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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » February 26, 2021, 8:48 am

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Lawrence of Arabia available on Youtube


(At around 40 minutes) When T.E. Lawrence and Colonel Brighton first sit with individual Faisal in Faisal's tent, Brighton stretches out his legs while Lawrence keeps his folded meekly behind. In Arab culture the blatant exposing of the soles of one's shoes is considered a gross insult, and Lawrence (already something of a scholar on Araby) would have certainly avoided the misstep. Brighton, on the other hand--an archetype here of the typical British officer in that theater of war--either doesn't know or doesn't care.

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Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989), better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.[1][2][3]

As a member of the Chicago Seven, Hoffman was charged with and tried for conspiring to use interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot under the anti-riot provisions of Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.Five of the Chicago Seven defendants, including Hoffman, were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot;[all of the convictions were vacated after an appeal and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to pursue another trial.[5]:9 Hoffman,[6] along with all of the defendants and their attorneys were also convicted and sentenced for contempt of court by the judge; these convictions were also vacated after an appeal.

Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement and the counterculture era. He died of a phenobarbital overdose in 1989 at age 52.



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Jimmy Stewart, celebrated his promotion to First Lieutenant in July 1942.
Enlisting in February 1941, Stewart became the first major American movie star to enlist in the United States Army to see combat in World War II. He received his commission as a Second Lieutenant on January 1, 1942. After spending over a year training pilots at Kirtland Army Airfield in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he appealed to his commander, and was sent to England as part of the 445th Bombardment Group, to pilot a B-24 Liberator, in November 1943.
He retired a Brigadier-General in 1968.



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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » February 27, 2021, 12:50 am

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Bully beef (also known as corned beef in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada) is a variety of meat made from finely minced corned beef in a small amount of gelatin. The name "bully beef" comes from the French "bouilli" (boiled) in Napoleonic times, or possibly from the head of a bull depicted on the popular Hereford brand of canned corned beef. The cans have a distinctive oblong shape. Bully beef and hardtack biscuits were the main field rations of the British Army from the Boer War to World War II.[1][2] It is commonly served sliced in a corned beef sandwich. Potato-based dishes, such as "Hash and hotch-potch", in which the potatoes and beef are stewed together, and "Corned Beef Hash", where pre-boiled potatoes and corned beef are mixed with Worcestershire sauce then fried, are also made. Tinned corned beef is also used in France.[3] Some places where British troops had a heavy presence in the 20th century (especially during World War II), such as Malta, have adopted bully beef as part of their national cuisine. In February 2009, the British Defence Equipment and Support announced that they would be phasing out bully beef from ration packs as part of the introduction of the new Multi-Climate Ration Packs until this change was reversed due to backlash.[

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The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was fought during the First World War from 31 July to 10 November 1917. The battle took place on the Ypres salient on the Western Front, in Belgium, where German and Allied armies had been deadlocked for three years. On 31 July, the British began a new offensive, attempting to break through German lines by capturing a ridge near the ruined village of Passchendaele. After British, Australian and New Zealand troops launched failed assaults, the Canadian Corps joined the battle on 26 October. The Canadians captured the ridge on 6 November, despite heavy rain and shelling that turned the battlefield into a quagmire. Nearly 16,000 Canadians were killed or wounded. The Battle of Passchendaele did nothing to help the Allied effort and became a symbol of the senseless slaughter of the First World War.

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Battle of San Carlos (1982)

Battle of San Carlos (1982)

The Battle of San Carlos was a major battle between aircraft and ships that lasted from 21 to 25 May 1982 during the British landings on the shores of San Carlos Water (which became known as "Bomb Alley) in the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas). Low-flying land-based Argentine jet aircraft made repeated attacks on ships of the British Task Force.

It was the first time in history that a modern surface fleet armed with surface-to-air missiles and with air cover backed up by STOVL carrier-based aircraft defended against full-scale airstrikes. The British sustained severe losses and damage but were able to create and consolidate a beachhead and land troops.

The Argentine Army force on site was a section from the 25th Infantry Regiment named Combat team Güemes (Spanish: Equipo de Combate Güemes) located at Fanning Head. The British fleet entered San Carlos during the night and at 02:50 was spotted by EC Güemes which opened fire with 81mm mortars and two recoilless 105mm rifles. They were soon engaged by British naval gunfire and a 25-man SBS team and forced to retreat, losing their communications equipment but shooting down two Gazelle helicopters with small-arms fire, killing three members of the two aircrews.

1st Lt Carlos Daniel Esteban from EC Güemes informed Goose Green garrison about the landings at 08:22 (he was finally evacuated by helicopter on 26 May). The Argentine high command at Stanley initially suggested that a landing operation was not feasible at San Carlos and the operation was just a diversion. Finally, at 10:00, a COAN Aermacchi MB-339 jet based on the islands was dispatched to San Carlos on a reconnaissance flight. In the meantime, the FAA had already started launching their mainland-based aircraft at 09:00.

