I’m from Connecticut and always wondered about the notch in the north central border with Massachusetts. There is quite the history regarding the Southwick Jog aka Granby notch. It doesn’t involve drunk surveyors (incompetent perhaps) and isn’t there to keep Massachusetts from sliding eastward into the ocean. The history here:
The largest postcode in Australia is 0872 in the Northern Territory at 1,002,281 km² = ~386,983 square miles.
I knew that Suite: Judy Blue Eyes was about Judy Collins. I didn’t know…
Collins and Stills had met in 1967 and dated for two years. In 1969, she was appearing in the New York Shakespeare Festival musical production of Peer Gynt and had fallen in love with her co-star Stacy Keach, eventually leaving Stills for him.
The B-2 bomber is 32 years old! The in-flight refueling receptacle does this flip over maneuver and disappears. Amazing.
Pretty cool. The rotating fixture is probably more reliable than hinged doors. The flying boom refueling hoses are pretty cool. The early flight refueling systems that had fighter jets fly their nose into a receptacle did work, but it was a slow difficult process with that receptacle dangling in the backwash of the refueling plane. I heard somewhere that it is still in use for some planes.
I’ve noticed lately that I’m getting ads put into the emails. They might have been there all along and now they’re getting around the ad blockers. Selling (presumably well targeted) ad space for emails that get around spam blockers and actually get opened seems to be a way to make money.
They’ve been doing if for awhile, but the ads I see are all for nonprofits.
While looking for information on tanks for a recent thread, I found about the biggest WWII tank battle in the Pacific that took place in Saipan. Over there, the Sherman tanks were very good. Even the machine guns in those tanks could stop the less well-made Japanese tanks.
The Munsters’ Al Lewis (Grampa) was younger than his TV daughter Yvonne De Carlo (Lily)
David L “Squiggy” Lander was a big baseball fan who eventually worked as a talent scout for the Anaheim Angels and the Seattle Mariners. One supposes he searched for good players Night After Night.
Speaking of animals that could be used for sound effects…
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XVMZZAfrE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
video, make sure you have the sound turned on
Tristan is one of the most remote & inhabited places in the world. There’s no airstrip, so visiting it requires a six day boat trip from South Africa.
The population is around 250. It has one police officer. In a 2010 news article he said that, over the last 22 years, he hasn’t had to arrest anyone.
That sounds like the “pewpewpew” of the stormtroopers’ laser rifles.
or: Star Trek Meditation: Catspaw (Matrix Enchantment: “Korob and Sylvia as they really are”) - YouTube
I’ll need to watch for this. The “ads” I’ve seen are for nonprofits that are mailing me something. It shows the mailing along with a little blurb about the nonprofit.
Something I learned from an Info Board on a cycleway.
Background: Dr Richard Beeching is famous in the UK for being the man who recommended (and mostly succeeded in) the money-saving closure of 55% of Britain’s railway stations and 30% of all track miles in the late 1960s. (Cite) The track miles lost were largely branch lines connecting to main rail lines. Indeed, the cycleway I was on had been one of these branch lines – hence the Info Board.
Without getting into the overall right or wrong of it, he is reviled by many today for causing the permanent loss of massive public transport infrastructure. He was unsurprisingly reviled by many in the 1960s because of the difficulties the closures caused. Many had their commute to work made much more difficult because of the closures.
The interesting random fact? Well, one of those who suffered a much more difficult commute was….Dr Richard Beeching. From the Info Board:
[The line] eventually fell under the axe of the Beeching cuts in 1966. Ironically, Dr Beeching lived near Forest Row and regularly travelled up to London on the line when he was Chairman of British Rail.
I honestly don’t know how I feel about this.
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Railroads, buses and airlines, despite the enormous amount of traffic they handle, have historically had difficulty staying in the black. Indeed they might not exist at all if they didn’t receive tax breaks and other subsidies direct or indirect. And of course they compete with highways which are a mostly tax-funded public expense.
TIL: Tom Cruise, star of Born on the 4th of July, was born on the 3rd of July
You might have heard of the 1859 Carrington Event, a solar storm which might badly damage our electrical infrastructure if it occurred in the present. Now it appears that tree ring data preserves evidence of an event ten times as powerful in the Middle Ages: