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Re: Yes it really happened

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Movies that should have won
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before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

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World War II
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

During this period, Miller photographed dying children in a Vienna hospital, peasant life in post-war Hungary, corpses of Nazi officers and their families, and finally, the execution of Prime Minister László Bárdossy. After the war, she continued to work for Vogue for a further two years, covering fashion and celebrities.

During Miller's work with Vogue in World War II, it became her goal to “document war as historical evidence.”[33] The effect of her work was to provide “context for events.” [34] Her work was very specific and, like her previous publications and modelling with Vogue, Surrealist. She spent time composing her photographs, famously framing them from inside the cattle trains.[33] Miller's work with Vogue during wartime was often a combination of journalism and art, often manipulated to evoke emotion.[33]

At the end of the war, Miller's work as a wartime photojournalist continued as she sent telegrams back to the British Vogue editor, Audrey Withers, urging her to publish photographs from the camps.[35] She did this following a CBS broadcast from Buchenwald by Edward R. Murrow and Richard Dimbleby’s BBC broadcast from inside Bergen-Belsen.[36][33] This was a consequence of people's disbelief at such atrocities. These broadcasters used photographers to do what they could to show the public what they saw.[33] During World War II, Miller's work was used predominantly to “provide an eye-witness account” of the casualties of war
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Dirtiest places
Your computer keyboard
If you work in front of a computer, one of the objects that you touch most in the day is certain to be your computer’s keyboard. However, how many times a month do you clean it? If you’re like most of us, the answer is practically never.

According to a study by CBT Nuggets, computer keyboards, especially if they’re old, are filthy! They contain on average 20,500 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.

To clean your computer’s keyboard, use a cotton swab that has been dipped in rubbing alcohol. Take care to ensure none of the alcohol gets into the holes, and make sure your keyboard is unplugged. You can also use compressed air to dislodge any encrusted dirt around the keys.


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Re: Yes it really happened

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Attractions Near Udon Thani - Ho Chi Minh Historical Park
The Ho Chi Minh Historical Park, located some 10km west of the Udon Thani ring road, first opened it's doors to the public in 2001 yet has remained a relatively unknown attraction. There are two distinct parts to this historical park with a large Vietnamese style building on the left which houses the museum displays and on the right are a number of reconstructed buildings where Ho Chin Minh once lived.

Ho Chin Minh, the father of the modern day Vietnam, travelled all over the world for some 30 years before rising to power in his home country of Vietnam, and spent about 3 years in Thailand from the beginning of 1927 when he first arrived in Bangkok. During his time in Thailand he lived in the small village of Nong Pracham, a little west of Udon Thani city, for 3 months. During that time he taught local children and adults English, Thai and Vietnamese, just 3 of the 28 languages he learned himself.
The classroom and his accommodation are to the right as you enter the compound, along with an animal pen and a shed where rice was gathered and stored. The museum is on the left which is inside a beautiful Vietnamese style building and offers wheelchair access but to the ground floor only. The museum houses quite a large collection of books about Ho Chi Minh, photographs, portraits, letters and maps. There are several audio visual displays but sadly, as with everything else on display, is mostly in Thai only. All the same the displays are interesting and offer an insight in to the Vietnamese leader. There is a man that works here that has a grasp of English up to a point who is more than happy to guide you round the museum and answer any questions you may have. If you ask questions you may need to reword the question to help him understand what you are asking.
The lighting is good inside the museum and the displays, although perhaps a little sparse, are tidy, clean and easy to access. Unless you can read Thai, you can probably see everything in under 30 minutes but as highlighted above you may ask questions and you could quite easily find a good hour or more passes before you know it.

There is modern toilet facilities on site, also with wheelchair access and the garden and grounds on the site are well maintained and clean. Access to all areas is free and is open from 8:00am until 4:00pm every day of the week. Free wi-fi is also available.


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Left-handed people make up between 5-10% of the population.
They make especially good baseball players, tennis players, swimmers, and boxers. Almost 40% of the top tennis players are lefties.
Of the 7 most recent US presidents, 4 have been left-handed
At various times in history, left-handedness has been seen as many things: a nasty habit, a mark of the devil, a sign of neurosis, rebellion, criminality, and homosexuality. It has also been seen as a trait indicating creativity and musical abilities.

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Pan-American Highway Has Been Named The Longest Motorable Road In The World
It’s the longest motorable road and when you see just how far it stretches, you’ll see why. It extends from Alaska all the way down to the tip of South America, about 19,000 miles in total.

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With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth.
On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise. The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission, disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up in the spacecraft. Swigert reported to mission control on Earth, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and it was discovered that the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light and water had been disrupted.
The landing mission was aborted, and the astronauts and controllers on Earth scrambled to come up with emergency procedures. The crippled spacecraft continued to the moon, circled it, and began a long, cold journey back to Earth.
The astronauts and mission control were faced with enormous logistical problems in stabilizing the spacecraft and its air supply, as well as providing enough energy to the damaged fuel cells to allow successful reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Navigation was another problem, and Apollo 13‘s course was repeatedly corrected with dramatic and untested maneuvers. On April 17, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 astronauts touched down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » April 19, 2021, 12:49 am

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Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Location: Southampton, New York

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, which opened in 1891, is located near the eastern end of Long Island. It was a charter club of the organization that would later become the United States Golf Association. The course has hosted five U.S. Opens — including the second ever in 1896 — with a sixth scheduled for 2026.

