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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5096 on: June 11, 2025, 09:59:45 AM »



That's supposed to be a picture of the guy?  How long did he live?  Photography didn't come along until WAY after his restaurant idea.  

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5097 on: June 11, 2025, 10:16:56 AM »
The Story of Mr. Boulanger. A few years ago, I read a story in… | by Transparent Kitchen | Medium

Who Invented the First Modern Restaurant?” Unsurprisingly, it was a Parisian chef known as Mr. Boulanger. His infamous dish of sheeps feet simmering in white sauce caught the attention of the growing French upper and middle class. Mr. Boulanger convinced them for the first time to leave their own personal kitchens and venture to this new form of dining called a “restaurant”; the French verb restaurer, meaning “to restore or refresh.”. This kicked off a 250 year-old tradition of dining out, which we now know encompasses bistros in Paris to burgers in America.

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« Reply #5098 on: June 11, 2025, 12:27:59 PM »
Leanderman
 Medina Boring - how many times are you going to prattle on - sucking up & dropping names of other posters you highlight. You remind me of the old Warner Bros. cartoon with Spike the big bulldog and Chester the small terrier bouncing continuously around him. "hey Spike whadda say we chase some cars,huh,huh does that sound like Fun?" "Hey Spike want for me to pick up some bones for ya - anything you say Spike because you and me is pals ain't we Spike" "Hey Spike you wanna play some ball,huh,huh, ya wanna?"

Have some dignity already - you've received no "likes", atta boys,affirmations or even responses from those you highlight.So Basically you're
  dumb and dumber thread GIF

Maybe when your ankle monitor is removed and restraining order rescinded your handler can take you to a library where you could brush up on actual history but you're going to have to keep quiet which is doubtful. Oh and the library closes at 8 pm unlike your mouth.I noticed you stayed up until 2 am saturday morning attempting to craft a credible response, sad but expected. Now addressing your drivel
  You're wrong again but it's something your good at. And there was no claiming,it happened,3 sources below, I should be charging you for this. You deliberately left out part of the text then put quotations around it and present it as my view to bolster your argument. That's just demented it really is , "oh the webbs that we weave" My exact words posted are below were 3/4 of million people you facking hack not 3/4 of the population,change a couple words and the whole narrative changes.



-https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-british-naval-blockade-of-the-first-world-war
-C. Paul Vincent, The Politics of Hunger: the Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915–1919. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1985.
- Grebler, Leo, The Cost of the World War to Germany and Austria–Hungary. Yale University Press.1940 Page 78

During the First World War, Britain intended to use its powerful navy to starve Germany and Austria-Hungary into submission.Germany's civilians began to suffer malnourishment from the winter of 1916 onwards, while the food situation in Austria caused riots and, eventually, actual starvation in some areas. A wish to retaliate and to break Britain’s command of the seas motivated Germany to launch its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917.

 The official German statistics estimated 763,000 civilian malnutrition and disease deaths were caused by the blockade of Germany. The statistics came from a German National Health Office report published in December 1918 that estimated the blockade to be responsible for the deaths of 762,796 civilians

And England never won anything alone unless you count African or Pacific Islanders with slinging spears. Even then the Hawaiians wacked Capt. Cook in the late 1800s. WWs 1 & 2,puhleeze S.Africa/Canada/Australia/France/USA and any other assorted sandbags and cannon fodder the Imperial inbreds could coerce. And the Tommies overlords getting 57,000 of them killed,captured or wounded in ONE DAY during the Somme offensive speaks to their leader ship abilities. Making the Red Army look like humanitarians - you're welcome
As @SFBadger96 said, "there is no legitimate debate" so stop debating and thank me for educating you already.  You don't know enough about this topic to contribute to the discussion here.  

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5099 on: June 11, 2025, 04:53:32 PM »
I'm too busy to wade into any of this stuff except to say that I keep getting notifications that I've been tagged. Ok...The Brits had a better Army than the U.S. did at the beginning of World War II--and certainly when the Yanks arrived in North Africa. 

Beyond that, I'm pretty sure I just want to stay out of this. 

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« Reply #5100 on: June 12, 2025, 07:41:50 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Battle of Cold Harbor Ends (1864)
Cold Harbor was one of the bloodiest and most lopsided engagements of the US Civil War. As many as 13,000 Union soldiers were killed, injured, or captured in the assault on the fortified Confederate line, whereas the Confederates suffered only a few thousand casualties. After two weeks of battle, Union General Ulysses S. Grant decided he could not justify his losses and ordered a retreat, later expressing regret over the disastrous assault.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5101 on: June 12, 2025, 08:07:25 AM »
I'm too busy to wade into any of this stuff except to say that I keep getting notifications that I've been tagged. Ok...The Brits had a better Army than the U.S. did at the beginning of World War II--and certainly when the Yanks arrived in North Africa.
Obviously they were more experienced, and as you noted before that is a major factor with which we can all agree. 

