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Topic: OT - Weird History

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #868 on: July 17, 2022, 05:25:55 AM »
It is astounding how quickly companies like GM stopped build cars and started build war materiel.  It's also astounding to me that Nazi war production reached its peak in December 1944.  The US invaded North Africa in 1942, attacking French held territory, and taking losses to the French.


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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #869 on: July 17, 2022, 06:08:43 AM »
"On July 16, 1790, the young American Congress declares that a swampy, humid, muddy and mosquito-infested site on the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia will be the nation’s permanent capital. “Washington,” in the newly designated federal “District of Columbia,” was named after the leader of the American Revolution and the country’s first president: George Washington. It was Washington who saw the area’s potential economic and accessibility benefits due to the proximity of navigable rivers.

George Washington, who had been in office just over a year when the capital site was determined, asked a French architect and city planner named Pierre L Enfant to design the capital. In 1793, the first cornerstones of the president’s mansion, which was eventually renamed the “White House,” were laid. George Washington, however, never lived in the mansion as it was not inhabitable until 1800. Instead, President John Adams and his wife Abigail were the White House’s first residents. They lived there less than a year; Thomas Jefferson moved in in 1801."

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #870 on: July 17, 2022, 08:01:33 AM »
For turning the tide of naval warfare in the Pacific Theater while incurring no casualties in World War II, the USS Washington is one of America's most famous navy Ships. Prior to American entrance into World War II, the USS Washington battleship’s initial assignment was escorting supply ships between England and Russia in support of the Lend Lease Act. One of two North Carolina-class battleships, she would gain her fame in battle after being transferred to the South Pacific in 1942. The Washington is responsible for turning the tide of naval warfare in the Pacific Theater while miraculously incurring no casualties or damage from enemy fire through the entire war. She holds the record for enemy tonnage sunk and remains, to this day, the only battleship to sink an enemy battleship in a one to one surface engagement, marking her one of America’s most famous navy ships of all time. Engaging the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at what would become known as the Third Battle of Savo Island, the Washington was prepared to assert dominance in her new theater of operations. During the battle, the South Dakota and USN destroyers took the brunt of the damage, while the Washington maneuvered around the IJN formation, unloading on the Kirishima and landing forty-nine hits. The Kirishima was set ablaze, which also disabled her steering capability; she was scuttled the following day.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #871 on: July 17, 2022, 10:23:36 AM »
So the sinking of the Hood does not count?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #872 on: July 17, 2022, 10:42:27 AM »
So the sinking of the Hood does not count?
The Hood was classified (usually) as a battle cruiser, and the Bismark was accomanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen which MIGHT have fired the damaging round that killed the Hood, probably not.  

On the other hand, the IJN Kirishima was a battle cruiser initially, then uprated to a full BB between the wars.  The USS South Dakota was with the Washington but had electrical problems and dropped out of the fight.



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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #873 on: July 17, 2022, 11:21:19 AM »
It is an interesting battle and Oldendorf was a master of gunnery.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #874 on: July 18, 2022, 05:49:56 AM »
104 years ago today in 1918, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra, their five children, and four of their servants are shot and stabbed to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
Nicholas was crowned Emperor of Russia on May 26th 1896. At the time he inherited one of the largest and most powerful empires in the world. However his reign would be plagued with internal and external crises early on. Modernization of the 20th century would lead to the lower classes of Russia clamoring for political reform from the old autocratic system. Officials in his government would be the target of violent activism and assassinations. And in response his government would sometimes harshly respond to protests and provocations.
In 1904 Russia would go to war with Japan and lose an entire fleet in battle. Nicholas would decide to double-down and send their prestigious Baltic fleet across the world. But the Japanese would also destroy this fleet and inflict over 100,000 casualties on the Russians, forcing them to cede territory. The cost and failure of the war was a direct cause of the 1905 Russian Revolution which the Czar’s government violently suppressed and would almost completely alienate him from the general population.
The Czar was also affected by a more personal issue too. His son Alexi was born a hemophiliac taking up much of his time and concern. Desperate to heal their son, the royal family turned to a bizarre mystic named Grigori Rasputin who would manipulate them and alienate many of the Czar’s closest advisers and noblemen.
The final catalyst to the Czar’s downfall would be the horrendous losses and failure in World War One. The February Revolution of 1917 would have the Czar abdicate his throne, including for his sick son. By all accounts, the family was relieved to give up power and avoid politics. They planned to live a comfortable life in exile. The royal family and their loyal servants were imprisoned in the Alexander Palace before being moved to Tobolsk and then Yekaterinburg. As the Russian Civil War escalated, Allied powers intervened and the Bolshevik government lost ground. The Royal family’s conditions deteriorated and became harsher. The Soviets would periodically execute servants and guards who were kind to the family. And with Allied forces getting close to their location, direct orders from Vladmir Lenin had forced the family and their remaining four servants to pack their belongings and go into the basement to be moved to another place. 
On the dark early morning of July 17th, while the family sat together a group of Bolsheviks entered the room and read them an execution sentence. The Czar and his wife stood in front of their children and protested what was about to be done. Pistols were drawn and unloaded on the family. The Czar and his wife were killed immediately by the bullets and shielding their children. The noise from all the gunshots concerned the Bolsheviks and smoke covered the entire room making it difficult to see. The children and servants laid wounded and crying. The Soviets walked around the smokey room, stabbing and beating the survivors to death. And eventually shooting each of them in the head to ensure they were gone. The execution lasted a total of 20 minutes. The location and disposal of their bodies was a subject of great mystery for the next century.
With their deaths, one of the most important political dynasties of the last 300 years was extinguished. Fearful of the family being made martyrs, the Soviet Government denied the family was dead for decades. There were also impostors who claimed they were the missing royal family. Most of the remains were found in 1979, and the last two in 2007. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russian government would formally rebury the remains of the royal family. They would also open a murder investigation in 1993 but failed to find any of the executors still alive. Nicholas, his wife, and their children are formally canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church.


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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #875 on: July 18, 2022, 10:28:47 AM »

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #876 on: July 18, 2022, 07:35:59 PM »
On August 13, 1886, Captain Moses Harris from Fort Custer in the Montana Territories marched into Yellowstone and assumed the title of park superintendent. He was the first of a dozen military officers to lead the park until the National Park Service took over in 1918.
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« Reply #877 on: July 18, 2022, 07:38:59 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Adolf Hitler Publishes First Volume of Mein Kampf (1925)
Hitler dictated his manifesto, whose title means "my struggle," while serving a prison term for treason. The book, filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, political ideology, and strategy for world domination, became the bible of National Socialism. By the end of WWII, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany—owing much to the fact that every newlywed couple and every soldier at the battlefront received a free copy.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #878 on: July 19, 2022, 07:23:20 AM »
I tried to read that once, it literally is unreadable, it's like unedited random notions pouring out.

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« Reply #879 on: July 19, 2022, 09:05:02 AM »
I also started it decades ago when I was a reader

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« Reply #880 on: July 19, 2022, 09:07:49 AM »
Hitler told his thoughts to a fellow Nazi in prison with him I forget which one now, who wrote it for him, I presume he was scared to edit it at all.

It's like a torrent of disconnected notions, a lot of it has nothing to do with Jews and others, but much is about racial purity and Lebensraum, and the racial struggle he saw as inherent in humans.  

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« Reply #881 on: July 20, 2022, 08:53:22 AM »
A commemorative tower was built in Scotland for a cat named Towser, who caught nearly 30,000 mice in her lifetime.
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