The ultra-exclusive Shinnecock Hills keeps quiet about its initiation fees and dues. If you know a member, you can be invited to the course as a guest, but guest tee times usually fill up months in advance. If you ever make it to the club as a guest, you’ll pay a $350 green fee, Golf.com reported in June 2018.

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Albert Finney
We now move on to the actors who had five nominations without a win. All three in the five-timers club are no longer with us, so there shall be no eventual winners here. Finney was considered one of the best actors of his generation, wowing from the ‘60s all the way up through the 2000s. Unfortunately, he died in 2019 without a win to his credit.

Glenn Close
There are two people who have been nominated seven times without a win, and Close is the first of those two. People thought for sure she would get a career achievement win for “The Wife,” even though it was a mostly unseen movie. That was even a running joke. Then, it didn’t happen. Close is still acting, though, and could potentially win for 2020’s “Hillbilly Elegy” if there isn’t too much backlash for that movie. Hey, if “Green Book” can win Best Picture, anything is possible on that front.


Peter O'Toole
And yet, nobody has been more snakebitten than O’Toole. Somehow, he did not end up winning a single-acting Oscar. A true pillar of cinema for decades, O’Toole was nominated eight times for Best Actor. Only five people were have been nominated more for a lead actor award. He was unable to win a single one of those. O’Toole passed away in 2013, assuring that he would hold onto this dubious distinction. There is no man alive who is close to tying or eclipsing, O’Toole’s dubious distinction.

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Doolittle leads air raid on Tokyo
On April 18, 1942, 16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, attack the Japanese mainland.
The now-famous Tokyo Raid did little real damage to Japan (wartime Premier Hideki Tojo was inspecting military bases during the raid; one B-25 came so close, Tojo could see the pilot, though the American bomber never fired a shot)–but it did hurt the Japanese government’s prestige. Believing the air raid had been launched from Midway Island, approval was given to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s plans for an attack on Midway–which would also damage Japanese “prestige.” Doolittle eventually received the Medal of Honor.
A book describing the raid, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson, was adapted into a film starring Spencer Tracy in 1944.

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Spam (stylized as SPAM) is a brand of canned cooked pork made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was introduced by Hormel in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II.[1] By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six continents and trademarked in over 100 countries (excluding the Middle East and North Africa because it is haram and non-kosher).[2]

Spam's basic ingredients are pork with ham added, salt, water, modified potato starch (as a binder), sugar, and sodium nitrite (as a preservative). Natural gelatin is formed during cooking in its tins on the production line.[3] Many have raised concerns over Spam's nutritional attributes, in large part due to its high content of fat, sodium, and preservatives.[4]

It has become the subject of a number of appearances in pop culture, notably a Monty Python sketch, which repeated the name many times, leading to its name being borrowed for unsolicited electronic messages, especially email.

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Your shower curtain needs cleaning
Even though it is in daily contact with water, soap, and shampoo, your shower curtain may actually be filthy. The layer of soap that forms over time on your shower curtain is a great environment for bacteria, according to this 2004 study.

If you’ve seen any pink appearing on your shower curtain, that probably means it’s time to buy a new one. To avoid the same thing happening with your new curtain, wash it in the machine according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » April 21, 2021, 1:03 am

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How were Negro POWs treated during WW2


Generally not well.

Generally speaking, American POWs captured by Germany had it alright. They were not sent to concentration camps and generally received pretty good treatment at the hands of the Germans.

However we are dealing with Nazis here- keep that in mind. 2 factors really decided how an American POW would be treated.

Was he being captured by the SS or the normal German Army (SS bad, Army good)
Was he black or Jewish
If you were Jewish or Black and captured by the SS (or even elements of the Amry) you would be lucky to find yourself in a concentration camp. More likely, you are killed on the spot. If you were white and captured by the Army you’d be sent to a more comfortable imprisonment.

Black soldiers had it bad though- as they were considered Untermensch (sub-human).

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So you are all familiar with the Ardennes offensive right? Also called the Battle of the Buldge where US forces were surrounded and cut off during the winter and then held out for weeks while the American 3rd Armored division broke through to save them.

Well during this time there were 2 massacres of US troops. The fact we are well aware of them both shows how rare it was for this thing to happen but I digress.

During this battle, 85 American soldiers were captured and executed by elements of the SS. Instead of bringing them to a prison camp the Germans just flat-out shot them all to death. But these men were all white, so they got the mercy of a bullet. This is called the Malmedy Massacre and is very well known.

During the battle 11 “Colored” G.I’s found themselves out of ammo with only 2 rifles and lost in the woods. They came upon a little house in the middle of nowhere and asked for refuge from the cold.

Inside this house were Belgium Patriots who supported the US. They offered the 11 men shelter and food and warmed them up. The nearby neighbors were not Patriots though and had a son fighting in the SS. They would run to the Germans and inform them Americans were being sheltered nearby.