Between 10:15 and 17:12 seventeen sorties were carried out by FAA and COAN. Dagger and A-4C of the FAA made attacks on HMS Antrim, HMS Argonaut, HMS Broadsword, HMS Brilliant, HMS Ardent, HMS Brilliant. Sorties of MIIIEA aircraft were used as diversions as well. While many of the bombs did not explode, HMS Ardent and HMS Argonaut were hit, sustaining damage and casualties. Sea Harriers intercepted some of the attackers, destroying 8 FAA aircraft. S

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Post by Doodoo » February 28, 2021, 12:22 am

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Hans Baur (19 June 1897–17 February 1993) was Adolf Hitler's pilot during Hitler's political campaigns of the early 1930s. He later became Hitler's personal pilot and leader of the Reichsregierung squadron. Apprehended by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II in Europe, he was imprisoned in the USSR for ten years before being extradited to France on 10 October 1955, where he was imprisoned until 1957. He died in Herrsching, Bavaria, in 1993.
Hitler was the first politician to campaign by air travel, deciding that travel by plane was more efficient than travel by railway. Baur first served as his pilot during the 1932 General Election.[1][2]

Hitler obtained his first private aeroplane, a Junkers Ju 52/3m with registration number D-2600 (Werk Nr. 4021), in 1933, after becoming German Chancellor.[3] The same registration number continued to be used for all aircraft used by Hitler, even during the war years. The Ju 52 was named Immelmann II after the First World War pilot Max Immelmann.[3] Baur was personally selected by Hitler to be his official pilot in 1933 and was consequently released from service by Luft Hansa.[1]

Fliegerstaffel des Führers

Baur was appointed head of the Hitler's personal squadron, initially based at Oberwiesenfeld, Munich. As the Luftwaffe was not yet officially established, Hitler wanted Baur to be able to command sufficient power and respect to assure his security, therefore, Baur was commissioned a Standartenführer (colonel) in the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 171,865) by Heinrich Himmler in October, 1933.[1][2]

Baur was given the task of expanding and organising Hitler's personal squadron and the government "flying group".[1][4] In 1934, Baur was promoted to the rank of SS-Oberführer.[1] Hitler allowed Baur to fill his squadron with experienced Luft Hansa pilots, including Georg Betz who became co-pilot for Hitler's aircraft and Hans Baur's substitute.[5] By 1937, Hitler had three Ju 52 airplanes for flight use. Then in 1937, Hitler obtained a new aircraft, the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor which was named, "Immelmann III".[3] The Condor had a much greater range and was faster than the Ju 52.[6] In 1942, an improved model of the Condor was put into use for Hitler's travels and Baur continued to be his primary pilot.[7] A Ju 290 was assigned to Hitler's renamed squadron, Fliegerstaffel des Führers (FdF) in late 1944. Modifications were completed by February 1945 at the FdF's base at Pocking, Bavaria. Baur tested the aircraft, but Hitler never flew in it.[8] Still by the end of the war, Baur commanded a total of 40 different aircraft, including Ju 52, Condors, Ju 290 and the little Fieseler Fi 156 Storch.[9]

Although he tried to convert Baur to vegetarianism, Hitler also invited him to the Reich Chancellery for his favourite meal of pork and dumplings for his 40th birthday, and gave him a Mercedes Benz to replace his personal Ford.[10]


Führerbunker and Soviet detention
On 31 January 1944, Baur was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer (brigadier general) and major general of the police; and on 24 February 1945, he became an SS-Gruppenführer (major general) and Generalleutnant of the Police.[2]

During the last days of the war, Baur was with Hitler in the Führerbunker. Baur had devised a plan to allow Hitler to escape from the Battle of Berlin; a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was held on standby which could take off from an improvised airstrip in the Tiergarten, near the Brandenburg Gate. However, Hitler refused to leave Berlin. On 26 April 1945, the improvised landing strip was used by Hanna Reitsch to fly in Colonel-General Robert Ritter von Greim, appointed by Hitler as head of the Luftwaffe after Hermann Göring's dismissal.[11] During the evening of 28 April, Reitsch flew von Greim out on the same road-strip to Plön.[12]

On 29 April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched an all-out attack on the centre of Berlin. The Soviet artillery opened up with intense fire in and around the Reich Chancellery area. That evening in the bunker complex below the Chancellery garden, Hitler said his farewell to his personal pilots, Baur and Betz. Baur pleaded with Hitler to leave Berlin. The men volunteered to fly Hitler out of Germany in a Ju 390 and to safety. It was in vain as Hitler turned Baur down, stating he had to stay in Berlin.[13]

Baur stayed in the bunker complex until Hitler killed himself on the afternoon of 30 April.[1][14] After Hitler's suicide, Baur found the improvised road-strip too pot-holed for use and overrun by the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. A plan was devised to escape out from Berlin to the Allies on the western side of the Elbe or to the German Army to the North. SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke split up the Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker soldiers and personnel into ten main groups.[15] Baur, Betz and Martin Bormann left the Reich Chancellery as part of one of the groups. During the escape attempt, Baur was shot in the legs, and the wound was so serious that his right lower leg was later amputated in Posen on 10 June 1945, while a Soviet prisoner-of-war.[16]

Baur was of great interest to his captors, who believed he might have flown Hitler to safety before the fall of Berlin. They also believed he had information concerning stolen art, specifically about the plundering of the Amber Room (Bernsteinzimmer) in Leningrad. He was taken to the Soviet Union and imprisoned there for ten years before being released on 10 October 1955.[1] The French then imprisoned him until 1957.[citation needed]

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Who car does not carry license plates when n official business?
a) The Queen
b) The Prime minister
c) Head of MI5
d) Archbishop of Canteberry












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#2 a) The Queen

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by vlad » February 28, 2021, 4:32 am

One of the most popular songs ever Written " My Way" was written by not Sinatra but Paul Anka.

