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Posted on 9/25/25 at 5:45 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 9/25/25 at 5:45 am to kywildcatfanone
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Posted on 9/25/25 at 11:37 am to Armymann50
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1918 Brazil declares war on Austria.
Brazil fought in both World Wars. The first was more of a "we're just showing the US we support them" declaration while they actually had some skin in the game in the second one. The Brazilians fought hard, and very well, in Italy on some godawful terrain.
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1944 Michael Douglas, actor, producer; his numerous awards include two Academy Awards (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wall Street), four Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (The Darling Buds of May British TV series) won Academy Award and BAFTA Award for her role in Chicago.
The pair are vaguely happily married. Must save a bit of cash to do birthdays on the same day.
Posted on 9/25/25 at 7:46 pm to Rockbrc
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Got another shower an hour ago
Don’t see cracks in the ground anymore and beginning to get muddy but I still think more would be welcome
Thats Awesome
Ground is still dry and cracked here.
Posted on 9/25/25 at 11:01 pm to OK Roughneck
I’m guessing the water table is still down
Posted on 9/26/25 at 4:57 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 9/26/25 at 5:00 am to Arksulli
On this Day in History 26 Sept
1913 The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
1918 German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.
1941The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.
1969 The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.
1972 Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
1983 In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers..
2010 TV Period drama "Downton Abbey" premieres in the UK created by Julian Fellowes, starring Hugh Bonnevillle and an ensemble cast
2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m
2020 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2023 Joe Biden is the first US president to walk a picket line telling striking autoworkers "You deserve a significant raise” in Michigan
Born on September 26
1783 Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer.
1887 Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the "Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II.
1969 David Slade, director (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night).
JOTD
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Posted on 9/26/25 at 5:05 am to OK Roughneck
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Ground is still dry and cracked here.
Same here. It's better, but seeing the ground pull away from concrete is very strange.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 8:50 am to Armymann50
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1941The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.
Your odd military police story of the day. The end of World War II meant that a large chunk of Germany was now in allied hands, technically France, the US, and the UK. In truth the French had a handful of divisions and some garrison troops recruited at the last minute, their contribution to holding onto Germany mostly consisted of shooting every German soldier they could get their hands on.
Which left the US and the UK (both stretched painfully thin) to hold onto a country where the government had disappeared, millions of former German soldiers were slowly being demobilized, and hundreds of thousands of bored Allied soldiers were looting at will. The ad hoc solution was to not demobilize the Wehrmacht military police and give them police powers. So. Yes, you could be arrested by someone you were fighting just a month or two ago.
And it worked. The German MPs held things together while the Allies demobilized their own forces as quickly as possible.
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1983 In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers..
Ladies and gentlemen, the most important man in the history of the human race.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:31 am to kywildcatfanone
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seeing the ground pull away from concrete is very strange
I've seen people on the OT mention that they water around their foundations during a drought to discourage settling/cracking.
Posted on 9/26/25 at 7:27 pm to kywildcatfanone
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seeing the ground pull away from concrete is very strange.
Common thing around here with this red clay when it gets dry.
Hope everyone's having a Great evening.
Posted on 9/27/25 at 3:22 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: September 27
1540
The Society of Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, is approved by the Pope.
1669
The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.
1864
Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre.
1869
Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble.
1920
Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
1944
Thousands of British troops are killed as German forces rebuff their massive effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland.
1964
The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.
2007
NASA launches Dawn probe to explore and study the two larges objects of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.
2020
Houston officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy
2021
NASA/USGS Landsat-9 earth-observing satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
2022 Hurricane Ian crosses western Cuba as a category 3 storm, wrecking the country's national grid and leaving the country without power, with three people killed
Born on September 27
1722
Samuel Adams, American revolutionary patriot and statesman, helped to organize the Boston Tea Party.
1840
Thomas Nast, caricaturist, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
1947
Meat Loaf, singer, songwriter (Bat Out of Hell album trilogy), actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club).
1958
Shaun Cassidy, singer ("Da Doo Ron Ron"), actor, TV producer / creator, screenwriter (American Gothic).
JOTD
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A satisfactory.
Posted on 9/27/25 at 5:28 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 9/27/25 at 5:37 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 9/27/25 at 6:28 am to Rockbrc
morn'in
Posted on 9/27/25 at 6:30 am to Harry Rex Vonner
La Tech gonna pound Utep today
Posted on 9/27/25 at 11:11 am to Armymann50
Morning All Glad we have Games on today. Good Luck to All of You and your teams.
Except TX
Except TX
Posted on 9/27/25 at 11:34 am to OK Roughneck
Especially except Texas
Posted on 9/28/25 at 5:38 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 9/28/25 at 5:44 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 9/28/25 at 9:01 pm to Rockbrc
Evening All
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