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« Reply #2632 on: December 01, 2023, 01:25:51 PM »
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« Reply #2635 on: December 02, 2023, 08:08:46 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
In his 1823 address to Congress, US President James Monroe laid out the terms of the American foreign policy that would become known as the Monroe Doctrine, effectively declaring the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European colonization. Concerned that European powers would attempt to restore Spain's former colonies, he declared that any attempt by a European power to control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act.
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« Reply #2636 on: December 03, 2023, 10:19:25 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

World's First Human Heart Transplant (1967)
After studying medicine at the University of Cape Town, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard came to the US in 1955 to improve his surgical technique. There, he performed his first heart operation before returning to Cape Town, where he was soon appointed director of surgical research at the Groote Schuur Hospital. He made medical history there in 1967 when he completed the world's first human heart transplant on 55-year-old Louis Washkansky.
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« Reply #2637 on: December 03, 2023, 09:31:34 PM »
Launching ramp at the V-1 flying bomb site at Val Ygot, Normandy, France

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« Reply #2638 on: December 04, 2023, 07:23:23 AM »
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McGurk's Bar Bombing (1971)
One of the first major atrocities of "the Troubles," a period of political violence in Ireland that began in the late 1960s, the bombing of Belfast's predominantly Roman Catholic Tramore Bar—better known as McGurk's—killed 15 people and injured 17. The first major attack on civilians by any of the region's paramilitary organizations, the bombing provoked widespread political and public reaction.
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« Reply #2639 on: December 04, 2023, 03:55:48 PM »
Electricity for Atlanta: Six Hydroelectric Dams, A Submerged Town and Silenced Waterfalls – Rabun County Historical Society (rabunhistory.org)
Electricity for Atlanta: Six Hydroelectric Dams, A Submerged Town and Silenced Waterfalls – Rabun County Historical Society (rabunhistory.org)

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« Reply #2640 on: December 05, 2023, 10:02:23 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Papal Bull Bestows Authority to Prosecute Witchcraft in Germany (1484)
In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus—Desiring with supreme ardor. Sometimes blamed for inspiring the witch-hunts that became increasingly common in the coming centuries, the bull recognizes the existence of witches, gives Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany, and urges local ecclesiastical authorities to cooperate with inquisitors.
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« Reply #2641 on: December 05, 2023, 01:17:04 PM »
2005 on this date utee 94 gave birth to the Beer Thread,killing time between the season and the National Championship.Use to be a hell of a lot more posts,either the herd has been thinned out or ya'll turned into a bunch a teasips
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« Reply #2642 on: December 06, 2023, 07:42:45 AM »
I think maybe quite possibly he could be the least heralded scientists after Maxwell who had an impact on things, possibly.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2643 on: December 06, 2023, 09:31:01 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 02, 2023, 07:06:34 AM
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Iowa in the Panama Canal.

The Iowa's and all prior US Battleships were limited to a size that could fit through the Panama Canal such that the USN would be able to quickly transfer ships between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

The Iowa Class ships are 108'2" wide so they fit in the 110' wide Panama Canal locks with 22" to spare.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2644 on: December 06, 2023, 09:33:43 AM »
A ship also can go faster if it's length to width ratio is higher.  This is true even if the width is constant, for a given amount of power of course.  Some argue the Iowas are more akin to battle cruisers, which to me is just arguing over terminology.
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« Reply #2645 on: December 06, 2023, 09:43:02 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 06, 2023, 09:33:43 AM
A ship also can go faster if it's length to width ratio is higher.  This is true even if the width is constant, for a given amount of power of course.  Some argue the Iowas are more akin to battle cruisers, which to me is just arguing over terminology.
For whatever reason the USN is absolutely insistent that they never actually had any "Battlecruisers". 

The USN did authorize and commence construction of six Lexington Class Battlecruisers shortly after WWI but they were not permitted by the Washington Naval Treaty. Four were scrapped before completion and the other two were converted and became the Lexington Class Aircraft Carriers. 

It has been suggested that the North Carolina's, the Iowa's, and the Alaska Class "Large Cruisers" were technically "Battlecruisers". 
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