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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2212 on: July 26, 2023, 10:04:18 AM »


Back row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin.
Middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr.
Front row (seated): Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.
Photo: Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Leopold Park, Brussels, Belgium. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2213 on: July 26, 2023, 10:05:03 AM »
Irving Langmuir is often considered the first "industrial chemist" and came up with the famous Langmuir equation, which I had occasion to use several times.
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« Reply #2214 on: July 26, 2023, 03:18:07 PM »
Escaping Nebraska's hottest day ever recorded with a high of 115 degrees, residents of Lincoln, Nebraska slept on the lawn of the State Capitol when temperatures never fell below 91 degrees on July 25, 1936.

May be a black-and-white image of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Parthenon and text that says 'IIII N NEBRASKA History'
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« Reply #2215 on: July 27, 2023, 08:08:06 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Battle of Killiecrankie (1689)
Fought between Scottish highland clans supporting James II and VII and the government troops of William of Orange, the Battle of Killiecrankie occurred in Scotland during the first Jacobite uprising in 1689. Outnumbered, barefoot, and armed mostly with claymores—large, double-edged broadswords—the highlanders, led by John Graham of Claverhouse, used their position on the steep Pass of Killiecrankie to force a retreat. Despite the victory, Claverhouse was killed.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2216 on: July 27, 2023, 08:11:10 AM »
The bottom layer of rock at Bryce Canyon is the top layer of Zion National Park and the bottom layer at Zion is the top layer of the Grand Canyon
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2217 on: July 27, 2023, 08:57:50 AM »


I am struck by how unpopular streetcars are today (outside SF where they are touristy), and busses.  I often see busses go by with 1 or 2 passengers.
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« Reply #2218 on: July 27, 2023, 09:15:03 AM »


Damn Bugeaters can't handle their Liquor. Is that a coreectional facility you were affiliated with FF?
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« Reply #2219 on: July 27, 2023, 09:19:06 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 27, 2023, 08:57:50 AM

I am struck by how unpopular streetcars are today (outside SF where they are touristy), and busses.  I often see busses go by with 1 or 2 passengers.
folks have too much money these days or simply make their personal vehicle a priority.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2220 on: July 27, 2023, 01:59:16 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2221 on: July 27, 2023, 02:39:02 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2222 on: July 27, 2023, 02:47:08 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 27, 2023, 01:59:16 PM
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One historical fact that I find astounding is that the Pyramids were older when the Romans got to Egypt than the Roman ruins are now.

Another way to phrase it is that Julius Caesar is closer in time to an iPhone than to a Pyramid builder.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2223 on: July 27, 2023, 03:07:31 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2224 on: July 28, 2023, 08:27:44 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US Bomber Crashes into New York's Empire State Building (1945)
On a foggy Saturday morning in July 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors. One of the plane's engines shot through the building and out the other side, and the other plummeted down an elevator shaft. Though 14 people died in the incident, the building was largely open for business on the following Monday. What Guinness World Record was set by elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver during the accident?
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2225 on: July 28, 2023, 08:29:35 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 28, 2023, 08:27:44 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

US Bomber Crashes into New York's Empire State Building (1945)
On a foggy Saturday morning in July 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors. One of the plane's engines shot through the building and out the other side, and the other plummeted down an elevator shaft. Though 14 people died in the incident, the building was largely open for business on the following Monday. What Guinness World Record was set by elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver during the accident?

Probably something to do with feces. 
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