I have done a 30 minute track day session in my 85 911. I was ready to quit and pull in when they waved the checked flag for the session. 30 minutes in a street car with zero pressure to win was exhausting. I can't image the pro drivers doing a 4 hour session at night at real race speeds with dozens of competitors passing and passing others. To drive for 23 hours is unbelievable. One tough man.

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The winner of the Miss Atomic Bomb Pageant, 1950. Nuclear Tourism in Las Vegas

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A Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber flying over Wapping and the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London.

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I think it is time for a new tire!

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WRESAT, Australia’s first satellite
The Weapons Research Establishment Satellite launched on November 29, 1967 into a 99 minute, 198×1252 km eccentric elliptical polar orbit with 83.3° inclination using a modified surplus American Redstone Sparta rocket from the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. Australia became the seventh nation to have an Earth satellite, and the fourth to launch a satellite from its own territory. The physics experiments on board were predominantly for upper atmospheric research and designed by the University of Adelaide, derived from experiments flown on earlier australian sounding rockets: Solar UV (1050 Å-1660 Å), Solar UV (2500 Å), Geocoronal Hydrogen Lyman Alpha, Solar X-Ray (8 Å) ionization chamber. Additionally, there was a small telescope with a lithium fluoride lens which could measure the faint ultraviolet halo (GeoCoronal) that surrounds the Earth at night. WRESAT was cone shaped with the weight 45 kg, length of 1.59 m and a mouth diameter of 0.76 m. It remained connected with the third rocket stage and possessed an overall length of 2.17 m. WRESAT later reentered the atmosphere after 642 revolutions on 10 January 1968, over the Atlantic Ocean. The battery-operated satellite sent telemetry during its first five days in orbit.
Space historian Kerrie Dougherty said the United States brought 10 Redstone rockets to Australia for testing and because all nine launches went to plan, they had one left over.
"The Americans didn't want to take it back to the US because it was essentially an obsolete missile, so they just didn't want to spend the money to take it back," she said.
"So the offer was made to Australia: 'If you want to build a satellite, we'll let you have this rocket to launch this satellite'."
Ms Dougherty said with US personnel set to leave Woomera at the end of 1967, Australia had just 11 months to complete the project!

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After disembarking at Ellis Island in 1902, 30-year-old Jessie MacMillan bought her first six-shooter in New York before traveling alone to New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains to settle a homestead claim.
The native Scot was a long way from the lush countryside of her youth but nevertheless forged ahead in carving a life for herself. At a time when most young women were choosing to marry and start families, Jessie chose to become a single female homesteader.
Her privileged upbringing at European boarding schools did nothing to deter her. She proved up her claim, introduced the first alfalfa crop to the area, and rode many miles on her horse "Wee Boy" to tutor the local ranch children.
By 1907 she received title to her land, which was by all estimations incredibly productive. At the age of 38, she married Loftus Farrington, but only after independently accomplishing her long-held dream of owning an American ranch.

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There was a time when those cars would sit on the lots for months and dealers would give them away.


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Aerial View of U.S. Naval Dry Dock, BB-61 USS Iowa in Dry Dock #3, USS Bunker Hill at East Jetty, AP-21 USS Wakefield at Pier, South Boston, Massachusetts . 1943/USN Photo Nara

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This gunner on battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) looks through the breech of one of the 16-inch Mark 6 guns. His left elbow rests on the “mushroom” of the gun, which he keeps clean by rubbing it with the towel wrapped around his arm.

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I give it a 10, he stuck the landing!

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No comment, No comment, No comment, Nope I don't want to get banned.

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Grand Falls in Arizona
Grand Falls is located 30 miles northeast of Flagstaff in the Painted Desert on the Navajo Nation. It is also called Chocolate Falls because of the color. At 185 feet tall, it is taller than Niagara Falls. It dumps snow melt or seasonal rain into the Little Colorado River below.

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Capitol Reef National Park In Utah, USA

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Went by Ace Hardware on the way to work this morning and the store was half empty of goods. It looked like this about a month ago as well.

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weird, looks far less than half to me. That looks more like 10-20%. You can't make money like that. There must be a problem, and I don't see them being around long unless they are in the middle of some sort of change of ownership/management or something.

Not as sad as he was in 1955...

Good catch.

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Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Levegh

I suspect that was the worst crash in motor racing history, right? 83 spectators died, plus Levegh.

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Per wikipedia, Levegh, 83 spectators killed, 100 others injured due to flying debris and burning magnesium.

Pretty horrific.

Yeah. Not uncommon to roll oneself up into a carpet in a lot 3 miles away from where one was drinking. Happens all the time.


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They are not in the best location. Not many houses around but commercial. With that in mind, maybe they don’t have cash flow to keep the store stocked?

Well is it any wonder? How can you keep stock on shelves installed that way?

oops

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