Subdeacon Joe
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3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Gregorian calendar was not yet invented.
Yep. Which means to match the Julian date, we would commemorate it on the 20th.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
One year for Memorial Day Weekend we were going to my uncle's place in Jawbone Canyon.
First we went to their house in Culver City. Got on the road from there at about 1500. It took about 5 hours to get to the to the exit for 14. You'd chat with people in the car next to you, eventually one lane would move, you'd chat with someone else.
People were getting out, popping their trunks, digging into ice chests. Trading sandwiches and snacks. Beers were exchanged.
Everyone had the attitude, "Getting upset won't change anything, let's just start the party now. "
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40 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:
The men hard ball players think they can whack that big ball. And then they get struck out.
Can say the same thing about softballers at the plate for baseball. Although they are more likely to have played baseball before than baseballers playing softball.
Give them a dozen or so at bats and they get the timing.
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OK, the "problem" has to do with the calendar. That date was on the Julian Calendar, which on our modern Gregorian Calendar is 20 October.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Picture was 1865, after Lincoln had freed the slaves.
Only in certain areas. Exempted slave states that had stayed with the Union, areas of the Confederacy under federal occupation, and the border states.
1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:Wonder if that kid was part of his slaves?
He was not a slave owner.
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14 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
The fuel for the first stage of the Saturn V rocket is a highly refined kerosene. It’s designated RP-1 and weighs about 6 3/4 pounds per gallon. It is combined with liquid oxygen to power the first stage by burning the combined fuel.
More to the point, those engines used 40,000 pounds of propellant and oxidizer PER SECOND at launch. 400,000 pounds, that's 200 tons, in the first 10 seconds.
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Notice that the blade of his axe isn't parallel to the haft.
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Well, you're close, but it's not the foremat.
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Found on FB. I added the caption on the image.
"A general, a kid, a fancy carriage and a dog at City Point with the James River in the distance, just below its confluence with the Appomattox. The general is Rufus Ingalls, the kid and carriage not IDd and the dalmation is Ingalls’ coach dog—the most photographed canine on the Civil War, I believe!"
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018670847/
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(See who catches the problem with this)
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I hadn't known that about the weight of the fuel.
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Pretty darned gorgeous, if you want my opinion. Ask 100 men what a beautiful woman is and get 200 opinions.
Re: being teased. Maybe it's because I was raised in North San Diego County, but I'm used to names like that. And guys with names like "Jose Maria" and "Jesus Maria." Oh, and just plain "Jesus." French has "Jean Marie." Nobody gave them grief about it. Even knew a "Hilarion," one of the most dour guys you'd ever want to meet. Nobody had any issue.-
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I've never heard of any of the 4 Mexican girls i knew named Linda being teased about it A name is a name. Sophia means Wisdom, never heard of a Sophie being teased about it.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
I wonder if she will go back to her full name?
Her name is Isabella.
Her family is of Italian ancestry.
In one of the things I was reading about her just now it said that she plans to get Italian citizenship so she can play for the Italian National softball League.
Bella, in Italian, means beautiful.
Just seems like that would be a hard name to live with. Like living in any spanish-speaking country named Linda.
So if she does, indeed, get Italian citizenship and join the Italian softball league, s'pose she'll start calling herself Isabella?
"Bella" is a standard diminutive for Isabella.
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11 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Happens hundreds of times every day. Pilots are trained to follow the yellow shirt's command explicitly as they have much better view of just how close that aircraft is to everything around it than the pilot does sitting in the cockpit.
If there is an incident, as long as the pilot was correctly following the aircraft directors hand signals, the responsibility falls on the yellow shirt and not the pilot.
Keep in mind that the yellow shirt directing that 70 Million dollar aircraft is a junior Airman in his/her late teens or very early 20's and the pilot is most likely in his/her late 20's early 30's.
Yep. Still, a huge amount of trust.
Just like trusting the LSO and "The Ball."
There's a new National Geographic series
https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/natgeo/top-guns-the-next-generation
that's well worth watching. One of the pilots almost washes out because in training she has lots of trouble with the simulated carrier landings.
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College softball is great! A different game than baseball, but similar. Very skilled young ladies, and most quite watchable.
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Not yet, but seriously considering it.
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2 hours ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:
That was called a double play. Once the ball hit the wall it's in play and not an out even though the fielder got it before it hit the ground. Then force outs and home and third base.
I caught that. I think because I hadn't noticed that there was already 1 out and that ended the inning, also the way the umpire announced it had me confused, saying that the pay at the plate was the first out.
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