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Reply #3240 on: December 11, 2024, 08:24:49 AM
There were 21 years between the two wars. Think about this. 21 years ago was 2003. 9/11 had already happed. George W. Bush was in his second presidency. 21 years is no time at all.

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Reply #3241 on: December 11, 2024, 11:35:33 AM
There were 21 years between the two wars. Think about this. 21 years ago was 2003. 9/11 had already happed. George W. Bush was in his second presidency. 21 years is no time at all.

You make an excellent point, but the Times usage struck me in a slightly different way. In the interbellum period I think it was common to call the 1914-18 war "The Great War" until another, equally devastating, conflict came along (after only 21 years, as you say) and people no longer considered the first to be particularly "great" or "the war to end all wars".

I don't know when the media began switching to "WWI" and "WWII". Maybe the advent of the Cold War made people aware that world wars can come in sequence, and WWIII became a possibility.



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Reply #3242 on: December 11, 2024, 11:26:45 PM
TIL Love-struck male humpback whale swims record-breaking 3 oceans, 8,106 miles for sex. The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) covered a distance of 8,106 miles (13,046 kilometers). Horny motherfucker. LOL.

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Reply #3243 on: December 13, 2024, 07:17:03 AM
Here's something I learned from the journal of an English lady who toured France and Belgium in 1817. She visited the site of the Battle of Waterloo, and found many relics and remains still strewn around the countryside. Her guide was a veteran of the battle:

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We returned by the Nivelles road to Mont St Jean. Our guide took care to remind us that the English called it the Battle of Waterloo, the Prussians the Battle of La Belle Alliance, the French the Battle of Mont St Jean. The English call it Waterloo because it was their headquarters before the action. The Prussians La Belle Alliance because it was there that they joined in and commenced the pursuit. The French the battle of Mont St Jean because it was there they began the battle in endeavouring to storm the heights.



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Reply #3244 on: December 13, 2024, 04:01:29 PM
Here's something I learned from the journal of an English lady who toured France and Belgium in 1817. She visited the site of the Battle of Waterloo, and found many relics and remains still strewn around the countryside. Her guide was a veteran of the battle:

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We returned by the Nivelles road to Mont St Jean. Our guide took care to remind us that the English called it the Battle of Waterloo, the Prussians the Battle of La Belle Alliance, the French the Battle of Mont St Jean. The English call it Waterloo because it was their headquarters before the action. The Prussians La Belle Alliance because it was there that they joined in and commenced the pursuit. The French the battle of Mont St Jean because it was there they began the battle in endeavouring to storm the heights.

Relevant: During World War 2, there were a number of sea battles around The Philippines and a few other Pacific islands. Because there is a need for "pre nuclear" (pre 1945) steel, a number of shipwrecks have disappeared off of the ocean floor. These shipwrecks are considered war graves and historians are both horrified and disgusted by this.





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Reply #3245 on: December 13, 2024, 09:43:40 PM
A lot of that steel is needed for highly accurate scientific monitoring equipment.  As a history buff I get it, but unfortunately we sometime have to cannibalize a suken ship to help future scientific endeavors or build over a ruin to help the current and future populations.

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Reply #3246 on: December 18, 2024, 08:40:32 AM
I learned today that John Philip Sousa wrote a march called "Co-eds of Michigan".

I was aware that he'd written marches for the military, the coastguard, the boy scouts, and dozens of other institutions. After listening to "Co-eds of Michigan" I looked further and found that Sousa had written marches for several universities. How he ended up serenading the co-eds of Michigan, I have no idea.

I'm listening to a 9-CD box set titled The United States Marine Band - The Heritage Of John Philip Sousa. The musicians are some of the finest in the land, and I can't help wondering if they perform any of the tricks that Sousa used in live performances, to keep things interesting for his audiences. I've read that he would give tiny hand signals, and sections would swap parts, or shift up an octave.



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Reply #3247 on: December 18, 2024, 04:03:53 PM
I played in marching band 6 years, as did my son.  Good times. Sousa defined the genre.

