OT - Weird History

[MrNubbz]

The Seine in Paris is not very large, it can accomodate smaller passenger craft, but not significant barge shipping.  And of course it is hindered by bridges like this one.

Deep enough to drown shit bag insurgents,looks fine to me

[MrNubbz]

Because we're America 'murica dammit, and the rest of the world ain't. 

FIFY

[MrNubbz]

October 28 features several memorable milestones and record-breaking performances in college football history:

• 1905 — Notre Dame defeated the American College of Medicine and Surgery 142-0, scoring 27 touchdowns in 33 minutes of play (with a shortened second half).  Fielding Yost's Michigan defeated the Medics 72–0 in 1904,these two deserve each other

• 1950 — The 99-Yard Punt: Pat Brady of Nevada-Reno booted an NCAA-record 99-yard punt against Loyola Marymarks (Loyola Marymount) from inches outside his own goal line. Because a 100-yard punt is impossible in the record books, the record can be tied, but never broken.

• 1978 — Joe Delaney's Half: Joe Delaney of Northwestern State rushed for 263 yards in the second half alone (finishing with 299 yards and 4 touchdowns) in a 28-18 win over Nicholls State, setting an NCAA record for rushing yards in a half.

• 1995 — Holy War Victory: Notre Dame defeated Boston College 20-10 in the seventh annual College Football Holy War.

• 2000 — Purdue Last-Second Thriller: Purdue quarterback Drew Brees connected with Seth Morales for a dramatic game-winning touchdown to beat Ohio State 31-27.

• 2008 — Crabtree's Catch: (Played Oct 28 / early Nov window) No. 5 Texas Tech beat No. 1 Texas 39-33 on Graham Harrell's 28-pressing touchdown pass to Michael Crabtree with just one second remaining

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1904 St. Louis police try a new investigative method, fingerprints

2015 Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"

2020 New coral reef 500 m (1,640 ft) high, taller than the Empire State Building, is discovered north of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Birthdays
1914 Jonas Salk ,polio vaccine
1926 Bowie Kuhn
1937 Lenny Wilkens
1944 Dennis Franz, Hill Street Blues; NYPD Blue
1949 Caitlyn Jenner, born William Bruce Jenner, Olympic gold decathlon 1976
1955 Bill Gates
1967 Julia Roberts

[Wildcat4E]

October 28 features several memorable milestones and record-breaking performances in college football history:

• 1978 — Joe Delaney's Half: Joe Delaney of Northwestern State rushed for 263 yards in the second half alone (finishing with 299 yards and 4 touchdowns) in a 28-18 win over Nicholls State, setting an NCAA record for rushing yards in a half.

Joe Delaney at RB for the Chiefs were early memories for me. He was a helluva player. Tragic death, could not swim, but still attempted to rescue drowning children.

October 28 2019, today one of my Fb memories was a video of Skylar Thompson scoring one of his 4 rushing TD's in this:


MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Skylar Thompson and Kansas State dealt a big blow to No. 5 Oklahoma's national title hopes.

The Wildcats' quarterback threw for 213 yards while running for four touchdowns, the defense did just enough against Heisman Trophy contender Jalen Hurts and the Sooners' prolific offense, and Kansas State held on through a harrowing fourth quarter for a 48-41 victory on Saturday.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Maybe when we figure out how the Egyptians built the pyramids, that can happen.

[FearlessF]

Joe Delaney at RB for the Chiefs were early memories for me. He was a helluva player. Tragic death, could not swim, but still attempted to rescue drowning children.

should have met the Duke when he was younger



https://youtu.be/pIJrIuLwjM8

[FearlessF]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Sir Walter Raleigh Is Executed for Treason (1618)
Raleigh was an English explorer, courtier, and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, whom he famously—according to the story—protected from a puddle by laying down his cloak. After King James I took the throne, however, Raleigh was accused of plotting against the king, was arrested, and lost many of his offices and monopolies. He was also found guilty, on somewhat insufficient evidence, of conspiring with Spain against England.