4 men from the SS would arrive armed to the teeth. The Americans chose not to resist, not wanting any harm to befall those that took them in. They were also lacking the weaponry to fight.
So all 11 Americans surrendered to these SS soldiers and they wouldn’t even get the mercy of a bullet. Their bodies would be found shortly after and US command was shocked by what they found.

I am not going to pull any punches- I want you to understand the level of evil we are dealing with. These men were found with the following injuries.

Their eyes had been gouged out while they were still alive
Fingers were removed and legs were broken
Men were beaten to death with rifle butts
Many men had been run over by vehicles
A few were shot, but not in the head- they were shot in the knees and stomach to inflict maximum suffering
A few men had fractured skulls from having their heads beaten in
Just executing a POW is a war crime but this goes beyond it. The 85 executed at Malmedy were simply shot, perhaps because the Germans lacked the logistics to transport or guard POWs.

These 11 black US G.I’s were brutally and violently tortured and killed for no other reason than they were black. The SS soldiers took joy in their suffering. It’s the brutality that is hard to imagine.

The US would investigate this for years but the killers were never discovered.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » April 22, 2021, 1:39 am

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A blockbuster bomb or cookie was any of several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire street or large building through the effects of blast in conjunction with incendiary bombs.
The first type of aircraft to carry 4,000 lb (1.8 t) bombs operationally was the Wellington during a strike on Emden in April 1941,[7] but they later became part of the standard bomb load of the RAF's heavy night bombers, as well as that of the Mosquitoes of the Light Night Strike Force, whose aircraft would sometimes bomb Berlin twice in one night, flown by two different crews.

The 2,000-lb HC was used until the end of the war; use peaked in 1944 with over 16,000 dropped[8]

The 8,000 lb (3.6 t) and the 12,000 lb (5.4 t) could be carried only by the Avro Lancaster which needed to be slightly modified with bulged bomb-bay doors.

The 4,000 lb (1.8 t) "cookie" was regarded as a particularly dangerous load to carry. Due to the airflow over the detonating pistols fitted in the nose, it would often explode even if dropped in a supposedly "safe" unarmed state. The Safety height above ground for dropping the "cookie" was 6,000 ft (1,800 m); any lower and the dropping aircraft risked being damaged by the explosion's atmospheric shock wave:
We were flying at 6,000 feet which was the minimum height to drop the 4,000 pounder. We dropped it in the middle of town [Koblenz], which gave the aircraft a hell of a belt, lifted it up and blew an escape hatch from out of the top.
— Jack Murray, pilot of "G for George", reporting on G for George's mission on 17th April

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Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, FBA (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany. In the view of John Kenyon, "some of [Trevor-Roper's] short essays have affected the way we think about the past more than other men's books".[1] This is echoed by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman in the introduction to One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2014): "The bulk of his publications is formidable... Some of his essays are of Victorian length. All of them reduce large subjects to their essence. Many of them [...] have lastingly transformed their fields." On the other hand, his biographer Adam Sisman also writes that "the mark of a great historian is that he writes great books, on the subject which he has made his own. By this exacting standard Hugh failed."[2]

Trevor-Roper's most widely read and financially rewarding book was titled The Last Days of Hitler (1947). It emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker. From his interviews with a range of witnesses and study of surviving documents he demonstrated that Hitler was dead and had not escaped from Berlin. He also showed that Hitler's dictatorship was not an efficient unified machine but a hodge-podge of overlapping rivalries.

Trevor-Roper's reputation was "severely damaged" in 1983 when he authenticated the Hitler Diaries shortly before they were shown to be forgeries.




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It has played a decisive role in a number of armed conflicts, breaks world records like an Olympian, and has helped more than one big-game hunter bag their prize. The M200 INTERVENTION made by Tennessee’s Cheytac USA Inc. is arguably the most sought-after ELR (extreme long range) rifle system in the world, capable of interdicting targets at distances up to 5,000 meters—or just over three miles.

The high-caliber bolt-action M200 INTERVENTION rifle, chambered in either .408 or .375 Cheytac ammunition, and fed by a seven-round magazine, is ranked the #1 sniper rifle in the world by The Military Channel. It is highly prized by elite special forces around the world, including Britain’s famed SAS (Special Air Service), for its unprecedented accuracy, lethality, and range.

In 2017 the London Daily Mail dubbed it the world’s most powerful sniper rifle, reporting that an SAS sniper used one to take down an ISIS jihadi from 1.5 miles away, “registering one of the most difficult kills in the regiment’s history.” That’s partly why the M200 INTERVENTION has had cameos in movies such as Shooter, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and Zero Tolerance, as well as video games including Call of Duty
Cheytac offers variations on the classic M200 INTERVENTION in composite material and carbon fiber, with options like a new claw-mount optic system, a custom camouflage coating and a titanium suppressor (in kit form) pushing the cost of the rifle past $15,000. The lightweight sportsman’s version of the rifle, dubbed the M300, is an exceptional choice for both competitive shooting and long-distance big-game hunting, and has been in the winner’s circle more times than any other platform.
Want to eradicate a target beyond the three-mile mark? The company says that when combined with its patented balanced-flight bullet and a ballistic calculator app, the rifle can deliver a direct hit at close to four miles.

