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Did you know page length is customizable?

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Originally Posted by Tervuren (Post 11707022)

Did you know page length is customizable?

20 or 40 posts, right? I'm set at 20.

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Originally Posted by Tervuren (Post 11707068)

Goes down to 5 posts per page.

Good to know!

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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton (Post 11707034)

20 or 40 posts, right? I'm set at 20.

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james bond!!!

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Admiral Byrd’s Snow Cruiser passing through traffic, Framingham, Massachusetts, November 12, 1939.

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In preparation for the war, the Germans had thousands of Wehrmachtskanister (flat petrol cans) in stock in 1939, so they made full use of it during the war. In 1942 the British army in North Africa captured some of these cans from the troops of German field marshal Rommel. They were deeply impressed by their usability. The cans were sent to England, where they were soon put into production. The British soldiers renamed the tin into a Jerry can, the nickname used by Allied soldiers for a German soldier.
Of the twenty million Jerrycans that had been landed in Normandy since D-Day, about half had disappeared without a trace by August 1944. This was a mystery to the Allies. What had happened to the Jerry cans? There are several theories about this; many have been left behind by the crews of tanks and other vehicles, they have been used to make shelters, used as 'blocks' for repairing vehicles and they have been sold or stolen.
An American division consumed about 90,000 liters of gasoline per day during their advance. Because of this, the High Command took this problem very seriously. A large-scale recycling program was set up, for which prisoners of war were also used. Schoolchildren also went looking for abandoned Jerry cans. In return, the children received a certificate signed by Eisenhower.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11706352)

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So that is how Stonehenge was built!

That's how one of them was built. I've been to both - ours is in better shape than theirs.

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It is almost funny that the Romans actually visited Stonehenge as a tourist attraction 2,000 years ago when the Romans invaded and conquered Great Brittan.

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8 and 10 yr. old children farming beets in Colorado, 1915.

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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr (Post 11706965)

Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland, stunning scenery!

Spent a summer working at a Club Med in Wengen which overlooked Lauterbrunnen just behind where this photo was taken

No cars allowed in Wengen, when down in the valley after a few weeks of breathing only fresh mountain air I could smell each car as it drove past

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11707338)

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Admiral Byrd’s Snow Cruiser passing through traffic, Framingham, Massachusetts, November 12, 1939.

That is a fascinating story of spectacular failure in design/execution for so much money and effort put forth - especially the tire treads, or more to the point, lack of:eek:

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Hardware store and gunsmith, Dodge City 1872.

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Godzria! takes a tea break.

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Mexican Hat, Utah. I have been there! We spent the night in the one hotel in town.

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I want to see fur and early morning dew.