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FearlessF · « **Reply #1120 on:** October 06, 2022, 10:01:09 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Cubana Flight 455 Bombed (1976)
The bombing of Cubana Flight 455 killed all 78 people on board, including several Cuban government officials. At that time, it constituted the most deadly act of airline terrorism ever carried out in the Western Hemisphere. An investigation uncovered evidence implicating anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police in the plot. Four men were arrested: two received 20-year prison terms, one was acquitted, and another fled.

medinabuckeye1 · « **Reply #1121 on:** October 06, 2022, 10:04:59 AM »

Quote from: MrNubbz on October 05, 2022, 12:21:32 PM

Didn't the Pilgrims stop because they were out of Bier?
[img width=273.429 height=320]https://i.imgur.com/6CLxID5.png[/img]

https://www.seriouseats.com/beer-myths-corn-pilgrims-first-beer-thanksgiving-lager-prohibition-history

I doubt it, the Pilgrims were teetotalers. An ancestor of mine (not a member of their church) accompanied them on their voyage and was later fined for operating a "tavern" on a Sunday which was illegal in their settlement.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #1122 on:** October 06, 2022, 10:11:38 AM »

So they had the taverns

medinabuckeye1 · « **Reply #1123 on:** October 06, 2022, 10:20:51 AM »

Quote from: MrNubbz on October 06, 2022, 10:11:38 AM

So they had the taverns

An illegal one run by my great-great- . . .great-grandfather!

FearlessF · « **Reply #1124 on:** October 10, 2022, 10:02:29 AM »

FACT OF THE DAY:

The first Ferris wheel was invented in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. The ride was over 264 feet tall and featured passenger cars that weighed over 1,200 lbs and were roughly the size of a city bus. Although the original was demolished in 1906, a 15-story replica can be found at Navy Pier of Chicago.

Brutus Buckeye · « **Reply #1125 on:** October 10, 2022, 11:19:57 AM »

What are some good Christopher Columbus stories?

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1126 on:** October 10, 2022, 12:01:46 PM »

A thing that surprised me back when was that Germany and Italy are relatively new countries.

I also learned that Swedes and Danes still don't like each other.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1127 on:** October 10, 2022, 12:04:55 PM »

Ottoman Empire enters the First World War - The Ottoman Empire | NZHistory, New Zealand history online

A few days later the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau appeared off the Dardanelles, after evading the French and British fleets in a daring dash through the Mediterranean. They requested passage through the straits to Constantinople. After delicate negotiations – and over Sait’s objections – they were allowed to proceed. A week later the two warships – complete with their German crews – were officially ‘transferred’ to the Ottoman Navy and renamed the Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midilli. The British refused to recognise the transfer unless the German crews were removed, and the Royal Navy blockaded the entrance of the Dardanelles to enforce this demand.

Kaiser Wilhelm II visits The Dardanelles title=Kaiser Wilhelm II visits The Dardanelles

Kaiser Wilhelm II visits The Dardanelles
This rapid escalation in tension quickly led to the withdrawal of the British mission to the Ottoman Navy. In late August, General Liman von Sanders, head of the German military mission to the Ottoman Empire, was appointed commander of the Ottoman First Army (whose remit included the Gallipoli Peninsula). Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, the German naval commander of the Goeben and Breslau, was appointed by Cemal Pasha to command the Ottoman Navy. Although the Ottoman Empire was still ostensibly neutral at this point, Cemal then appointed German Vice-Admiral Guido von Usedom as ‘Inspector-General of Coastal Defences and Mines’. Von Usedom’s job was to help the Ottoman Army strengthen the coastal defences along both the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. He arrived in Constantinople on 19 August with a specialist military team of 500 German officers and men. These actions did not go unnoticed in the Allied capitals.
The pro-war faction in the Ottoman government knew that the Germans wanted to bring the empire into the war as quickly as possible. Through such blatant manipulation of the military mission arrangements in favour of Germany, Enver, Cemal and their supporters were clearly signalling where their sympathies lay. By provoking an increasingly belligerent response from the Allied powers, they made it harder for Sait to argue the case for continued neutrality.

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Ottoman Empire declares war, November 1914
But as the weeks dragged by, Enver grew impatient. On 25 October 1914, without consulting any of his ministerial colleagues, he ordered Admiral Souchon to take the Ottoman fleet, including the German-crewed ships, into the Black Sea to attack the Russians. The fleet carried out surprise raids on Theodosia, Novorossisk, Odessa and Sevastopol, sinking a Russian minelayer, a gunboat and 14 civilian ships. On 2 November, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. France and the British Empire, Russia’s wartime allies, followed suit on the 5th. Enver Pasha had succeeded in bringing the Ottoman Empire into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary. Whether he would be as successful in achieving his principle war aim – pan-Turkic expansion into Central Asia at Russia′s expense – was another question.