We were visiting Verdun a few years back, in December, with friends of ours, and I remarked how tough it would have been as a poilu in those forts in those conditions even with no combat happening.  My friend noted they were "country boys" back then and used to privation, and tough as nails.  He was born on a farm in Brittany in 1938 and knew about such things personally, ended his career as CEO of a rather large company.

I know some French soldiers in WW One mutinied, I can understand it.  I have a harder time understanding why more didn't really.

France - WWI, Battlefields, Armistice | Britannica

There are few more depressing sights and sites to visit than Verdun (the town seems quite nice).



The Nivelle Offensive failed to achieve its strategic objectives and by 25 April, most of the fighting had ended. On 3 May, the French 2nd Division refused to follow orders to attack and the mutiny soon spread throughout the army. For most of the time events were independent and were focused on specific demands, more liberty, more time with families and better conditions in cantonments. From 16 to 17 May, there were disturbances in a Chasseur battalion of the 127th Division and a regiment of the 18th Division. Two days later, a battalion of the 166th Division staged a demonstration and on 20 May, the 128th Regiment of the 3rd Division and the 66th Regiment of the 18th Division refused orders. Individual incidents of insubordination occurred in the 17th Division. Over the next two days, spokesmen were elected in two regiments of the 69th Division to petition for an end to the offensive. By 28 May, mutinies broke out in the 9th Division, 158th Division, 5th Division and the 1st Cavalry Division. By the end of May more units of the 5th, 6th, 13th, 35th, 43rd, 62nd, 77th and 170th Divisions mutinied and revolts occurred in 21 divisions in May.[6] A record 27,000 French soldiers deserted in 1917; the offensive was suspended on 9 May.[7]

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« Reply #5102 on: June 12, 2025, 10:51:40 AM »
Historical & Archaeology

Dougl Hegdahl, a U.S. Navy petty officer, was captured during the Vietnam War. His captors thought him unintelligent, earning him the moniker "The Stupid."
He feigned ignorance, opting to hum a song instead of speaking.
While in captivity, Hegdahl maintained this act, leading his Vietnamese captors to believe he suffered from a mental disorder.
After being freed and returning to the United States, Hegdahl astounded everyone by listing approximately 256 names of missing fellow POWs.
He had ingeniously memorized their names by associating them with the melody of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," the same tune he hummed throughout his imprisonment.


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« Reply #5103 on: June 13, 2025, 09:02:36 AM »
In 1839 Charles Goodyear invented vulcanization, a process that forms molecular cross-linkages between polymer chains in rubber. The result is rubber that is stronger, more elastic, and much more resistance to hot and cold temperatures.
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« Reply #5104 on: June 13, 2025, 09:04:52 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US Supreme Court Rules in Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Miranda v. Arizona was a landmark US Supreme Court decision that led to the institution of the Miranda warning, a set of rights that police officers must read to arrestees. One of the petitioners in the case, Ernesto Miranda, had been convicted of rape in 1963 based on a confession he made while in police custody—without knowing he had a right to see a lawyer. He appealed, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
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« Reply #5105 on: June 13, 2025, 12:58:00 PM »
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. - Charles Bukowski

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« Reply #5106 on: June 13, 2025, 02:28:07 PM »
Army division bought crucial time during the Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge during World War II is often associated with the 101st Airborne Division’s heroic stand at Bastogne in Belgium. But it was the 28th Infantry Division’s tenacious defense at the start of the battle that delayed the Germans long enough to allow the 101st to move into Bastogne.

Nicknamed the “Bloody Bucket” by the Germans for the red keystone patches its soldiers wore on their uniforms, the 28th Infantry Division had just suffered about 5,700 casualties during the gruelinbattle of the Hürtgen Forest.  


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« Reply #5107 on: June 13, 2025, 10:33:50 PM »
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« Reply #5108 on: June 14, 2025, 11:25:15 AM »
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« Reply #5109 on: June 14, 2025, 11:27:44 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Alcock and Brown Embark on First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight (1919)
In 1918, the Daily Mail newspaper renewed its £10,000 prize for the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. The next year, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown claimed it after completing a treacherous 16-hour flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. Along the way, Brown had to repeatedly climb onto the wings of their biplane to remove ice, and snow filled the open cockpit. Upon reaching Ireland, they attempted to land in what they thought was a field
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