The M200 INTERVENTION is no less than “a truly remarkable rifle that has branded its place in history as the best of the best,” says Cheytac Chairman and President Blaine Campbell, a former Green Beret and 82nd Airborne combat veteran who served in Desert Shield and Desert Storm and as a scout sniper during multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Simply put, the target doesn’t stand a chance.”

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Post by Doodoo » April 23, 2021, 1:30 am

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WW2 “Sweetheart Grips” Surprisingly Few People Know About Them

The personalization of equipment goes back for centuries. The Greeks often had to supply their own armor so they usually added ridged elements that simulated having a six pack or had images of fearsome beasts on their chest.

There’s nothing the sculpted body armor does better or worse than regular ancient protective equipment except for looking nicer, providing a status symbol like that one guy in the modern military unit that shows up with fancy under armor, and maybe offering a more comfortable fit.
Civil War soldiers disobeyed regulations to emblazon flags and drums with the names of battles and campaigns. Most soldiers individualized their muskets or rifles.

That could include full names, initials, stars, unit names and symbols, or anything of personal significance. This practice increased moral by personalizing equipment, and created an attachment to impersonal objects. It could also aid in the identification of dead soldiers before the invention or widespread use of dog tags.

Infantry soldiers & airman took Plexiglas from downed planes and carved out grips for their Colt 1911s for example and also for their revolvers. After putting in pictures of their loved ones or favorite pin up girl this form of personalisation earned the name “Sweet heart grips.”

Sweetheart grips are an interesting piece of WWII history. And surprisingly few people seem to know about them. However, if you look closely, you will see Brad Pitt carrying a “sweetheart” gripped revolver in the movie Fury

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SHOCKING OCEAN PLASTIC STATISTICS:


More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year.

100% of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs.

There is now 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean & 46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.

Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas.

The world produces 381 million tonnes in plastic waste yearly – this is set to double by 2034.

50% of this is single-use plastic & only 9% has ever been recycled.

Over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging are used in the UK each year.

88% of the sea's surface is polluted by plastic waste.

Between 8 to 14 million tonnes enters our ocean every year.

Britain contributes an estimated 1.7 million tonnes of plastic annually.

The US contributes 38 million tonnes of plastic every year.

Plastic packaging is the biggest culprit, resulting in 80 million tonnes of waste yearly from the US alone.

On UK beaches there are 5000 pieces of plastic & 150 plastic bottles for each mile.

More than 1 million plastic bags end up in the trash every minute.

The world uses over 500 billion plastic bags a year – that’s 150 for each person on Earth.

8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches, but only 1% of straws end up as waste in the ocean.

By 2020 the number of plastics in the sea will be higher than the number of fish.

1 in 3 fish caught for human consumption contains plastic.

Plastic microbeads are estimated to be one million times more toxic than the seawater around it.

Products containing microbeads can release 100,000 tiny beads with just one squeeze.

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Simo "Simuna" Häyhä (Finnish: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] (About this soundlisten); 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002) was a Finnish military sniper in the Second World War during the 1939–1940 Winter War against the Soviet Union. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30, a variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 men during the Winter War, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war.

Häyhä estimated in his private war-time diary that he shot around 500.[5][6] Häyhä's diary, which covers his experiences in the Winter War from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940, was accidentally found by those who had studied Häyhä's war history; it had been hidden for decades.
Häyhä was a sniper for the Finnish Army during the 1939–40 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, under Lieutenant Aarne Juutilainen in the 6th Company of Infantry Regiment 34 (Jalkaväkirykmentti 34, or JR 34) during the Battle of Kollaa in temperatures between −40 and −20 °C (−40 to −4 °F). Häyhä was dressed completely in white camouflage; Soviet troops were not issued camouflage uniforms for most of the war, making them easily visible to snipers in winter conditions. Joseph Stalin had purged military experts in the late 1930s as part of the Great Purge, and the Red Army was consequently highly disorganized.

Finnish sources describe that Häyhä was nicknamed "The White Death" by the Red Army (Russian: Белая смерть, Belaja smert; Finnish: valkoinen kuolema; Swedish: den vita döden).[7] The "White Death" has been suggested to be a name created entirely by Finnish propaganda, and it would not have been originally invented by the Russians. The "White Death" of the Russians was, according to information from the prisoners, a severe frost in the deep snow forest. For Häyhä, the nickname "White Death" came up only in the Finnish Winter War literature of the late 1980s.[14] During the war, the "White Death" was one of the leading themes of Finnish propaganda.[15] Finnish newspapers frequently featured the invisible Finnish soldier, thus creating a hero of mythical proportions
All of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days, an average of five per day at a time of year with very few daylight hours. Häyhä's kill count as a sniper was based on Häyhä himself, with the confirmation of his comrades, and only those who were killed for certain were considered. No count was taken when several snipers shot at the same target. Men killed with a submachine gun with Simo as a group leader were not counted.[20]

