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[Racerbvd]

[QUOTE=Evans, Marv;11669425]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My dad's Standard station in 1952. From an old, scanned pic.

My Great Uncle also had a Standard oil gas station, then he went to work for them, when they started the you buy a share, we match it by 2 or something like that. He did the maximum amount for close to 50 years, always had a company car and when they replaced it, he would buy the old one for my Aunt. For the most part never spent anything until after he retired and finally bought a house in a nice area. Needless to say, I have a soft spot for Standard Oil.

[john70t]

Massive rocks move, but how?

(15min vid spoiler: It's believed occasional water freezes into large thin sheets, which even gentle wind moves)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JFFhD5HeByM

But the problem is it also happens with salt water lakes.

[WPOZZZ]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

Massive rocks move, but how?

(15min vid spoiler: It's believed occasional water freezes into large thin sheets, which even gentle wind moves)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JFFhD5HeByM

But the problem is it also happens with salt water lakes.

Salt water freezes too, just a few degrees cooler than fresh water.

[GH85Carrera]

Mary Ann Bevan was once considered an attractive woman in 20th-century London. But then, unimaginable tragedy struck. Not only did her husband suddenly die, but she also began suffering from a rare hormonal disorder called acromegaly. With the bones and tissue in her face swelling to around three times their normal size, she was soon unrecognizable — and unable to find work.
But Bevan found a way to turn a profit from her misfortune and provide for her four children: She joined a sideshow. Touring with Barnum & Bailey as the "Ugliest Woman in the World" and even appearing at the Coney Island Dreamland show, she allowed herself to be exhibited as a "freak" — and made more than $1 million in today's money. Go inside the surpising story of the "Ugliest Woman in the World"








1943, U.S. Naval Intelligence decrypted a message that revealed the travel schedule for ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. Four days later, P-38s flew 600 miles and shot down the plane carrying the man who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. This photo was taken just hours before his death.


Two-lane Route 66 through part of Tucumcari, NM in 1949.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Mary Ann Bevan was once considered an attractive woman in 20th-century London. But then, unimaginable tragedy struck. Not only did her husband suddenly die, but she also began suffering from a rare hormonal disorder called acromegaly. With the bones and tissue in her face swelling to around three times their normal size, she was soon unrecognizable — and unable to find work.
But Bevan found a way to turn a profit from her misfortune and provide for her four children: She joined a sideshow. Touring with Barnum & Bailey as the "Ugliest Woman in the World" and even appearing at the Coney Island Dreamland show, she allowed herself to be exhibited as a "freak" — and made more than $1 million in today's money. Go inside the surpising story of the "Ugliest Woman in the World"

I'm glad she was able to turn acromegaly into acromegalyade.

[rockaria]

How did this thread end up on page 2? Shocked, Shocked I say!

[GH85Carrera]

During the Battle of the Bulge, soldiers used lace fabric found in homes as camouflage in the snow. 1944. It started as a joke, but they found it protected them quite well.






1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted foreign dignitaries aboard USS Enterprise to watch the Navy demonstrate the latest surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles against a drone. After the missiles failed to score a single hit, a dignitary asked if his country could buy the drone.


With the exception of USS Constitution and USS Pueblo (which remains an officially commissioned ship despite being held by North Korea), the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge is the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy. Commissioned in 1970, the Blue Ridge is expected to remain in service until 2039

[asphaltgambler]

I must say.......................................THAT .......is a handsome woman

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I'm glad she was able to turn acromegaly into acromegalyade.

[stevej37]

[GH85Carrera]

1945, U-1206 was lost due to a malfunctioning toilet. Some accounts claim that an engineer turned the wrong valve on the complicated plumbing system to flush the toilet which caused the sub to become flooded with seawater and chlorine gas. Forced to the surface, the sub was attacked by British patrols and had to be scuttled.


Ashtrays and coin-operated televisions in the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal, 1969


Yokosuka, Japan (May 25, 2006)- USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) backs into the recently upgraded Pier 12 on board Naval Facilities Yokosuka following the completion of a 4-day Sea Trial cruise. The pier was upgraded to accommodate the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), scheduled to replace the Kitty Hawk in 2008. Kitty Hawk demonstrates power projection and sea control as the world's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, operating from Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Jarod Hodge (RELEASED)


In 1919, SM U-118 was on its way to be scrapped when it broke free of its towline and ran aground in front of a hotel in the English resort town of Hastings where it became a tourist attraction. After attempts to refloat the U-118 failed, the sub was broken up on the beach.




In the 1870s, Dutch Flat, California was an important supply center for mining districts throughout Central California and even into Nevada. After the devastating 1875 fire that burned most of Virginia City, the Ophir Mine "dispatched competent men to the lumber yards of Dutch Flat to procure and ship timbers."

