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[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by TimT

Vinman...

Gowanus Canal?

Yep! The one and only!

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[TimT]

Ha! and the Coney Island Yellow Submarine..

[VINMAN]

When I was a kid, my dad always took me to go see it when the guy was building it. Had it docked off Stillwell Ave.

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[LEAKYSEALS951]

LOL!!!

[Por_sha911]

[Racerbvd]

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

There is a "thing" for odd folks that are trying to look huge to inject themselves with, I think, oil to look bigger. I think that's what this guy has done to his arms/shoulders unless it's just a bad, bizarre photoshop fail.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by masraum

There is a "thing" for odd folks that are trying to look huge to inject themselves with, I think, oil to look bigger. I think that's what this guy has done to his arms/shoulders unless it's just a bad, bizarre photoshop fail.

it's called Synthol
Synthol is 85 percent medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil, 7.5 percent lidocaine, and 7.5 percent alcohol.


This is not the same product and would probably be an even worse idea to inject

[GH85Carrera]

American pioneer Ezra Meeker with Buffalo Bill and crowd in Tenino, Washington state


April 1, 1957, the “infamous” Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Hoax was perpetrated upon an unsuspecting British television audience.
From the “Museum of Hoaxes” website: On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter & to the “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.” The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show’s highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees & placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, “For those who love this dish, there’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.”
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest Hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce & hope for the best.”
To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous & popular April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool’s Day hoax.


Warehouse of steel floats for anti-submarine nets, 1953


A Nazca skull with long braids
Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) in length, possibly belonged to a priestess of approximately 50 years and whose age is 2,200 years (200 BC).⁣
The hair is made up of two bows wrapped in fine ropes made of the same hair, they are in a circular way around each portion of hair. Located in National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History (Archeology Museum UNT), Trujillo, Peru


1st Lt. Ralph Calef is undoubtedly the only soldier at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, who shot at Japanese fighters with a bow and arrow.
When the war started, Calef was a supply sergeant stationed at Camp Malacola, near Hicham Field, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“I was in charge of quarters that Sunday morning. I had a .45 pistol strapped on my side with no shells. They didn’t trust us with ammunition,” Calef said.
So he ran back to his off-base apartment and got his bow and 12 hunting arrows.
“I watched the first Japanese plane come in so low its wheels almost touched the top of the trees,” he said. “I waited for the second plane and let my arrow fly right into his windshield.
“A few moments later, a Japanese fighter crashed down the street, but my major wouldn’t allow me to go find the plane for a couple of days. When I got there, it was hard to tell if it was the one I shot at because the cockpit plexiglass was smashed out.”
After Pearl Harbor, Calef went to officers’ training and served in the 7th Army in Europe. He was in the thick of the fighting in the North African Campaign, Sicilian Campaign, Southern Italian Campaign, Northern Italian Campaign, Southern France Campaign and German Campaign. He received five campaign stars, two Purple Hearts, the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon, Soldier’s Medal and American Defense Ribbon.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

. I had a .45 pistol strapped on my side with no shells. They didn’t trust us with ammunition,” Calef said.

There was a parachutist in WW2 who downed a Japanese fighter plane with a .45 as it flew past.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

Photograph of the Robert Peary Sledge Party holding flags at the spot where they believe is the North Pole
On April 6th, 1909 Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson believed they reached the North Pole.








The Battle of Antietam (or the Battle of Sharpsburg) on September 17, 1862, is still the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history, with 22,717 Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded or missing.

[daepp]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_J._Baggett

Looks like it was over Burma rather than Pearl, but an amazing story nonetheless!

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[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

1st Lt. Ralph Calef is undoubtedly the only soldier at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, who shot at Japanese fighters with a bow and arrow.
When the war started, Calef was a supply sergeant stationed at Camp Malacola, near Hicham Field, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“I was in charge of quarters that Sunday morning. I had a .45 pistol strapped on my side with no shells. They didn’t trust us with ammunition,” Calef said.
So he ran back to his off-base apartment and got his bow and 12 hunting arrows.
“I watched the first Japanese plane come in so low its wheels almost touched the top of the trees,” he said. “I waited for the second plane and let my arrow fly right into his windshield.
“A few moments later, a Japanese fighter crashed down the street, but my major wouldn’t allow me to go find the plane for a couple of days. When I got there, it was hard to tell if it was the one I shot at because the cockpit plexiglass was smashed out.”
After Pearl Harbor, Calef went to officers’ training and served in the 7th Army in Europe. He was in the thick of the fighting in the North African Campaign, Sicilian Campaign, Southern Italian Campaign, Northern Italian Campaign, Southern France Campaign and German Campaign. He received five campaign stars, two Purple Hearts, the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon, Soldier’s Medal and American Defense Ribbon.

Not sure how correct that story is because of some inaccuracies. We have a Camp Malakole, but it is not at Hickam. It is at the former Barber's Point NAS where the the runways got strafed on Dec. 7, 1941. Hickam AFB is now Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam.



https://www.khon2.com/local-news/honouliuli-internment-camp-was-known-as-hell-valley/

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[craigster59]

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle directs Marion Davies in "The Red Mill" - 1927

[GH85Carrera]

Dagmar and Alexandra of Denmark, the future Empress of Russia and Queen of the United Kingdom respectively, 1875




Spring break in California, 1947.




Great then and now photo of British soldiers with local inhabitants outside wrecked shops in Caen on 9 July 1944. The battle for Caen lasted just under two months and was so vicious that 73% of the city was destroyed and it is estimated 3000 local people; children, women and French civilians, died. It sounds much like current events. War is hell.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

4-12-61

[Steve Carlton]

Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Fearful that a national hero might be killed, Soviet officials banned Gagarin from further spaceflights. After completing training at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in February 1968, he was allowed to fly regular aircraft. Gagarin died five weeks later when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near the town of Kirzhach.

- Wikipedia