Subdeacon Joe

It does get kinda weird and conspiratorialialish. But most of the crew survives.

Yeah, scary accurate. From a moving platform usually at a moving target. Same for shore batteries....they weren't moving but the targets were.

I was Wilde for it!

Longer version https://youtu.be/-jFF43Xh8xQ?si=eZPWah1mw-jbrrnr

I have not tried to verify this. https://youtube.com/shorts/5HNLXAj2kxs?si=mrdbfqdh1z20EIsz

"CAT Scan" has entered our language as a general term for any diagnostic/quality inspection imaging that isn't X-ray. Sort of as Aspirin was a brand name for acetylsalicylic acid but soon came to be the common name for all brands of acetylsalicylic acid, and now if someone asks you for aspirin they usually mean any sort of OTC pain killer. Another example might be the use of the word "coke" to mean any brand or flavor of carbonated soft drink.

I searched with Google Lens. Read through the comments: https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Martin-404/1223572

Another FB find Beautiful photograph of the turret of the USS 'Lehigh', c. 1864-65. The extra deck plating, and the 5-inch glacis ring around the base of the turret (to prevent hits at the base from jamming it), can clearly be seen. These modifications were added after the first attack on Charleston. In front of the turret is a Dahlgren boat howitzer, mounted on a field carriage. The turret is fitted with one 8-inch Parrott rifle and one 15-inch Dahlgren smoothbore; the difference in size between the two pieces is obvious, and note the crewman relaxing in the barrel of the Dahlgren! The structure on top of the turret is the armored pilothouse.

And start a TikTok "challenge."

From the OP

Car Curling!

I like rabbit. Has a meaty, slightly gamey taste. Roasted with potatoes and onions, breaded and fried, stewed. I've had USDA canned pork and canned beef, commercially canned beef (producto de Argentina), and we've been getting tins of canned chicken breast at the food bank. Not the best, but decent. Can make some pretty darned good meals with it. I really enjoy the canned chicken for chicken salad. I've sometimes used the beef or pork to make potted or deviled meat spread (I should try adding Vegemite to it....hmmmm). I don't see that tinned rabbit would be really all that different.

Now, now....it could have been worse... He could have asked if it was Hillary.

The clergy are. I believe, Arius and Apollonarius. The royalty is possibly the iconoclast Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, and his wife, Maria.

A page in time. Note that neither the Bay Bridge, nor the Golden Gate Bridge were completed yet. Also note that Treasure Island hasn't been built yet. In this photo, the towers had been built but the cables had not yet been spun when the Pacific Fleet steamed through the Golden Gate Straight on May 3, 1935. Photo courtesy of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

Weekend before last I saw the first flock of bikers. And several annoying swarms of bikies.

Ola Mildred Rexroat (August 28, 1917 – June 28, 2017) was the only Native American woman to serve in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Rexroat was born in Argonia, Kansas, to a Euro-American father and an Oglala mother. The family moved to South Dakota when she was young, and she spent at least part of her youth on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She attended public school in Wynona, Oklahoma, for a time, and graduated from the St. Mary's Episcopal Indian School in Springfield, South Dakota, in 1932. Rexroat initially enrolled in a teachers college in Chadron, Nebraska, but left before completing her degree to work for what is now the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a year. She earned a bachelor's degree in art from the University of New Mexico in 1939. After college, she again worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Gallup, New Mexico for a year. Rexroat next worked for engineers building airfields, where she decided to learn how to fly. In order to do so, she would need her own airplane or to join the WASPs. Selecting the latter, she moved to Washington, D.C., with her mother and sisters, and was also employed at the Army War College. Rexroat then went for WASP training in Sweetwater, Texas, and was assigned the dangerous job of towing targets for aerial gunnery students at Eagle Pass Army Airfield after her graduation. She also helped transport cargo and personnel. When the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, she joined the Air Force, where she served for ten years as an air traffic controller at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico during the Korean War. She continued to work as an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration for 33 years after her time in the Air Force Reserves was complete. In 2007 she was inducted into the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame. Rexroat died in June 2017 at the age of 99. Immediately before her death she was the last surviving WASP in South Dakota and one of 275 living WASPs out of the original 1,074. Several months after her death, the airfield operations building at Ellsworth Air Force Base was named after her.

1860s photo of a massive Rodman 15-inch smoothbore cannon on a wrought iron barbette carriage, at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts. Note the ratchet elevating mechanism at the breech, and the davit for hoisting the projectile to the muzzle for loading. The 15-inch Rodman weighed just under 25 tons, and it fired a 400-lb solid shot and a 352-lb shell, propelled by a 40-lb powder charge. [Image source: National Archives at Boston.]

Thanks! That led me to https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/13/311127237/turnspit-dogs-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vernepator-cur