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Topic: OT - Weird History

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847badgerfan

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« Reply #3388 on: Today at 09:14:54 AM »
I wonder how much syrup McD's buys. Gotta be a HUGE number.
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« Reply #3389 on: Today at 10:09:33 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Freighter Destroys Part of Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge (1980)
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay was completed in 1954. A new southbound span was opened in 1971, but only nine years later, it was destroyed when the freighter Summit Venture collided with a support column during a storm, sending more than 1,200 ft (366 m) of the bridge plummeting into the bay. The collision caused several automobiles and a bus to fall 150 ft (46 m), killing 35 people.
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« Reply #3390 on: Today at 10:24:33 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on Today at 08:29:00 AM
We were in Trieste a few years ago. The people there are very proud of their Austrian heritage.

Beautiful place if you can ever find time to visit.

It's also interesting how cities used to battle, like Florence and Siena. It would be like Miami and Cincy going to war.
Trieste was a lot more important as part of Austria-Hungary. 

As a peninsula, Italy obviously has a lot of coastal/port cities so Trieste is just one of many such cities. Before WWI Trieste was one of (I think) only two major ports of the Hapsburg empire along with Fiume. It was also the home port of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy is interesting mostly because it produced Admiral Horty (sp?). He ended up as "regent" of Hungry between the wars and during most of WWII. This is somewhat comical because Hungry was a landlocked country ruled by an Admiral with no navy who was a Regent with no King. Now that is some weird history.
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