Häyhä's division commander Antero Svensson credited him with 219 confirmed kills with a rifle and an equal number of kills by submachine gun, when he awarded him an honorary rifle on 17 February 1940.[21][7] On 21 December 1939, Häyhä achieved his highest daily count of 25 kills.[22] In his diary, military chaplain Antti Rantamaa reported 259 confirmed kills made by rifle and an equal number of kills by submachine gun from the beginning of the war until 7 March 1940, one day after Häyhä was seriously wounded. Later in his book, Rantamaa credited Simo with a total of 542 kills.
Some of Häyhä's figures are from a Finnish Army document, counted from the beginning of the war, 30 November 1939:

22 December 1939: 138 sniper kills in 22 days
26 January 1940: 199 sniper kills (61 in 35 days)
17 February 1940: 219 sniper kills (20 in 22 days)
7 March 1940 (one day after Häyhä was seriously wounded): total of 259 sniper kills (40 in 18 days)
Häyhä never discussed it publicly, but his own private diary, discovered in 2017, shares a figure. He begins by stating that "this is his sin list", and estimates the total number shot by him to be around 500.

Historian Risto Marjomaa questions the large number, as confirmation of casualties was difficult due to the absence of the bodies. In his article, published by the The National Biography of Finland, Marjomaa credited Häyhä with the total number of "more than two hundred" kills.[25] Complicating matters further is the use of Häyhä's achievements as a tool of propaganda: the Finnish press built a hero's myth around Häyhä at the early stage of the war.

According to Soviet Army medical data, the Soviet 56th Rifle Division lost 678 killed in December 1939. According to this, Simo Häyhä had to have killed 25% of the dead soldiers of the division and been responsible for 100% of his battalion's achievements (2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment). Historian Oleg Kiselev claimed Häyhä could not have killed so many, crediting him with the total number of "one company" (100 men) sniper kills.

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The Seehund (German: "seal"), also known as Type XXVII, was a midget submarine manufactured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Designed in 1944 and operated by two-man crews, it was used by the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during the closing months of the war, sinking nine merchant vessels and damaging an additional three, while losing 35 boats, mostly attributed to bad weather. The French Navy used four captured boats after the war until 1953.

The first Seehund operation took place on 31 December 1944, when 18 craft set out from IJmuiden in the Netherlands. However, this was a disaster – the submarines encountered a storm and only two returned. The first sinking by a Seehund did not occur until February 1945, when a freighter was sunk off Great Yarmouth.[1]

Seehunds operated mainly around the German coast and in the English Channel, and could attack on the surface in turbulent weather, but had to be almost stationary for submerged attacks. From January to April 1945 Seehunds performed 142 sorties, and accounted for about 93,000 gross tons of shipping (British sources estimate 120,000 tons).[2] Administratively, the Seehunds were under the command of Lehrkommandos, which were part of the German Navy's special operations branch. Within each Lehrkommando were subordinate K-Flotilla; K-Flottille 311 was specifically designated to oversee deployment of the Hecht miniature submarine while the Seehund submarines were dispersed between K-Flottille 312, 313, and 314.[3]

From the Allied point of view, the Seehund's small size made it almost impossible for Asdic to get a return from her hull, while her very quiet slow-speed running made her almost immune to detection by hydrophone. As Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth put it, "Fortunately for us these damn things arrived too late in the war to do any damage".[citation needed]

The last Seehund sorties took place on 28 April and 2 May 1945, when two special missions were performed to resupply the besieged German garrison at Dunkirk with rations. The boats carried special food containers (nicknamed "butter torpedoes") instead of torpedoes, and on the return voyage used the containers to carry mail from the Dunkirk garrison.[4]

The French navy received four units as war reparations, and commissioned them as S 621, S 622, S 623 and S624. They were used until August 1953.

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The Bingley Arms is a public house in Bardsey, Leeds, England. It claims to be both the oldest surviving business and oldest surviving pub in the United Kingdom. It is possibly the fourth oldest surviving business in Europe.
The Bingley Arms was originally named The Priests Inn. The Bingley Arms calls itself the oldest pub in Britain, with a history dating back to between AD 905 and AD 953, and says that it served as a safe house for persecuted Catholic priests, and also as a courthouse from around AD 1000 from which offenders were taken to the pillory across the road.[1] The Bingley Arms was featured in a 2005 book review discussion on the invention of traditional public house history, "Great Pub Myths", and "claims to be... the oldest pub in Britain", published in the Yorkshire Evening Post.[2]

The Bingley Arms is also a restaurant, and a former winner of the Yorkshire Evening Post Restaurant of the Year Award. The Automobile Association states it provides "charm" and "excellent food".[3]

The beer garden is home to a yew tree that pre-dates the Bingley Arms

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Edward Dean Winter (June 3, 1937 – March 8, 2001) was an American actor.[1] He is best known for his recurring role, Colonel Samuel Flagg, in the television series M*A*S*H from 1973 to 1979.

His other notable television roles were as U.S. Air Force investigator Capt. Ben Ryan in season 2 of Project U.F.O. (1978–1979); and in Hollywood Beat (1985), 9 to 5 (1986–1988), and Herman's Head (1991–1994).

Winter received two Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical nominations for his performances in the original productions of Cabaret (1966) and Promises, Promises (1968). He also appeared in films such as A Change of Seasons (1980), Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), and The Buddy System (1984).

