Subdeacon Joe

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Per the United States Army Ordnance Department, 1863, guns, including rifled guns were direct fire weapons. Howitzers were for direct or indirect fire, and mortars were indirect fire weapons.

News flash! That's a lot of money. Bingo! It's a way of getting the monthly payments down to where more people can afford to buy their first house even if it "only" saves $370 per mensem. Then, after a few years, either refinance or sell and trade up. I don't think that there's anyone who seriously expects someone who takes out a 50 year mortgage to not refinance or trade up. I've been seeing listening to the talking heads pontificating about it, and, of course since it was an idea floated by President Trump they were going on about how evil it is.

That's exactly my point!

As said earlier, until the purists (gun snobs) took over in the '70s or '80s, the terms were pretty much interchangeable. Some of that, i think, is because almost nobody was using charger clips to reload their internal magazines. But I don't recall anyone getting confused. The same way nobody is confused when there's a reference in a novel to a ".45 Colt Automatic Pistol." Or, for that matter, the ammunition being Automatic Colt Pistol. Or "the detective drew his subnosed .38 pistol." That doesn't trigger "OMYGAWD!!! That author is so stupid! It's a REVOLVER!" responses.

Years ago, near the Sonoma and Marin County line, there was a drive in theater just east of 101 (NOT "The" 101, dammit! Putting "the" in front of the number is a Southern California affectation from when freeways had names rather than numbers, and didn't catch on until the 1980s. Least wise, I never heard it growing up in San Diego County). You could easily see the screen when you were northbound on 101. Anyway, in the late '80s it went from just running an occasional X-rated film late at night to nothing but X-rated movies. Night time traffic was always slow on that stretch of road.

Duty, honour, county. Get me every time.

For the fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables at home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam. But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night; As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain. Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)

Canadian rather than Australian. But well worth watching.

He was really born on 11 February. The adjusted date is 22 February.

Thanks. But whoever wrote those descriptions sucks at heraldry! A better look at the Astronaut Badge . The description above says the shooting star goes from bottom right to top left. It's really going from the bearers lower left to top right. Sort of like the American Flag. Always goes to the RIGHT of the line. But usually, that's the observers LEFT. The blue canton, except on a coffin, is always to the right, so if hung on a wall, that's the observers left.

All well and good. So he and the crew know the significance, and why it's significant. How is that lore passed on to the rest of their culture? Re, your Hawking example, if I didn't already know who Hawking is, and what kind of chair, it's meaningless. An old man, in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, in a straight backed wooden chair, diagraming how to judge the greatness of a poem, thereby increasing our enjoyment of it, is as reasonable as anything else. Re, John Kloehr, with his rifle, at the stable. Just so he isn't unstable.

Since we're now going down the SiFi rabbit hole, Star Trek TNG, episode Darmok, if the Tamarians communicate by metaphor, how do they learn the stories in the first place? How do they add new ones, as happens in the closing scene? The Tamarian First Officer, presumably now the captain, gets the tablet and instantly ads, "Picard and Dathon at El Adrel," seeming to automatically know the whole story. How? And how does it get into their lexicon?

Nice Workmanship.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ2Ed05ESBX/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Maybe someone can find it on YouTube.

From a very quick and dirty search it seems that, in general, American Indians called their language "our language" (probably more literally would be "the way people talk").

I thought it was more like the 1980s when the Run-n-Gun sports took off. Hot shot gun snobs with their $2,000 race guns out to educate the Hicks and Fudds in the prrroperrr terminology.

https://thetun.org/history/ Source: The Tun Legacy Foundation https://share.google/TX8zaReGucpAWiFfu A research project commissioned by the Tun Legacy Foundation, and conducted by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. (RGA) of Cranbury, N.J., sought to discover information about the appearance of the Tun to inform the work of Ballinger, the Philadelphia architectural firm designing and building The Tun®. The research and report represent a collaborative effort by RGA’s Robert J. Wise Jr., principal senior architectural historian; Seth Hinshaw senior historian; Teresa Bulger, senior historian; and Kristen Herrick, senior architectural historian. The team completed their research at the Philadelphia Free Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia City Archives, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, and also utilized published primary and secondary sources and websites. Drawing on archival records and architectural analysis, the historians accomplished three things: First, they traced the Tun’s in-depth history. Next, they reviewed seven depictions of the Tun, analyzing the context and accuracy of each. Finally, they discussed known physical characteristics and provided recommendations to the Tun Legacy Foundation for architectural elements that may be incorporated into the design of The Tun®.

Can you spot what I'm talking about?