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[masraum]

[GH85Carrera]

Slightly damaged? What is a badly damaged house?


Russell Gulch, Colorado was settled at the site of gold discoveries made by a party led by Green Russell, a prospector and miner from Georgia. Russell was sort of the Forrest Gump of the Colorado Gold Rush. As he traveled across the plains his party picked up more and more people until it was over a hundred strong when they reached the mountains.


Chimney sweep boys in Victorian England.c1880s




A sight that would be all too familiar to Marines in the Pacific during World War II…A U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal plays taps during a service for the dead before leaving the island to the Army, 1942.
Marine Eugene Sledge, who would write the acclaimed book “With the Old Breed”, was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines of the 1st Marine Division.
Of the 240 K Company members who landed at D-Day on Peleliu, all but Sledge and nine others were killed or wounded by the end of the Okinawa Campaign.

[masraum]

If you like pretzels, these are AWESOME! I just stumbled across these the other day and they are like crack!

[Eric Hahl]

A shot that goes with the picture above (tree in house, Johnstown, PA.1889)

This is the Plot of the Unknowns. More than 750 unknown victims of the flood of 1889 rest here at Grandview Cemetery in Johnstown, Pa.

[GH85Carrera]

A Route 66 time capsule courtesy the Mohave Museum of History & Arts. The motel is the Arcadia Court, now Arcadia Lodge, Kingman, Arizona. The 1940 AAA Directory of Motor Courts & Cottages has an entry: “Arcadia Court, east on U.S. 66. 15 air conditioned cottages with bath. $3 to $3.50. A second story was added after the war. The current sign was the tallest in Kingman when it was added to the highway roadside in 1964. A really interesting part of the photo is the highway itself. You can see that curves around El Travatore Hill. This was also the course of the National Old Trails Road from 1921 to certification of Route 66 in 1926, when both roads shared the same road. In late 1947 the highway was cut through the hill. The curve, now Chadwick Drive, was bypassed. It remains an often overlooked segment of Route 66


The heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) licking her wounds (to put it mildly) at Tulagi following the Battle of Tassafaronga.
New Orleans was struck by a Type 93 torpedo (The fabled "Long Lance" as it would later become known) fired by a Japanese destroyer. The torpedo struck within the vicinity of the forward turrets and immediately detonated the forward magazines (along with aviation gas tanks), leading to a massive explosion.
New Orleans lost her entire bow forward of the number 2 8" turret (Killing the entire crew that manned the forward turrets). The severed bow then crashed along the side of the cruiser as it steamed past, leading to additional damage.
New Orleans was able to retire to Tulagi, limping into port at a speed of 2 knots on December 1, 1942. Repairs were made that would allow New Orleans to at least handle the trip to repair facility. The crew shored up the forward hull and created a false bow from coconut logs.
Within two weeks, New Orleans was sturdy enough to make the trip to Australia. The cruiser sailed stern-first the entire trip to avoid straining the damaged bow, arriving at Sydney, Australia on December 24. Facilities in Australia were not up to the task of repairing the cruiser. Instead, a stronger fake bow was installed that would allow New Orleans to return to the United States for complete repairs. These temporary repairs were completed by March.
New Orleans was able to sail to the Puget Sound Shipyard, again sailing in reverse. Upon arrival, crews set to work rebuilding the shattered cruiser. A new bow was fitted and the entire ship was overhauled. Despite the tremendous damage, New Orleans was made combat-ready by August of that year. New Orleans would continue serving throughout the rest of the Second World War, taking part in several more important battles.


The largest non nuclear weapon of WW2 was placed on display in front of RAF Scampton’s main gate. 15 years after it had been proudly placed on display, it was discovered to be still fully packed with its 6.5 tons of explosives.
The Grand Slam was a 22,000 lb earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against strategic targets during the Second World War. It was the most powerful non-atomic bomb used in the war.
Although many articles have been written about this incident, most fail to mention that the bomb was in fact "live" but not armed. The bomb would have only been armed prior to loading on a Lancaster. Although less likely to detonate unexpectedly, it is not advisable to place 6.5 tons of explosives on public display...
Had the bomb guarding the gate at RAF Scampton, known as "10 ton Tess" gone off, the entire RAF base , as well as most of the northern part of the City of Lincoln, would have been destroyed.


