2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

This is Floy Blankenship and her dad John Blankenship (owner) on the banks of Clear Creek near Killeen in the early 1940's, before the government decided the land could be better used for Fort Hood. The building is made from old advertising signs.


Lindsay Wagner "The Bionic Woman".

[Seahawk]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) had a 100 song jukebox with three selector stations similar to those found in diners in the 1950s. The stations were in the wardroom, chief petty officer's lounge, and the crew's mess. Each song cost a nickel, with the money going to the recreation fund. The jukebox was very popular but the captain insisted that there be a minute of silence when the Nautilus crossed the North Pole in 1958




For the color blind, yes there really is a message in there.

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

Comet 67P compared to Los Angeles for scale.






NASA astronaut Ron Garan took this photograph during the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 13, 2011 from the International Space Station.


The tiny dot you see in this picture is planet earth as seen by Cassini Spacecraft from Saturn. All of humanity that ever lived and died are on that little tiny speck.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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Not once, not twice but thrice? Dang!

[GH85Carrera]

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.
Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.
The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.
He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"
They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."
Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".
At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."
When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.


Whew, that was close!

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

When Unocal was the fuel used in NASCAR those balls were used at Talladega and Daytona in Turn 3. At least one NASCAR official was inside watching the back straight and the turn as the whole track can't be seen from where the race director sits.

I was in Talladega when the ball was still on the pole. I was told it was smoking hot in there and I believe it. There is a Sunoco stand there now that looks a lot more comfortable.



But it's open on the top. You can move the pic.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.
Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.
The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.
He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"
They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."
Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".
At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."
When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

Wow. Thanks.

[Steve Carlton]

^ Yes- amazing story!

[GH85Carrera]

[oldE]

Would that be a Ranger?


Best
Les

[GH85Carrera]

I bet lots of wonderful meals were served in there. It looks like grandmas kitchen.






Telephone lines go up in Courtland, Kansas, 1903.


A house made out of discarded airplane engine crates in San Antonio, 1939. It's difficult to even imagine how hard life here must have been.

[GH85Carrera]

It seems funny to have a VW bug police car, but it can get around in sand better than most any American sedan of the era.


An adze (cutting tool) from the Tomb of Ani, bronze, wood and leather
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, c. 1250 B.C.
Theban Necropolis
British Museum. EA22834




Organ donors.




Dang peeping Toms!

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Wow - I learned something new already Monday morning. I always thought the "M" numbers referred to the diameter of the screw/bolt along with thread pitch. Now I know better...

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

"Wow - I learned something new already Monday morning. I always thought the "M" numbers referred to the diameter of the screw/bolt along with thread pitch. Now I know better..."

It is the diameter of the bolt, and is usually accompanied by a number indication the thread pitch. The 13mm across from the M8 is the common distance across the flats of the hex. If you work on 50s German cars you know it can be 12, 13, or 14 mm. There are 8 mm brass nuts for VW and BMW exhaust studs that are 11mm ATF.

[GH85Carrera]

Workers on the B-29 production line constructing the forward fuselage sections. The Superfortress fuselage was designed with a circular cross-section for strength and rigidity, and this configuration enabled the adoption of full pressurization for the airframe with the exception of the bomb bays

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

And that folks, is the space in a ball turret. Imagine riding in that tight space, as flak and enemy fighters are doing their best to shoot your airplane down.