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Reply #3248 on: December 19, 2024, 01:06:20 AM
I played in marching band 6 years, as did my son.  Good times. Sousa defined the genre.

Absolutely!! No one person contributed more to marching bands than Sousa. Not just music, but A LOT of marching bands still wear the uniforms that Sousa's musicians wore.



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Reply #3249 on: December 30, 2024, 06:57:52 AM
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade is just a few days away. It is a 5.5 mile route, which is a very long way to walk. This is a behind the scenes video of where the parade begins and then, where it leads to.

Kyoto Tachibana landed in Los Angeles Saturday morning. Before the parade, they will participate in "Pasadena Bandfest" and on New Year's Eve, will have two performances at Disneyland. Then, very early Wednesday morning, they will form up on the street seen in the video. They will be the 29th item (behind bands, floats and acts) in the parade.




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Reply #3250 on: December 30, 2024, 07:04:47 AM
A 20 foot tsunami hit parts of the Peru coast, creating a tremendous amount of the damage. The article is wrong about the tsunami being caused by weather (see the Geology Hub video).

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13173335/freak-wave-video-peru-boats/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sunyoutubestories





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Reply #3251 on: January 05, 2025, 04:09:15 AM
I'm reading a novel written in 1932 but set in 1918. I came across a passage that introduces two American ladies, one from Roandoke Wilderness, Va. the other from Lakawanna County, Penna. I thought the latter was a mistake, but I was wrong. I learned that, until postal codes were standardized, Pennsylvania could be abbreviated to "Penn." or "Penna."



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Reply #3252 on: January 05, 2025, 04:56:59 AM
As an older American, and an amateur genealogist, I can assure you that there were no standardized state letter codes or ZIP Codes until 1963. So you could pretty much address something anyway you wanted, and the post office would figure out how to get it to them. Imagine getting a postal item addressed to “Bob Jones, Dallas, Texas.“ And they would deliver it.

Lackawana is a county in Pennsylvania, with Scranton as its main city. Author e.e. cummings did a famous poem many years ago that started out “the buses to Scranton always travel in pairs.“

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Reply #3253 on: January 09, 2025, 07:33:38 PM
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Reply #3254 on: January 15, 2025, 12:36:01 PM
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Reply #3255 on: January 17, 2025, 04:35:32 AM
I hope they use a Clorox wipe before and after.

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Reply #3256 on: January 20, 2025, 02:27:43 PM
Michelangelo signed only one piece of art.

tldr, summary in bold

Michelangelo is one of the few people in history whose work has spanned the centuries with no need for a last name. Hundreds of his surviving works of art — including sculptures, paintings, and drawings — don’t even bear an artist’s mark. That’s because the artist only ever signed one piece, the Madonna della Pietà, and his doing so likely stemmed from misplaced credit.

Michelangelo was commissioned to sculpt the Pietà in the late 1490s. As he was just 24 years old at the time, it was one of his earliest projects, and a piece that helped launch him into the spotlight. The sculpture, which was created as a funeral monument for French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, depicts the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus following the Crucifixion. The young artist sculpted the piece from one cut of marble and finished the job in under two years. According to fellow Renaissance artist and friend Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo’s statue initially bore no indication of its creator, but the artist supposedly changed his mind after overhearing his work credited to a rival; he snuck back to chisel his name prominently onto the sash across Mary’s chest.

Shame at the rash decision likely kept Michelangelo from signing his future works of art, though the artist did find other ways of inserting his likeness into his work. In the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo imposed his own features onto St. Bartholomew — who was skinned alive — possibly as a joke meant to share his disdain for the physically grueling project.

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Reply #3257 on: January 20, 2025, 04:02:55 PM
Some habits die hard. I was always taught, when making biscuits, to line the rim of the (circular) pans, which is what I've been doing for 40+ years. Inspiration struck yesterday and I decided to just lay the biscuits flat on the pan, almost touching each other. The result was layered, fluffy, easy to eat and work with biscuits. Kind of a "DUH!! Why didn't I think of this before?"



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Reply #3258 on: Today at 01:49:28 PM

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