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« Reply #1134 on: October 21, 2022, 08:26:24 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Florence Nightingale Sent to Treat War Wounded (1854)
Though Nightingale's parents opposed their daughter's pursuit of a career in nursing, she persevered and is now considered the founder of modern nursing. During the Crimean War, she traveled to Turkey to treat the British wounded, earning the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" for her devotion to the troops' care. Upon her return, she wrote Notes on Nursing, the first nursing textbook, and founded the Nightingale Training School.
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« Reply #1135 on: October 21, 2022, 08:59:23 AM »
Now here's something you don't or didnt't see every day. NOT a Superfortress, it's a proposed 'Ultrafortress B-54':

"This Superfortress, B-29-25-BW (42-24441), was modified under “Project S68” in late 1944 for manned turrets evaluation purposes. Instead of the B-29’s sophisticated defensive system, it was fitted with a pair of manned Martin turrets in the top fuselage; two Sperry A-2 ball turrets (one visible behind the nose wheels strut) on bottom of the fuselage and this outrageous pair of Emmerson 136 “jowl” barbettes on the nose."

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« Reply #1136 on: October 21, 2022, 02:36:16 PM »

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« Reply #1137 on: October 21, 2022, 06:59:27 PM »
In 1963, San Francisco Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry famously declared, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run."

On July 20, 1969, just 20 minutes after Neil Armstrong became the first human being ever to walk on the moon, Perry hit the first, and only, home run of his career.

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« Reply #1138 on: October 22, 2022, 05:26:14 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Kennedy Confirms Missile Presence in Cuba (1962)
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major Cold War confrontation that began when US reconnaissance flights uncovered Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy denounced the Soviet actions, imposed a naval blockade on Cuba, and vowed that the US would retaliate against any missile launched from Cuba. After hovering on the brink of war for several days, the two superpowers were able to reach a compromise.
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« Reply #1139 on: October 22, 2022, 05:28:01 PM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY:
Curly Howard (1903)
Jerome Lester Horwitz, a man best known as "Curly Howard" or simply "Curly," was arguably the most popular member of the legendary comedy trio the Three Stooges. He appeared in nearly 100 Three Stooges shorts before suffering a career-ending stroke. According to brother and fellow Stooge Moe Howard, Curly often struggled with his lines and instead improvised the visual and vocal nonsense that became hallmarks of his character.
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« Reply #1140 on: October 23, 2022, 12:51:09 PM »
20 Images Chronicling Custer’s Last Stand

The Battle of Little Bighorn, more commonly known as Custer’s Last stand, was fought June 25-26, 1876 between the U.S. 7th Cavalry and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and the Arapaho tribes. The 7th Cavalry suffered an overwhelming defeat with five of the Cavalry’s twelve companies being completely decimated.

As settlers headed west into the Great Plains in the second half of the 19th century, tensions between the United States and the Natives grew to conflicts known as the Sioux Wars.

During the Sun Dance, the most important religious ceremony of the year for the Lakota and Cheyenne, spiritual leader Sitting Bull had a vision of “soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky.”

On June 25, Custer’s scouts saw a large band of horses and a Native village. Custer, after the Cavalry had been spotted by hostiles, elected to begin the attack immediately.

Custer was told before the expedition that there would be no more than 800 warriors. Due to a protest of the U.S. government policies by ‘reservation Indians,’ many more joined Sitting Bull for the summer buffalo hunt. There were between 1,500 and 2,500 warriors.



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Comanche, Captain Keogh’s Mount, allegedly the Only Survivor of Custer’s Last Stand.

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Capt. Myles W. Keogh and troopers of Company I were killed here. Photograph taken in 1877. National Park Service

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« Reply #1141 on: October 23, 2022, 01:25:25 PM »
Just saw a segment on some historian/battle field detective team trying to piece together where the spoils of war went after the battle.Like saddles,guns,uniforms,tools anything of use - the Indians were quite resourceful and creative putting items to good use out of necessity.Turns out they think the Crow Tribe made off with much of it.As the 3 tribes you mentioned fled after the battle. The Crow and Arikara were allied with the Blue Coats because the Souix/Cheyenne/Arapaho had driven them from those lands that were theirs.

 Ironically the Chippewa were driven out of places by the Northern Cheyenne who inturn were ousted by the Lakota Souix but later they allied because of the settlers/miners moving in.See it wasn't all Kumbaya with the Native Peoples.Anyway with metal detectors and ground penetrating radar they able to track up into the ravines,gulleys,recesses of sandstone hills miles away.Unfortunately they had to stop as they were upon an old burial ground that was revered so they could go no further
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« Reply #1142 on: October 23, 2022, 01:40:54 PM »
I've been to the battlefield a couple times
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« Reply #1143 on: October 23, 2022, 01:44:27 PM »
Lot more than 9-18-36 holes out there
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« Reply #1144 on: October 23, 2022, 02:09:43 PM »
yup, but not MORE fun
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« Reply #1145 on: October 24, 2022, 07:05:38 AM »



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« Reply #1146 on: October 24, 2022, 09:53:31 AM »
Sporty car!
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« Reply #1147 on: October 25, 2022, 01:51:57 PM »
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In Bush v. Gore (2000), the Supreme Court affirmed that “the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for Electors for the President of the United State unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the Electoral College … [the state legislature] may, if it so chooses, select the Electors itself.”

In fact, states utilized both direct selection by their state legislatures and popular election (in two general forms) for the first several Presidential elections. The three general modes employed were: (i) direct selection by the state legislature (hereinafter the “direct legislative choice method”); (ii) election of Electors by popular vote within separate districts of the state (hereinafter the “district election method”); and (iii) election of the entire slate of Electors by statewide “winner-take-all” popular vote (hereinafter the “general ticket method”). 

Beginning with the first Presidential elections, political factions used the array of methods available for choosing Electors to seek implementation of the mode that would be most favorable to their candidates. As a result, state legislatures often changed their method of selection in a particular Presidential election year depending upon which method would yield the best result based on their partisan preferences or based on a compromise within a particular legislature between opposing parties. 

For example, from 1800 through 1820, Massachusetts changed between the direct legislative choice method (in years where one party dominated the Legislature) and a district election method (when a split Legislature compromised to allow for a possible split of Electors). Similarly, New Jersey and North Carolina also engaged in switching methods based on partisanship during this period (McCormick 32, 109).

 

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