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01-30-14, 12:12 PM | #16 |
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!/30/2014
On this date in history: 1649; annointed King Charles I is beheaded for treason just outside Parliament...a practice sadly gone lacking. His last thoughts must have been on his Great Auntie, Elizabeth I, who established the precedent of royal executions when she signed the death warrant for her anointed cousin (Charles paternal grandmother) Mary, Queen-of-Scots, executed 1587. Nothing like a little regal stare decises in British common law! 1862: the Monitor is launched from the Continental Iron Works of Greenpoint NY...the British navy begins remodeling anew...as the old expression "Not worth a continental is reviewed....Hmmm, turrets and armor...ya think! Strangely, the German observers picked up on the extensive use of railroads in the Civil War, welded it to Von Clausewitz...and lost two two-front world wars to the Royal Navy! 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany...democracy in action!!? The first episode of the Lone Ranger and Tonto is aired on radio...Move over Old Shatterhand and Winnetou!(written in the 1890's and read by every young German, including young Adolf). Fiery steed Silver replaces Hatatitla (Lightning) and the silver-bullet revolvers replaced redoubtable rifles: Bärentöter and Henrystützen! 1962: The Flying Wallendas discover gravity is not their friend at the State Fair in Detroit Michigan; 1948: Nathuram Godse kills one of the better men on the planet: Mohandas K. Gandhi,(Inshallah BBY!) and it's now a nuclear mess between India and Pakistan to boot. We moderate very discreetly from Diego Garcia. 1968: the TET offensive; a massive surprise attack, all-out offensive began against South Vietnam...the beginning of the end for the post-colonial American empire. That's how it all looks in hindsight; 2014-today: I'm off to shoot my Henrystützen .44 mag. "golden boy"...one of the Sioux/Cheyenne positions at Little Big Horn ain't called "Henry Hill' fer nuthin...is it Winnetou?!HOKA HEY!
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01-31-14, 02:47 AM | #17 |
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01-31-14, 12:42 PM | #18 |
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1/31/14 politics by other means meets comfort food!
THE OFFICIAL BIRTH OF SUBSIM!!! 1917: Germany declares "a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare"...The game(as we luv it) is on! All ers can have the day off...sort of like opening of deer season in Utah. Without the Kaiser's brilliant "politics by other means", there IS no US...oh and 1606: poor Guy Fawkes is executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against good King James I...his "politics by other means" having failed! 1865: GEN R. E. LEE is appointed General-in-Chief of all Confederate armies...as "politics by other means" are about to fail...1929: Leon Trotsky is trotted out of the Soviet Union...his "Politics by other means " having failed...They will fail more in Mexico City when he's really axed from the party 1958: The US successfully launches its first satellite into orbit; the Explorer I...move over Comrade Sputnik!; 1961; NASA launches HAM(what was he drinkn'?) the CHIMP into orbit for 16.5 minutes of primate glory...No monkeying around now Comrade Sputnik! 1971: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off for the moon(ALICE!) on Apollo 14...game long over Comrade Sputnik 1990: McDonald's opens it's first fast food restaurant in Moscow...Кетчуп с фри? Move over Napoleon and Adolf...what "politics by other means" is really all about...he who eats last eats best! hey! what's on the Soyuz menu today... Comrade Sputnik!? and thanks for leading the way too!von Clauscewitz ON WAR: "All warfare is politics by other means"...
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02-14-14, 12:04 PM | #19 |
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Valentines day: showin true love american style
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02-17-14, 01:37 PM | #20 |
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1865
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02-17-14, 03:54 PM | #21 |
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Now that is history.
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04-25-14, 11:28 PM | #22 |
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4/25
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04-27-14, 09:07 PM | #23 |
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the worst of the worst!
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04-27-14, 09:39 PM | #24 | |
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Actually Aktungbby the Sultana disaster was more likely due to the boilers exploding. I'll let this quote on both theories do the rest of the talking though.
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04-28-14, 12:40 AM | #25 |
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YUP!
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04-28-14, 12:01 PM | #26 |
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1789 A flick franchise is launched!
The Mutiny of the HMS Bounty!
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04-28-14, 02:07 PM | #27 |
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Mister Christian just wanted some Strawberries and cream.
Cap'n Blye was less than accommodating on that request.
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04-28-14, 04:12 PM | #28 |
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Some serious strawberries and cream indeed! Brando directed; acquired the small archipelago of Teti'aroa; and married the co-star Tarita...
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05-05-14, 12:17 PM | #29 |
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A bad day for the French!
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in his second exile, aged 51, on the island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic. 1862 a bigger celebration in California than in Mexico actually?? CINCO DE MAYO holiday! celebrating the defeat of Napoleon III's occupying French forces at the Battle of Puebla!
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05-05-14, 01:15 PM | #30 |
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Maybe Lincoln was in cahoots with the three countries that invaded Mexico. Looking to weaken them enough for an annexation perhaps?
It could also be why he took one to the cranium. Nothing wrong with revisionist history.
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