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Post by karl on Nov 15, 2017 16:11:24 GMT -7
Today 26 people were killed by crazy ex-military guy. Every week one shooting in the US. Maybe something should be changed with the laws of this country? The gunman previously served in the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Fox News. Kelley served at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge in 2014. He was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and his child. Kelley received a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force, in addition to confinement for 12 months and was reduced in rank.Kelley worked as a security guard for a Texas waterpark this past summer, according to a resume under his name that appears online. Investigators said Kelley didn't appear to be connected to any organized terrorist groups. Yes, a terrible thing committed by a terrorist group Hezbollah. If memory serves correctly, the French paratrooper barracks were also hit with a pick up truck loaded with explosives. Not a good time for every one at that time. You do have an excellent memory for my self had forgotten that incident. Karl
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Post by Jaga on Nov 15, 2017 22:23:01 GMT -7
John,
Henryk Sienkiewicz had really a great talent. Although his Nobel was awarded for Quo Vadis, the most important of his books were historical novels, like the famous Trilogy to keep Polish spirit high.
+++In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. +++
I liked his essays written in the US, but they were also quite dramatic and showed life of Poles in America as uneasy.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 19, 2017 6:28:18 GMT -7
Hope your hearts and souls are at peace.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 19, 2017 7:49:06 GMT -7
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In just 272 words, Lincoln brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.
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Post by jeanne on Nov 24, 2017 18:01:39 GMT -7
Today 26 people were killed by crazy ex-military guy. Every week one shooting in the US. Maybe something should be changed with the laws of this country? Hi Jaga, Yes, but even beyond the changing of laws, I think this country needs to be examining what kind of society we are that would produce people who are committing these atrocities. Something is lacking in our culture if we have so many men (also women, too)who are emerging into adulthood with the hate, violence, and lack of moral direction that so many have and are acting out! Jeanne
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 25, 2017 5:24:59 GMT -7
Today 26 people were killed by crazy ex-military guy. Every week one shooting in the US. Maybe something should be changed with the laws of this country? Hi Jaga, Yes, but even beyond the changing of laws, I think this country needs to be examining what kind of society we are that would produce people who are committing these atrocities. Something is lacking in our culture if we have so many men (also women, too)who are emerging into adulthood with the hate, violence, and lack of moral direction that so many have and are acting out! Jeanne Jeanne, You have hit the nail right on the head !!!
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Post by jeanne on Nov 25, 2017 6:55:10 GMT -7
Hi Jaga, Yes, but even beyond the changing of laws, I think this country needs to be examining what kind of society we are that would produce people who are committing these atrocities. Something is lacking in our culture if we have so many men (also women, too)who are emerging into adulthood with the hate, violence, and lack of moral direction that so many have and are acting out! Jeanne Jeanne, You have hit the nail right on the head !!! John, And won't it be a daunting, monumental task to change the course of culture!!??
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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2017 17:26:42 GMT -7
Jeanne, I agree. Considering also a crisis with people taking opiates... and dying prematurely, I think that the society is a bit disconnected. People do not keep strong bonds like they used to. They are moving from place to place, being anonymous, the community spirit is lost. Today 26 people were killed by crazy ex-military guy. Every week one shooting in the US. Maybe something should be changed with the laws of this country? Hi Jaga, Yes, but even beyond the changing of laws, I think this country needs to be examining what kind of society we are that would produce people who are committing these atrocities. Something is lacking in our culture if we have so many men (also women, too)who are emerging into adulthood with the hate, violence, and lack of moral direction that so many have and are acting out! Jeanne
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Post by jeanne on Nov 25, 2017 18:00:04 GMT -7
Jeanne, I agree. Considering also a crisis with people taking opiates... and dying prematurely, I think that the society is a bit disconnected. People do not keep strong bonds like they used to. They are moving from place to place, being anonymous, the community spirit is lost. Jaga, Yes, that is definitely part of the problem...along with many other factors. A great contributor to this disconnection is the breakdown of the family. It affects so many people and the consequences are far-ranging, especially for children.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 15, 2018 5:49:48 GMT -7
New England History
The Great Molasses Flood | Footnote to History
On January 15, 1919, a giant molasses tank in Boston’s North End exploded, resulting in the "Great Molasses Flood." Robert Stanly • January 15, 2018 Section of tank after Great Molasses Flood explosion. 1:00pm Leslie Jones Collection. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library
In January of 1919 Purity Distilling Company of Boston, maker of high-grade rum, was working three shifts a day in a vain attempt to outrun national Prohibition. The company’s huge iron tank along the water’s edge at 529 Commercial Street in the North End was filled with more than two million gallons of molasses. Pipes entering the tank were heated to aid the flow of the dense liquid. A solitary vent was the only outlet for the fermenting gases. It was just after noon on January 15 when the great molasses tank exploded with a ground-shaking blast. Those nearby who survived the ensuing catastrophe reported strange noises coming from the tank just before it let go. “It was like someone was on the inside hammering to get out,” said one witness. A massive tidal wave of molasses swept across Commercial Street, smashing into a house at 6 Copps Hill Terrace, demolishing the building and killing Mrs. Bridget Clougherty. The metal latticework of the Boston Elevated Railway Company’s Altlantic Avenue line, running above Commercial Street, was struck by a large chunk of the shattered tank. A section of the El collapsed. A quick-thinking motorman, seeing the rail disappear ahead of the train, dashed to the rear car and, with the steel wheels spinning, managed to get it headed in the opposite direction. A “before” shot of the molasses tank in an undated photo. The Bostonian Society/Old State House/Public Domain