For guys with really small um, parts.

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by masraum

If you like pretzels, these are AWESOME! I just stumbled across these the other day and they are like crack!

Tried several flavors. I liked them..but left my hands too greasy

[ramonesfreak]

[GH85Carrera]

Too much starch!
Actually it is just frozen clothes on the solar powered clothes dryer.




In 1949, the Truman administration canceled construction of the the first supercarrier, USS United States. Ironically, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was laid down in 1993 as the USS United States but was changed as part of the compromise to name CVN-76 for Ronald Reagan.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

A shot that goes with the picture above (tree in house, Johnstown, PA.1889)

This is the Plot of the Unknowns. More than 750 unknown victims of the flood of 1889 rest here at Grandview Cemetery in Johnstown, Pa.

I think it's fairly unusual for large groups like that to end up like that. I think often when there are large groups of dead, they often get buried in mass graves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/566950355/the-tempest-at-galveston-we-knew-there-was-a-storm-coming-but-we-had-no-idea

The city of Galveston was effectively obliterated.

The dead bodies were so numerous that burying all of them was impossible. Initially, bodies were collected by "dead gangs" and then given to 50 African American men – who were forcibly recruited at gunpoint – to load them onto a barge. About 700 bodies were taken out to sea to be dumped. However, after gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up on the beaches, or wherever dead bodies were found, and burned day and night for several weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.

Floating wreckage from the 1900 storm's destruction of Galveston






Galveston was essentially raised. The seawall was built on the Gulf side of the island, and then the island was raised from the top edge of the wall back to the original height on the intercoastal waterway side of the island. So the island is now slanted with the high side being towards the Gulf of Mexico. And I think it's mostly working.

Since 1900 more of the island has been built on...

[Mark Howard]

I spent several years living in Galveston after Hurricane Ike struck assisting with housing recovery. Really a fascinating place once you meet the locals and learn about the history. I came to love the place and researched the 1900 storm in depth. They “simply” raised ever remaining structure on the island anywhere from 1’ to 15’ and dredge sand was pumped in from the Gulf behind the sea wall. All infrastructure was rebuilt on top the new land.

If you have any interest in history, just google Galveston Island Raising and look at the pictures and captions, read about it. Very cool.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Mark Howard

I spent several years living in Galveston after Hurricane Ike struck assisting with housing recovery. Really a fascinating place once you meet the locals and learn about the history. I came to love the place and researched the 1900 storm in depth. They “simply” raised ever remaining structure on the island anywhere from 1’ to 15’ and dredge sand was pumped in from the Gulf behind the sea wall. All infrastructure was rebuilt on top the new land.

If you have any interest in history, just google Galveston Island Raising and look at the pictures and captions, read about it. Very cool.

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[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

As you mentioned, still there.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Mark Howard

I spent several years living in Galveston after Hurricane Ike struck assisting with housing recovery. Really a fascinating place once you meet the locals and learn about the history. I came to love the place and researched the 1900 storm in depth. They “simply” raised ever remaining structure on the island anywhere from 1’ to 15’ and dredge sand was pumped in from the Gulf behind the sea wall. All infrastructure was rebuilt on top the new land.

If you have any interest in history, just google Galveston Island Raising and look at the pictures and captions, read about it. Very cool.

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/566950355/the-tempest-at-galveston-we-knew-there-was-a-storm-coming-but-we-had-no-idea

The Great Galveston Storm came ashore the night of Sept 8, 1900, with an estimated strength of a Category 4. It remains the deadliest natural disaster and the worst hurricane in U.S. history.

From 6,000 to 12,000 people died on Galveston Island and the mainland. Texas' most advanced city was nearly destroyed.

Forecasting was primitive in those days — they relied on spotty reports from ships in the Gulf of Mexico. Citizens of Galveston could see that a storm was brewing offshore, but had no idea that it was a monster.

"Everyone went about their usual tasks until about 11 a.m. when my brother, Jacob, and our cousin, Allen Brooks, came from the beach with the report that the Gulf was very rough and the tide very high," remembered Katherine Vedder Pauls, not quite 6 years old at the time. Her oral history and others used for this report are archived at

"About half past 3," she continued, "Jacob and Allen came running, shouting excitedly that the Gulf looked like a great gray wall about 50-feet high and moving slowly toward the island."