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Post by Doodoo » March 1, 2021, 5:30 am

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British actors in the British Armed Forces
David Niven

In 1928 Niven attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He graduated in 1930 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the British Army.[12]

He did well at Sandhurst, which gave him the "officer and gentleman" bearing that was his trademark. He requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), then jokingly wrote on the form, as his third choice, "anything but the Highland Light Infantry" (because that regiment wore tartan trews rather than the kilt). He was assigned to the HLI, with which he served for two years in Malta and then for a few months in Dover. In Malta, he became friends with Roy Urquhart, future commander of the British 1st Airborne Division.[11] On the October 21, 1956, episode of the game show What's My Line?, Niven, seated as a member of the panel, was reacquainted with one of the men with whom he served. Alexander McGeachin was a guest and when his turn in the questioning came up, Niven asked, "Were you in a famous British regiment on Malta?" After McGeachin affirmed that he was, Niven quipped, "Did you have the misfortune to have me as your officer?" At that point Niven had a brief but pleasant reunion.[13]

Niven grew tired of the peacetime army. Though promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1933,[14] he saw no opportunity for further advancement. His ultimate decision to resign came after a lengthy lecture on machine guns, which was interfering with his plans for dinner with a particularly attractive young lady. At the end of the lecture, the speaker (a major general) asked if there were any questions. Showing the typical rebelliousness of his early years, Niven asked, "Could you tell me the time, sir? I have to catch a train."[11]

After being placed under close-arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him: Rhoddy Rose (later Colonel R. L. C. Rose, DSO, MC).[15] With Rose's assistance, Niven was allowed to escape from a first-floor window. He then headed for America. While crossing the Atlantic, Niven resigned his commission by telegram on 6 September 1933.[16] Niven then moved to New York City, where he began an unsuccessful career in whisky sales, after which he had a stint in horse rodeo promotion in Atlantic City. After detours to Bermuda and Cuba, he arrived in Hollywood in 1934.

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Sir Alec Guiness

Guinness served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, initially as a seaman in 1941, before receiving a commission as a temporary Sub-lieutenant on 30 April 1942 and a promotion to Temporary Lieutenant the following year.[14][15][16] Guinness then commanded a landing craft at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre.[17]

During the war, he was granted leave to appear in the Broadway production of Terence Rattigan's play, Flare Path, about RAF Bomber Command, with Guinness playing the role of Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham.

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Sir Sean Connery

In 1946, at the age of 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy, during which time he acquired two tattoos, of which his official website says "unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous — his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland. ... One tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads 'Mum and Dad', and the other is self-explanatory, 'Scotland Forever'".[25] He trained in Portsmouth at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned as an Able Seaman on HMS Formidable.[26] Connery was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family

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Michael Caine

From 28 April 1952, when he was called up to do his national service until 1954, he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the British Army of the Rhine Headquarters in Iserlohn, West Germany and then on active service during the Korean War. He had gone into Korea feeling sympathetic to communism, coming as he did from a poor family, but the experience left him permanently repelled due to the human-wave attacks practiced by North Korea and China, which left him with the sense that their governments did not care about their citizens.[19] He experienced a situation where he thought he was going to die, the memory of which stayed with him and formed his character; he later said, "The rest of my life I have lived every bloody moment from the moment I wake up until the time I go to sleep."[20] He detailed the incident in his autobiography, The Elephant to Hollywood.

Caine has said that he would like to see the return of national service in Britain, to help combat youth violence, stating: "I'm just saying, put them in the Army for six months. You're there to learn how to defend your country. You belong to the country. Then, when you come out, you have a sense of belonging, rather than a sense of violence."

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » March 2, 2021, 2:26 am

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How effective was the BAR in WW2?



So I will give you the second hand answer provided by my father who carried one in Europe. The BAR was popular among all the soldiers except the one who carried it. Part of the popularity is that the Germans tended to concentrate on disabling the BAR so my Dad always felt that he was drawing more than his share of fire, which pleased the other soldiers just fine. With its fairly small magazine, it couldn’t really put out that much more fire than a few soldiers with Garands and it fired the exact same round, so it didn’t have any extra penetrating power.

His squad rarely found itself in a situation where some nearby unit wasn’t using a Browning .30 cal machine gun to lay down suppressing fire if they were stationary enough to need it.

As the proud owner of the squad’s BAR, my dad got to carry a bit more than twice the ammo the other soldiers carried, which also didn’t please him overly much. It wasn’t that there was anything particularly wrong with the BAR and the Marines may have gotten some advantage in close quarters battles in the Pacific. In the ETO, my father and others who carried it found it the wrong weapon to be particularly effective and REALLY heavy plus the bipod and extra ammo. He was supposed to have an assistant to carry the bipod and some of the ammo, but you can guess how often that happened in the real world as the assistant would have still carried a rifle along with the gear for the BAR. My father loved his BAR so well, that he managed to get it “accidentally” run over by a Sherman. After he and his squad leader came to understand that this “accident” could occur with some regularity should he be given a replacement BAR, he finished his tour carrying an M1 rifle.

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The Royal Air Force Mutiny of 1946 were a series of demonstrations and strikes at several dozen Royal Air Force stations in the Indian Subcontinent in January 1946. As these incidents involved refusals to obey orders they technically constituted a form of "mutiny". The protests arose from slow demobilization and poor conditions of service following the end of World War II. The "mutiny" began at Karachi (RAF Drigh Road) and later spread to involve nearly 50,000 men over 60 RAF stations in India and Ceylon, including the then-largest RAF base at Kanpur and RAF bases as far as Singapore.[1] At its height, the 1946 strike extended beyond South-East Asia through the Middle East to Egypt and North Africa, as far West as Gibraltar, and involved 50,000 RAF servicemenThe protests lasted between three and eleven days at different places and were peaceful. The main grievance of the men was slow demobilization of British troops to Britain, use of British shipping facilities for transporting G.I.s, and other grievances. For their part, the British Government argued that the amount of shipping available was insufficient to permit immediately repatriation of the large numbers of personnel eligible. However, later declassified reports have shown that British troops were deliberately retained in India to control possible unrest over the course of the independence movement, and the grievances of the RAF men may have also included significant political views and communist Party of India supported.


