Subdeacon Joe
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https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/the-real-story-of-the-b-17-all-american.html
The usual story that you see has the tail being held on by parachute cords and something cobbled together with pieces of the 109 bodged in to hold the empennage on, and the ship returning to England. Not quite, but still impressive.
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8 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:
In years gone by, California had their own Merchant Marine Academy. Don't know if it's still there. You could see the campus from one of the Bay Area bridges. The training ship was named "The Golden Bear."
Cal Poly Maritime Academy, Vallejo.
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33 minutes ago, Stump Water said:
GBC sans cans.
Fresh green beans, fresh mushrooms... it's a completely different dish than the "canned" version.
Yes, it takes longer. But once you have it you'll never go back to "canned".
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/best-ever-green-bean-casserole-recipe-1950575
I've sort of made that. No half-and-half, and start with diced bacon.
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13 hours ago, watab kid said:
im content knowing what i was taught in high school regarding this - true or false - it left me feeling thankful , im also content with our family traditions which also are based in thankfulness , we will continue our festive get-to-gether in spite of any attack that may be perpetrated or effort to change the narrative
The two, the myths and traditions surrounding it, and digging into the way it actually happened, don't have to be mutually exclusive. And digging into history isn't an "attack that may be perpetrated to change the narrative."
Nothing wrong with showing that the Indians did more for the colony than give them a few hadfulls of seeds, say "Plant these together. Oh, and bury a fish with them. " or that they didn't show up at the gate with a couple of turkeys, a squirrel, and some pumpkin pies.
Does it really diminish our traditional Thanksgiving Feast a la Norman Rockwell to know that it was more like a 3 day somewhat raucous party with drinking, demonstrations and competitions of shooting, and foot races?
Sort of like Church history. We all know the Hollywood version, everyone scrupulously clean, with freshly washed hair, walking peacefully with hands together in prayer. Do just a little digging and you find that, while the early Fathers of the Church were pious and thoughtful men, they were also strong, vigorous, and opinionated. Often vain and bullheaded. Prelates riding hell-bent-for-leather to get to council meetings, shouting matches, possibly even fisticufs. Doesn't take away from it. In my view it even enhances it, by showing these saints as men, not some plaster statues high up on unobtainable pillars.
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One of my favorite Thanksgiving Day family traditions was getting up early and my dad would take my brothers and I shooting at Crystal Silica in Oceanside. One of the pits that had played out of good sand had been turned into a shooting range for employees. Nothing fancy, just a few benches in the pit with 3 high sides, all gravel, sand, and clay. I think the biggest rock I ever saw come out of there was about 2 inches or so. When they cleaned the screens sometimes there were small rocks, an inch or so diameter, pure white quartz, well rounded by the stream action that had deposited them there. We called them "Spark Rocks" because you could take 2 of them, strike them together like a match, and get some amazing sparks.
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People are still doing this kind of stuff.
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Wasn't it made in the couple of years when the studios were taking so-so or even crappy scripts, saying, "Let's see if this will work if we we put a bunch of Big Names in it!"? It should have been about 90 minutes, not 2.5 hours.
I kept thinking
last time I watched it.
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An interesting bit of history about Marin.
This picture, taken in the 1930s, shows one of two, still operating Marin railroad tunnels that were built nearly 150-years ago. That’s an electric-powered interurban railcar entering the 1,200-foot Cal Park Tunnel, which was constructed in 1884. It was rebuilt in 2010 and is now being used by SMART (Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit) running between Larkspur and numerous northern destinations — the billboard advertising paint is on today’s Highway 101. The other tunnel that is still operational was also rebuilt by SMART, and burrowed into the hill between downtown San Rafael and the Marin County Civic Center. When driving Highway 101 and nearing North San Pedro Road, you’re near this tunnel, the Porto Suello Tunnel.According to historian Richard Torney, though Marin is one of the smallest counties in California (per area), it once had an astounding 10 railroad tunnels open and operating. Other tunnels include two created in 1884 for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad line that connected Tiburon and San Rafael, the Reed Tunnel near Tiburon’s Blackie’s Pasture where trestle timbers are still standing, and the Meadowsweet Tunnel in Corte Madera where no remnants are visible today. Finally, there’s the much-discussed Alto Tunnel on the Mill Valley – Corte Madera border. Its 2,200-feet length was bored (a process of building a tunnel, using a Tunnel Boring Machine, or TBM) in 1884, and was operational until 1971. It was then sealed shut with pea gravel and concrete.A group called Friends of Alto Tunnel would now like to reopen it, and create a greenway path for bikes and hikes that would connect southern and northern Marin — its estimated cost is somewhere north of $50 million. Be that as it may, Alto Tunnel was once part of the North Pacific Coast Railroad’s coastal route connecting Sausalito through San Geronimo Valley with Point Reyes Station, Tomales and points as far north as the Russian River. All totaled, that line had six tunnels in Marin, one being Bothin Tunnel, which is near today’s Sir Francis Drake Boulevard as you leave Fairfax heading west. And with a length of 3,190 feet, Bothin is the Granddaddy of Marin’s historic tunnel network.Written by Jim WoodPhoto courtesy of The Fred Codoni Collection
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Apparently this is a long standing rivalry, and called The Secretaries Cup (formerly Secretary's Cup when they were both under the DOT).
Score yesterday:
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And here I thought that "Doc" was a dead giveaway!
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Doc....I just don't get it...
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Streaming online.
"Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom was one of World War II's biggest secrets, alongside the atomic bombs. Some historians estimate that deciphering the German military code shortened the war by two years and possibly saved 14 million lives.
Breaking Enigma: A World War II Game Changer | PBS https://share.google/vulWn6L0hi2kUkcFY
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5 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
Not sure I would want to be stationed in Nagasaki that soon after the bomb dropped, but he appears to have had no ill effects, bless him and his courage and luck!
Our lore says that both cities stayed dangerously "hot" for months or years. Not so.
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Cumulative exposure decreased significantly in the first week, and by the 1950s, radiation levels had reached natural background levels.- Within 24 hours: About 80% of the residual radiation decayed, according to the city of Hiroshima's local government website.
- Within one week: Cumulative exposure decreased to a few percent of the initial level.
- Within one month: Radiation levels returned to near normal, allowing for recovery and rebuilding.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
Everyone knows that they were only 10 years ago.
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Yep.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
student body 975. And folks thinking about a life at sea are going to be physically fit I think.
And probably interested in sports. I just didn't know that it was that big a school. I thought maybe a couple of hundred.
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My wife appreciates the Flashing Light warnings. She had epilepsy as a child, then it was sort of dormant for a few decades, but in the last 4 or 5 years she's become sensitive to flashing lights again.
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1 minute ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
How many people does it take to field a football team?
For college teams, probably around 50. Gives you an offensive squad, a defensive squad, some backups, some kickers, and some special teams players.
Theoretically you can do it with 11. All players play every down. But you're out of luck if a player gets injured. I wouldn't want to try with fewer than 25.
Some universities have over 100.
I just didn't know that the Merchant Marine Academy was big enough to field a team.
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26 minutes ago, Horace Patootie, SASS #35798 said:
I don't think it's used. It's UNUSED. Definitely wouldn't want USED chocolate pudding !
Horace
The ad says "Unissued." My point was WHY did they think it necessary to say that?
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I didn't think that ir was a big enough school for that.
Merchant Marine Mariners v. USCG Bears. I like the Coast Guard mascot.
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51 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Runs the length of the state?? City, suburbs, rural, and whatever else you can imagine!
Well. That clip talks about State Route 99, which runs through the Central Valley for about 425 miles.
There is also US Route 99, which is a somewhat different critter.
"U.S. Route 99 (US 99) was the main north–south United States Numbered Highway on the West Coast of the United States until 1964, running from Calexico, California, on the Mexican border to Blaine, Washington, on the Canadian border. Known also as the "Golden State Highway" and "The Main Street of California", US 99 was an important route in California throughout much of the 1930s as a route for Dust Bowl immigrant farm workers to traverse the state. It was assigned in 1926 and existed until it was replaced for the most part by Interstate 5 (I-5). A large section in the Central Valley is now State Route 99 (SR 99)."
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What could go wrong?
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37 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
Joe’s title made me think it was gonna be narrated by Sean Connery…
OK, Joe! No more posting if you're not wearing your glasses!
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
I don’t get it…
Would you buy used chocolate pudding?
20 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:Never saw it. I went thru a lot of MRE over my almost 30 years of service. AFAIK, something such as the above would not have been an "entree" regardless of the box label. Maybe some form of "holiday" treat, as most MRE contained their own "desert" item.
I suspect that this was either from a subcontractor for the main contractor to add to the full meal pack, or a component made as on one production line/facility by the contractor and stocked to be added to the meal package. Not something that was to be issued individually on their own.
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B-17 "All American" 1943
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Read the account of it at the linked site. But, yes, he was fine.
"When the ambulances arrived after the engines were switched off, Bragg calmly reported, “No business, Doc.” From then on, Sam Sarpoulus was known among the crew as “Lonesome Sam.”"
Amusing anecdote :
"Three sightseers from another crew went inside the aircraft on the ground to inspect the damage. One of them turned to Sarpouls and asked, “Say, why didn’t she break in two?” Feeling slightly guilty about coming back home, Sarpoulus was about to respond when the tail broke in two on the ground under the weight of the three men."
The last of the article talks about ine that didn't make it back, and some contradictions in the stories