At the dawn of the 20th century, Galveston was the grandest city in Texas. It could boast the biggest port, the most millionaires, the swankiest mansions, the first telephones and electric lights, and the most exotic bordellos. After the 1900 storm, she would never regain her status.

"No tongue can tell it!"

What became of the people of Galveston is the story of what happened before accurate weather forecasting, mandatory evacuations, and storm building codes.

"We knew there was a storm coming, but we had no idea that it was as bad as it was," said William Mason Bristol, who was 21 when he rode out the storm in his mother's boardinghouse. "You see, we didn't have a weather bureau that give us the dope that they got now...They had no airplanes to go up there and see how bad it was."

The unnamed hurricane swept in from the Gulf with an estimated tidal surge of 15 feet, so high that it swallowed the skinny barrier island that was only 5 feet above sea level.

"Oh, it was a awful thing. You want me tell you, but no tongue can tell it!" recalled Annie McCullough. She was about 22 years old in 1900. Her family was on a mule-drawn wagon trying to escape the rising tide.

"The water was comin' so fast. The wagon gettin' so it was floatin'. The poor mules swimmin' that was pullin'. And the men laid flat on their stomach, holdin' the little children."

Survivors wrote of wind that sounded "like a thousand little devils shrieking and whistling," of 6-foot waves coming down Broadway Avenue, of a grand piano riding the crest of one, of slate shingles turned into whirling saw blades, and of streetcar tracks becoming waterborne battering rams that tore apart houses.

"The animals tried to swim to safety and the frightened squawking chickens were roosting everywhere they could get above the water," Pauls remembered. "People from homes already demolished were beginning to drift into our house, which still stood starkly against the increasing fury of the wind and water."

At the height of the storm, John W. Harris remembered two dozen terrified people climbing in through the windows of their home on Tremont Street. His mother prepared for rising floodwaters by lashing her children together.

"Mother had a trunk strap around each one of us to hold onto us as long as she could," he recalled.

Rosenberg School, built of brick, became a refuge for Annie McCullough's family and many others.

"The people was screamin' and hollerin' and so, huntin' their folks," she said in an oral history recorded by her grand-niece, Izola Collins. "The wind! Those men that was in the school, all they could do was stand against those doors and hold 'em."

The single most heart-wrenching tragedy happened to St. Mary's orphanage. Ten Catholic nuns from the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word and 90 children died when fearsome waves destroyed two wooden dormitories, that were built close to the beach in the belief that ocean breezes would reduce the danger of yellow fever. The sisters tethered the orphans together with clothesline. That's how they were found the next day, drowned. Only three boys escaped.

"A terrible time"

The storm began to subside about daybreak. The sun rose on Sept. 9 on a coastal city obliterated. One survivor described "knots of people frightened out of their wits, crazy men and women crying and weeping at the tops of their voices."

Corpses were everywhere. Authorities declared martial law and began to force men — most of whom were black — at bayonet point to collect the dead, pile them on barges, and dump them in the Gulf for burial. But the cadavers washed back onshore. Finally, they had to be burned in funeral pyres. There were orders to shoot on sight the "ghouls" who stole jewelry from the tangled bodies.

"It was a terrible time, it really was," recalled Louise Bristol Hopkins, who was seven. "I heard the stories of women with long hair who had been caught in the trees with their hair and cut to pieces with slates that had been flying."

Katherine Vedder Pauls recollected a ghoulish incident that happened to her mother.

"She stepped on a barrel concealed by the water. It rolled and she went under with it. She grabbed at something to pull herself up. It was the body of a small girl. Her self-control gave way and she wept hysterically."

Harris, who became a prominent banker and philanthropist on the island, lost 11 relatives in the 1900 storm. He remembered the next morning his family was having breakfast in their house, that withstood the waves, when the mayor came by.

"He said to father, 'John, your whole family are destroyed.' And I remember it's the first time that I ever saw father with tears in his eyes. He had no idea of the extent of the damage. We hadn't left the house yet."