The initial protests in Karachi took the form of a collective refusal to prepare kit for inspection and going to the parade ground at the normal time but in casual khaki drill rather than the "best blue" uniforms required when on morning parade.[3]

The issues causing the RAF unrest were ultimately resolved, and some of the airmen involved faced courts-martial. However, the precedent set by this event was important in instigating subsequent actions by the Royal Indian Air Force and later, the Royal Indian Navy in February 1946 in which 78 of a total of 88 ships mutinied. Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, commented at the time: "I am afraid that [the] example of the Royal Air Force, who got away with what was really a mutiny, has some responsibility for the present situation."

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » March 3, 2021, 12:58 am

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1819
February 22
The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida

Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida to the United States.

Spanish colonization of the Florida peninsula began at St. Augustine in 1565. The Spanish colonists enjoyed a brief period of relative stability before Florida came under attack from resentful Native Americans and ambitious English colonists to the north in the 17th century. Spain’s last-minute entry into the French and Indian War on the side of France cost it Florida, which the British acquired through the first Treaty of Paris in 1763. After 20 years of British rule, however, Florida was returned to Spain as part of the second Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution in 1783.

Spain’s hold on Florida was tenuous in the years after American independence, and numerous boundary disputes developed with the United States. In 1819, after years of negotiations, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams achieved a diplomatic coup with the signing of the Florida Purchase Treaty, which officially put Florida into U.S. hands at no cost beyond the U.S. assumption of some $5 million of claims by U.S. citizens against Spain. Formal U.S. occupation began in 1821, and General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812, was appointed military governor. Florida was organized as a U.S. territory in 1822 and was admitted into the Union as a slave state in 1845.

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Sir Anthony Quayle

Quayle was born in Ainsdale,[3] Southport, Lancashire, to a Manx family.

He was educated at the private Abberley Hall School and Rugby School and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During World War II, he was a British Army officer and was made one of the area commanders of the Auxiliary Units in Northumberland.


Later he joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and served as a liaison officer with the partisans in Albania (reportedly, his service with the SOE seriously affected him, and he never felt comfortable talking about it). He described his experiences in a fictional form in Eight Hours from England.


He was an aide to the Governor of Gibraltar at the time of the air crash of General Władysław Sikorski's aircraft on 4 July 1943.[7] He wrote of his Gibraltar experience in his second novel On Such a Night, published by Heinemann.
Quayle was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1952 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours for services to the Theatre

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Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers. His performance as Regimental Sergeant Major Wilson in The Hill alongside Sean Connery earned Andrews the 1965 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the 1966 BAFTA Award for Best British Actor. The first of his more than 80 film appearances was in The Red Beret in 1953.
Harry Andrews was born on 10 November 1911, in Tonbridge, Kent.[1] He was the son of Henry Arthur Andrews, a General Practitioner, and Amy Diana Frances (née Horner). Andrews attended Yardley Court school in Tonbridge, and Wrekin College in Wellington, Shropshire. From October 1939 to October 1945, Andrews served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.[2] From 1956 to 1961 he lived in the family home, Little Thatch, Belgrave Road, Seaford, East Sussex.[3]

His partner for over 30 years was fellow actor Basil Hoskins, next to whom he is buried at St Mary the Virgin, Salehurst, East Sussex.[4]

Prior to his film career, Andrews was a theatre actor, appearing at such venues as the Queen's Theatre, the Lyceum Theatre, and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in the UK as well as theatres in New York City, Paris, Antwerp and Brussels. Andrews made his London theatre debut in 1935 at the St James's Theatre and his New York debut in 1936 at the since-demolished Empire Theatre.

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US Presidents who and did not serve in the Military

WHO SERVED Hired Substitute to take his place WHO DID NOT SERVE
George Washington Grover Cleveland $300 Civil War John Adams
Thoms Jefferson John Quincy Adams
James Madison Martin Van Buren
James Monron William Howard Taft
Andrew Jackson Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
John Tyler Herbert Hoover
JamesPolk Franklin Rosevelkt
Zachary Taylor Bill Clinton
Millard Filmore Barack Obama
Franklin Pierce Donald Trump
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Ulysses Grant
Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
Willian McKinley
Teddy Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George HW Bush
George W Bush
Dona (I nearly said it)

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Georg Gärtner (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡɛʁtnɐ]; December 18, 1920 – January 30, 2013) was a German soldier who served during World War II and who was captured and held as a prisoner of war by the United States. He escaped from a prisoner of war camp, took on a new identity as Dennis F. Whiles, and was never recaptured. He revealed his true identity some 40 years later.

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Post by noosard » March 4, 2021, 6:59 am

Yes it did happen two nights in a row
Rain
30 odd mins quite heavy rain earlier evening on Tuesday
Sometime last night as well as the ground is wet again this morning

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noosard wrote:
March 4, 2021, 6:59 am
Yes it did happen two nights in a row
Rain
30 odd mins quite heavy rain earlier evening on Tuesday
Sometime last night as well as the ground is wet again this morning
0200-0240 exactly, poured down, then stopped and pleasant cooling breeze was evident, this morning however Humidity levels high, as to be expected.

