Subdeacon Joe
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Not just for computer games.
An Austro-Hungarian crossbow for launching grenades in Museum of Military History, Vienna . Spring operated grenade launchers were common with all armies on all fronts. While the range was limited compared to trench mortars, they didn't give the position away when "fired".Source: Twitter/Nikolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918)All reactions:2121
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Your findings indicate that Lin area on the shore of Lake Ohrid served as a hub for the development of agriculture, craftsmanship, and fishing around 8,500 years ago. What is the specific evidence for this conclusion? And what does it tell us about the daily lives of the people who lived there?
Agriculture and animal husbandry originated in the Near East about 10,000 years ago and later spread through Anatolia, the Aegean Sea and Thessaly to the region in the tri-border area of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia. The latter played a crucial role in the spread of agriculture and livestock towards Central Europe. In simple terms, there were two main routes along which this innovation spread: the first, known for a long time, followed the course of the Danube into the northern Alpine region. The second route was discovered much later. It led through the eastern and western Adriatic region and across the large islands of Sardinia and Corsica towards the mouth of the Rhone. From there, agriculture and livestock spread northward. So, in the southern Balkan area, the spread of the new way of farming was divided. Moreover, we wonder how it is possible that cereals adapted to dry areas could become so quickly familiar with the conditions in the rather high altitude, high precipitation lake area in Albania, Greece and North Macedonia. The daily life of these people was the same as in all early agrarian societies in Europe: it was probably a permanent struggle for survival. With a mixed economy based on agriculture and animal husbandry, but also including hunting wild animals, fishing and gathering plants and small animals, they tried to be as diversified as possible.
https://exploproject.org/news/underwater-investigations-at-lin-3-lake-ohrid-albania/
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53 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:
I always thought the biggest boobs were in Washington DC...or is that the biggest asses...or both?
Sacramento.
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32 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:
I wonder how the fire started?
Climate change!
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I saw the news about this on FB yesterday. I remember fishing from that pier back in the '60s.
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"Carrot Pudding With Hard Sauce - Some Of My Favorite Good Things To Eat, By Martha Lee Anderson, Church & Dwight Co. Inc., 1940"
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Don't laugh. That meme is based on a bill that was introduced in the California Legislature a few years ago that was so broad in the definition of "ghost gun" that any chunk of aluminum big enough to be machined into an AR lower, or piece of sheet metal big enough to be stamped into an AK receiver could be considered a functional firearm. The quote is from the then president of the CA State Senate Kevin "Ghost Gun" de Leon at a press conference talking about the evils of 80% guns.
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Prediction:
The Court will rule 6-3 in favor of our civil rights, California and New York will double down with laws that make every screw, spring, and pin a "firearm. "
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This is interesting.
"Highland Pot Roast - 57 Prize-Winning Recipes, H. J. Heinz Company, 1957"
Look at the portion sizes. Four ouces of beef, a small potato, maybe about a half cup of vegetables and mushrooms.
A far cry from our modern serving sizes of 8 to 12 ounces of meat, if not more than a pound, two cups of potatoes, and the same of mixed vegetables.-
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Battleships USS Texas, USS Maryland, USS Arizona, and USS Nevada cruising under the incomplete Golden Gate Bridge in 1936.
https://navalhistoria.com/uss-nevada/
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• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
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• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
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• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
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• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
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Even better for her, Cleveland won 6-4!
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39 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
The way I was taught to test a loaf of bread for doneness is to knock on its bottom, it should sound hollow, or tip it out of the pan and stick a thermometer into the bottom, it should be at least 190F. I often just stab it in the top.
I tap on the top with my fingertips, a good solid tap, almost a thump. Not just sound but also feel and give. It should sound hollow, have a firm crust with little give.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
The loaves I make regularly are 43 minutes for the 4 X 9 and 44 minutes for the 5x9.
About what I get. That's for a loaf made with ~ 3 cups of flour. If I make a 6 cup round loaf it's 50 to 55 minutes.
If I divide my 6 cup loaf into thirds for Запивка (zapivka) for church it's about 35 minutes.
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Any more I use a probe thermometer for almost any meat in the oven.
Casseroles not so much.
I've tried it with bread and don't find any benefit.
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FW-190 narrowly misses the payload dropped by a B-26. Captured by a camera of a USAAF B-26 Marauder during a raid over Germany in early 1945.
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When you make food from receipts like this
you learn to adapt.
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8 minutes ago, Alpo said:
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Food Portion Sizes
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I think that the portion sizes are now based on USDA, or similar, portion size recommendations. I don't recall seeing portions per receipt much before the 1940s. Might could be that I just ignore them. When my wife and I used to cook for church about once a month we figured 6 oz of whatever meat, or about a cup and a half of legumes, per person, also about half a pound of potatoes, and a cup of vegetables (we would usually buy the Flav-r-pak 4 pound bags and take 2/3 of the number of servings per bag). The only time we had leftovers was when we cooked for ~125 and only ~100 stayed for lunch (or something like that - guestimated high and had a significantly lower number show up for the meal).
With the two hour cook time they will likely cook down to nothing and become part of the gravy/pan sauce. Just like the carrots.
I find it interesting that there are no onions in it.