A memorial was placed on the Galveston Seawall to commemorate the 1900 Storm that killed 6,000 to 12,000 people — the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
John Burnett/NPR

In the years after the horrific storm, Galveston reinvented itself in a burst of municipal determination. The US Army Corps of Engineers constructed a 17-foot seawall. The city undertook an ambitious "grade-raising." Two thousand surviving structures — from shanties to a massive Catholic church — were jacked up and sand pumped underneath. Both the seawall and the grade-raising were regarded as engineering marvels of their day.

[GH85Carrera]

How much power does she have?




During WWII, a 12-ounce draft at the Camp Pendleton beer garden cost only 10 cents compared to 25 cents off base. Marines drank so much discounted beer that Southern California ran out of paper cups. Pendleton had to resort to filling canteens for 15 cents
I think I have heard something about about a drunken sailors in songs.


An image titled “Oldest House” in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date of photo c. 1880-1890

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by masraum

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Servant's stairs - they were able to make the stairs narrower with this design. Also called witches' stairs because witches and evil spirits allegedly couldn't climb them. (Drunks couldn't either!)
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/lymysj/these_are_witches_stairs_they_prevented_witches/

Random:

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

During WWII, a 12-ounce draft at the Camp Pendleton beer garden cost only 10 cents compared to 25 cents off base. Marines drank so much discounted beer that Southern California ran out of paper cups. Pendleton had to resort to filling canteens for 15 cents
I think I have heard something about about a drunken sailors in songs.

Pretty sure that was some kind of deal with the town to ensure the place didn't get pillaged and wives and children remained safe from drunken marines out on a last desperate chase for tail prior to shipping out and what not.

or to prevent kids from having their crayons go missing.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Servant's stairs - they were able to make the stairs narrower with this design. Also called witches' stairs because witches and evil spirits allegedly couldn't climb them. (Drunks couldn't either!)



https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/lymysj/these_are_witches_stairs_they_prevented_witches/

If a witch can walk up regular stairs whey not those stars?






What is so special about this wooden 700 years old bucket?
Well, because of this bucket, the forces of the Italian towns of Bologna and Modena started the War of the Bucket (Battle of Zappolino) in 1325.
Apparently, the war was instigated when soldiers from Modena inconspicuously made their way into Bologna, just to steal a bucket from the city’s main well.
Already being part of the larger conflicts between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Bolognese (Guelphs) didn’t take the seemingly innocuous incident too kindly; and were further disrespected when the Modena forces (Ghibellines) refused to hand over the bucket.
This resulted in the declaration of war by the Bolognese, who marched on to the city of Modena. However, the numerically superior forces of the Bolognese were routed within just 2 hours of the battle, and approximately 2,000 people died.
The bucket is currently displayed in the main bell tower of the city of Modena.




5/6/1956 USS Wisconsin (BB-64) with a damaged bow after she collided with the USS Eaton DDE-510 in heavy fog..USN Image/Nara


A prototype of the German heavy Krupp Räumer S minesweeper, captured by the Allies in 1945. The weight of the vehicle was 130 tons.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

5/6/1956 USS Wisconsin (BB-64) with a damaged bow after she collided with the USS Eaton DDE-510 in heavy fog..USN Image/Nara

They were probably more afraid when I landed aboard her during PG One

[GH85Carrera]

Relax, it is just the shadows and sunlight on her knee!




Summitville, Colorado was the site of one of the first major gold discoveries in the San Juan Mountains. Summitville was located at over 11,000 feet, and harsh winters combined with varying ore quality made this a difficult location for both mining and settling a town. Imagine digging a hole and swinging a pic-axe at 11,000 feet! Tough men.


Morris Island, South Carolina. The shattered muzzle of a 300-pounder Parrott Rifle after it had burst, photographed in July or August of 1863.


A March, 1863 photo of the USS Essex. The 1000-ton ironclad river gunboat, originally a steam-powered ferry, was acquired during the American Civil War by the US Army in 1861 for the Western Gunboat Flotilla. She was transferred to the US Navy in 1862 and participated in several operations on the Mississippi River, including the capture of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson in 1863.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Well; to be fair.. Hoser Satrapa shut down both engines on several occasions during AimAceval to defeat all aspect Aim9L heaters before the merge against Top gun instructor flown F5 agressors.

Intercept at the speed of heat (classified; can't tell how fast; but it was really cooking)
shut em down; not idle; but Shutdown and COLD
shoot the bogey in the face
relight.