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« Reply #4634 on: April 22, 2025, 08:09:06 AM »
Blood Eagle Torture

Referenced in some Norse saga literature, the Blood Eagle is a form of torture and execution performed by cutting the victim's ribs by the spine, breaking them to resemble blood-stained wings, and pulling the lungs out through the gaping wound. Though some cite archaeological evidence of the practice, others argue that it never occurred and that accounts of the method are based on folklore or inaccurate translations.
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« Reply #4635 on: April 22, 2025, 08:12:25 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis Ends in Lima, Peru (1997)
The Japanese ambassador to Peru was holding a party at his home in Lima on December 17, 1996, when 14 members of a revolutionary militant group stormed the compound, taking more than 400 guests hostage. Most were released in the following weeks, but 72 Japanese and Peruvian hostages were held until April, when Peruvian military forces swarmed the building and killed the militants. Only one hostage and two commandos died, and the raid was deemed a success.
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« Reply #4636 on: April 23, 2025, 08:26:53 AM »


One of the first circular all purpose stadia in the US.  Built for about $16 million, it cost $64 million to tear down and haul away.  It was a real dump by modern standards.  That area today is being developed for residential use, and the old Turner Field next door is used by Georgia State.  
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« Reply #4637 on: April 23, 2025, 08:37:37 AM »
Houston Astrodome in 1964:


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« Reply #4638 on: April 23, 2025, 04:15:23 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 23, 2025, 08:37:37 AM
Houston Astrodome in 1964:


Don't know how often you went there but as a kid walking thru the tunnel to the seats was amazing.  They called it the 8th wonder of the world, and Houstonians were mighty proud of that.  Strange to think that it really was built out in the boonies in that picture.  
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« Reply #4639 on: April 23, 2025, 05:13:10 PM »
Used to go see the Astros pretty much every summer with my grandparents.  They lived in Temple and we'd stay with them for a week or two while my mom and dad got time to themselves.  They had "kin" in Houston and we'd go visit them for a day or two, and hit up the sights while in town.  
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« Reply #4640 on: April 23, 2025, 06:24:54 PM »
February 12, 2025
By: Noel Morris ©️2025
Beethoven’s last decade is as much a psychological journey as a musical one. For sure, the audacity and experimentation that defined his “heroic decade” fed into his later works. But he suffered a dry spell and emerged a more introspective and philosophical composer.

As he inched toward his forty-third birthday, he'd completed eight symphonies, five piano concertos, and trunkloads of chamber works. His Seventh Symphony drew applause that “rose to the point of ecstasy.” But privately, he felt the ground shifting beneath his feet.

Napoleon, the so-called great liberator, faltered along with Beethoven’s hopes for freedom and universal brotherhood. The Austrian emperor reasserted his iron grip. Beethoven’s circle of benefactors dwindled, and his hearing grew worse. On top of that, documents point to a failed romance. (We know little about the woman he called his “Immortal Beloved.”)

Between 1813 and early 1815, he banged out a series of crowdpleasers, boosting his popularity around Vienna while offering little for posterity. Biographer Maynard Solomon wrote: “These works, filled with bombastic rhetoric and ‘patriotic’ excesses, mark the nadir of Beethoven’s artistic career.” And then, like a caterpillar, he went dormant.
Beethoven
Now clinically deaf and chronically ill, Beethoven gave his last public piano performance in January 1815. That same year, his brother Caspar Carl died, and Ludwig blundered through a five-year custody battle over his nephew. Music took a back seat to the unfortunate legal proceedings against the boy’s mother. Meanwhile, he let himself go; his hair grew matted and his clothes shabby. Necessarily, the outside world communicated with him via pen and paper. Lubricating himself with bottles of wine, he shared laughs with his friends and railed against the Emperor. (The secret police ignored him because he was a famous composer and seemed a little touched in the head.)

Beethoven re-emerged as a composer in 1818 to write his colossal Hammerklavier Sonata. Music critic Harry Haskell notes the Sonata’s “sharp dynamic contrasts, sudden shifts of register and texture, and bold juxtapositions of keys.” From this point on, Beethoven is at one with his imagination; he’s unfettered by the hearing world's distractions, conventions, and demands. Sharp contrasts and bold juxtapositions became his vocabulary for pushing his late works into a realm of their own.

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« Reply #4641 on: April 23, 2025, 07:25:54 PM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4642 on: April 23, 2025, 08:17:55 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 23, 2025, 05:13:10 PM
Used to go see the Astros pretty much every summer with my grandparents.  They lived in Temple and we'd stay with them for a week or two while my mom and dad got time to themselves.  They had "kin" in Houston and we'd go visit them for a day or two, and hit up the sights while in town. 
I’m sure then you remember the home run scoreboard ?  
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« Reply #4643 on: April 24, 2025, 11:28:42 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Hersheypark Opens in Pennsylvania (1907)
Milton Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, originally created Hersheypark for his employees. Situated along a creek, it was a good spot for boating, picnicking, and enjoying baseball, which is what visitors did on the park's first day in 1907. The next year, the park added its first ride, a carousel. Over the decades, as the park expanded, it grew from a regional amusement to a national attraction.
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« Reply #4644 on: April 24, 2025, 11:30:38 AM »
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« Reply #4645 on: April 24, 2025, 11:34:14 AM »
I prefer V=IR



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« Reply #4646 on: April 24, 2025, 12:07:01 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 24, 2025, 11:34:14 AM
I prefer V=IR

That's the "ee" in utee coming out.
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« Reply #4647 on: April 24, 2025, 12:14:04 PM »
I would expect this one to trump most others around here:

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