2020 New Random Pics

[craigster59]

It’s called Thor’s Hammer.
Slow smoked beef shin. (3kg. each)
Then served with smoked mac-n-cheese, beer battered chips (French fries) and bear claws to pull apart.

[GH85Carrera]

Käthe Paulus was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute.
At the time, in 1910, the parachute was named the "rescue apparatus for aeronauts.”
The previous parachutes were not able to fit in a case like apparatus worn on the back, thus Paulus' invention became of paramount importance for the Germans in the First World War - she produced over 7,000 parachutes for the German forces.
During the First World War, Paulus created approximately 125 parachutes a week. She was also credited with inventing the "drag 'chute,” an intentional breakaway system where one small parachute opens to pull out the main parachute.
Paulus was an avid aeronaut herself and logged over 510 balloon flights and over 165 parachute jumps in her lifetime.
She was the first German woman to be a professional air pilot and the first German woman aerial acrobat.




1945, Marine pilot Bob Klingman used the propeller of his F4U Corsair to chop off the tail of a Japanese reconnaissance plane.
Because his guns had frozen due to the high altitude, he turned his fighter into a buzzsaw to down the enemy. He then managed to fly back to base even though 6" had broken off one propeller blade while the other two blades were bent back.
Chunks of the Japanese plane were also stuck in the Corsair's engine cowling.
Klingman was awarded the Navy Cross and the Air Medal with Gold Star for his actions

[JackDidley]

[craigster59]

Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, and Robert De Niro during the filming of TAXI DRIVER (1976)

[GH85Carrera]

[VINMAN]

[GH85Carrera]

Empire City, Nevada was originally the location of a ranch and stage stop in the 1850s, but after the discovery of the Comstock Lode it became an important milling and supply center. Each spring, when water was running high on the Carson River, masses of wood up to four miles long were floated down the river from the forests of the Sierra, arriving at Empire City where they were pulled ashore and transported to woodlots, later to be distributed throughout the Comstock mines and mills.


Dodge City’s Front Street, circa 1880, with a sign proclaiming, “The carrying of firearms strictly prohibited. Try Prickly Ash Bitters.” The Long Branch Saloon is second to the right of the brick building, Wright, Beverley & Co. (The Alamo Saloon, owned by Dodge City Mayor A.B. Webster, is in between.)

[red 928]

[asphaltgambler]

Markie Post ^^^^^ had quite the 'perky' profile......^^^^

[GH85Carrera]

Cherokee outlaw Ezekiel “Zeke” Proctor lived a traditional Cherokee life, which put him in direct opposition with his tribal kinsmen, the Becks.
“Zeke” had walked the Trail of Tears from Georgia to the Indian Territory when he was a seven-year-old boy in 1838. He clung to the Cherokee language, culture and customs. He dealt with White folks, but he didn’t have much use for them.

[craigster59]

Hal Blaine and Sammy Davis Jr. (1969)

[GH85Carrera]

A Gargoyle of Notre Dame, Paris, France 1920.

[TimBer]

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

Helmets collected from surrendering German soldiers at the end of WW2.

[svandamme]

should finish my wall but did a key hanger first

priorities in a house with no womens work different.

[GH85Carrera]

The photo shows two Marines, Davis T. Hargraves (1925-2011) with Thompson submachine gun and Gabriel Chavarria (1926-2006) with a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during a firefight with a Japanese sniper. After a Marine was shot in the head, Hargraves spotted the sniper. Firing five rounds, Hargraves called to Chavarria to see if he also saw the Japanese. Chavarria did not at first, but then both Marines hit the deck to avoid return fire. When they raised up to take a look, they saw a cave 60-70 yards away. Running out of ammunition (Hargraves would fire 90 rounds during the engagement) the two Marines called for assistance. Believing that the Japanese were inside (they smelled Japanese drugs burning) they fired most of their ammunition and closed the cave with a C-4 charge and grenades. Coral rained down on the Marines. Chavarria was later wounded stepping on a mine. The 1st Marine Division had been repeatedly thrown back since its first attack on Wana Ridge on 13 May.
The enemy's skillful use of his remaining artillery greatly handicapped the Marine advance from the Asa to the Asato. Artillery of the 44th Brigade con*sisted of eight 100-mm. howitzers and four mountain guns, and these were sup*plemented from time to time by artillery and heavy mortars of adjacent units. Having excellent observation, the Japanese used their weapons singly or in pairs with great precision against marines and tanks. On one occasion a shell landed squarely amid several men at an observation point; the commander of the 1st Battalion, 22d Marines, 3 radio men, and 2 tank officers were killed, and 3 company commanders were wounded.

[svandamme]

I reckon that picture of the Marines was staged after the facts.

Here's not staged.. my 84 year old Alzheimer aunt was cleaning her cupboard for her late (passed away 26 years ago) husband liquor cabinet.
she goes Was talking to such and such and will give uncle Andre's bottles to him

I goes; auntie; this should stay in the family; can I has this?
she goes off course

To be clear. I take care of her, cook for her etetc ; i'm not mooching.

2 days later hot spring day; i attack the 2 fifths of the bottle and i Notice
Blend of American.. European... INDIAN?!? Whikies?
WTF for a rotgut junk was uncle Dre Drinking anyhooo

This ain't no 20 year old Glenfiddish but must admit ; them 2 glasses got me well plastered.

[GH85Carrera]

Comanche leader Quanah Parker with three of his eight wives at his “Star House” in what is now Cache, Oklahoma, 1892. The house had been constructed just a couple of years before. Parker hosted many notables at the house, including influential ranchers Charles Goodnight and Burk Burnett and President Theodore Roosevelt.⁠
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Quanah Parker had been a military leader of the Kwahadi, or Antelope, band of the Comanche in Texas, including in the Red River War in 1874, but later surrendered to the U.S. Army and moved the tribe to a reservation in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.⁠
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Sadly, the house today is in terrible condition and in danger of being lost forever. It was in bad shape already when a 2015 storm caused severe damage. The National Trust for Historic Preservation estimates it would cost $1 million to restore it.⁠