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[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by masraum

Probably an osprey.

It was, we have plenty around here. I am use to seeing them at the club, it is right on the river, but this was a bit inland (not really far) but far enough, and low enough that it caught my attention on a 6 lane road.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by gary1101

Stick to the road Boys - NO shortcuts.

[GH85Carrera]

Avoid falling down the stairs, ESPECIALLY if you are carrying a bucket of paint.

[p911dad]

Hammondsport, NY (Keuka Lake) 1910 or 1911 Glenn Curtiss early seaplane

[GH85Carrera]

Whoops, forgot to close the door before bolting down the toilet.

[devodave]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

Although Charleston, Arizona was connected to many of the infamous characters associated with the OK Corral incident in Tombstone, it was nonetheless considered to be one of the more civilized towns in the area.




Friday, June 3, 1864, famous American automotive-industry pioneer Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950), namesake of the Oldsmobile & REO makes of motor cars, was born at the village of Madison in Lake County, Ohio.
Olds claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894 & his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The modern assembly line & its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved-Dash, beginning in 1901.
The 1903 photograph depicts Ransom E. Olds driving his steam-engine-powered racing car.


55 years ago, two USAF crews flew HH-3E Jolly Green Giant non-stop across the Atlantic (May 31, 1967). The 4,271-mile flight - which was the first non-stop transatlantic flight by helicopters - took 30 hours and 46 minutes, and required nine inflight refuelings. Major Herb Zehnder, one of the pilots on this flight, flew the exact same HH-3E, three years later as part of the daring attempt to rescue American servicemen from the Sơn Tây POW camp in North Vietnam.


Cerrillos Bakery (across from What Not Shop), Cerrillos, New Mexico


3 June 1941
Maori troops line up on the quayside at Alexandria in Egypt following their evacuation from Crete, 3 June, 1941. Between 28 May and 1 June 1941, 18,000 Australian, New Zealand and British troops were rescued by the Royal Navy following a week of bitter fighting against German Fallschirmjäger.
The 28th (Māori) Battalion, more commonly known as the Māori Battalion, was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the Second World War. It was formed following pressure on the Labour government by some Māori Members of Parliament (MPs) and Māori organisations throughout the country which wanted a full Māori unit to be raised for service overseas. The Māori Battalion followed in the footsteps of the Māori Pioneer Battalion that served during the First World War with success, and was wanted by Māori to raise their profile, and to serve alongside their Pākehā compatriots as subjects of the British Empire. It also gave a generation of people with a well-noted military ancestry a chance to test their modern warrior skills. Raised in 1940 as part of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), the 28th (Māori) Battalion was attached to the 2nd New Zealand Division as an extra battalion that was moved between the division's three infantry brigades. The battalion fought during the Greek, North African and Italian campaigns during which it earned a formidable reputation as a fighting force which has subsequently been acknowledged by both Allied and German commanders. It was also the most decorated New Zealand battalion during the war. Following the end of hostilities, the battalion contributed a contingent of personnel to serve in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, before being disbanded in January 1946.
Photograph taken by Lieutenant L.B. Davis.

[VINMAN]

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Two collided bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli

Same, Battle of Gettysburg. Sigh...

[Heel n Toe]

Major Herb Zehnder, one of the pilots on this flight, flew the exact same HH-3E, three years later as part of the daring attempt to rescue American servicemen from the Sơn Tây POW camp in North Vietnam.

People need to stop saying 'exact same' because it sounds stupid.

Try this:

Major Herb Zehnder, one of the pilots on this flight, flew the same HH-3E, three years later as part of the daring attempt to rescue American servicemen...

Sounds like an intelligent person who knows proper English, doesn't it?

'Each and every' is another pet peeve. Pick one or you sound like a d-bag.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

People need to stop saying 'exact same' because it sounds stupid.

Try this:

Major Herb Zehnder, one of the pilots on this flight, flew the same HH-3E, three years later as part of the daring attempt to rescue American servicemen...

Sounds like an intelligent person who knows proper English, doesn't it?

