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« Reply #2156 on: July 12, 2023, 05:12:01 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 12, 2023, 09:35:21 AM
high school classmate of mine was assigned to Marine One a decade or so ago
kind of a big deal
To give Obama a dutch rub?
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« Reply #2157 on: July 12, 2023, 09:48:42 PM »
History Nebraska
in 1861, the legend of "Wild Bill" Hickok supposedly began at Rock Creek Station in Jefferson County, Nebraska after the frontiersman killed David McCanles in a dispute.

https://history.nebraska.gov/weird-wednesday-wild-bill.../


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« Reply #2158 on: July 13, 2023, 07:12:15 AM »
Some of these Old West gun fighter characters would be quite at home nowadays in our big cities.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2159 on: July 13, 2023, 07:17:05 AM »
Quote from: Temp430 on July 13, 2023, 07:12:15 AM
Some of these Old West gun fighter characters would be quite at home nowadays in our big cities.
Most of what I read about are drive by shootings with 50 rounds fired and 3 people hit, or domestic or drug disputes inside, not really the kind WB would understand very well.

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« Reply #2160 on: July 13, 2023, 09:02:50 AM »
Quote from: Temp430 on July 13, 2023, 07:12:15 AM
Some of these Old West gun fighter characters would be quite at home nowadays in our big cities.
If some of these Old West gun fighters were in the big cities these days, there would be a lot less drive by shootings as those shooters would ultimately be sent to meet their maker. 
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2161 on: July 13, 2023, 09:05:53 AM »
Somebody would drive by with a MAC10 and hose them down.

It's a very different kind of battle today of course.
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« Reply #2162 on: July 13, 2023, 09:08:56 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on July 12, 2023, 05:12:01 PM
To give Obama a dutch rub?
probably Slick Willy and W
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« Reply #2163 on: July 13, 2023, 02:06:48 PM »


Did you know that modern jet engines can have between 30,000 and 50,000 individual parts, including thousands of rotating and stationary components? The maintenance process can take up to 180 days and cost millions of dollars, but it's crucial to ensure these machines run safely and efficiently. Marvel at the complexity of jet engines!
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« Reply #2164 on: July 14, 2023, 09:14:19 AM »
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« Reply #2165 on: July 15, 2023, 10:59:47 AM »


Left to Right for comparison
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« Reply #2166 on: July 16, 2023, 09:28:33 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Test of a Nuclear Weapon (1945)
Called the Trinity test, the first test of a nuclear weapon was conducted by the US in New Mexico on what is now White Sands Missile Range. The detonation of the implosion-design plutonium bomb—the same type used on Nagasaki, Japan, a few weeks later—was equivalent to the explosion of approximately 20 kilotons of TNT, and is usually considered the beginning of the Atomic Age. It is said that the scientists who observed the detonation set up a betting pool on what the result would be.
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« Reply #2167 on: July 16, 2023, 10:43:57 PM »
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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On this day in 1919, the Tractor Test Laboratory opened, helping assuage concerns that the equipment delivered was what the manufacturers promised. Today, nearly all tractors manufactured in the US are tested at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln facility. 📷: UNL Archives & Special Collections


Brent Sampson takes a photo with a test car
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« Reply #2168 on: July 17, 2023, 07:24:27 AM »
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« Reply #2169 on: July 17, 2023, 07:59:29 AM »
Today in History (15 July 1799), the Rosetta Stone was found by a French soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.
It was discovered in the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. The stone is a large slab of black granite, over 2,000 years old, that bears a trilingual inscription dated 197 BC inscribed in Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek text.
A major breakthrough in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Rosetta Stone is on display at the British Museum in London.

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