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[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I’m in Bluffton, north of Amelia Island and south of Port Royal. I’m thinking, how in the hell did the Lincoln assassin end up down here?
Wrong state!😂

OTOH, It is on the way home if you drive your 44 year-old car down and back using the back roads -US 301- (1,741 miles)

[GH85Carrera]

Pictured is the MH-60R Seahawk that looks almost identical to the SH-60B. A small identifying feature of the MH-60R is the different configurations of the two flat-panel electronic support measure (ESM) blisters on either side of the lower fuselage nose. Another small external difference is that the twenty-five-tube pneumatic
launcher protrudes from the left-hand- side fuselage of the aircraft.
On this particular helicopter, the twenty-five-tube pneumatic launcher has been covered by a panel. The MH-60R has an integrated self-defense system like the newest generation of US Army UH-60 series Black Hawks


Ronald Reagan poses for a sculpture class at the University of Southern California in 1940.
He was chosen as an example of the ideal male physique by the school's fine arts departments, based on his portrayal of George Gipp.




Portrait of John Smith, a Chippewa Native American. He was also known as Gaa-binagwiiyaas, amongst other names. (Photo taken in 1914)




Bronze 'Tsar cannon' - 20' long (6 meters), 39 tons. Designed in 1586 to fire 890-mm stone projectiles capable of knocking down castle walls. Each round weighed 1,700 lbs (770 kg).
There is no official record that it was ever fired in war, scoring on the inner barrel suggests it might have been tested at least once
Per the Guinness Book of Records, it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.

[asphaltgambler]

Looks like John above needs some exfoliating and moisturizer....

[Steve Carlton]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Bronze 'Tsar cannon' - 20' long (6 meters), 39 tons. Designed in 1586 to fire 890-mm stone projectiles capable of knocking down castle walls. Each round weighed 1,700 lbs (770 kg).
There is no official record that it was ever fired in war, scoring on the inner barrel suggests it might have been tested at least once
Per the Guinness Book of Records, it is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.

I've seen and read about this online before. Amazing. I've got to assume that it was mostly for show/bragging rights. If it was primarily for functional purposes, why would it have all of the ornamentation. I also can't imagine having to move that into position to attack another castle. Then I'm sure the "loading" process is a night mare as well. How many guys end up getting killed and mangled while trying to load it.

those whacky Nazis!


duck/fowl hunting gun

[GH85Carrera]

There was a legend that if the apes ever left Gibraltar, the British would lose it. So they shipped more in during WW2.




Here is an old postcard for the Endee Grocery & Texaco service station, Endee, New Mexico on Route 66 in the late 1930s.
This is the history we could find on this ghost town. Five miles past Glenrio on old Route 66 is the ghost town of Endee, New Mexico, which had a population of 110 in 1946. Along the way, you can view several abandoned homes and structures before arriving at Endee.
Endee was founded in 1882, gaining its name from the old ND ranch. A post office was established in 1886. Endee was originally a wild west town where cowpunchers went to blow off steam on Saturday nights. Some people claim that the town was so rough that a trench was dug on Saturday to bury the gunfight losers on Sunday. In 1950, 187 people made their homes in Endee, but this town has been long abandoned and forgotten today.
The post office in Endee opened in 1886. The settlement was founded as a supply center for area ranches, including the sprawling ND Ranch established by John and George Day in 1882. The post office closed in 1955, three years after completing a realignment of Route 66 that bypassed the community.
The postcard is courtesy of Gary Gholson, Tucumcari and Quay County Then and Now Photos and Memories Group.

[Racerbvd]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

All based on this guy's huge balls

[GH85Carrera]

The first photo of Chernobyl on the morning of the nuclear (April 26, 1986). The heavy grain is due to the huge amount of radiation in the air that began to destroy the camera film the second it was close to the reactor and until it got away from the radiation. Photo taken by Igor Kostin.


Smelters at Black Hawk, Colorado ca. 1870.


Pioneer family crossing the Rocky Mountains in the mid-19th century.


A construction worker making preparations for the removal of the original Statue of Liberty torch in 1985. The old torch went on a tour of the US before it was moved to the Statue of Liberty Museum. Photo by Keith Meyers.

[craigster59]

[scotricker]

emergency post ! say it can't be so, !

