header pic

Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

The 'Old' CFN/Scout Crowd- Enjoy Civil discussion, game analytics, in depth player and coaching 'takes' and discussing topics surrounding the game. You can even have your own free board, all you have to do is ask!!!

Anyone is welcomed and encouraged to join our FREE site and to take part in our community- a community with you- the user, the fan, -and the person- will be protected from intrusive actions and with a clean place to interact.


Author

Topic: OT - Weird History

 (Read 166822 times)

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 71587
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2100 on: June 27, 2023, 02:33:02 PM »
The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine
The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine

The oldest continuously operated Chinese restaurant in America is not in San Francisco or New York, but in Butte, Montana, where 47-year-old Jerry Tam, the great-great-grandson of the original owner, presides over the Pekin Noodle Parlor. Standing on South Main Street outside the weathered two-story brick building, with its display window of antique Chinese cooking equipment, Tam describes the Pekin as a “walk back in time”—one that illuminates the often-overlooked history of the Chinese population in Montana.

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 71587
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2101 on: June 27, 2023, 03:53:45 PM »


Some unknown dude and some plane...

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2102 on: June 27, 2023, 04:06:54 PM »
Some weird dude and some weird plane...
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2103 on: June 27, 2023, 08:49:36 PM »
Two sisters, Florence and Susie Friermuth arrested for moonshining during the Prohibition, 1921.

May be an image of 1 person and text
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2104 on: June 27, 2023, 08:58:57 PM »
Framed by the Chief War Eagle Monument, A KC-135 tanker flown by the 185th Air Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard flies in a refueling formation with an F-16 fighter from Sioux Falls' 114th Fighter Wing Tuesday morning. The flight was flown to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first air refueling. 185th Air Refueling Wing

May be an image of monument and text that says 'scj'
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

MrNubbz

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 17160
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2105 on: June 28, 2023, 04:51:20 AM »
28 Jun 1914
  • The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
28 Jun 1919

France
  • The Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations were signed in Paris, France.
  • when the ink dried on that it ensured there would be another war

Suburbia:Where they tear out the trees & then name streets after them.

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 71587
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2106 on: June 28, 2023, 07:42:56 AM »


From 1959, I-85 in Atlanta, I got a kick out of the exit sign.  Same view today:

« Last Edit: June 28, 2023, 07:47:58 AM by Cincydawg »

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2107 on: June 28, 2023, 07:54:40 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated (1914)
Nephew of Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, Ferdinand became heir apparent in 1896. While visiting Sarajevo, he and his wife were assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Austria soon declared war on Serbia, prompting countries allied with Austria-Hungary—the Central Powers—and those allied with Serbia—the Triple Entente—to declare war on each other, precipitating WWI. The assassination was not the first attempt on his life.
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 71587
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2108 on: June 28, 2023, 07:57:41 AM »
"The Guns of August", highly recommended book.

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2109 on: June 28, 2023, 08:24:01 AM »
The Battle of Hobkirk Hill (or Hobkirk’s Hill), sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Camden, remains one of the less prominent engagements of the Revolutionary War, even as John Buchanan’s masterful study of the campaign in the Deep South terms it “a major and controversial battle” in the American effort to reclaim South Carolina and Georgia from British control.[1] It was fought in the backcountry of South Carolina, just north of the village of Camden, on April 25, 1781, near the site of the first Battle of Camden fought on August 16, 1780. The latter proved to be a humiliating debacle for the insurgent forces in their conflict with Great Britain and especially embarrassing for a disgraced Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, who with the militia fled 180 miles northward to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he waited for the Continental regulars he had abandoned to show up. On December 3, Gates yielded command of the Southern Department of the Continental Army to thirty-eight-year-old Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene, the fifth major general to occupy that position—after Charles Lee, Robert Howe, Benjamin Lincoln, and Gates.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2023/06/hobkirk-hill-a-major-minor-battle/
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

Cincydawg

  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Global Moderator
  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 71587
  • Oracle of Piedmont Park
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2110 on: June 30, 2023, 10:45:26 AM »


This building is still there, but not for long.

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2111 on: June 30, 2023, 11:51:19 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Einstein Introduces Special Relativity (1905)
In physics, the theory of special relativity generalizes Galileo's principle of relativity—that all uniform motion is relative and that there is no absolute state of rest. Though physicists Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincaré had made contributions to the theory already, Einstein provided a radically new interpretation in his 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." In it, Einstein redefines the concepts of space and time and abolishes the concept of "aether,"
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

medinabuckeye1

  • Legend
  • ****
  • Default Avatar
  • Posts: 8906
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2112 on: June 30, 2023, 12:34:36 PM »
"The Guns of August", highly recommended book.
Agreed, great book!

FearlessF

  • Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 37556
  • Liked:
Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2113 on: July 01, 2023, 01:16:00 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968)
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is an international agreement to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. It was originally signed by the US, Britain, the USSR, and 59 other countries in 1968. The major signatories agreed not to help nonnuclear states obtain or produce nuclear weapons, while the nonnuclear signatories agreed not to try to obtain them. The treaty was extended indefinitely in 1995, and nearly 190 countries are now party to it.
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

 

Support the Site!
Purchase of every item listed here DIRECTLY supports the site.