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A.K.A.

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I've talked with many folks who find cleaning their firearms very therapeutic.

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The first photograph taken of the Kaaba, in 1861, using a wet-plate collodion camera, by Muhammad Sadiq Bey (d. 1902), who had studied in France and bought a camera from there back to Egypt.
Photography was about 20 years old at this time.

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The Awesome American Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65),with her escorts, 1961.

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The Crow are also called the Apsáalooke, Absaroka, and Apsaroke. Their name was given them by the Hidatsa, and meant “people [or children] of the large-beaked bird.” Historically, they lived in the Yellowstone River Valley. A Siouan tribe, they once were part of the Hidatsa, living around the headwaters of the upper Mississippi River in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Later, the Crow moved to the Devil’s Lake region of North Dakota, before splitting with the Hidatsa and moving westward.
Settling in Montana, the tribe split once again into two divisions, called the Mountain Crow and the River Crow. They were first encountered by two Frenchmen in 1743 near the present-day town of Hardin, Montana. When the Lewis and Clark expedition came upon them in 1804, they estimated some 350 lodges with about 3,500 members.

To the Big E's starboard is CGN-9, the USS Long Beach, also nuclear powered.

Never landed on Her (not SH-60 capable) but I flew by her a few times while she was underway.

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To the starboard of the Long Beach is the USS Bainbridge, also glow in the dark park.

I was just logging in to say all 3 were Nucs. I've seen that pic before, I think I was active when I did.

I never saw the Bainbridge, but we did steam near Long Beach out of Sandy Eggo. I think I saw Mighty E either in Norfolk or San Diego, just guessing tho.

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Reminder : Cold season is starting and cows seek heat on car hoods, do not forget to tap on the hood to give the cow enough time to get off before you drive away!

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The guy I bought a house with in Coronado was an H-3 pilot (HS-6) and they were in those days off the Big E...was aboard when she hit Bishops Rock.

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You are looking at Magical "Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan.
An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall. The apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree.

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The Piegan are one of the three groups that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy. They were the most dominant group in the northern Great Plains during the 19th century. The Piegan used to live in the Rocky Mountain Front, the place where the Rocky Mountains meet the Plains, for thousands of years before moving further into the Plains. They lived a nomadic and semi-agricultural life before the introduction of guns and horses into their society. The introduction of European goods facilitated the hunting of bison and prompted them to move into the northern Plains, where they went on to dominate the region. Their first encounter with white people occurred in the 1787-88 winter, when they let a fur trader James Gaddy and an explorer David Thompson camp with them. The Piegan numbered around 3,700 in 1858, a small population previously decimated by smallpox and starvation. Today there are around 27,000 full blooded Piegan Blackfeet, and around 80,000 of Piegan descent. The Piegan population is split between the U.S.-Canada border, as they were historically forced to pick a side when the borders were drawn. These divisions, however, only physically split up a nation, as the bonds of its people are that of blood and are thus stronger than any barrier between them.

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Volume 1 of 1,000 of understanding women.

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Great place to be a camp counselor!

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Look want Santa brought! His and Hers.

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See I told ya it would fit.

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Portrait of the famous Lakota chief (1835-1905) wearing a war bonnet, holding a stone-head club and peace pipe, titled: "Rain-in-the-Face". D. F. Barry photographer's credit and back mark with image of Chief Gall. Rain-in-the-Face was one of the chiefs who participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn. In 1874, Custer's brother Thomas had the chief arrested for the murder of army veterinarian Dr. John Honsinger, but he managed to escape from jail. He both claimed and denied responsibility for killing the Custer brothers and ended his days at the Standing Rock Agency reservation. A very fine example.

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Iowa (BB-61) inside floating dry-dock ABSD-2, 28 December 1944.

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oh snap... found this on the innerweps. Nimitz Cruisebook online.

This is somewhere patrolling the PG 1991 in CIC.

I played cribbage on that same table with the Commodore on the right.

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