[GH85Carrera]

On 8 March 1961 - USS Patrick Henry (SSBN 599) returns from patrol to become the first ballistic missile submarine to use Holy Loch, Scotland, as a refit and upkeep anchorage.
The second fleet ballistic missile (FBM) submarine, she commenced her first deterrent patrol in December 1960 with her Blue Crew on board. When she surfaced off Holy Loch, Scotland, on 8 March 1961, she had set a record for her type, cruising submerged 66 days and 22 hours. Patrick Henry was the first ballistic missile submarine to enter Holy Loch, and the first to go alongside the submarine tender USS Proteus for replenishment and routine repair.
Patrick Henry conducted 17 deterrent patrols from Holy Loch until December 1964 when she returned to Electric Boat. For 18 months she received complete and extensive overhaul and repair operations, including refueling of the S5W reactor plant and modifications to permit the handling of the Polaris A-3 missiles. After shakedown in mid-1966 off Puerto Rico and Cape Canaveral, Florida, Patrick Henry departed Charleston, South Carolina, in December for her eighteenth patrol, equipped with A-3 Polaris missiles and assigned to Submarine Squadron 14. On 1 March 1968, Patrick Henry completed her 22nd patrol at Holy Loch.
USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), named after the American Revolutionary War figure Patrick Henry (1736–1799), was a George Washington class nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine of the United States Navy. She was later converted into an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-599.


YF -12 illustration by Roman Hugault .
Curtis LeMay a four-star general he built the foundation of SAC Wanted to order 100 of these interceptors from Lockheed in the early 1960s. The program was canceled. General LeMay wanted an interceptor that could stop the Russians before they got here. He did have some very good ideas. Linda Sheffield Miller


And the payload in a photo.






The first engagement of ironclad warships during the American Civil War began on March 8, 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads. Early in the war, U.S. forces had implemented a blockade along the southern coast to prohibit trade, especially that of cotton. Confederates were desperate to find a way to break through. The USS Merrimack was one of the warships scuttled by Federal forces at the Gosport Naval Yard in Portsmouth before their withdrawal from Virginia. Confederates lifted her out of the mud and transformed her into a heavily armed ironclad vessel. They rechristened her CSS Virginia. On March 8, the ironclad left Portsmouth bound for U.S. ships at anchor near Newport News Point.
The Virginia destroyed two ships, the Cumberland and the Congress, before being checked by the USS Monitor. The Monitor was an innovative steam-powered ironclad with a revolving gun turret which incorporated 40 patentable inventions. It was smaller than the Virginia, but also more agile. The two ships pounded one another for hours, but eventually the Virginia withdrew, short on ammunition, and headed back to Portsmouth. The battle ended in a draw, but it changed the future of naval warfare forever.
The U.S. navy suffered 261 killed and 108 wounded in the two-day battle. The Confederates lost only 24. March 8, 1862, remained the bloodiest day in American Naval history until December 7, 1941, when the Japanese navy struck the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

Personnel of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, Normandy area, June 1944. (National Army Museum photo)


USS New York BB-34 arrives in Casablanca Harbor - March 1943
Note French Battleship Jean Bart in the background
LIFE Magazine Archives - J R Eyerman Photographer

[A930Rocket]

What is this guy doing?

[944 S2]

Portrait of John Smith, a Chippewa Native American. He was also known as Gaa-binagwiiyaas, amongst other names. (Photo taken in 1914)

Come on…..you can’t fool me. I know a lead guitarist of The Rolling Stones when I see one!

[Steve Carlton]

Yes- that was Keith during his "Human Beings" phase.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If you want to make a point, try not to fucck it up with a simple math error.
Not only do you miss the point, you also look stupid. (Not you Glen, the person that made the meme)
282 bucks per month does NOT equate to 0,03 dollars an hour.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, it was not 3 cents but 39 cents per hour to be shot at and fight a war by draftees. I did not make the meme.






https://youtu.be/7uXQ6XenM3s
If you want to watch a 30 minute video of the most bizarre real life old west shootout.


Kill Bear (Mato Wicakte). Oglala Lakota. 1898. Photo by Frank A. Rinehart. Omaha, Nebraska.


U.S. Naval Institute Archive Photo of the Week: Navy recruits haul their duffle bags during Naval Recruit Training at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, 1965.

[Por_sha911]

4.3 weeks in a month * 40 hours = 172 hours
282/172 = 1.639 per hour (Plus food, clothing, lifetime healthcare, full pension after 20 years)

Defending your country - priceless.

Yes they were way underpaid for what they went through but remember that this is not a free market economy. It is service to your country. A debt we owe for the benefit of being a citizen.

By the way, how many Americans today would stand up to an invasion like the Ukrainians?
Would the the guy in the big white house stay home or would he run and hide?
Where is Cher, Neil Young, Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel Jackson, Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin, Alec Baldwin? Why aren't they outraged and encouraging folks to take action?