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[craigster59]

January 11, 1928 - Cree and Ojibway hockey teams in full gear

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

"Dragin' the Main" was a favorite thing in high school, but the cars were quite a bit older than these.

I was in "the sweet spot" during my H.S. years... '66-'69. All the great cars, but they were unobtanium for me.

Fortunately, my best friend's parents put him in a '68 Torino GT Fastback (just a 302 2v), then a '69 Mach 1 (351), so that helped get me through. Lots of dragin' the main on weekends.

The Torino was that nondescript Seafoam Green. A sad color.


The Mach 1 was in Winter Blue... a beauty.


There was a healthy number of screamin' Roadrunners, Chevelles, Camaros, etc. in my small town... mostly guys who had gone directly into a decent-paying job in a textile mill right out of H.S. and still lived with their parents. Two 'Vettes... a '64 convertible owned by a rich kid and a '66 coupe owned by a doctor.

[GH85Carrera]

Klamath Chief overlooking Crater Lake, Oregon. 1923. Photo by Edward Curtis

[chapstic2001]

[GH85Carrera]

Towards the end of the war in March 1945, young German soldiers were used to defend the homeland. Huge numbers of Hitler Youth soldiers were removed from school in early 1945 and sent to war. In the Ruhr area of Germany, young boys practiced guerrilla warfare against American troops. In the forests, the boys stayed hidden until the tanks had passed, waiting for the foot soldiers. They would then spring up, shoot at them and throw grenades, inflicting heavy causalities, then dash away and disappear back into the forest. The Americans retaliated with furious air-attacks and leveled several villages in the surrounding area.
Source: Hitler's Boy Soldiers 1939 - 1945.
Picture: A soldier of the 94th Infantry Division searching two young anti-aircraft gunners who surrendered in Frankenthal, 23 March 1945.





HARRY S. YOUNT. BORN MARCH 18, 1839.
Mountain man, professional hunter and trapper, prospector, wilderness guide, and the first game warden in Yellowstone National Park, father of the ranger service.
After serving in the Union Army, Yount spent the fifteen years as a guide, packer, hunter, wrangler, and bullwhacker for government geological surveys during the summer, then hunt and trap in the winters in the Laramie Range of Wyoming.
Yount was hired in 1880 as the first gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park at a salary of $1,000 per year, when the park's entire budget was just $15,000 per year. During his 14 months in that job he wrote two annual reports which were then submitted to Congress.
In his report of September 30, 1881, Yount described how he spent the unusually severe winter of 1880–1881, and his efforts to prevent poaching by tourists and Indians, while still hunting to provide food for the park staff. Yount reported that snow had fallen on 66 of 90 days between December 1880 and February 1881
He described the range and habits of Yellowstone's large mammals and expressed regret for "the unfortunate breakage of my thermometer when it could not be replaced," along with a submitted synopsis of the weather the previous winter. In this report, he resigned his position "to resume private enterprises now requiring my personal attention," and concluded with a clear recommendation:
I do not think that any one man appointed by the honorable Secretary, and specifically designated as a gamekeeper, is what is needed or can prove effective for certain necessary purposes, but a small and reliable police force of men, employed when needed, during good behavior, and dischargeable for cause by the superintendent of the park, is what is really the most practicable way of seeing that the game is protected from wanton slaughter, the forests from careless use of fire, and the enforcement of all the other laws, rules, and regulations for the protection and improvement of the park.
There are indications Yount had a difference of opinion with park superintendent Norris, who wanted him to spend more of his time building roads for the convenience of tourists, while Yount preferred to concentrate on protecting the wildlife.
His reports described the challenges of protecting the wildlife in the first U.S. national park and influenced the culture of the National Park Service, which was founded 35 years later in 1916.
Horace Albright, the second director of the National Park Service, called Yount the "father of the ranger service, as well as the first national park ranger".
After Yount resigned from his job in Yellowstone, he lived for a while in Uva, Wyoming. He spent nearly 40 years prospecting in the Laramie Mountains, and developed copper and graphite mining claims. He settled in Wheatland, Wyoming, and worked on developing a marble mining claim west of there. Yount was actively involved in prospecting until the day before his death, when he had been looking for a ride to inspect a possible gold deposit. On May 16, 1924, he walked into downtown Wheatland, as was his daily habit, where he collapsed and died of heart failure. He was buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne.
Younts Peak, located in the Absaroka Range at the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, is named after him.
In 1994, the National Park Service established the Harry Yount Award, given annually to an employee whose "overall impact, record of accomplishments, and excellence in traditional ranger duties have created an appreciation for the park ranger profession."
Photo: Yount in 1873