Winter was cast on M*A*S*H as Lt. Col. (later Col.) Flagg, becoming one of the program's more memorable and popular recurring characters. He appeared in seven episodes as Flagg during the show's 11-year run. The Flagg character was an intelligence agent (claiming to be C.I.A. several times) who brought a stereotypically paranoid, conspiracy-driven approach to his tasks. In some episodes his character was particularly vicious. Before his introduction as Flagg, Winter had appeared on the series as Captain Halloran. A number of fans have expressed the belief that Captain Halloran might have been one of Flagg's many aliases, especially as he said to Dr. Freedman, "we played poker once," which Captain Halloran had. However, this is debatable, as Halloran was a reasonably amiable character, whilst every other persona Flagg adopted was highly antagonistic, regardless of the alias. Winter reprised the role of Col. Flagg in an episode of the spin-off series AfterMASH in 1984.
In 2001, Winter died in Woodland Hills, California, of complications from Parkinson's disease. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

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Why are shotguns banned in war?

They aren't, however the Germans did try to get them banned during WWI because a relatively few guys (say 100) armed with shotguns loaded with buckshot could clear a Battalion of men out of a trench due to the spread. A shotgun with the right or wrong load depending on how you look at it can take limbs off at point blank range and as the shot spreads out it can take out multiple targets. The Germans were unsuccessful in their attempt to get shotguns banned and shotguns are now used by almost all if not every military in the world for room clearing, and breaching operations.

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In 2020, the U.S. fast food chain used more than 3 billion pounds of potatoes — serving enough french fries to circle the equator 437 times if laid end to end, and make 22 round trips to the moon. But what makes them so addictive?

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A Twinkie is an American snack cake, described as "golden sponge cake with a creamy filling". It was formerly made and distributed by Hostess Brands. The brand is currently owned by Hostess Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWNK), having been formerly owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company as the second incarnation of Hostess Brands. During bankruptcy proceedings, Twinkie production was suspended on November 21, 2012, and resumed after an absence of a few months from American store shelves, becoming available again nationwide on July 15, 2013.

Grupo Bimbo's Vachon Inc., which owns the Canadian rights to the product and made them during their absence from the U.S. market, produces Twinkies in Canada at a bakery in Montreal. Twinkies are also available in Mexican stores as "Submarinos" made by Marinela, and as "Tuinky" made by Wonder; both Marinela and Wonder are also subsidiaries of Mexican bread company Grupo Bimbo.[4][5] In Egypt, Twinkies are produced under the company Edita. Twinkies are also available in the United Kingdom and Ireland under the Hostess brand name where they are sold in Sainsburys, Tesco, ASDA, and B&M stores. Twinkies are produced and distributed by multiple commercial bakeries in China,where Hostess does not own the brand.

Twinkies were invented in Schiller Park, Illinois, on April 6, 1930, by James Alexander Dewar, a Canadian-born baker for the Continental Baking Company. However the first rumor of the snack being made is in Parkman, Wyoming in 1869. It was made by a cowboy's wife named Regenia Falange; however the recipe was never found, so it remains a legend. Realizing that several machines used for making cream-filled strawberry shortcake sat idle when strawberries were out of season, Dewar conceived a snack cake filled with banana cream, which he dubbed the Twinkie.[10] Ritchy Koph said he came up with the name when he saw a billboard in St. Louis for "Twinkle Toe Shoes."[11] During World War II, bananas were rationed and the company was forced to switch to vanilla cream. This change proved popular, and banana-cream Twinkies were not widely re-introduced. The original flavor was occasionally found in limited time only promotions, but the company used vanilla cream for most Twinkies.[12] In 1988, Fruit and Cream Twinkies were introduced with a strawberry filling swirled into the cream. The product was soon dropped.[13] Vanilla's dominance over banana flavoring was challenged in 2005, following a month-long promotion of the movie individual Kong. Hostess saw its Twinkie sales rise 20 percent during the promotion, and in 2007 restored the banana-cream Twinkie to its snack lineup.

Hostess bankruptcy
On January 11, 2012,[15] parent company Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[11] Twinkie sales for the year, as of December 25, 2011, were 36 million packages, down almost 20% from a year earlier.[11] Hostess said customers had migrated to healthier foods.[11] On November 16, 2012, Hostess officially announced that it "will be winding down operations and has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking permission to close its business and sell its assets, including its iconic brands and facilities." Bakery operations were suspended at all plants.

On November 19, 2012, Hostess and the Bakers Union agreed to mediation, delaying the shutdown for two days. On November 21, 2012, U.S. bankruptcy judge Robert Drain approved Hostess' request to shut down, ending Twinkie production in the United States.
Return of Twinkies to U.S. market[edit]
On March 18, 2013, it was reported that Twinkies would return to store shelves in May of that year. Twinkies, along with other Hostess Brands, were purchased out of bankruptcy by Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co for $410 million.[18][19] Twinkies returned to U.S. shelves on July 15, 2013.[20] Apollo subsequently sold Hostess for $2.3 billion.[21]

Before Hostess Brands filed for bankruptcy, Twinkies were reduced in size. They now contain 135 kilocalories (560 kJ) and have a mass of 38.5 grams, while the original Twinkies contained 150 kilocalories (630 kJ) and had a mass of 42.5 grams. The new Twinkies also have a longer shelf life of 45 days, which was also a change made before bankruptcy, compared to the 26 days of the original Twinkies.[22]

Twinkies Cereal, made by Post, was introduced in December 2020.

