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« Reply #560 on: March 23, 2022, 09:19:31 AM »
On this date:
In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east.


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« Reply #561 on: March 23, 2022, 11:12:49 AM »
Historic Photographs

Huntington Beach, California, during the Oil boom of 1928.


May be an image of 4 people and outdoors
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« Reply #562 on: March 23, 2022, 11:49:51 AM »
Beautiful, nice place for Pelosi
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« Reply #563 on: March 23, 2022, 12:28:18 PM »
I watched this video the other night and thought some people (mostly Michigan fans) would appreciate it due to the name of the ship.  

The United States Navy operated two Aircraft Carriers on the Great Lakes.  No, they were not for a planned invasion of Canada, eh!  The USS Wolverine and her sister ship the USS Sable were converted into carriers to train the thousands of carrier pilots (and aircrew and ground crew, etc) needed to man the actual fighting carriers in the Pacific and to a lesser extent in the Atlantic.  Both were converted from pleasure cruisers and operated out of Chicago (Navy Pier).  Famously, one of the pilots trained on the USS Wolverine was a young man from Connecticut named George Herbert Walker Bush.  
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« Reply #564 on: March 23, 2022, 12:40:26 PM »
Lotta respect for Old Man George,not so much for his Kid and his cronie DICK
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« Reply #565 on: March 23, 2022, 05:30:33 PM »
just gotta toss that dirty nickel in there, don'tcha?
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« Reply #566 on: March 23, 2022, 06:04:05 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 23, 2022, 05:30:33 PM
just gotta toss that dirty nickel in there, don'tcha?
LOL   thats funny coming from the King of the dirty nickel tossers
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« Reply #567 on: March 23, 2022, 06:05:51 PM »
He has a point...
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« Reply #568 on: March 23, 2022, 06:21:50 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 23, 2022, 05:30:33 PM
just gotta toss that dirty nickel in there, don'tcha?
Dubya & DICK didn't dabble in nickels
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« Reply #569 on: March 24, 2022, 09:45:19 AM »
22 March 1933 | The first official concentration camp was opened in Nazi Germany at the site of an unused gunpowder and munitions factory near the town of Dacchau 16 km from Munich. It was indented to hold political opponents of NDSAP.
The first commandant of Rudolf Höss began his career in SS-Totenkopfverbände in KL Dachau. He was assigned there in December 1934 & held the post of Blockführer. Another link between the two camps is the use of "Arbeit macht frei" slogan at their gates.
In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 people from Nazi Germany and many countries of occupied Europe were imprisoned in Dachau and in the numerous sub camps. Around 41.500 were murdered.
On April 29 1945, American troops liberated the camp.


The death camps in Poland were far larger of course.


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« Reply #570 on: March 24, 2022, 09:50:03 AM »
The youngest soldier in the Civil War was a 9-year-old boy from Mississippi. The oldest was an 80-year-old from Iowa. More than 10,000 soldiers serving in the Union Army were under 18 years old.
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« Reply #571 on: March 24, 2022, 10:12:45 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 24, 2022, 09:45:19 AM
22 March 1933 | The first official concentration camp was opened in Nazi Germany at the site of an unused gunpowder and munitions factory near the town of Dacchau 16 km from Munich. It was indented to hold political opponents of NDSAP.
The first commandant of Rudolf Höss began his career in SS-Totenkopfverbände in KL Dachau. He was assigned there in December 1934 & held the post of Blockführer. Another link between the two camps is the use of "Arbeit macht frei" slogan at their gates.
In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 people from Nazi Germany and many countries of occupied Europe were imprisoned in Dachau and in the numerous sub camps. Around 41.500 were murdered.
On April 29 1945, American troops liberated the camp.

The death camps in Poland were far larger of course.
I actually went and saw Dachau when I was in Germany in 1989.  The Germans have basically no signage, it was HARD to find and I imagine that was not without reason.  
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« Reply #572 on: March 24, 2022, 10:22:30 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 24, 2022, 09:50:03 AM
The youngest soldier in the Civil War was a 9-year-old boy from Mississippi. The oldest was an 80-year-old from Iowa. More than 10,000 soldiers serving in the Union Army were under 18 years old.
The number of casualties in the Civil War is staggering.  The two sides lost around 620,000 killed.  That is almost as many as the US lost in all the other wars it has ever been involved in combined.  Also, there is the issue of impact.  In WWII, for example, the US lost around 400,000 killed.  So it sounds like that is almost as many as the Civil War and it is but as a percentage it is vastly different:
  • In 1860 the US had a population of ~31 Million so those ~620k deaths represented roughly 2% of the population.  
  • In 1940 the US had a population of ~132 Million so those ~400k deaths represented roughly 0.3% of the population.  

Ie, the Civil War was seven times deadlier than WWII in terms of percentage of US population killed.  

Also consider it this way:
  • 2% is roughly 1 in 50, but
  • Nearly all the killed were men so it is roughly 1 in 25, but
  • Many of the men were under or over fighting age so amongst men of military age it was probably closer to 1 in 10 or so.  

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #573 on: March 24, 2022, 10:46:28 AM »
The number who died of disease in the CW was enormous, we did not have 620,000 "killed in battle".  The figure I hear for WW 2 was 292,000.

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