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« Reply #2436 on: September 09, 2023, 08:54:22 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Tajikistan Gains Independence from the Soviet Union (1991)
Russia first took control of Tajik lands in the 1880s. In the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Tajiks rebelled against Russian rule, and the Red Army did not retake control until 1921. Tajikistan was made an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan in 1924 and joined the USSR in 1929. In 1991, at around the time the USSR was being dissolved, the Republic of Tajikistan declared its independence. Civil war broke out a year later.
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« Reply #2437 on: September 11, 2023, 07:38:41 AM »
In 1839 Charles Goodyear invented vulcanization, a process that forms molecular cross-linkages between polymer chains in rubber. The result is rubber that is stronger, more elastic, and much more resistance to hot and cold temperatures.
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« Reply #2438 on: September 11, 2023, 07:59:43 AM »
Can imagine being up in a hot air balloon while a lightning storm develops or losing altitude and descending on power lines :o
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« Reply #2439 on: September 12, 2023, 07:42:31 AM »
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Teens Stumble upon Ancient Cave Paintings in Lascaux, France (1940)
In 1940, four teens uncovered a fantastic archeological site, a cave system decorated with prehistoric paintings, drawings, and engravings that have been dated to about 15,000–13,000 BCE. Many of the paintings are drawn over former works, enabling experts to trace stylistic developments over more than 1,000 years. The later paintings, featuring animals along with signs and symbols, exhibit an advanced artistic quality and technical skill.
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« Reply #2440 on: September 12, 2023, 07:42:57 AM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

Richard Jordan Gatling (1818)
Gatling, an inventor who began his career creating agricultural devices including a rice-sowing machine and a steam plow, is best remembered as the creator of a rapid-firing gun that was the precursor of the modern machine gun. He offered his Gatling gun to the Union army in the Civil War, but only a few were put into use toward the war's end. For a time, Gatling worked on improving the gun, but he eventually went back to devising agricultural machinery.
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« Reply #2441 on: September 12, 2023, 08:44:09 AM »
Helmet of the Athenian general Miltiades who led the Greeks over the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC.


miltiades helmet ancient Greek warrior Marathon

https://greekreporter.com/2023/09/12/miltiades-helmet-ancient-greek-warrior-discovery/
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« Reply #2442 on: September 12, 2023, 08:45:56 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 12, 2023, 07:42:31 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Teens Stumble upon Ancient Cave Paintings in Lascaux, France (1940)
In 1940, four teens uncovered a fantastic archeological site, a cave system decorated with prehistoric paintings, drawings, and engravings that have been dated to about 15,000–13,000 BCE. Many of the paintings are drawn over former works, enabling experts to trace stylistic developments over more than 1,000 years. The later paintings, featuring animals along with signs and symbols, exhibit an advanced artistic quality and technical skill.
We visited there, it was very disappointing to me anyway.  There was another cave we visited that was far better, I forget the name now.
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« Reply #2443 on: September 16, 2023, 09:09:07 AM »
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Wall Street Bombing (1920)
At about noon on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn wagon stopped across from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan Inc. bank on Wall Street in New York City's Financial District. Moments later, the hundreds of pounds of explosives and shrapnel it was carrying exploded, killing 38 people and injuring hundreds more. Despite the chaos, markets reopened the next day. Now known as the Wall Street Bombing, it was the deadliest bomb attack on American soil at the time.
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« Reply #2444 on: September 16, 2023, 08:24:56 PM »
Slim Pickens, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb (1964).

May be a black-and-white image of 1 person, blimp and text that says 'NUCLEAR WARHEAD HANDLE WITH CARE HI THERE! USAF'
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« Reply #2445 on: September 17, 2023, 09:27:58 AM »
Medieval alchemists studied the North Star, believing it held the secret to perpetual motion.
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« Reply #2446 on: September 17, 2023, 09:28:59 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Joshua A. Norton Declares Himself Emperor of the US (1859)
Though Norton arrived in San Francisco during the California gold rush, he took up speculating in rice, a valuable commodity at the time, rather than prospecting. Unfortunately, he ended up losing his fortune, after which he vanished for a short time. When he reappeared, he was wearing a costume resembling that of France's Napoleon III and calling himself "Emperor Norton." For the next 13 years, he paraded around the city issuing "proclamations" and even banknotes.
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« Reply #2447 on: September 17, 2023, 09:55:36 AM »
Operation Market Garden was launched on this date in 1944

Market Garden is the largest military airborne operation to date, with 34,400 paratroopers conducting static line paradrops and glider landings into the Netherlands to seize and secure key bridges and terrain that would allow for entrance into Germany. During the operation, Allied Forces dealt with insurmountable odds and suffered great losses.
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« Reply #2448 on: September 17, 2023, 10:06:59 AM »
I don't know about the insurmountable odds.  German forces in the area were pretty weak,  The geography was the critical aspect, along with leadership.
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« Reply #2449 on: September 17, 2023, 10:22:23 AM »
Just a crap plan all around that Monty demanded and got then didn't have the stones to show up for as it came apart almost from the beginning.Some of those odds were ignoring weather,intelligence,distance and a single elevated road for almost 70 miles. Plust the the 9th and 10th SS Panzers refitting in Arnhem. Britain had some good soldiers - that ass wasn't one of them. IKE should have been called on the carpet for letting him off his leash 34000 go in 17,000 came out .And that jerk tried to pass it off as a win.
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