[FearlessF]

On This Day in 1983, Pink Floyd Made Billboard History with The Dark Side of the Moon
On October 29, 1983, Pink Floyd achieved one of the most extraordinary milestones in the history of recorded music. Their legendary album The Dark Side of the Moon reached its 491st week on the Billboard 200, establishing a new all-time record for the longest-charting album.
The previous record belonged to Johnny Mathis, whose 1958 compilation Johnny's Greatest Hits had spent 490 weeks on the chart. Pink Floyd's achievement was especially remarkable because The Dark Side of the Moon was not a greatest-hits collection, but a single studio album built around a unified musical concept.
Originally released in March 1973, the album explored some of life's most universal themes: time, money, conflict, mortality and the human mind. Its combination of ambitious songwriting, groundbreaking studio techniques and unforgettable performances helped it connect with audiences far beyond progressive rock.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and engineered by Alan Parsons, the album featured classics including "Breathe," "Time," "Money," "Us and Them" and "The Great Gig in the Sky." Its famous prism cover, designed by Hipgnosis, became one of the most recognizable images in music history.
Although the album spent only one week at No. 1 in America, its popularity proved unusually enduring. Listeners continued buying and discovering it throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, allowing it to outlast albums that had initially achieved much greater chart success.
By the time The Dark Side of the Moon left the Billboard 200 in October 1988, it had accumulated 741 weeks on the chart. Changes to Billboard's eligibility rules later allowed the album to return, extending its historic total even further.
The record established on October 29, 1983, became one of the defining achievements of Pink Floyd's career. It was proof that an album could become more than a commercial success, growing into a lasting part of popular culture and remaining relevant across generations.

[MikeDeTiger]

Brittany is called that because it was settled by Britons a long while back leaving "Britain", being pushed out by Angles and Saxons.  History is very weird.

Some got pushed out to the surrounding countryside and hills, others were absorbed.  Married, assimilated, or decided screw it, I might be conquered but I ain't leaving.  So the Anglo-Saxon population after a generation or two, were really the Anglo-Saxon-Britons. 

And then came the Norman invasion, which I think you referenced (probably the last time France won a war of note), and then henceforth they were really Anglo-Saxon-Briton-mustache-twirling-Frenchmen.  But the simpler "Anglo-Saxon" name is what persisted, though not exactly accurate. 

Which reminds me, I recently watched The Pendragon Cycle on Prime Video, based on the books by Stephen R. Lawhead.  I never read those books, but I had some friends in middle school who were into them.  I think there were only 3 at the time.  Anyway, the tv show was quite different than my general conception of Arthurian legend.  I checked around and found out the tv show was pretty faithful to the books.  So then I started looking into the history of Arthurian tales and discovered that my impression of the legend and the general ethos it exists in is a very post-Norman influence.  Which is the most dominant form of the myth today.  But it is roughly the 4th major iteration of the legend, the first two being extremely different in nature, tone, and character.  Like a lot of other Anglo-Saxon(-Briton) culture after the Norman invasion, the Arthurian legend was Frenchified and became the grandiose tale of knights of a round table, chivalry, great castles, etc. that it seems most know today.  The original tale was definitely of the Britons and that culture, and it went through about two major iterations before an Anglo-Saxon spin was put on a 3rd version, and then finally the Norman spin which persists today.  The Pendragon Cycle books apparently intentionally sought to shed the Norman influence, though it did not exactly reproduce in novel form the original versions, either.  It drew heavily from earlier versions in many ways, but Lawhead definitely added his own thing.  Thus, the tv show, sticking close to the books, doesn't look like the same Norman-influenced world mostly painted by a lot of modern popular Arthurian takes I was familiar with.  

[Cincydawg]

Yeah, the "Vikings" were similarly absorbed by intermarriage.  The Britons inhabited Wales which stayed independent for a time along with Scotland.  It ended up a mixture very akin to our language, a hodgepodge, some Latin, some French, Germanic structure, some Norwegian, some Chinese ... I was surprised taking German how the structure is quasi-similar to English but many words are not nearly the same, whereas we have many Frenchy words, like umbrage.

Breton is still spoken by a few folks in Brittany, mostly older folks.  The French government tried to stamp it out, but now they are more relaxed about it, along with Occitane.  The other rather curious area is Alsace/Lorraine, it really looks German, the food is German mostly, they now speak French (mostly), they grow a lot of hops.

I'm amidst reading a book about the Mexican War, what a story that is...