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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4088 on: November 12, 2024, 08:55:53 AM »


PreCivil War US rail system.  Note the E-W gap in Alabama, that turned into a thing in the war.
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« Reply #4089 on: November 12, 2024, 09:56:17 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Ramzi Yousef Found Guilty of Masterminding 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (1997)
In 1993, terrorists detonated a car-bomb in an underground garage of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing six, injuring more than a thousand, and causing more than $300 million in damage. In all, ten militant Islamist conspirators were convicted of involvement in the bombing, including Yousef, who also bombed an important Shia shrine in Iran in 1994 and later planned a large-scale terrorist scheme that included killing the pope.
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« Reply #4090 on: November 12, 2024, 12:27:26 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4091 on: November 12, 2024, 01:04:17 PM »
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« Reply #4092 on: November 12, 2024, 02:35:13 PM »
If you're not Dutch
you're not much
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« Reply #4093 on: November 12, 2024, 02:55:10 PM »
Earl Burtz, owner of the Sad Monkey railroad in Palo Duro Canyon, models his conductor's hat circa 1965. The Sad Monkey was a miniature railroad that took visitors to the canyon on a two-mile long train ride while interpreters talked about the park's geology. The Sad Monkey got its name for a prominent mass of Trujillo sandstone at the southern extremity of Triassic Peak. When viewed from the proper perspective—and with the proper amount of imagination (and, perhaps, under the influence of certain libations, maybe) —this massive block of sandstone bore a striking resemblance to an aged and saddened monkey. I'm told, however, the geologic weathering has removed some of the features that caused it to be so named. The railroad ran from 1955-1996, when liability concerns forced it to shut down.

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« Reply #4094 on: November 13, 2024, 09:18:31 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Two Libyans Indicted for Pan Am 103 Attack (1991)
In 1991, after a three-year investigation, US and UK authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. During a trial held a decade later in the Netherlands, one of the defendants was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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« Reply #4095 on: November 14, 2024, 06:04:07 AM »
Silent Running 1972.

Pioneering and visionary science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint. The film also has 3 'drones' robots called Huey, Dewey and Louie played by Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks/Steven Brown and Larry Whisenhunt respectively. Poignant and visually stunning the film explores themes of environmentalism and the value of life. Released in 1972, it was ahead of its time, delivering a powerful message about humanity's impact on the natural world. The film follows Freeman Lowell, a dedicated botanist played by Bruce Dern, who is tasked with maintaining a vast greenhouse aboard a spacecraft. When Silent Running hit theaters in 1972, audiences were less-than-enthusiastic about the somewhat dark, ecological, sci-fi survival drama, and it was regarded as being a failure at the box office. Now a revered cult classic it remains an oddity, with main attraction being the unusual and heart-rending relationship between Dern and his 3 robotic buddies.

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« Reply #4096 on: November 14, 2024, 08:52:21 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 12, 2024, 02:35:13 PM
If you're not Dutch
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The WWII vets would like a word with you - if you can find one
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« Reply #4097 on: November 14, 2024, 09:29:06 AM »
The Siege of Sidney Street

Having killed several London policemen during a botched robbery in 1910, the members of a politically motivated gang of burglars went into hiding. When their location was revealed to authorities, 200 men were sent to surround the building. This prompted a wild gunfight now known as the Siege of Sidney Street. Though outmanned, the gang members possessed superior weapons and were only overtaken when their building caught fire. Why was Winston Churchill criticized for his role in the siege?
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« Reply #4098 on: November 14, 2024, 09:29:53 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Apalachin Meeting (1957)
The Apalachin Meeting was a summit of some 100 Mafiosi from the US, Canada, and Italy that was raided after their fancy cars and out-of-state license plates aroused the suspicions of law enforcement agents in Apalachin, New York. Fifty-eight Mafiosi, including bosses Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese, were detained. Perhaps the most significant consequence of the raid was that it confirmed the American Mafia's existence, a fact that had long been denied
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« Reply #4099 on: November 14, 2024, 11:03:16 AM »
The reason for the denials was Lucky Luciano/Meyer Lansky had filmed/recorded J.Edgar's Gay trysts - they had mailed the evidence to him. It would  "portray an open homosexual relationship" between Hoover and his long-time male companion, Clyde Tolson".  In real life, all Washington knew was that the pair dined daily together, vacationed together, did everything but move in together, and the whispers flew.

When a magazine article in the 1930s referred to Hoover's "mincing" gait, and a diplomat commented on his "conspicuous perfume", Hoover struck back. He gathered derogatory information on the offending journalist, and asserted – falsely – that he did not use perfume. Real information on the Hoover-Tolson relationship surfaced only long after both men were dead,

That P.O.S.was a victim of his own tactics
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« Reply #4100 on: November 14, 2024, 11:47:59 AM »
1719 Leopold Mozart, German composer and teacher of his son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Augsburg (d. 1787)

Robert Fulton(1765-1815) American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania

1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US

1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes

1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.

1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation

Joseph McCarthy (1909-1957) American Senator (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed communists infiltrated the US government, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin

1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia

1922 BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi House

1929 Jimmy Piersall,( "I ain't crazy and I got the papers to prove it") American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1954, 56; his bipolar disorder subject book & film, "Fear Strikes Out"), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2017)

1940 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England

1942 -Nov 15th) Japanese vs US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal

1943 The Bears Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)


1954 Condoleezza Rice 1st female African-American U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09), born in Birmingham, Alabama


1957 Milwaukee Brave Hank Aaron wins NL MVP

1964 Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal

1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam

1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational

1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in DC-9 air crash at Kenova, West Virginia, killing 75

1973 Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner

1982 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa freed

1985 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed

1986 US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky for insider trading

1993 Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4101 on: November 15, 2024, 08:10:15 AM »
November 14, 1779 - Surveyors Walker and Smith got off course while establishing the border between Kentucky and Tennessee in what is now Simpson County, Kentucky and Robertson County, Tennessee. A pronounced dip south creates a triangular shaped portion of land known as the “Simpson County Offset.”
The surveyors lost track of the proper location of the line due to cloudy weather which didn’t allow them to obtain correct astronomical observations. Walker also noted that, “there was some iron ore in that vicinity, which deflected the needle of the compass.” Clearly a mistake, surveyors were sent to the area again in the 1830s to redraw the line. However, they recommended leaving the border where it was and let each state yield its claim to the territory and both states agreed.
The matter was brought up again a couple of decades later by a Robertson County, Tennessee settler named Middleton who claimed that 101 acres of his property protruded into Kentucky and was properly part of Tennessee. Once again, surveyors were dispatched to the area in 1859 to settle the dispute. The surveyors agreed with Middleton and redrew the line around his property leaving a rectangular shaped protrusion northward into Kentucky. Some have suggested that a barrel of whiskey offered by Middleton helped the surveyors find the location of the haphazard border.
In the early 19th century, the land - more than 600 acres - was known as a dueling ground as it was considered a “no-man’s land” between Kentucky and Tennessee and where those who might be charged with illegally dueling could dispute which state in which the duel had taken place.


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