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^ Dry as a nun's chuff in our bit of T.Nongbua.

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Largest Cruise ship in the world Carribean Symphony of the Seas with 22 restaurants, 42 bars along with an indoor shoppong Mall, Can accomodate 6,780 guests

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The Longest Day (movie)
Extras There was a huge ampont of extras need so the armys supplied some of the 23,000 required
Although hree were 1700 African Americans at the DDay invasion none were portrayed in the film
One of the everyday hazards was due to a nudist colony not 2 miles from the Beach scenes Signs were posted to ask the nudists to not go into the water.
Only about 6% of the Paratroopers hit their landing zones
As for income the movie was the highest black and white film for over 30 years until Schindlers List was released

In his memoirs, Christopher Lee recalls being rejected for a role in this film because he didn't look like a "military man". the fact was that Lee volunteered to fight in the Winter War of 1939 before serving in the R.A.F., R.A.F. Intelligence, the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.)-- precursor to MI6--and the Long Range Desert Group (L.R.D.G.), the precursor to the S.A.S. during World War II.

Sean Connery asked that his scenes be filmed quickly so he could get to Jamaica in time to star in Dr. No (1962)

Contrary to what is shown in this movie, many of the German soldiers posted to Normandy at the time of the landings were young boys from the Hitler Youth and old men from reserve regiments, as the main regiments had been moved due to the disinformation fed to German high command by the allies. Many veterans would report that the faces of the teenage boys they had to kill haunted them into old age.

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The Soham Murders are the murders of two 10-year-old girls which occurred in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, were lured into the home of a local resident, Ian Kevin Huntley,[1] who subsequently murdered the children—likely via asphyxiation—before disposing of their bodies in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. The girls' bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002.[2]

Huntley was convicted of the murder of both girls on 17 December 2003 and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, with the High Court later imposing a minimum term of 40 years. His girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carr—the girls' teaching assistant—had knowingly provided Huntley with a false alibi.[3] She received a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for conspiring with Huntley to pervert the course of justice.

The efforts made to locate Wells and Chapman in the thirteen days of their disappearance have been described as one of the most intense and extensive in British criminal history.[5][6]


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William Taft president of the USA ws first President to own an electric car Thr Baker Motor Vehicle Co.was the manufacturer

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The Soviet Union mobilized women at an early stage of the war, integrating them into the main army units, and not using the "auxiliary" status. More than 800,000 women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war, which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel, mostly as medics.[17][18] About 300,000 served in anti-aircraft units and performed all functions in the batteries—including firing the guns.[1][19] A small number were combat flyers in the Air Force,[20] forming three bomber wings and joining into other wings. Women also saw combat in infantry and armored units, and female snipers became famous after commander Lyudmila Pavlichenko made a record killing 309 Germans (mostly officers and enemy snipers).

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Post by Doodoo » March 7, 2021, 5:45 am

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German Women WW2
The majority of German girls were members of League of German Girls (BDM). The BDM helped the war effort in many ways.

On the eve of war 14.6 million German women were working, with 51% of women of working age (16–60 years old) in the workforce. Nearly six million were doing farm work, as Germany's agricultural economy was dominated by small family farms. 2.7 million worked in industry. When the German economy was mobilized for war it paradoxically led to a drop in female work participation, reaching a low of 41% before gradually climbing back to over 50% again. This still compares favorably with the UK and the US, both playing catchup, with Britain achieving a participation rate of 41% of women of working age in 1944. However, in terms of women employed in war work, British and German female participation rates were nearly equal by 1944, with the United States still lagging. The difficulties the Third Reich faced in increasing the size of the work force was mitigated by reallocating labor to work that supported the war effort. High wages in war industries attracted hundreds of thousands, freeing up men for military duties. Prisoners of war were also employed as farmhands, freeing up women for other work.[46]

The Third Reich had many roles for women. The SS-Helferinnen were regarded as part of the SS if they had undergone training at a Reichsschule SS but all other female workers were regarded as being contracted to the SS and chosen largely from Nazi concentration camps.[47][48] 3,700 of women auxiliaries (Aufseherin) served for the SS in the camps, the majority of which were at Ravensbrück.


Women also served in auxiliary units in the navy (Kriegshelferinnen), air force (Luftnachrichtenhelferinnen) and army (Nachrichtenhelferin).[50][51] During the war more than 500,000 women were volunteer uniformed auxiliaries in the German armed forces (Wehrmacht). About the same number served in civil aerial defense, 400,000 volunteered as nurses, and many more replaced drafted men in the wartime economy.[51] In the Luftwaffe they served in auxiliary roles helping to operate the anti-aircraft systems that shot down Allied bombers on the German homefront. By 1945, German women were holding 85% of the billets as clericals, accountants, interpreters, laboratory workers, and administrative workers, together with half of the clerical and junior administrative posts in high-level field headquarters.[1]

Germany had a very large and well organized nursing service, with four main organizations, one for Catholics, one for Protestants, the secular DRK (Red Cross) and the "Brown Nurses", for committed Nazi women. Military nursing was primarily handled by the DRK, which came under partial Nazi control. Frontline medical services were provided by male medics and doctors. Red Cross nurses served widely within the military medical services, staffing the hospitals that perforce were close to the front lines and at risk of bombing attacks. Two dozen were awarded the Iron Cross for heroism under fire.[50] In contrast, the brief historiography Nurses in Nazi Germany by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke (1999) focuses on the dilemmas of German nurses forced to look the other way while their incapacitated patients were murdered.