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

With the exception of USS Constitution and USS Pueblo (which remains an officially commissioned ship despite being held by North Korea), the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge is the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy. Commissioned in 1970, the Blue Ridge is expected to remain in service until 2039

I spent a lot of time aboard her during the first PG engagement...she was parked across the pier in Mina Salman from my ship, which was the Command ship for COMMIDEASTFOR.

I helped write all the Combat SAR overlays with the Joint Staff on the Blue Ridge.

From high above:

[Scott Douglas]

Thanks for posting this picture.
Gives me a better idea of what my son-in-law deals with everyday.

[GH85Carrera]

Jacques Biederer, erotic photography pioneer, hard at work in Paris, 1928..


Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.


Evolution of the airplane.
Only 59 years and four months. That’s the time it took to go from the very first flight of the Wright brothers to Kelly Johnson’s A-12/ SR-71 going over 2000 mph. Picture created by Tia Bertz







David Crockett’s first rifle, which he acquired in 1803, is on display in Knoxville, at the Museum of East Tennessee History.
https://www.easttnhistory.org/museum-east-tennessee-history
David Crockett bought the rifle at the age of seventeen, while he was living and working for the old Quaker by the name of John Kennedy in Jefferson County, East Tennessee.
David Crockett wrote in his book “A Narrative of the Life” from 1834, pp. 50-51: “I had by this time got to be mighty fond of the rifle, and had bought a capital one. I most generally carried her with me wherever I went, and though I had got back to the old Quaker’s to live, who was a very particular man, I would sometimes slip out and attend the shooting matches, where they shot for beef …”
David Crockett sold the rifle in 1806 just before the wedding to Mary (Polly) Finley to a man by the name of James McCuiston, who lived in the neighborhood of the Crocketts in Jefferson County, East Tennessee. Later the rifle traveled west with descendants of this McCuiston and in 1916 the rifle was found in Oklahoma. In 1978 Joe and Art Swann succeeded to find the rifle, buy it and get it back to East Tennessee.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle during World War II that occurred six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The crew aboard Petrel has been surveying the area documenting more than 500 square nautical miles.
Akagi, as flagship of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, was part of the six-carrier fleet that launched the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, leading to the United States’ formal entry into World War II.
Commissioned on March 25, 1927, Akagi was originally designed as a battle cruiser. She was converted into an aircraft carrier under the terms of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. Akagi underwent an expensive reconstruction in 1935 that gave her the full-length flight deck configuration that she would enter the Pacific War with.
Akagi was fatally attacked on June 4, 1942 during the historic Battle of Midway by American dive bombers, including a significant hit by American pilot Lieutenant Richard Best whose bomb landed at the aft edge of the middle elevator. Best's 1,000-pound bomb crashed through the flight deck and exploded in the upper hangar.
After valiant efforts to evacuate the remaining Japanese sailors, the Akagi was ordered scuttled by torpedoes fired by her own destroyers. She sank bow first. Of the crew members on board, 267 were killed as a result of the battle.
Four Japanese and three American aircraft carriers participated in the battle. The four Japanese fleet carriers, Kaga, Akagi, Soryu and Hiryu, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier — were all sunk, as was the heavy Japanese cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost carrier Yorktown and destroyer Hammann.


Jacob White Eyes, Iron Tail and Buffalo Bill Cody at Caffè Greco in Rome during Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show tour in Europe back in 1890.


View of Rico, Colorado in 1898.




April 15, 1872, this bloody scrimmage was the result of a jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. government and the Cherokee court system.
Read about the Goingsnake Massacre or the Cherokee Courtroom Shootout – https://www.legendsofamerica.com/cherokee-courtroom.../
[photo: Hildebrand Mill, Oklahoma where the trouble began]

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

I must say.......................................THAT .......is a handsome woman

She's got kind of a Jeremy Clarkson thing going on.

[GH85Carrera]

On June 3, 1942, a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force launched air attacks over two days against the Dutch Harbor Naval Base and Fort Mears in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. In this photo, bombs explode in the water near Dutch Harbor, during the attack on June 4, 1942.

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Or the fact that Mario has 2 right hands..! lol..

[GH85Carrera]

Japanese prisoners of war under guard on Midway, following their rescue from an open lifeboat by USS Ballard, on June 19, 1942. They were survivors of the sunken aircraft carrier Hiryu. After being held for a few days on Midway, they were sent on to Pearl Harbor on June 23, aboard USS Sirius.


Scene on board USS Yorktown, shortly after she was hit by three Japanese bombs on June 4, 1942. The dense smoke is from fires in her uptakes, caused by a bomb that punctured them and knocked out her boilers. This is a panorama made from two photographs taken by Photographer 2rd Class William G. Roy from the starboard side of the flight deck, just in front of the forward 5"/38 gun gallery. Man with hammer at right is probably covering a bomb entry hole in the forward elevator.