'Each and every' is another pet peeve. Pick one or you sound like a d-bag.

Glenn isn't writing the blurbs for the pics that he posts. He finds the pics online with the blurbs. Then he posts the pics with the exact same blurb here.

[GH85Carrera]

Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders to the Union at Galveston, Texas on June 2, 1865, nearly two months after General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops and nearly one month after Confederacy President Jefferson Davis was captured.
Kirby Smith commanded Trans-Mississippi Department, which comprised of Confederate troops in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana, the Arizona Territory, and the Indian Territory region.
Following the Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Trans-Mississippi became cut off from the rest of the Confederacy, and somewhat became its own independent nation nicknamed “Kirby Smithdom.”
Smith was not the last Confederate general to surrender, but the last Confederate general with a major command to surrender.
The last Confederate general to surrender to the Union was Cherokee General Stand Watie who surrendered on June 23.
Even though historians have marked the end of the U.S. Civil War as May 9, 1865, some regard the marking of the end of the Civil War the day Kirby Smith surrendered.
Following the war, Smith had a short career in the telegraph business, then served as Chancellor of the University of Nashville and a professor at the University of the South in Tennessee where he taught mathematics and botany.
Smith contributed greatly to the botany community. Some of his specimens were donated to Harvard and the Smithsonian.
A statue of Smith was erected in the National Statutory Hall Collections in the U.S. Capitol building in 1922, but was removed in 2018 and replaced with civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.


Hosing down an Eagle! The legendary gun camera shot of Joe “Hoser” Satrapa, flying an F-14, scoring a mock kill on an F-15 during AIMVAL/ACEVAL exercises. It is claimed that this HUD photo almost caused the Japanese to revert their decision to buy the F-15! Strory via TheAviationist:




USS Enterprise (CV 6) pictured transiting the Panama Canal in April 1939 en route to the Pacific. She did not return to the East Coast until 1945 following World War II.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Hosing down an Eagle! The legendary gun camera shot of Joe “Hoser” Satrapa, flying an F-14, scoring a mock kill on an F-15 during AIMVAL/ACEVAL exercises. It is claimed that this HUD photo almost caused the Japanese to revert their decision to buy the F-15!

Hoser was guns instructor in the Tomcat Rag, whenever a new batch of nuggets arrived, he would put on a PAtton helmet and do a huge speech

Showed a picture of a pipper on a plane
is this a good shot?
every body yells YEAH

Hoser slams his swagger stick
NOOOO

Shows picture of pipper on the pilot (as in the F15 shot)
THIS is a good shot, You gotta shoot the pilot so he doesn't come back in another plane

No Kill Like a Gun Kill

[GH85Carrera]

As the rush to Irwin, Colorado was underway in early 1880, J.E. Phillips was determined to arrive early, and bring his newspaper from the town of Rosita with him. Phillips had his printing press hauled by wagon as far as possible, then with the help of his associates he carried each piece of the press over a steep mountain pass in deep snow, making many difficult trips on snowshoe. Thus the Elk Mountain Pilot was ready to print by June of 1880, just in time to capture the excitement that ensued as thousands rushed to the fabulous new camp.




A picture is worth a 1000 words.. This snap of Homesteaders in western Nebraska circa 1890. If you look close you can see Badlands in the distance...



Deadwood, Dakota Territory, 1876. Colorized.

[porsche930dude]

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

People need to stop saying 'exact same' because it sounds stupid.
Try this:
Major Herb Zehnder, one of the pilots on this flight, flew the same HH-3E, three years later as part of the daring attempt to rescue American servicemen...
Sounds like an intelligent person who knows proper English, doesn't it?
'Each and every' is another pet peeve. Pick one or you sound like a d-bag.

