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Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:38 am to Arksulli
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So, if you have ever wondered where the Nazis got the idea for the Final Solution of the Jewish problem or how the Khemer Rouge came up with the concept of their "Reeducation Camps"... they got it from the British, who got it from us.
don't frick with the good ole US of A
Posted on 10/11/24 at 10:39 am to kywildcatfanone
I want to eat them too.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 11:36 am to Armymann50
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don't frick with the good ole US of A
People are used to the modern US military. For most of our history we built our Army to be small and fight small wars. And we were very good at fighting small wars.
Posted on 10/12/24 at 3:31 am to Arksulli
Today in History: October 12
1492
Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
1576
Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1609
The song "Three Blind Mice" is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song.
1809
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
1872
Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory.
1900
The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland
1933
Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.
1943
The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy.
1960
Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast.
1964
1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits.
1971
The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23.
1999
The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born
2000
Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded.
2002
Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.
2020
UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge
2023
Roman scrolls burnt in Mt Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum read for the first time, after computer-science student develops machine-learning algorithm - first word deciphered is purple
Today in History: Born on October 12
1537
Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour.
1947
Chris Wallace, former host/moderator of Meet the Press, currently (2013) host of Fox News Sunday; the three-time Emmy winner is the only person thus far to host more than one major Sunday political talk show.
1949
Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanches), one of the most infamous political terrorists of the 1970s; currently (2013) serving a life term in France.
1968
Hugh Jackman, actor; well known for his recurring role as Wolverine in the X-Men films, his many awards include a Golden Globe (Les Miserables, 2013) and a Tony Award Special Award for Extraordinary Contribution to the Theatre Community (2012).
JOTD
A guy walks into a bar with a .44 magnum a yells "who the frick fricked my wife!".
Everybody's silent for a second, then a guy in the back of the bar says "you havent got enough bullets mate"
Posted on 10/12/24 at 4:58 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 10/12/24 at 5:21 am to Rockbrc
Morning All
Posted on 10/12/24 at 6:24 am to Armymann50
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Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee.
Da fuq? I'd like to know more, sir.
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Roman scrolls burnt in Mt Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum read for the first time, after computer-science student develops machine-learning algorithm - first word deciphered is purple
What?!
Posted on 10/12/24 at 6:50 am to teamjackson
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Da fuq? I'd like to know more, sir.
On October 11, 1809, the famous explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of the morning after stopping for the night at Grinder’s Tavern along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee.
Three years earlier, Lewis and his co-commander, William Clark, had completed their exploration of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest. Famous and celebrated throughout the nation as a result, Lewis nonetheless found his return to civilized eastern life difficult. President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as governor of Louisiana Territory, but Lewis soon discovered that the complex politics and power struggles of the territory were earning him more enemies than friends. At the same time, bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., were questioning the legitimacy of some of the purchases Lewis had made for the expedition in 1803, raising the threat of bankruptcy if he were forced to cover these costs personally. Finally, some three years after the end of his journey, Lewis still had failed to complete the work necessary to publish the critically important scientific and geographical information he and Clark had gathered in their journals-much to the disappointment of his close friend and mentor, Thomas Jefferson.
For all these reasons, most recent historians have concluded that Lewis’ death was a suicide brought on by deep depression and the heavy weight of worries he bore. According to the account given by Mrs. Grinder, the mistress of the tavern along the Natchez Trace where Lewis died, during his final hours Lewis began to pace in his room and talk aloud to himself “like a lawyer.” She then heard a pistol shot and Lewis exclaiming, “O Lord!” After a second pistol shot, Lewis staggered from his room and called for help, reportedly saying, “O Madam! Give me some water, and heal my wounds.” Strangely, Mrs. Grinder did nothing to help him; she later said that she was too afraid. The next morning servants went to his room where they reportedly found him “busily engaged in cutting himself from head to foot” with a razor. Fatally wounded in the abdomen, Lewis died shortly after sunrise.
Based largely on Mrs. Grinder’s story, most historians have argued that Lewis tried to kill himself with two pistol shots, and when death did not come quickly enough, tried to finish the job with his razor. However, in a 1962 book, Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis, the author Vardes Fisher raised questions about the reliability of Mrs. Grinder’s story and suggested that Lewis might have actually been murdered, either by Mrs. Grinder’s husband or bandits. Since then a minority of historians has continued to raise challenges to the suicide thesis. But ultimately, nearly two centuries after the event, we may never be able to discover exactly what happened that night along the Natchez Trace when one of the nation’s greatest explorers died at the young age of 35.
Posted on 10/12/24 at 8:32 am to Armymann50
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Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
In theory the Holy Roman Emperor (not particularly religious, not Roman, and not really an Empire) was the most powerful man in Europe. Germany had undergone a massive population boom and the coalition of states stretched from the Hanseatic League just South of Denmark, all the way down to Northern Italy.
In practice the Emperor (an elected title) spent the vast majority of his time managing his own lands and trying to keep outsiders from absorbing the small (but rich) minor states within the HRE. Fortunately, in case he was getting bored, he also got to prevent members of the HRE from conquering each other.
Usually the largest and most powerful countries held the title but it wasn't uncommon, when there were multiple strong candidates, for the Electors to throw that dead cat in someone else's yard and pick an elderly ruler in a smaller Kingdom hoping he'd last for a couple of years while the big boys worked things out. Towards the end Austria more or less settled in as the permanent leader of the HRE, to oppose the growing power of Prussia.
Eventually Napoleon put paid to the whole thing when he abolished the HRE and replaced it with a German Confederacy which got rid of most of the smaller states.
Posted on 10/12/24 at 9:54 am to Armymann50
Morning All its Tuck Fexas Day. 