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Comfort women[edit]
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.[56][57][58] The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese euphemism ianfu (慰安婦) and the similar Korean term wianbu (위안부).[59][60] Ianfu is a euphemism for shōfu (娼婦) whose meaning is "prostitute(s)".[61]

Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000[62] to as high as 360,000 to 410,000, in Chinese sources;[63] the exact numbers are still being researched and debated.[64] Many of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines,[65] although women from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan (then a Japanese dependency), Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies), East Timor (then Portuguese Timor),[66][67] and other Japanese-occupied territories were used for military "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina.[68] A smaller number of women of European origin from the Netherlands and Australia were also involved.


According to testimony, young women from countries in Japanese control were abducted from their homes. In many cases, women were also lured with promises of work in factories or restaurants; once recruited, the women were incarcerated in comfort stations in foreign lands

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Post by Doodoo » March 8, 2021, 5:31 am

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Age Is Just A Number.
At the tender age of 12, Calvin Graham was surely the youngest recruit to serve in World War II. Graham left home at age 11 due to an abusive father and would support himself by selling newspapers. The events of Pearl Harbor would inspire him to join the US Navy, although his young age was a problem. The determined 12-year-old lied about his age and forged his mother’s signature in order to enlist in the Navy. A six-week boot camp in San Diego would prepare Graham for Naval service before sending him to Pearl Harbor. From there he worked as a loader for an anti-aircraft gun while onboard the USS South Dakota.

In November 1942 the USS South Dakota soon found itself in the Battle of Guadalcanal against the Japanese Navy. Young Calvin Graham got his first taste of combat as his ship came under attack by Japanese ships and fighters. His ship would take over 40 hits, including a 500-pound bomb that knocked Graham down for a 3-story fall. Injured from shrapnel, burns and losing some teeth he pressed on to aid the surviving members of the crew.
Disappearing into thick smoke the USS South Dakota was able to escape the carnage earning the name Battleship X. For his heroism, Calvin Graham earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze star but would soon find himself in trouble. His own mother saw footage of him in a newsreel and reported this to the US Navy. The Navy stripped Graham of his medals and he would spend the next three months in a brig. Despite his injuries, he was unable to obtain benefits and dishonorably discharged from the Navy. His situation deteriorated over the years as he married at 14, fathered a child at 15 and divorced at 17. Without options, Graham joined the Marines but in a cruel twist of fate broke his back before deployment in 1951.

Calvin Graham would spend the rest of his life fighting for his honor and medical benefits. However, in 1978 he had a breakthrough after writing to President Jimmy Carter who would grant him an honorable discharge. In 1988 President Ronald Reagan would grant his disability benefits.
Calvin Graham became a hero after a single battle, yet he spent 60 years fighting to be recognized as one. He passed away in 1992 and two years later the Military would return his Purple Heart to his family.

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Despite the fact that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded back in 1986, the fallout continues to impact certain areas of the world to this day.

That includes a series of irradiated vehicles that were used in the clean-up operation, which remain as rusting relics in a cemetery located on the outskirts of the Chernobyl zone, near the village of Rossokha.

As you're no doubt aware, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - in what is now Ukraine - suffered from a catastrophic accident on April 26 1986, and has been pretty much dormant ever since.

The explosion of Reactor Four is thought to have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and left a 2,600km exclusion zone.

It's no secret that a huge amount of equipment - from buses and robots to tanks and helicopters - took part in dealing with the fallout of the accident.

Depending on the machine, they were deployed to either clean the radioactive debris scattered by the explosion, help with the construction of the Sarcophagus, a huge steel shelter structure created to cover the toxic reactor, or drop various materials into the collapse of the reactor.

According to Chernobyl Official Tours, despite the necessity to clean the equipment from radioactive dust and pollution, the metal was so contaminated that it would have posed serious health risks to anyone involved.

Government officials decided to instead bury the vehicles, including the fire engines that travelled to the power station on the night of the explosion.


However, it became too expensive an operation to bury every machine involved and so instead authorities decided to make sites to store the rest - the largest being the 20-hectare burial ground near Rossokha.
Prior to the explosion, over 400 people are reported to have lived here, but were evacuated to the village of Kolonshchina in the Makarovsky district to protect them from the radiation level, which exceeded 800 the normal times in the days succeeding the accident.

Right now the radiation is not as high, although several PTS's (Soviet tracked vehicles) and armoured carriers emit dangerous levels of radiation, at around 20-60 thousand MicroR per hour.

Chernobyl Official Tours goes on to point out that the 'dirty tracks' are what pose the most risk, as they were never cleaned after the disaster.

As you can see by the images, there are rows of military tanks, lorries, helicopters and vans that remain in the cemetery, all of which serve as an ominous reminder of the worst nuclear accident in history.

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March 5, 1963: the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone.

