Do you have a US huckleberry?

No, just wildlife, horses and the Jamestown plate above.

*sigh*

Too clever by half.

I was invoking the Val Kilmer usage of the term, from Tombstone.

Let me try again.

Do you have someone in the US you can depend on to send you desirable plates?

It did occur to me that there was a cultural reference there, but not having the first idea of what it was I played a straight bat. ;)


I haven't bought any plates for a while, but I have found a dealer in Massachusetts to be very reliable and I've had good transactions with a couple of eBay sellers.

April 18, 1943

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Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.

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1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.

1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.

2011 – Fidel Castro resigns.

28 April 1944
 

More than 600 US sailors and soldiers died in the April 1944 rehearsal for D-day.


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I'd say 9 of these is a force to be reckoned with. :rolleyes:

That's why the mantra is: Shoot, move, and communicate.

I have heard references to these incidents leading up to D Day, never read about any in detail.
The size of the fuck up and the rank responsible determine the depth and duration of the cover up. This was a real champ.
Just reading about LST-531 stretches belief. It was commissioned January, 1944 and sunk April 28; no pictures apparently exist, but this is close: http://leaderbackup.weebly.com/uploa...484024_orig.jp
It was designed to carry and deliver tanks but had over 400 men on board. Almost all were lost, but I can find only 98 names. Apparently it was common to issue life jackets that were not combatable with the rucks worn. so they were strapped around the soldier or sailor's waist, turning them upside down in the water, insuring drowning.
Almost all responsible and survivors are now dead.

There are videos of what is probably 531 on the ocean floor, but show little.
Except that it capsized.

Important post, carruthers.

They had to cover it up so as not to tip off D-Day plans, then D-Day, Battle of the bulge, liberating Paris, concentration camps, and VE-Day took the spotlight. Then we had to concentrate of their war crimes, not our mistakes.

Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between a necessary secret and a cover-up.
Actually, German intelligence used the choice of location off Devon as a clue to the invasion at Normandy.

It is nice that there is only one E-Boat left.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-32396969

That link says 4 E-boats, while the link in Carruther's post says 9 E-boats. That's a big difference. :confused:

From the link:

"Mr Casner, 88, from Summerville, South Carolina, added: "This is really big. If all the nine E-boats that were out that day hit us, I wouldn't be here talking about it."

Ah, then at the other link reporter heard the Nazis had 9 total got mixed up. They had pickets watching the E-boat base to warn the troops of the boats coming out but these four were still out from the night before. That's just another thing the Allies overlooked in this clusterfuck.

May 4, 1988



BIG bada boom!

PEPCON Disaster

4500 metric tons of Space Shuttle fuel burn and detonate in four separate explosions, the last of which was the equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT.

I thought that the shock wave at about the 7 sec mark was frightening enough, but that accompanying the explosion at about the 55 sec point was terrifying.

Two fatalities is two too many but I'm surprised that there weren't more given that there were also 372 souls injured.

18 May 1969
 

On this day, Apollo 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy.



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Incidentally, the Apollo 10 Command Module was displayed at the Science Museum in London.
To the best of my knowledge it remains there today.

The powers that be at NASA gave them just enough fuel to test the lander down to 50k feet from the surface but if they landed they couldn't take off again.
The Astronauts were kind of a headstrong bunch, and there will be no upstaging the A team with their carefully choreographed landing two months later.http://cellar.org/2012/nono.gif

100 years ago today the first plane crosses the Atlantic.

I read about this a few weeks ago and don't think I had any idea.
On this day and a few days following in 1921, Tulsa Oklahoma experienced one of the horrendous manmade catastrophes in United States history.
It was called a race riot, but it was much more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

Read at least the summary.

Yeah read about that a couple years ago and was at first how is this possible, how could this happen?
Then sickened to realize how quickly it could, and can happen.
It wasn't like the victims were low lifes, vagrants, or shanty town dwellers easily victimized. Scary.

6th June 1944
 

There's plenty of coverage of D Day and the commemorative events elsewhere so I won't over egg the pudding, but the first news of Operation Overlord might be worth a listen.

John Snagge's delivery seems quite low key.



BTW, I'm informed by a usually reliable source that it was originally going to be called B Day, but the French objected for some reason.

The lack of hype is refreshing.

14th June 1919
 

On this day, aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown departed St John's, Newfoundland on the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.

Despite the privations and difficulties of the flight, it's a fair bet that the in flight catering was of a rather higher standard than you will find today.

They probably even had a decent cup of tea at the half way mark, something I have never managed to achieve. :)

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I was just reading about that.

Hasn't been fifteen minutes.

How would they make a decent cuppa with no heat? Maybe that's why he climbed out on the wing, engine heat to make tea.

June 25

1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer utters his famous last words: "Where did all those fucking Indians come from?!"

1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl is published. The Young Girl being Anne Frank.

1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins.

1978 - The Gay Pride flag is flown for the first time.

And that's the way it was.[/Uncle Walter]

June 29, 2007

Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

Why was the ground all wet and sticky after the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

Because the Indians kept coming and coming and coming.

:rolleyes:

:facepalm:

July 2

1776 - American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.:f207:

1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan

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are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1962 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart,

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opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

My kids are related to that guy...

That's neat.

Very Cool.

I suppose. I'm one of those people who finds genealogy just infuriatingly boring. Feels like an unpleasant combination of reducing my accomplishments and taking credit for other people's.

Highly accomplished ancestors make you look like a failure, you didn't measure up. You didn't found a great corporation, you didn't find the biggest gold field in Nevada, you didn't find a cure for the common cold then give the patent rights to the world. :lol:

...you didn't get lost in your most high profile navigation gig. :) Still a neat connection, my girls are very pro Amelia.

Amelia was certainly a feisty broad. I read about all the things she accomplished and some about how she lived, but I wonder how much opposition she faced. Maybe she was so larger than life and had so many fans, maybe that intimidated her opponents?

Is that the same as saying "related on their mother's side?"

Related on their father's side, yes. I'm only related by marriage--I guess I could have said my husband's related to that guy instead of my kids, but he's not big into genealogy either. ;)

Growing up, did any of them play with toy airplanes on a treadmill?

July 7

1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

:ggw:

Then you never met Pancho Barnes.

Have you met Amelia Earhart?:eyebrow:

Don't you think there could have been two (2) feisty broads in the history of the planet? Or has there just been room under the sun for one?

Read what Pancho, Amelia, and a whole squadron of them did in unison across the country.

Just had lunch with Amelia. At least that is what she called herself.

Wow! You sure can keep a secret.

And if you haven't yet noticed, so can she.

Yeah, well dead men and women tell very few tales.

If you had been paying attention you'd know I posted about Pancho awhile back.

Did you say something?

You do know you're talking to an alien?:eyebrow:

Welcome back.

Aliens do not get so emotional. So xoxoxoBruce is not one. Racist he may be. Since that is also an example of an emotional adult. We can talk to aliens. The emotional only understand violence, insults, scolding and the Donald's decrees.

Read it and weep... https://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=32953

Um...Yer the alien, ya dumb shit.

Happy Bastille Day
 

Some Frenchmen may not see the celebration quite the same way again...

No bastille for you today.

Apollo 11
 

On 16th July 1969 at 13:32:00 UTC Apollo 11 was launched.

You know the rest!

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Brief, but timed to the minute!

How many aliens did they have to fight off? Since they went to the Outer Limits.

Apollo 11
 

When I first saw this, I assumed that the Saturn V image was less than full size (363ft) because I had no idea that the Washington Monument is 555ft high.

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What a sight that must have been!

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