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[Aktungbby]

Nothing new about 'fiddling around' and being a great lyre to boot ever goes out of style in politics. I 'spect Bubba jus likes...Romin' around... Thank god Hillary didn't win; Bill would have been First Man??!!No White House intern could remain...respectable!

[Mr Quatro]

Nero vs Bubba?

Have you been hitting on the eggnog again Aktungbby?

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Nero vs Bubba?

Have you been hitting on the eggnog again Aktungbby?

Absolutely! Aktung's Xmas Eggnog:1 Coffee mug; 1/2 in. Disaronno Amaretto; top up with eggnog; stir & sprinkle with nutmeg; heat 30 second in microwave; re-stir lightly. Have stockings hung with with care; roaring yule log fire; clean toga and polar bear rug: and a willing Harlo.....W! Cheers!

[Jimbuna]

1922 Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries.

1941 German submarine U-574 sinks.

1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch, Scotland.

1986 OPEC reaches an accord that would cut production by 7 percent for the first six months of 1987 and would raise prices immediately toward a target world oil price of $18 per barrel.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1922 Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries.

Which reminds me of a quote Zsa Zsa Gabor (who just passed away at 99) said,

" I was a good house keeper" "I kept every house of my nine 8 husbands after the divorce"

[Jimbuna]

1915 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove.

1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

1944 Battle of Bastogne: Germans surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

[Aktungbby]

1987: How Not to do it 101: The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry, 1/4 the size of HMS Titanic, that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. It reportedly took eight hours before Philippine maritime authorities learned of the accident, and another eight hours to organize search-and-rescue operations! The Doña Paz sank within two hours of the collision, while the Vector sank in four hours. The sea is about 545 meters deep in the collision site. With an estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 24 survivors, it was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. The official passenger manifest of the Doña Paz recorded 1,493 passengers and 59 crew members aboard. According to Sulpicio Lines, the ferry was able to carry 1,424 passengers. A revised manifest released on December 23, 1987, showed 1,583 passengers and 58 crew members on the Doña Paz, with 675 persons boarding the ferry in Tacloban City, and 908 coming on board in Catbalogan City. However, an anonymous official of told UPI that, since it was the Christmas season, tickets were usually purchased illegally aboard the ship at a cheaper rate, and those passengers were not listed on the manifest. The same official added that holders of complimentary tickets and non-paying children below the age of four were likewise not listed on the manifest.(SOP I 'spect)

Many victims were probably incinerated when the vessels exploded and will never be accounted for. Rescuers found only 108 bodies, many of them charred and mutilated beyond recognition. More bodies were later washed ashore to nearby islands where the local people buried them after religious rituals.
All officers on board the Doña Paz were killed in the disaster, and the two from the Vector who survived had both been asleep at the time. It was later found that, at the time of the collision, both ships had been moving slowly: the Doña Paz at 26 km per hour, and Vector at 8 km per hour. They were surrounded by 37 square km of wide open sea – plenty of time and space to avoid crashing into each other!
Experts also wondered why the two ships had not communicated with each other before the crash. It is internationally required that all ships carry VHF radio. The Vector was found to have an expired radio license. The radio license for the Doña Paz was a fake.

In January 1999 a presidential task force report estimated, on the basis of court records and more than 4,100 settlement claims, that there were 4,341 passengers. Subtracting the 24 surviving passengers, and adding 58 crew gives 4,375 on-board fatalities. Adding the 11 dead from the Vector crew, the total becomes 4,386. According to the initial investigation conducted by the Philippine Coast Guard, only one apprentice member of the crew of the Doña Paz was monitoring the bridge when the accident occurred. Other officers were either drinking beer or watching television in the crew's recreation quarters, while the ship's captain was watching a movie on his Betamax in his cabin. Nonetheless, subsequent inquiries revealed that the Vector was operating without a license, lookout or properly qualified master. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227340138_The_Sinking_of_the_MV_Dona_Paz_-_I_An_analysis_of_the_event

[Jimbuna]

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.

1872 Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days".

1941 German submarine U-567 sinks.

1988 Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland.

[Jimbuna]

1810 British frigate HMS Minotaur sinks killing 480.

1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan.

1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment.

[Von Due]

2 days late but one cheerful piece amidst not so cheerful news

December 20th 1943: Ye Olde Pub, a B-17 heavily damaged by flak and enemy fighters, was limping back over Germany when the one-more-to-the-iron-cross ace Franz Stigler got it in his sights. Looking at the flying wreck in disbelief he did not open fire but flew up alongside it where 2nd Lt Charles Brown was fighting keeping the aircraft airborne. Stigler signaled Brown to land but Brown, in shock and not ready to think the German wasn't about to shoot them down, refused. Stigler knew the bomber would have to cross a heavily defended line of flak near the coast and decided to escort the bomber out over the sea, gambling the sight of a BF-109 in formation with the US bomber would stop the batteries from open fire. It paid off and both planes flew out over the sea where Stigler saluted Brown before heading back home, never to mention the episode to anyone for decades. Brown barely made it back, just a few tens of feet over the north sea when he flew in over England. Once he and the surviving crew was debriefed by intel, he was ordered not to mention anything and no medals were awarded to keep a lid on the story. Intel did not want stories out that Germans escorted damaged bombers.

Brown did not know who the German was but as luck would have it, he managed to get in contact with Stigler who was now a Canadian citizen in 1990 and the two men remained close friends until 2008 when both died months apart.

(The book A Higher Call describes the drama and the aftermath for anyone interested)

[Mr Quatro]

This one?

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

This one?

The very same

[Jimbuna]

1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese.

1943 Gen Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day.

1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die.

[Jimbuna]

1941 First ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan.

1942 First powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany.

1943 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces.

1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty.

1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek.

Colored my view of 'hot babes' ....permanently! especially after age 60! In '64... I was a little green myself!