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1916
April 24
Easter Rebellion begins
On April 24, 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital’s General Post Office.
Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.

Following the uprising, Pearse and 14 other nationalist leaders were executed for their participation and held up as martyrs by many in Ireland. There was little love lost among most Irish people for the British, who had enacted a series of harsh anti-Catholic restrictions, the Penal Laws, in the 18th century, and then let 1.5 million Irish starve during the Potato Famine of 1845-1852. Armed protest continued after the Easter Rebellion and in 1921, 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties won independence with the declaration of the Irish Free State. The Free State became an independent republic in 1949. However, six northeastern counties of the Emerald Isle remained part of the United Kingdom, prompting some nationalists to reorganize themselves into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to continue their struggle for full Irish independence.
In the late 1960s, influenced in part by the U.S. civil rights movement, Catholics in Northern Ireland, long discriminated against by British policies that favored Irish Protestants, advocated for justice. Civil unrest broke out between Catholics and Protestants in the region and the violence escalated as the pro-Catholic IRA battled British troops. An ongoing series of terrorist bombings and attacks ensued in a drawn-out conflict that came to be known as “The Troubles.” Peace talks eventually took place throughout the mid- to late 1990s, but a permanent end to the violence remained elusive. Finally, in July 2005, the IRA announced its members would give up all their weapons and pursue the group’s objectives solely through peaceful means. By the fall of 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission reported that the IRA’s military campaign to end British rule was over.

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Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with No. 102 Squadron,
Lynch, from Jamaica, volunteered for service in the RAF in 1942, and in 1943 won the Air Gunner's trophy for obtaining the highest percentage of his course during his training in Canada. On his first operational flight with No 102 Squadron he shot down a German Junkers Ju 88.
The historian Mark Johnson described this incident:
He was a gentleman. He shot the night fighter’s engine with his machine guns, then he realised it was on fire and he then held fire while the German pilot and his crewmen climbed out and jumped off the back of the aeroplane and then he resumed firing and shot the rest of the aeroplane out of the sky.
In August 1944 he was promoted to Flight Sergeant, a rare promotion for a gunner. In September 1944 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. The citation noted his "high standard of determination and devotion to duty", exemplary conduct and declared him "a worthy member of a fine crew" who had "defended his aircraft with great skill on several occasions against enemy fighters".
In May 1947, Lynch was promoted to Flight Lieutenant.
In 1951, Lynch left the RAF and emigrated to the United States, taking up a role as Airline Flight Operation Officer.
But in 1962 when his children were denied access to a largely white Long Island elementary school, he took the school district to court. The failure of the case inspired Lynch to become "one of Long Island's most ardent and audacious civil rights activists.
In 1967, Lynch joined the New York Urban Coalition as Vice President and formed the Alliance of Minority Group Leaders. In the 1970s he taught community organisation and activism at Stony Brook University and testified before Congress.
Lynch remained politically active and was one of many hundreds of people arrested during protests in Manhattan following the 1999 Shooting of (an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean immigrant) Amadou Diallo.
Lynch passed away in 2011.

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Post by AlexO » April 27, 2021, 10:37 am

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I normally enjoy reading your Yes, it really happened posts but your one sided view of the terrorist murder campaign carried out by Irish Nationalists and Communist thugs that eventually ended as a turf war as to who controlled the drug trade and the extortion/prostitution/child rape industry in NI is quite frankly nonsense. British troops were sent into NI primarily to protect the Catholic population from the excesses of the Protestant majority. The only reason that the IRA ceased its murdering/ bombing campaign was that the USA to make sure they had the support of the UK in their War Against Terror told the IRA that all fund raising and support for the IRA in the USA would be viewed as an act of terrorism. Our lying SOB of a Prime Minister Bliar (sorry Blair) then proceeded to give all the murdering, torturing members of the IRA free pardons while still allowing persecution of British soldiers. Murdering Martin McGuiness the acknowledged leader of the Belfast Brigade of murdering thugs was claiming British unemployment benefits while planning his bombing campaign, real hero's.

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Post by Khun Paul » April 28, 2021, 6:50 am

Agree 100% , served there in 1969 just when it kicked off, and guess what they are still trying in the courts soldiers for actions they took under orders from HM Govt . A bloody disgrace and IRA are drawing pay for being in the Government. Go figure.

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This is not my opinion it is information that is carried on the internet i just accumulate and produce this column each day for people to read No particular subjects it is a column to cover many different ones.
So enjoy and read if you wish more information just Google it and read on. If you are expecting an rebutle from me you wont get one as the opinons here are not mine.
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Re: Congratulations wee fella Yes it really happened

Post by Drunk Monkey » April 28, 2021, 11:28 am

wasnt sure where to post this .. but here seemed appropriate.

