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Some of the Britons forced out of their land went to France to establish ... Brittany, where the spoke Breton.

Then later of course the "Norsemen" raided France and settled in land now called Normandy.  

Then the Normans decided they wanted to take over England, and did in 1066.

This is why the English language had so many influences, not to mention the Latin used there before this.

On January 6, 1976 Ted Turner, a millionaire communications executive and internationally known yachtsman, buys the Atlanta Braves for a reported $12 million. Turner would officially be approved as the Braves' new owner on January 14th. Then the owner of WTCG-TV, Turner purchased 100% of the Braves to provide sports programming for his local channel 17. On December 17, 1976, when the FCC grants a permit to the station, later rechristened WTBS, to use a satellite to broadcast shows on cable networks, the franchise becomes available to millions of subscribers nationwide. The decision to begin offering TBS via satellite transmission to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States expanded the small station into the first nationally distributed "superstation”, turning the Braves into a household name. Turner then wore an Indian headdress at the Braves' 1976 home opener. In 1977, Turner decided to become team manager during a 17-game losing streak. He lost to Pittsburgh, 2-1 at the Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium. Turner's tenure in the dugout lasted only one game as Commissioner Bowie Kuhn banished him upstairs. Turner even thought about changing the name of the team to the Atlanta Eagles in a full franchise rebrand, tying in with the NBA’s Hawks and the NFL’s Falcons, which he thankfully let die. Turner owned the Braves for 21 years, until he sold them in 1996 as part of Turner Broadcasting's merger with Time-Warner.

There's a canyon near Monterrey, Mexico, that used to have an inclined railroad like that.  It was crazy because when you get on, your seat is angled at something like 30-40 degrees.  And for a while, at the bottom of the incline, you stay that way.  But as you climb and the angle changes, eventually you're sitting correctly, parallel to the flat plane of the earth, and you stay that way throughout the remainder of the climb.  The platform at the top is actually multi-level and you can exit the car at the front or back, which is actually the top or bottom at that point.  Great views.

This is what it looked like back when:



And now in the 40-something years since I last visited, it appears that they have installed a gondola lift that traverses the same area and has replaced the old inclined rail.



 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Successful Escape from an Aircraft Using the Ejection Seat (1942)
Ejection seats are used in aircraft to quickly propel occupants out in an emergency. Today, they are fired by an explosive charge, but the first ejection seats were powered by compressed air. One of the first aircrafts to be fitted with such a system was the German Heinkel He 280 prototype jet fighter. While testing the He 280 during WWII, pilot Helmut Schenk became the first person to use an ejection seat to make an emergency escape from an aircraft.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
WWII: First Armed Insurgency in Warsaw Ghetto (1943)
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish armed resistance that took place in the Warsaw Ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII. By July 1942, the Nazis had forced 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto. Starvation killed thousands each month and thousands more were transferred to "labor" camps every day. When word reached the ghetto that the destination was actually the gas chambers at Treblinka, the newly formed Jewish insurgency attacked the Nazis.

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