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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2464 on: September 21, 2023, 06:19:57 PM »
This would have been ca. 1991-2.  We had a joint project going on with Shell Chemical and I was down there a lot.  They treated me well.

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« Reply #2465 on: September 22, 2023, 08:09:36 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Vela Incident (1979)
In the 1960s, the US launched a group of satellites to monitor international compliance with a treaty prohibiting all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground. In 1979, one of the satellites detected an unidentified double flash characteristic of an atmospheric nuclear explosion. The data were initially interpreted as evidence of a South African nuclear test, but experts later determined that the flash was likely not nuclear in origin
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2466 on: September 22, 2023, 08:57:55 AM »


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« Reply #2467 on: September 22, 2023, 09:25:09 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 22, 2023, 08:09:36 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
The Vela Incident (1979)
In the 1960s, the US launched a group of satellites to monitor international compliance with a treaty prohibiting all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground. In 1979, one of the satellites detected an unidentified double flash characteristic of an atmospheric nuclear explosion. The data were initially interpreted as evidence of a South African nuclear test, but experts later determined that the flash was likely not nuclear in origin
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« Reply #2468 on: September 22, 2023, 10:54:26 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 22, 2023, 08:57:55 AM


1970
make a deal
what kind pf a deal
ya know, a deal deal
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2469 on: September 22, 2023, 11:51:58 AM »
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« Reply #2470 on: September 22, 2023, 12:08:36 PM »
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« Reply #2471 on: September 23, 2023, 07:34:45 AM »
Charles Darwin invented the modern office chair when he added wheels to his own chair to move around his office easier.
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« Reply #2472 on: September 23, 2023, 07:40:58 AM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

Typhoid Mary (1869)
Mary Mallon was the first person in the US to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. In 1904, a typhoid epidemic was traced to homes where she had been a cook. She fled but was located by authorities and forcibly quarantined for several years. In 1910, she was released on the condition that she not take another food-handling job. Discovered cooking again in 1914, she was quarantined for life. Though she herself never had the disease, she infected about 50 people.
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« Reply #2473 on: September 23, 2023, 07:49:50 AM »
Just her and no one else? Sounds like a Tammany Hall deflection
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2474 on: September 23, 2023, 08:41:25 AM »


The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt. It was constructed in c. 2600 BC.
This is believed to be Pharaoh Sneferu's second attempt at building a pyramid. It is located about 35 kilometres south of Cairo and at 104.7 metres tall, the pyramid is the fourth largest in Egypt. It was constructed at a 54 degree incline, but halfway through construction the builders changed to a 43 degree angle, when they realised they had constructed it too steeply, which possibly caused structural instability.
It seems that from the shape of the pyramid, the builders made an error and tried to complete it as best they could. Once the inner section had been completed, a casing of white limestone was added to finish it off.
Although he had completed the pyramid, Sneferu was seemingly not happy with its final look and ordered a third pyramid to be built, the Red Pyramid, and it was built at the same angle as the top half of the Bent Pyramid.

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« Reply #2475 on: September 23, 2023, 08:47:05 AM »
Ah,so it wasn't aliens but Engineers - I knew it !!!
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2476 on: September 23, 2023, 08:49:52 AM »
Yeah, it's pretty good evidence no advanced technical folks were involved.
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« Reply #2477 on: September 24, 2023, 06:37:23 AM »
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