits from his article:
Urban streets were minefields that needed to be navigated with the greatest care. “Crossing sweepers” stood on street corners; for a fee they would clear a path through the mire for pedestrians. Wet weather turned the streets into swamps and rivers of muck, but dry weather brought little improvement; the manure turned to dust, which was then whipped up by the wind, choking pedestrians and coating buildings.
. . . even when it had been removed from the streets the manure piled up faster than it could be disposed of . . . early in the century farmers were happy to pay good money for the manure, by the end of the 1800s stable owners had to pay to have it carted off. As a result of this glut . . . vacant lots in cities across America became piled high with manure; in New York these sometimes rose to forty and even sixty feet.
We need to remind ourselves that horse manure is an ideal breeding ground for flies, which spread disease. Morris reports that deadly outbreaks of typhoid and “infant diarrheal diseases can be traced to spikes in the fly population.”
Comparing fatalities associated with horse-related accidents in 1916 Chicago versus automobile accidents in 1997, he concludes that people were killed nearly seven times more often back in the good old days. The reasons for this are straightforward:
. . . horse-drawn vehicles have an engine with a mind of its own. The skittishness of horses added a dangerous level of unpredictability to nineteenth-century transportation. This was particularly true in a bustling urban environment, full of surprises that could shock and spook the animals. Horses often stampeded, but a more common danger came from horses kicking, biting, or trampling bystanders. Children were particularly at risk.
Falls, injuries, and maltreatment also took a toll on the horses themselves. Data cited by Morris indicates that, in 1880, more than 3 dozen dead horses were cleared from New York streets each day (nearly 15,000 a year).

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Awesome.

Oldest sister a Doc, next up a lawyer then me, dash three, a bit of a disappointment.

Society, here, was an impediment: but go anywhere else and best of luck.

We ***** about things yet the rest of the world gets in leaky boats to try and get here.

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B-29 'Enola Gay' undergoing modification at the Oklahoma City Air Depot. Photo from the Tinker Air Force Base History Office archives.

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This photo taken in 1848 is the first in the history of photography ever used to illustrate a news story. The photograph shows the Rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt in Paris, full of barricades that were used in a battle between government forces and demonstrating workers
More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/

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The interior of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. Not much like the TV show Gunsmoke. ;)

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High school gym teacher Leonard Skinner holds the latest album by a band of his former students Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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1922 Persu automobile.
Aurel Persu was a Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer, the first to place the wheels inside the body of the car as part of his attempt to reach the perfect aerodynamic shape for automobiles. He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile must have the shape of a falling water drop, taking it one step further toward that shape than the car Austrian Edmund Rumpler had presented in Berlin in 1921.
Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.22, still rare among cars today. This drag coefficient was far better that the 0.8–1.0 common with automobiles used at that time..!


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