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[GH85Carrera]

Screenwriter Cyril Hume, working on the adaptation of "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932), noticed Johnny Weissmuller swimming in the pool at his hotel and suggested him for the part of Tarzan. Weissmuller was under contract to BVD to model underwear and swimsuits; MGM got him released by agreeing to pose many of its female stars in BVD swimsuits. The studio billed him as "the only man in Hollywood who's natural in the flesh and can act without clothes". The film was an immediate box-office and critical hit. Seeing that he was wildly popular with girls, the studio told him to divorce his wife and paid her $10,000 to agree to it.
When Weissmuller was introduced to the first Cheetah in his Tarzan films in 1931 (he worked with 8 chimpanzees altogether), the chimp's trainer told him to show no fear or the animal would attack him. As Weissmuller, dressed in his Tarzan loincloth and hunting knife, walked up to the animal, it bared its teeth, growled at him and lunged as if to attack him. Weissmuller took the knife out of the sheath and held it in front of the chimp's nose, to make sure he saw and smelled it. He then slammed the animal on the side of the head with the knife handle. He put the knife back in its sheath and held out his hand to the chimp. It glared at him, bared his teeth again, then changed its mind, grinned at Weissmuller and jumped up and hugged him. Weissmuller never had any further problems with the chimp--although other cast and crew members did--and it followed him around like a puppy dog during all the pictures they worked together.
Weissmuller had a close call in Cuba during the time of the Cuban Revolution. While playing golf, he and his friends found themselves suddenly surrounded by a group of Fidel Castro's soldiers intent on kidnapping them, or worse. Thinking fast, Weissmuller immediately gave his trademark Tarzan yell. The soldiers immediately recognized it and were so delighted to meet Tarzan that they began to clap and escorted the group back to a safe area, where Weissmuller was presented a $100 bill.
At his request, a recording of his trademark Tarzan yell which he invented was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground.




Jack Benny: "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc."
Originally, the sound of the Maxwell car on Jack Benny's radio show was a pre-recorded sound effect on a phonograph record. However, during a live broadcast, Blanc noticed that the record player was not turned on for the crucial moment when the effect was supposed to play. He quickly grabbed the microphone and improvised the sounds himself, to the utter delight of the studio audience. Benny made it part of the program from then on and gave Blanc much larger roles to play in the show.
The sound Bugs Bunny makes while munching a carrot is actually Blanc munching on a carrot. He tried using celery, raw potatoes, and a lot of other things, but only a carrot would make that carrot crunching sound. According to Noel Blanc, Mel's son, Mel was not in fact allergic to carrots as was previously thought by many. People who worked in the sound studios believed this because they would see Mel spitting out the carrot after taking a bite. Mel did this because he could not speak with the carrot in his mouth and that was the only reason he spat it out.
Originally, voice artists were not given screen credit on animated cartoons. After he was turned down for a raise by tight-fisted producer Leon Schlesinger, Blanc suggested they add his name as Vocal Characterizationist to the credits as a compromise and omitted the name of any other voice actor that worked on the cartoon. Not only did it give greater recognition to voice artists from then on, it helped to bring Blanc to the public eye and quickly brought him more work in radio.
On January 24, 1961, Blanc was in a near-fatal car accident while many of the shows that required his services, most importantly "The Flintstones," were still in production. He did the voices of his characters in both his home bed and his hospital bed, in a full body cast and with all his "Flintstones" co-stars and recording equipment crowded into the same room.
While in a coma after the accident, doctors unsuccessfully tried to get Mel to talk. Finally, a doctor, who was also a huge fan of his cartoon characters, asked Mel "Bugs? Bugs Bunny? Are you there?" In Bugs Bunny's voice, Mel responded "What's up, Doc?". After talking with several other characters, they eventually lead Mel out of his coma.




John Burroughs and Henry Ford in the first automobile (Quadricycle) designed and built by Mr. Ford. Image is from the American Museum Journal in 1915.
On June 4th, 1896 Ford completed his Quadricycle.

[Z-man]

John Burroughs and Henry Ford in the first automobile (Quadricycle) designed and built by Mr. Ford. Image is from the American Museum Journal in 1915.
On June 4th, 1896 Ford completed his Quadricycle.

Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.

When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.

Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did.