Congratulations to this student young lad from Scotland on becoming the new Mastermind champion .. obliterating his opposition with a 100% scores in his specialized subject round to lift the famous trophy .. this lad is very personable and obviously intelligent and im sure will receive a few lucrative offers from the TV world on the back of this win .... so long as he gets out and buys himself a new shirt n tie ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcYUeryj8HE

Well done young man =D> =D> =D> =D>

Quite surprised none of our Jockanese members spotted this and commented as winning anything is a rarity North of the border.

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Post by Drunk Monkey » April 28, 2021, 11:34 am

looking at this all the finalists were quite young ... tho a very basic format still a great quiz show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HeZWPqOaY

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Re: Congratulations wee fella Yes it really happened

Post by tamada » April 28, 2021, 11:44 am

Drunk Monkey wrote:
April 28, 2021, 11:28 am
wasnt sure where to post this .. but here seemed appropriate.

Congratulations to this student young lad from Scotland on becoming the new Mastermind champion .. obliterating his opposition with a 100% scores in his specialized subject round to lift the famous trophy .. this lad is very personable and obviously intelligent and im sure will receive a few lucrative offers from the TV world on the back of this win .... so long as he gets out and buys himself a new shirt n tie ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcYUeryj8HE

Well done young man =D> =D> =D> =D>

Quite surprised none of our Jockanese members spotted this and commented as winning anything is a rarity North of the border.

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Au contraire mon vieux. Scots are so used to our nascent, high degree of intelligence and inestimable brilliance, winning a clever bugger award on national telly is all a bit mundane. Witness the endless stream of gifts for mankind that have emanated from Scotland and Scottish-born people. This is simply proof, if ever proof were needed, that the competition from the other provinces and principalities of the UK is somewhat lacking.

But we all knew this already.

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For many, growing up on the US west coast can mean learning about Sutter's mill, the infamous 49ers and their hunt for gold. But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story.

Historians tell Insider the era touted for discovery and expansion is actually responsible for one of the bloodies periods in US history - a story that remained covered up for years.

Government propaganda spread lies about Native Americans, said Jayden Lim, a Trial youth ambassador.

"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said.

Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent articles, advertisements, and cartoons. Some depicted 49ers carrying pistols and rifles, even carrying knives while wielding mining tools.

About 300,000 heavily-armed settlers descended to California to hunt for gold. This set the stage for the "violence of genocide," said Benjamin Madley, an Associated Professor of Native American history at UCLA and author of "An American Genocide."

Large ranches recruited hundreds of Native men and sent them up to work in the mines. At that time it was common practice for Native people to be treated as disposable workers. Beyond this mistreatment, some white miners wanted to eliminate competition from Native Americans mining freely.

This elimination became an excuse for brutal slaughter. But, this Gold Rush genocide is rarely cited in history books.

"We've had a kind of institutionalized amnesia about the genocide of California Indians here in the state," Madley said.

Hundreds of Native American people were killed in what is known as the Bloody Island Massacre. Madley's research estimates roughly 9,000 to 16,000 people suffered violent deaths at the hands of militiamen, vigilantes, US army soldiers and more during the gold rush years.

"The men who committed these acts were not censured. They weren't court-martialed, they weren't kicked out of the army. In fact, all of the men who participated were eventually promoted. Several of them became generals, and one, later in life, became governor of the state of California."

In fact, Governor Peter Burnett, the first governor of California, declared a "war of extermination" on California Indians during his first speech to the citizens of California.

The state's newly established government then passed an act that authorized the organization of ranger militias.

These volunteer groups were sent on 24 killing campaigns in just 11 years, from 1850 to 1861.

No one was held accountable, Madley said.

"I think it's not an exaggeration to say that California legislators established and then funded a state sponsored killing machine with the aim of capturing or killing all California Indian people," Madley said.

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Re: Congratulations wee fella Yes it really happened

Post by Drunk Monkey » April 28, 2021, 11:55 am

tamada wrote:
April 28, 2021, 11:44 am
Drunk Monkey wrote:
April 28, 2021, 11:28 am
wasnt sure where to post this .. but here seemed appropriate.

Congratulations to this student young lad from Scotland on becoming the new Mastermind champion .. obliterating his opposition with a 100% scores in his specialized subject round to lift the famous trophy .. this lad is very personable and obviously intelligent and im sure will receive a few lucrative offers from the TV world on the back of this win .... so long as he gets out and buys himself a new shirt n tie ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcYUeryj8HE

Well done young man =D> =D> =D> =D>

Quite surprised none of our Jockanese members spotted this and commented as winning anything is a rarity North of the border.

DM
Au contraire mon vieux. Scots are so used to our nascent, high degree of intelligence and inestimable brilliance, winning a clever bugger award on national telly is all a bit mundane. Witness the endless stream of gifts for mankind that have emanated from Scotland and Scottish-born people. This is simply proof, if ever proof were needed, that the competition from the other provinces and principalities of the UK is somewhat lacking.

But we all knew this already.
For sure Tam this lad will go down in Scottish folklore along with the lights of ...

William Wallace ( did he win owt)
Rob Roy ..who
Robert the Bruce ...good game good game
Mohamid Bin Mc Burgen inventor of the deep fried Mars bar
and of course
Stevie "the jok" Gerrard (still waiting)

sorry Doodoo NORMAL SERVICE can now be resumed.

DM

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