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« Reply #420 on: February 17, 2022, 11:06:45 PM »
Iowa man swims the English Channel, bikes 9,000 miles, and scales Mt. Everest to complete “World Triathlon”.

Adventurer Charlie Wittmack is preparing to return to his hometown in Iowa after recently completing a 10,000 mile journey that began last July. The 34-year-old Des Moines man completed his “World Triathlon” on Friday when he reached the summit of Mt. Everest.

Wittmack reach the peak solo after six days of climbing. Prior to the climb of Mt. Everest, Wittmack ran or hiked 950 miles, rode a bike 9,000 miles from France to Nepal and swam 200 miles from the source of the Thames River and across the English Channel.

Wittmack, is the only American to have climbed Mount Everest and swum the English Channel.


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Charlie was a speaker at an industry event I attended a few years back

https://www.triathlete.com/culture/news/after-scaling-everest-iowa-man-completes-world-triathlon/
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« Reply #421 on: February 18, 2022, 12:15:52 AM »
Fearless you do all that looking for your ball.
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« Reply #422 on: February 18, 2022, 07:22:45 AM »
That guy should get to know his couch now, right?
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« Reply #423 on: February 18, 2022, 07:44:05 AM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #424 on: February 19, 2022, 09:13:04 AM »
Flashback photos: A look back at Atlanta railroads (ajc.com)

Some pretty neat old train photos.  Railroads built Atlanta, not waterways, which is unusual for a larger city.

In 7th grade, I took a train to DC and NYC as part of a school trip, I don't recall much of it.  Trains seem "romantic" in one sense, or two, I'm not sure they work very well today generally speaking in the US.  Americans will use a bus for a cheap trip instead of trains, usually.  And airfare isn't that much more.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #425 on: February 19, 2022, 09:19:35 AM »
From 1957, predicted in about ten years:

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« Reply #426 on: February 19, 2022, 10:35:29 AM »
Shoot, the future of Back To The Future 2 is now seven years' past and we still don't have the hoverboards and flying cars demonstrated in that movie.

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« Reply #427 on: February 19, 2022, 03:31:03 PM »
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« Reply #428 on: February 19, 2022, 03:36:42 PM »



"The fire from automatic weapons was coming from all over. You could've held up a cigarette and lit it on the stuff going by. I knew immediately we were in for one hell of a time."

Marines probably from the 25th Regiment, 4th Division rushing out of their landing craft for the landing on Yellow and Blue Beaches at Iwo Jima on D-day, 19 February 1945.
(note the LVT (Landing Craft Tracked) burning in right center.)
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« Reply #429 on: February 19, 2022, 05:52:47 PM »
Is that Call of Duty?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #430 on: February 19, 2022, 05:54:23 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 19, 2022, 05:52:47 PM
Is that Call of Duty?
Are you referring to the Marines landing on Iwo Jima?

That would be my son's regiment, incidentally.
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« Reply #431 on: February 19, 2022, 05:57:40 PM »
I have no idea, just commenting on how the modern video games look like the real thing.
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« Reply #432 on: February 19, 2022, 06:13:58 PM »
I included the description of the photo underneath it.  It's real, not some civilian simulation.

I'm not sure I would have had the guts.
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« Reply #433 on: February 19, 2022, 08:25:00 PM »
probably didn't have the chance to have the guts

can't stay in the boat
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