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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4382 on: February 01, 2025, 08:56:42 AM »
Yeah the concurrent courses are a good deal, especially because our school district has a deal with the community college and all courses are free.

Unfortunately it just doesn't work with my daughter's extracurricular schedule.
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« Reply #4383 on: February 01, 2025, 09:06:35 AM »
I recall some of my HS peers took JUCO courses, I was advised not to (for better or worse).  My adviser and some teachers told me the courses were not very good there and wouldn't help me in college anyway.  I placed out of several courses with credit, one of them I had signed up for before I realized it and ended up making a C because the class was 7 girls and me, and the professor catered to the gals.  Everything I said in class was wrong.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4384 on: February 01, 2025, 09:29:55 AM »
What was the most unusual event that's ever been recorded in the historical record? 
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« Reply #4385 on: February 01, 2025, 09:34:26 AM »
not this................

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Volume of Oxford English Dictionary Is Published (1884)
Though the first volume, A–Ant, was published in 1884, the first complete edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was not published until 1928. Planned as a 10-year project, the 44-year undertaking resulted in a comprehensive, historical dictionary of English—the longest in the world today. It required more than 800 volunteers to compile material, including one who, it was later learned, turned out to be working from an asylum for the criminally insane.
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Brutus Buckeye

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« Reply #4386 on: February 01, 2025, 09:53:00 AM »


Back before the definitions of "gender" and "marriage" got altered by the left-leaning Caucasians. 



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« Reply #4387 on: February 01, 2025, 10:05:56 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 01, 2025, 09:29:55 AM
What was the most unusual event that's ever been recorded in the historical record?
would your definition of unusual be closely related to weird???
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4388 on: February 01, 2025, 10:38:26 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 01, 2025, 09:29:55 AM
What was the most unusual event that's ever been recorded in the historical record?
Unnusual, as in singular, important, significant, well recorded?  There have been quite a few that contend I think.  The year of 536 I think it was might qualify.

A couple religious related events were influential.
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« Reply #4389 on: February 01, 2025, 11:39:51 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 01, 2025, 10:05:56 AM
would your definition of unusual be closely related to weird???
Yes, the weirdest of the weird history. 

Like when they decided that the word "weird" should violate the "i before e except after c" rule just to be weird. 
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« Reply #4390 on: February 01, 2025, 11:50:54 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 01, 2025, 09:34:26 AM
not this................

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

First Volume of Oxford English Dictionary Is Published (1884)
Though the first volume, A–Ant, was published in 1884, the first complete edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was not published until 1928. Planned as a 10-year project, the 44-year undertaking resulted in a comprehensive, historical dictionary of English—the longest in the world today. It required more than 800 volunteers to compile material, including one who, it was later learned, turned out to be working from an asylum for the criminally insane.

I've seen how the "English" compile and edit material.To this day in YouTube comment sections on WWII History forums their fauntleroys insist that they won the war and that Montgomery had nothing to do with failures in Italy/CAEN/Falaise Gap/Market Garden/even claiming the Ardennes when he in fact wanted to fall back. Even British Historians disabuse him of this fallacy concerning the whoppers he told of Arnhem and the Ardennes - where the British lost 200 Tommies KIA as the GIs took 8,500-10,000 KIA and Wehrmacht had over 12,000 Landsers KIA. So I suppose more than a few of those nutters flock to Oxford
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4391 on: February 02, 2025, 02:35:09 PM »
This is the cockpit in which Charles Lindbergh sat while piloting the first aircraft to make a solo non-stop transatlantic flight, the Spirit of Saint Louis, in May of 1927. Note the periscope used instead of a forward window. The Spirit was designed and built in San Diego to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which was offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic non-stop, either from New York to Paris or vice versa.
Lindbergh, a U.S. Air Mail pilot, believed that a single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane would provide him with the best chance of success. Under his close supervision, the Spirit was designed and constructed in just 60 days.
To enhance the center of gravity and minimize the risk of being crushed in case of a crash, Lindbergh had the large main and forward fuel tanks placed in the front section of the fuselage, ahead of the pilot, with the oil tank acting as a firewall. As a result of this design choice, there was no front windshield, and forward visibility was limited to the side windows. However, this arrangement didn't bother Lindbergh, as he was accustomed to flying in the rear cockpit of mail planes with mail bags in the front. When he needed to see forward, he would simply look out the sides.
To address the need for some forward vision, Lindbergh enlisted the help of a former submarine serviceman to design and install a periscope. Inside the cramped cockpit, measuring 94 cm wide, 81 cm long, and 130 cm high, Lindbergh couldn't even stretch his legs.




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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4392 on: February 02, 2025, 02:39:16 PM »
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« Reply #4393 on: February 02, 2025, 02:44:45 PM »
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« Reply #4394 on: February 02, 2025, 04:00:54 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 01, 2025, 09:06:35 AM
 Everything I said in class was wrong.
There you have it, your consistent if anything
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