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« Reply #1848 on: May 17, 2023, 08:26:41 AM »
The Titanic's chief baker nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner and calmly paddled around until dawn. After he was rescued, he was back at work within days. Experts note that he survived history's greatest maritime disaster by getting completely drunk.
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« Reply #1849 on: May 17, 2023, 09:15:55 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Police Raid Symbionese Liberation Army Headquarters (1974)
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American terrorist group responsible for various bank robberies, murders, and acts of violence between 1973 and 1975. The group is perhaps best known for kidnapping 19-year-old media heiress Patty Hearst, who later became a member of the SLA—a decision experts attribute to a psychological condition known as Stockholm syndrome—and participated in their heists.
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« Reply #1850 on: May 18, 2023, 06:07:04 AM »

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« Reply #1851 on: May 18, 2023, 09:35:59 AM »

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« Reply #1852 on: May 18, 2023, 10:43:57 AM »

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« Reply #1853 on: May 18, 2023, 10:44:28 AM »
First McDonalds?  I stopped there while driving Rte 66.  

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« Reply #1854 on: May 18, 2023, 12:28:09 PM »
What are we looking at here?
I think that is Paris and it's arrondissements

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« Reply #1855 on: May 18, 2023, 12:29:25 PM »
I think that is Paris and it's arrondissements
Yes, that always had confused me no end, now I sorta understand.

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« Reply #1856 on: May 18, 2023, 01:15:37 PM »
First McDonalds?  I stopped there while driving Rte 66. 
I did a lot of my growing up in a town called Des Plaines, IL. It was the home of Ray Kroc's first McDonalds. The building was raised a few years ago - it flooded a lot. There is a new store across the street. This was the old one. Ate plenty of burgers in the joint as a kid.


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« Reply #1857 on: May 18, 2023, 01:45:49 PM »
I am a creature of habit.  My junior year in HS I took 2nd year chem, which was two periods long, 4th and 5th.  We got dispensation from the principal to leave after 5th if we had no other classes (seniors could anyway, but not juniors).  I had lunch every day at McDs.  My senior year I had no 6th period class and had lunch every day at Burger King.  I got a Whopper, a large orange, and fries, for 99 cents.  The lady who worked there every day, by herself, would see me pull into the lot and have my order ready when I got to the counter.

For breakfast, my Mom always fixed 4 fried eggs, grits, toast, milk and OJ.  I would not gain an ounce.

These days we usually have leftovers from dinner that I heat up for lunch, today it was one taco and some cabbage soup (which I made, it's quite good).

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« Reply #1858 on: May 19, 2023, 12:39:30 PM »

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« Reply #1859 on: May 20, 2023, 10:03:12 AM »
cabbage soup is gooood

we didn't go to McDonalds or A&W or the local drive-in when I was a kid - very often a tall

money was tight and 99 cents for a meal was too much
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« Reply #1860 on: May 20, 2023, 01:27:50 PM »

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« Reply #1861 on: May 21, 2023, 07:58:33 AM »


Early morning on this date in aviation history; Friday, May 20th, 1927. Burdened by its heavy load of 450 U.S. gallons of fuel load, Lindbergh's Wright Whirlwind-powered monoplane commenced its painfully slow takeoff roll down a muddy, rain-soaked runway. Thankfully her J-5C radial engine still proved powerful enough to allow the Spirit to become airborne at 7:52 am and clear the telephone lines at the far end of the field "by about twenty feet.
Over the next 33.5 hours, he and the Spirit—which Lindbergh always jointly referred to as "WE"—faced many challenges in crossing the Atlantic; skimming over storm clouds at 10,000 ft and wave tops as low at 10 ft, fighting rime and clear icing, at times zero visibility through stratus and only when weather allowed, by using celestial navigation, and dead reckoning to keep on course.
Le Bourget airfield in France, was not marked on his map and Lindbergh knew only that it was some seven miles northeast of the city. He initially mistook the airfield for some large industrial complex with bright lights spreading out in all directions. The lights were, in fact, the headlights of tens of thousands of cars all driven by eager spectators now caught in "the largest traffic jam in Parisian history."
"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."


 

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