Berlin at the end of World War Two, 1945


A pioneer family with most of their worldly possessions at Gates P.O., in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886.

[GH85Carrera]

Rare 19th Century Image of the Hopi Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona Territory.


On April 13, 1985, while the Swedish Neo-Nazi The Nordic Realm Party was having a demonstration in Växjö, Sweden.
The woman who hit skinhead was Danuta Danielsson, a Polish immigrant whose mother had survived Majdanek concentration camp.


The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944


California lumberjacks working on Redwoods

[Racerbvd]

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

On April 13, 1985, while the Swedish Neo-Nazi The Nordic Realm Party was having a demonstration in Växjö, Sweden.
The woman who hit skinhead was Danuta Danielsson, a Polish immigrant whose mother had survived Majdanek concentration camp.

The statue needs more snarl in it.

[craigster59]

Something to go with my Avatar......

[Racerbvd]

[Heel n Toe]

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

And Laurence Fishburne was 14 years old when they began filming "Apocalypse Now".

[masraum]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Something to go with my Avatar......

Wow, I remember the metal cans of HP.

[masraum]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Detectives calculating the trajectory of a bullet, 1934
"I think I figured it out John, put out an APB for a 1 foot Midget !"

[GH85Carrera]

American-built tank "America", designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in July of 1918.


Hurricane production line, 1942

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

American-built tank "America", designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in July of 1918.

Not much "design" to it it's a supersized version of the British Mark IV tank
my bud built a replica with a JCB hydraulic motor in it.. 24 tons..

[GH85Carrera]

Aogashima Island, Japan.
Aogashima is an active volcano located about 220 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The island has a population of about 170 people who are living inside the bigger volcano's crater, making it the smallest village in all of Japan. The volcano erupted last time in 1785, killing half of the island's population.






Two American soldiers maneuvering a bomb into its position at an ammo dump, ETO, 1944. During the war the allied forces dropped a staggering total of 3.4 million tons of bombs on the Axis. (Original color photo)


A group of Marines, after landing on the beach at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, during a struggle to push a landing boat back into deep water after it was beached when the tide went out on November 23, 1943.


The Whistler Tree, located in Portugal’s Alentejo region, is the world’s largest and oldest cork tree. It was planted in 1783.
Cork for different uses is produced from the spongy bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber). The trees are native to the Mediterranean, and live an average of 200 years. It takes 25 years for cork oaks to reach a diameter of 70 cm (27 in), when their bark is stripped for the first time. It regenerates naturally, but next harvest does not happen before 9-18 years. The cork from the first two harvests is of poor quality and does not fit for bottle stoppers. Starting with the third harvest, more than 50 years since its planting, cork oaks produce high quality material. The bark is stripped with an ax, carefully as not to damage the tree itself, and left outdoors for 6 months to stabilize.
The Whistler tree has been harvested more than twenty times in its lifetime The 1991 harvest is the most famous, and the largest on record:
¤ 2,645.55 pounds of bark were pulled from the tree.
¤ that record haul of bark yielded well over 100,000 individual corks.
Just for comparison - if an average cork tree is harvested it will yield around 100 pounds of bark, enough corks for about 4,000 bottles.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

From the late 19th to the early 20th century, more than 100,000 German-speaking Russians, known as Volga Russians, immigrated to the Upper Midwest and the high plains of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.