FearlessF · « **Reply #1128 on:** October 12, 2022, 08:11:33 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Columbus Makes Landfall in the Caribbean (1492)
Believing that Asia could be reached by traveling westward, Columbus's three-ship expedition set sail from Palos, Spain, in 1492. After a stop at the Canary Islands, Columbus sailed due west, turning in a more southerly direction after about a month at sea. Shortly thereafter, Columbus quelled a small mutiny, and, on October 12, landed at an island in the Bahamas. Columbus also explored nearby Cuba and Hispaniola before returning to Spain.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1129 on:** October 18, 2022, 05:14:43 PM »

This strange object is an armored cloche defensive fortification.

Armored cloches (meaning bell) were a type of static defense that provided its occupants protection and a wide field of fire. They were made of incredibly thick cast steel (this one being between 200-300 mm).

The square holes near the top are firing ports (the rest are out of view) that give the crew a 360 degree view around the cloche. A machine gun was mounted on a rail system around the inside, and could be relocated to fire through each port. When not in use, ports could be plugged from the inside.

The cloches would be submerged in concrete above a shaft and form part of a larger bunker complex. Only the upper portion above the firing ports would be visible. Defenders entered, exited and resupplied the cloche from the shaft below.

This particular example weighs around 60 tons and is likely a German 20P7. It was relocated from Cherbourg to its present location at the =AZWC-8oz2geOyWOU9egiZYwfpohS0SukYTz0KPANzmOCf4um6F7BAISEa10Zeef4IyVqBMUz2t8y6RoNuVLRRukDak-v_7PV_dmj4N_6Q0NiSxirTqmUGZCFktW1gd_kFoVkkbVwxK510A1R91XVRuHma7--bBSRQK5Aq-Jz4WcKGflSfS7_-bqvW6SbCV5hiQKn0kkaMDOew3IfeGxJ38X2&__tn__=-]K-R"][color=var(--accent)]Musée D-Day Omaha
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The circular marks are shell impacts. None penetrated.

OrangeAfroMan · « **Reply #1130 on:** October 18, 2022, 07:36:02 PM »

Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on October 10, 2022, 11:19:57 AM

What are some good Christopher Columbus stories?

He discovered a land already populated by people.
He discovered a land already discovered hundreds of years earlier.
He never actually set foot on the mainland of North America.
He labeled native Americans 'Indians,' despite being over 7,000 miles from India.
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But he's so cool and due solely to ignorant tradition, we should celebrate him.
That about sum it up?

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1131 on:** October 20, 2022, 08:23:05 AM »

In the early 1600s, scientists were facing a theoretical and practical problem: a pump could only raise water up to a height of 10 metres (34 ft). Galileo[/iurl] argued that suction pumps were able to draw water from a well because of the "force of vacuum." This argument, however, failed to explain the fact that suction pumps could only raise water to a height of 10 metres. Then an Italian man (student of Galileo) solved this puzzle by proposing that we live in a "sea of air" that exerts a pressure and then invented the That great Italian man is our "scientist of the day" today.

It's the birthday of EvangelistaTorricelli[/iurl], the first man to create a sustained vacuum --

(Scientist of the Day - 15 October)

Torricelli was fascinated by astronomy and was a student & strong supporter of Galileo. After Galileo's trial in 1633, he realised that he would be on dangerous ground were he to continue with his interests in the Copernican[/iurl] theory so he deliberately shifted his attention onto mathematical areas which seemed less controversial.

In 1643, Torricelli filled a meter-long tube (with one end sealed off) with mercury[/iurl] (13 times denser than water) and setting it vertically into a basin of the liquid metal. The column of mercury fell to about 76 cm (30 inch), producing a Torricellian vacuum above. This was the first recorded incident of creating permanent vacuum[/iurl]. This work laid the foundations for the modern concept of atmospheric pressure, the first barometer and the first pressure altimeter.

The solution to the suction pump puzzle and the discovery of the principle of the barometer and altimeter have perpetuated Torricelli's fame with terms such as "Torricellian tube" & "Torricellian vacuum".

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1132 on:** October 20, 2022, 08:23:53 AM »

Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on October 18, 2022, 07:36:02 PM

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But he's so cool and due solely to ignorant tradition, we should celebrate him.
That about sum it up?

"Celebrate" is not the right word, in my view, but his actions had an enormous impact on history.

FearlessF · « **Reply #1133 on:** October 20, 2022, 08:52:47 PM »

yup, no fireworks or backyard parties or drink specials

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