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[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Not just another brick in the wall. this guy's making a statement.

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Literally laughed out loud because that is so me. Drives my wife crazy.

[Steve Carlton]

^ Great caption!

[Cassy0110]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

A postcard with 305 mm Italian howitzer, captured probably in 1917 by the German-Austro-Hungarian forces on the Isonzo Front. The gun carriage was known as a De Stefano carriage. Usually employed on rails, the wheels could however have tracks attached, as above, for use in rough terrain.


Control rooms under DC's Arlington Memorial Bridge, locked up and out of use since 1976. The drawbridge was last raised on February 28, 1961. (Atlas Obscura)


Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed Calamity Jane, the original Wild West woman, as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion.
Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life.
In his lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography, Author Richard Etulain traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.




Illinois inventor Joseph Glidden strategically marketed his 1874 patent for barbed wire, which he named “The Winner,” to Texas Panhandle ranchers, and he found immediate success.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have enough of that to bore everyone to death. I started a family tree on Ancestry.com and have it available to others doing family research to access. All living relatives are private, and unpublished. Only dead ancestors can be researched.

I have had several people send a tanks for posting a photo of their great grand uncle or distant cousin. Ancestry.com is a rabbit hole time suck if you let it be. I went back 10 generations on a few family lines. Past that is pointless in my opinion. With a 1,024 ancestors after 10 generations the number of cousins is off the scale. Just spouses siblings of the ancestors make the genetic tree massive.

I've wasted a few hours on Ancestry as well!

Thought you might like this:



Ps - thanks for all the great contributions to a great thread. A bright spot in my day to be sure!

[Steve Carlton]

I researched my family tree and found Isaac Newton back there. At least I got his good looks.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Here is a BUFF fact that many of you didn't know; The Buff is even credited with three air to air kills during the Viet Nam war, thanks to the B-52D tail gunners who took down three MiG-21 Fishbeds when their aircraft came under attack.

B29 Fun Fact: I read somewhere recently that the B29 actually recorded more overall kills than the P51 during WWII.

"The B-29 had five “sighting stations” that were equipped with what was an analog computer. The computer compensated for airspeed, gravity, temperature, humidity and calculated the amount of “lead” required for the bullets to hit the target. All the gunner had to do was track it long enough for the computer to do its thing. Each gunner had the ability to bring one or more of the bomber’s turrets to bear on the target."

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by daepp

A friend of mine in Strandwood Elementary 6th grade got me into cartooning. He had more talent, but we had a lot of fun, making some cartoons that were pretty good. He once did a bomber with way too many bombs and missiles under the wings, in the same exaggerated way of this one. It was brilliant. Bruce Ryland was his name.




^ anyone recognize her without doing a search?

[gregpark]

A young Debbie Reynolds?

[Skytrooper]

Donna Reed ?

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I researched my family tree and found Isaac Newton back there. At least I got his good looks.

Well it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It's Isaac's DNA that makes you so smart.

[Por_sha911]

Rachel Devine?

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by gregpark

A young Debbie Reynolds?

Yessir.

[Robert Coats]

[mocha07]

Originally Posted by daepp

B29 Fun Fact: I read somewhere recently that the B29 actually recorded more overall kills than the P51 during WWII.

"The B-29 had five “sighting stations” that were equipped with what was an analog computer. The computer compensated for airspeed, gravity, temperature, humidity and calculated the amount of “lead” required for the bullets to hit the target. All the gunner had to do was track it long enough for the computer to do its thing. Each gunner had the ability to bring one or more of the bomber’s turrets to bear on the target."

FIFI was in town last month,for fleet week,weather didn't cooperate!

[Bill Douglas]