Firemen standing in thick molasses after the disaster. Leslie Jones Collection. Courtesy of the Boston Public LibraryThe Bay State Street Railway freight depot and several motorized boxcars were destroyed. On the waterfront, Boston Fireboat #31 was sunk at its dock with loss of life. A five-ton Mack truck was picked up by the wave of molasses and slammed into a building. The city paving department office and stable were erased within seconds, killing five men and a number of horses. Scores of buildings, vehicles and bystanders were swept away. In all, 11 people were killed and more than 50 injured by the initial explosion. A playground and baseball field presently occupy the site of the blast. Local residents claim that on a steamy summer night you can still smell the sweet aroma of molasses. Boston elevated twisted into new shapes, after Molasses Disaster.Leslie Jones Collection. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library
GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD | FAST FACTSGallons of molasses that flooded the North End on January 15, 1919: 2.3 million Estimated height of the wave of molasses: 30 feet Estimated speed of the wave of molasses: 25 miles per hour Number of people who died of drowning or suffocation in the molasses flood: 21 Number of people injured: 150 Sum that the Purity Distilling Company paid in damages to the 125 people who filed suit: Over $1 million Length of time that Boston Harbor ran brown with molasses: Six months
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Post by pieter on Jan 15, 2018 16:07:04 GMT -7
Januari 16th27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán. 550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba. 1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea ravages the East coast of England and destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand. 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy. 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I. 1547 – Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia. 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain. 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. 1786 – Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson. 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. 1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape. 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed. 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. 1920 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. 1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa. 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time. 1938 – Benny Goodman and his band performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1964 – Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances. 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt. 1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War. 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives. 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. 2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Mar 11, 2018 4:09:13 GMT -7
On March 10th this invention brought forward the means by which our children will forever be unable to talk face to face.
In 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario, George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a patent in the U.S. only after they received word from Britain (Britain would issue patents only for discoveries not previously patented elsewhere).[81] Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent[82] drawing, March 7, 1876
Meanwhile, Elisha Gray was also experimenting with acoustic telegraphy and thought of a way to transmit speech using a water transmitter. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S. Patent Office for a telephone design that used a water transmitter. That same morning, Bell's lawyer filed Bell's application with the patent office. There is considerable debate about who arrived first and Gray later challenged the primacy of Bell's patent. Bell was in Boston on February 14 and did not arrive in Washington until February 26.
Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office. Bell's patent covered "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound"[83][N 15] Bell returned to Boston the same day and the next day resumed work, drawing in his notebook a diagram similar to that in Gray's patent caveat.
On March 10, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Bell succeeded in getting his telephone to work, using a liquid transmitter similar to Gray's design. Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit. When Bell spoke the sentence "Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you" into the liquid transmitter,[84] Watson, listening at the receiving end in an adjoining room, heard the words clearly.
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Post by pieter on Mar 11, 2018 5:03:18 GMT -7
March 11th
222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber. 1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona. 1641 – Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina. 1649 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil. 1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time. 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. 1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end. 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape. 1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1845 – Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand. 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. 1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England. 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom. 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. 1917 – World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. 1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. 1941 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. 1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. 1945 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler. 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Buôn Ma Thuột commune from the South Vietnamese army. 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani. 1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon. 1983 – Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia. 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. 1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. 2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people. 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. 2007 – Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later. 2009 – Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany. 2010 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony. 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. 2012 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. 2016 – At least 21 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around São Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on May 28, 2018 5:42:43 GMT -7
Remembering all of our fallen Veterans this Memorial Day weekend
As we enjoy this three day weekend, please take time to stop and remember those that fought for us to have the right to do so. So many are still in harms way so we can continue to be safe. God bless our troops here in the US and those around the world.
If you know what this is, then no words are needed.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 6, 2018 9:21:21 GMT -7
At dawn, 74 years ago today, American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day
Piotrek Zwolski - Polish soldiers be there too...Dont forget this like in Jalta...
Nick Rogers - Yes massive respect to the free Polish. They were said to be some of the bravest and fearless fighters.
During the Battle of Normandy, the Allies suffered 209,000 casualties with about 37,000 ground forces killed, and another 16,714 killed from Allied air forces. Of these casualties, 83,045 were from the 21st Army Group comprising British, Canadian and Polish ground forces) and 125,847 from US ground forces.
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