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Very early view of Silverton, Colorado (ca. 1880) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648644364.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648644364.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648644364.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648644364.jpg Hiroo Onoda (middle): The Imperial Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for 30 years after WWII. March 11, 1974 |
I did skydiving too, and it was free! I got three weeks of free food and lodging as well. At Fort Benning :)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ol_in_2013.jpg The first time I stood in the door of the plane (C141) I remember being shocked and a little scared because of how LOW we were. Another jump, the one with all the combat gear, I was too exhausted and nauseous from the heat (Georgia in late July) to be scared and rolled out of the plane just grateful for fresh air. I think I would have gladly left the plane without a chute at that point. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648648473.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648648473.jpg The fabulous Drumlummon mine at Marysville, Montana was discovered in 1876 by Thomas Cruse, a poor immigrant from Ireland that had a reputation for taking grubstakes and never producing any returns on them. Cruse was ridiculed by his fellow miners until he discovered the Drumlummon lode, and overnight "Irish Tommy" became "Mr. Cruse". http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648648473.jpg Here is a 1970s photo of the iconic Arcadia Round Barn just outside of Arcadia, Oklahoma on Route 66. It is in poor condition at this point. Although the barn decayed and was only partially standing by the late 1970s, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Restoration efforts began when the Arcadia Historical Society acquired the property in 1988. A committed group of volunteers repaired the collapsed roof and restored the barn using many of the original construction methods. Today, the barn remains open as an important community resource and a popular resting stop for Route 66 travelers. Sitting atop a low terrace overlooking the Deep Fork River, the Round Barn in Arcadia has been a center of community activity and curiosity for over a century. William Harrison “Big Bill” Odor arrived in Oklahoma County in 1892, and shortly after, in 1898, oxen cleared the ground for construction of his barn. He built a barn 60 feet in diameter and 43 feet high with a local red Permian rock foundation. Local burr oak timbers were soaked in water until soft and then banded into the mold to create the rafters. Mr. Odor apparently designed the barn himself, though no one knows how he chose the round design. After its construction was completed in 1898, the barn housed hay, grain, and livestock, but almost from the start, it served as a community center. During the barn’s construction, three young workers, realizing what a fine place it would be for dances, persuaded Mr. Odor to let them pay the difference between planed rough flooring and hardwood, which was more suitable for dancing. From time to time for the next 25 years, barn dances drew crowds and musicians to Arcadia from a wide area. Mr. Odor compared the barn’s acoustics with those of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and it became a popular rallying point while Arcadia flourished. With the U.S. Highway 66 alignment through Arcadia in 1928, travelers along the Mother Road were only a stone’s throw from the architectural curiosity. The barn quickly became a Route 66 landmark. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648648473.JPG My car at the same round barn. It is about a dozen miles or so from my house. My wife and I went to a wedding held there. It is a cool stop on Rt. 66. There is a another part of Rt. 66 that is just a few miles from my house that is just a local road. The asphalt is worn down at one intersection, and the original cobblestones of the road are exposed. I usually swerve a little to be sure the tires on my car touch the cobblestones just because I want to. |
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1st solo 301 302 303 parachute ! FAAAAAAAAAAAAAK try to remember the ground drill 4 weeks ago. at 4000 feet it's 12 seconds and then you are renamed to THUD first check pilot chut sticky rotate it opens PHEW NEXT big TWIST flapping sound from that square thingie that is supposed to be tensioned, forgot the name http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648650456.jpg jumb masters are GONE Radio? STATIC Back to the ground training 4 weeks ago.. cutaway or not luckily i managed to untwist it eventually |
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Robert Wadlow, the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. (1940) His height was 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m) while his weight reached 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648651016.jpg 200-year-old Bridge Built Without A Single Nail In Dagestan, Russia. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648651016.jpg A good photograph of a wagon train family, resting after a hard day on the trail. A cowboy would never swear in front of these families. It was not condoned, and if some crude person did, other cowboys would shut him up. That was the rule. Period. To the show’s credit, Taylor Sheridan had a scene in 1883, in which the camp cook got too salty and used the F-bomb, and he was redressed by an irate mother (Faith Hill). http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648651016.jpg oger Sharpe demonstrating to NYC council that pinball is a game of skill, not luck by calling a shot making it which lifts the ban of pinball saving it throughout the country. (1976) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648651016.jpg |
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This 1908 photograph depicts Nathan B. Stubblefield along with the wireless telephone of his own invention. Fortunatly phones did get a bit smaller. This is not a cell phone of course, just a radio phone. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648654741.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648654741.jpg A British Sten Gun Girl, around 950,000 British women worked in munitions factories during the Second World War, making weapons like shells and bullets. Munitions work was often well-paid but involved long hours, sometimes up to seven days a week. Workers were also at serious risk from accidents with dangerous machinery or when working with highly explosive material. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648654741.jpg Bozeman, Montana was incorporated in 1883, nearly two decades after John M. Bozeman founded it as the terminus of his self-named offshoot of the Oregon Trail west of Fort Laramie to Virginia City and the goldfields of Montana. Photo of Bozeman, Montana Territory, c. 1880s. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648654741.jpg An early photo of one of the tiny cubicles in the lupanar brothel at Pompeii. The base of the bed was stone and we assume pillows blankets etc covered the hard surface. Erotic images were painted on the walls probably for both visual purposes and for what services might be available in that room, particularly if the slave sex worker did not speak Latin/Greek. This room is smaller than a modern day prison isolation cell, so due to the huge amount of rooms making money for the owner as slaves were not paid, this made running or owning a brothel a very lucrative prospect indeed. |
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During the War Between the States on Monday, March 28, 1864, famous Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) was arrested by Confederate forces at the town of Bonham in Fannin County, Texas. According to the Texas State Historical Association’s Handbook of Texas Online: On this day in 1864, Civil War guerrilla leader William Quantrill was arrested by Confederate forces in Bonham, Texas. The Ohio native, wanted for murder in Utah by 1860, collected a group of renegades in the Kansas-Missouri area at the beginning of the Civil War. He fought with Confederate forces at the battle of Wilson’s Creek in August 1861 but soon thereafter began irregular independent operations. Quantrill & his band attacked Union camps, patrols, & settlements. While Union authorities declared him an outlaw, Quantrill eventually held the rank of colonel in the Confederate forces. After his infamous sack of Lawrence, Kansas, & the massacre of Union prisoners at Baxter Springs, Quantrill & his men fled to Texas in October of 1863. There he quarreled with his associate, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, & his band preyed on the citizens of Fannin & Grayson counties. Acts of violence proliferated so much that regular Confederate forces had to be assigned to protect residents from the activities of the irregular Confederate forces, & Gen. Henry McCulloch determined to rid North Texas of Quantrill’s influence. On March 28, 1864, when Quantrill appeared at Bonham as requested, McCulloch had him arrested on the charge of ordering the murder of a Confederate major. Quantrill escaped that day & returned to his camp near Sherman, pursued by more than 300 state & Confederate troops. He & his men crossed the Red River into Indian Territory. Except for a brief return in May, Quantrill’s activities in Texas were at an end. Quantrill was killed by Union forces at the very end of the war. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648662048.jpg Sgt. Ronald A. Payne Squad Leader, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, checks a tunnel entrance before entering. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648662048.jpg At a demonstration in France in January 1945 US soldiers inspect captured German weapons including this Sturmgewehr 44. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648662048.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648662048.jpg |
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Been there. Here are a couple pictures of the art work I took. The Mrs. and I joked, “Yeah, I’ll take the number 4.” https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6eb35b37e9.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0c956d6fb3.jpg Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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