Well EVERDAY is TF Day.
Well EVERDAY is TF Day.
Posted on 10/12/24 at 10:30 am to Armymann50
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Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances
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stopping for the night at Grinder’s Tavern
AIDS
Posted on 10/13/24 at 4:34 am to 1BIGTigerFan
Today in History: October 13
54
Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome.
1307
Members of the Knights of Templar are arrested throughout France, imprisoned and tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of France.
1670
Virginia passes a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians cannot be used as slaves.
1775
The Continental Congress authorizes construction of two warships, thus instituting an American naval force.
1792
President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the White House.
1812
At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeats the American who have tried to invade Canada.
1942
In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shell Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.
1943
Italy declares war on Germany.
1972
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes Mountains, near the Argentina-Chile border; only 16 survivors (out of 45 people aboard) are rescued on Dec. 23.
2017
Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia
2018
Pope Francis defrocks two Chilean bishops for alleged sexual abuse of minors
2022
Ringo Starr cancels five remaining scheduled All-Starr Band tour concert dates in California and Mexico, after getting rebound COVID-19 infection
Today in History: Born on October 13
1941
Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; rose to fame as half of the Simon & Garfunkel duo; to date (2013) he has received 12 Grammys including a Lifetime Achievement Award (2001); Time magazine included him in its 2006 special "100 People Who Shaped the World."
1947
Sammy Hagar, "The Red Rocker," singer, songwriter, musician; replaced David Lee Roth as lead singer of the band Van Halen.
1959
Marie Osmond, singer ("Paper Roses"), songwriter, actress; co-hosted TV variety show Donny & Marie with her brother Donny (1976-79).
1967
Kate Walsh, actress (Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice TV series).
1969
Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater; won Olympic bronze (1992) and silver (1994) medals; US National Champion 1993; on Jan. 6, 1994, she was clubbed on the knee in an attack intended to aid one of her skating rivals.
JOTD
My wife has been trying to hide the fact that she's been masturbating while on her period.
But I caught her red handed!
This post was edited on 10/14/24 at 4:48 am
Posted on 10/13/24 at 5:14 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 10/13/24 at 6:47 am to kywildcatfanone
morning
Posted on 10/13/24 at 7:19 am to pioneerbasketball
Good morning
Posted on 10/13/24 at 9:03 am to Armymann50
Lots of great historical stuff today... so naturally I'll babble about something incredibly minor but odd.
George Washington is the only US President to have a statue in London, England... on American soil.
As hard as it is to believe the British have always held George Washington in very high regard, particularly the Royal Family. King George III, the monarch who lost the Revolutionary War proclaimed Washington the greatest man of the age. There were even discrete invitations made to Washington to travel to London to meet the government and King but Washington politely turned them down by saying that at the start of the war he had sworn to never set foot on English soil again.
Fast forward to 1921 and relations between the US and the UK were at a high point. So, the US had a cast made of the famous George Washington statue commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and presented it to the British who placed it in Trafalgar Square, the home of Britain's greatest military monuments.
To honor Washington's vow the organizers shipped over soil from Virginia, had the British government (and King) declare it to be American soil from henceforth, and put the statue on top of that.
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1792
President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the White House.
George Washington is the only US President to have a statue in London, England... on American soil.
As hard as it is to believe the British have always held George Washington in very high regard, particularly the Royal Family. King George III, the monarch who lost the Revolutionary War proclaimed Washington the greatest man of the age. There were even discrete invitations made to Washington to travel to London to meet the government and King but Washington politely turned them down by saying that at the start of the war he had sworn to never set foot on English soil again.
Fast forward to 1921 and relations between the US and the UK were at a high point. So, the US had a cast made of the famous George Washington statue commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and presented it to the British who placed it in Trafalgar Square, the home of Britain's greatest military monuments.
To honor Washington's vow the organizers shipped over soil from Virginia, had the British government (and King) declare it to be American soil from henceforth, and put the statue on top of that.
Posted on 10/13/24 at 12:46 pm to Armymann50
Afternoon All
Posted on 10/14/24 at 4:13 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: October 14
1066
Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle
1651
Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress.
1884
Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman.
1912
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.
1930
Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she holds a high C for sixteen bars while singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl Crazy.
1943
600 Jewish prisoners mount an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland, 300 successfully escape
1944
German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
1964
Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence.
1968
Jim Hines, USA, breaks the "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City; his time was 9.95.
1968
US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty.
1969
The British 50-pence coin enters the UK's currency, the first step toward covering to a decimal system, which was planned for 1971.
1998
Eric Robert Rudolph charged with the 1996 bombing during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; It was one of several bombing incidents Rudolph carried out to protest legalized abortion in the US.
2012
Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for highest manned balloon flight, highest parachute jump, and greatest free-fall velocity, parachuting from an altitude of approximately 24 miles (39km).
2017
Spanish government says it will impose direct rule on Catalonia after the region voted for independence in a referendum
2020
French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases
2021
Record price for a Banksy artwork paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for "Love is in the Bin", that was famously shredded on purchase in 2018
Today in History: Born on October 14
1890
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961).
1926
Son Thomas, blues guitarist and singer.
1927
Sir Roger Moore, actor; played James Bond in 7 films (1973-85) and starred as Simon Templar in The Saint TV series (1962-69).
1939
Ralph Lauren, noted fashion designer.
JOTD
A guy says to his wife: "Thanks to that new scale you bought, I always know how much I poop!"
Wife: "So you step on the scale before you poop, go to the toilet, step on the scale again and the difference is the weight of your poop?”
He: “Oh, yeah, I guess you could also do it that way...”
Posted on 10/14/24 at 4:53 am to Armymann50
Morning all
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