In 1948, friends Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr founded a company in California to sell a slingshot they created to shoot meat up to falcons they used for hunting. The company’s name, Wham-O, came from the sound the slingshots supposedly made. Wham-O eventually branched out from slingshots, selling boomerangs and other sporting goods. Its first hit toy, a flying plastic disc known as the Frisbee, debuted in 1957. The Frisbee was originally marketed under a different name, the Pluto Platter, in an effort to capitalize on America’s fascination with UFOs.
Melina and Knerr were inspired to develop the Hula Hoop after they saw a wooden hoop that Australian children twirled around their waists during gym class. Wham-O began producing a plastic version of the hoop, dubbed “Hula” after the hip-gyrating Hawaiian dance of the same name, and demonstrating it on Southern California playgrounds. Hula Hoop mania took off from there.
The enormous popularity of the Hula Hoop was short-lived and within a matter of months, the masses were on to the next big thing. However, the Hula Hoop never faded away completely and still has its fans today. According to Ripley’s Believe It or Not, in April 2004, a performer at the Big Apple Circus in Boston simultaneously spun 100 hoops around her body. Earlier that same year, in January, according to the Guinness World Records, two people in Tokyo, Japan, managed to spin the world’s largest hoop–at 13 feet, 4 inches–around their waists at least three times each.
Following the Hula Hoop, Wham-O continued to produce a steady stream of wacky and beloved novelty items, including the Superball, Water Wiggle, Silly String, Slip ‘n’ Slide and the Hacky Sack.

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Wayne Rogers played “Trapper” John on classic comedy series M*A*S*H but here’s why the character departed the show after three seasons.
Here’s why Wayne Roger’s Trapper John departed M*A*S*H after three seasons. M*A*S*H was based on the 1970 dark comedy of the same name from director Robert Altman, which in turn was adapted from MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The movie was set during the Korean War and followed irreverent army surgeons “Hawkeye” Pierce and “Trapper” John, played by Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould respectively. It also featured Robert Duvall and Tom Skerritt, while Sylvester Stallone also worked as an extra on the film.

M*A*S*H was a surprise smash for the studio that launched Altman’s career in a big way. Its success would be somewhat overshadowed by the television spinoff, however, which debuted in 1972. The show started Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Wayne Rogers as Trapper and ran for eleven seasons, with the series famously running way longer than the actual Korean War. M*A*S*H also gradually evolved from a lighthearted sitcom into more of a drama with some comedy sprinkled on top.

Just like the M*A*S*H movie, the show originally revolved around the dynamic between Hawkeye and Trapper, with the latter being the more optimistic of the duo. When it became clear audiences were more attached to Alda’s performance the writers started giving him the best storylines and gags. By the time season 3 came around, Rogers started to feel the character had essentially become a sidekick and decided to leave the show.
M*A*S*H handled the character’s exit in a fairly abrupt manner, with Hawkeye coming back from a trip to learn Trapper had been discharged. Rogers didn’t appear on the series again, though the character earned his own series with Trapper John, M.D., which debuted in 1979 on CBS. Rogers declined to reprise the role, however, and the series followed Pernell Roberts as an older Trapper over 20 years after the end of the Korean War. The show was later drawn into a lawsuit from producers of the M*A*S*H, claiming it was a spinoff and they were entitled to profits; the producers of Trapper John, M.D. countered it was a spinoff from the 1970 movie instead.

Trapper John, M.D. ultimately ran for seven seasons, meaning Roberts played the character for much longer than Wayne Rogers. M*A*S*H itself came to an end in 1983 with its finale “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” still ranking as one of the most-viewed television episodes in history. It was followed by a short-lived spinoff called AfterMASH, which only lasted for two seasons.

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The Queen ans Prince Phillip
This was not an arranged marriage.
It is certainly not uncommon for royal marriages to be arranged: in fact, most royal unions are predetermined by other members of the family. That wasn't the case for Elizabeth and Philip. After the two met as teenagers, they began a correspondence and started spending time together when they could. Their friendship blossomed into a relationship on its own.

And, luckily for Philip, an individual liked him. Biographer Sally Bedell Smith wrote that an individual told his mother that Philip was "intelligent, has a good sense of humor, and thinks about things in the right way."

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Philip was not happy their children couldn't have his name.
Philip was also not happy that the family didn't take his name. He wanted his last name, Mountbatten, to be the royal family name. When Queen Mary heard this, she and the Queen Mother were angry and wanted to keep the Windsor name. Winston Churchill agreed...and they all convinced Elizabeth to choose Windsor.

Philip reportedly told his friends, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children. I'm nothing but a bloody amoeba."

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Philip has a weird nickname for Elizabeth.
It's hard to imagine anyone calling the Queen anything but "Her Majesty," but Philip does. According to Sally Bedell Smith's book, Elizabeth The Queen, Philip calls his wife "sausage." The story behind the name is that she doesn't have a naturally smiling face...so when she meets people, she often looks grumpy. At one formal occasion, Philip said to her, "Don't look so sad, Sausage." The name stuck

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They never hold hands in public.
The Queen and Philip are notorious for their lack of PDA, something that is echoed by other royal couples. They don't even hold hands in public. According to royal biographer Gyles Brandreth, who was given "privileged access" to the couple for his book Portrait of a Marriage, this is because of the "stoic values" of their generation.

Brandreth added that Philip was not very romantic, writing, "I once asked Prince Philip about the reported differences between him and his eldest son, Prince Charles. He acknowledged 'one great difference' between them. 'He’s a romantic,' he said, 'and I’m a pragmatist – that means we do see things differently.' He paused before adding, with a shrug, 'And because I don’t see things as a romantic would, I’m unfeeling.'"

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Tolerance is a very important part of their marriage.
For their 50th wedding anniversary, Philip gave a rare speech about his marriage. He said that what has made their relationship work is the fact that they're tolerant of each other: "I think the main lesson that we have learnt is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient of any happy marriage. It may not be quite so important when things are going well, but it is absolutely vital when the going gets difficult. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."

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1899

The German company Bayer patents aspirin on March 6, 1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.

In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffmann found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffmann’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.

Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a prescription in 1915. Two years later, when Bayer’s patent expired during the First World War, the company lost the trademark rights to aspirin in various countries. After the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, the Alien Property Custodian, a government agency that administers foreign property, seized Bayer’s U.S. assets. Two years later, the Bayer company name and trademarks for the United States and Canada were auctioned off and purchased by Sterling Products Company, later Sterling Winthrop, for $5.3 million.
Bayer became part of IG Farben, the conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed the financial heart of the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Allies split apart IG Farben, and Bayer again emerged as an individual company. Its purchase of Miles Laboratories in 1978 gave it a product line including Alka-Seltzer and Flintstones and One-A-Day Vitamins. In 1994, Bayer bought Sterling Winthrop’s over-the-counter business, gaining back rights to the Bayer name and logo and allowing the company once again to profit from American sales of its most famous product.

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On March 6, 1902, the Madrid Foot Ball Club is founded by a group of fans in Madrid, Spain. Later known as Real Madrid, the club would become the most successful European football (soccer) franchise of the 20th century.

With its trademark blue-and-white uniforms (originally inspired by those of an English team), Madrid began to make a name for itself in Spain almost right away. From 1905 to 1907, under their first coach, Englishman Arthur Johnson, the team won three titles in a row in the Spanish League, known as La Liga. These were just the first of 29 La Liga championships through 2006 for Real Madrid, including an impressive five consecutive La Liga titles from 1986 to 1990.

Real Madrid’s legendary status internationally was solidified under the leadership of Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, who played for the team from 1912 to 1927 and served as club president from 1943 to 1978. In 1953, Bernabeu began to stock his roster with the best players he could find from around the world, instead of just the best in Spain, beginning with Madrid’s most famous soccer icon, Argentine star Alfredo Di Stefano. The resulting team won the European Cup, Europe’s football championship, an unprecedented five times in a row, from 1956 through 1960. Bernabeu then switched course in the 1960s and built a team entirely of Spanish players. In 1966, Real Madrid won its sixth European cup with a team of Spanish “hippies” who rivaled the Beatles in popularity on the European continent.

In 2000, soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, selected Real Madrid the best football team of the 20th century. Two years later, the club celebrated its 100-year anniversary.

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Post by Doodoo » March 12, 2021, 3:06 pm

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Harold Sakata (ハロルド 坂田, Harorudo Sakata), born Toshiyuki Sakata (坂田 敏行, Sakata Toshiyuki, July 1, 1920 – July 29, 1982) was a Japanese-American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting. He was also an actor, best remembered for his role as the villain Oddjob in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).

The Japanese fella with the leathle hat that he threw to kill people
He was born in Holualoa, Hawaii and was of Japanese descent.

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The Welbike was a British single-seat motorcycle produced during World War II at the direction of Station IX — the "Inter Services Research Bureau" — based at Welwyn, UK, for use by Special Operations Executive (SOE). It has the distinction of being the smallest motorcycle ever used by the British Armed Forces.[1] Between 1942 and 1943, 3,641 units (plus a prototype and some pilot models) were built and, although not much used by the SOE, some were issued to the British 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions and some were used at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden.


The Italians, Germans and Americans also developed small motorcycles for their airborne forces during World War II.
Manufacturer Excelsior Motor Company of Birmingham
Production 1942–1945
Successor Corgi 50
Engine 98 cc (6.0 cu in), two-stroke, air cooled, single
Transmission Single-speed
Suspension None
Weight 32 kg (71 lb) (dry)
Fuel capacity 3.7 litres (0.81 imp gal; 0.98 US gal)

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In the OLD DAYS
Lobster
Until the mid-19th century, lobsters were considered so ugly and undesirable that eating them was a sign of poverty, so they were eaten by prisoners and servants. Many servants rebelled against the lobster overload and had their contracts changed to prevent them from having to eat it more than three times a week. It was only when people learned to cook the meat properly that lobster became an expensive delicacy.

Caviar
Caviar is one of the world’s most luxurious foods, so it’s hard to imagine it was once so cheap it was served for free in bars and saloons around America during the 1800s. In the same way nuts are handed out now, these salty fish eggs were given away to encourage higher beer sales. But over-fishing meant the once abundant levels of sturgeon fish dropped dramatically, causing prices to skyrocket.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » March 13, 2021, 7:20 am

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Things You Didn’t Know about Mike Farrell (MASH 4077)
a)
He works with Greenpeace.
Farrell hasn’t been idle in his time and he hasn’t stopped acting, but he has taken time out to contribute to causes that he believes in since he is quite active when it comes to displaying his values and what he believes to be important in this world.
b) He is married to Shelley Fabares Actress (TV Show Coach)
c) He’s an animal rights activist.
He’s definitely passionate when it comes to standing up for what he believes in and has continued to do so throughout the years by giving voice to certain concerns that he and others have with the supposedly unjust treatment of animals.
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Don't Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever
This folk remedy belongs in the past—there's no scientific basis for it. Your body runs a fever in response to an infection, and to recover from that illness, it needs plenty of nutrients, fluids and rest (including when you have coronavirus). When you're running a temp, eat as normal, or as close to that as you feel able. Definitely don't fast; you won't be doing your body any favors.

Don't Do a Detox
The internet is rife with products promising to detox your body—diets, drinks, supplements, and on and on. The truth is, they're not necessary. The body has its own super-efficient detox system: the liver and kidneys. They'll detox your body just fine, as long as you support them with a proper diet, exercise and limiting your use of harmful substances like alcohol and tobacco.

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