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Zundfolge1432 
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 Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| 75th anniversary of liberation of Autschwitz death camp. When I was a small boy man across street lost his whole family during the Holocaust. |
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kangaboy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:55 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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34th anniversary of the Challenger explosion today.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/tuesday-marks-3...-disaster/
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Jacks
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:47 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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61 years ago today, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson and their pilot Roger Peterson we’re killed when their plane crashed. Don McLean memorialized them in his song “The Day the Music Died”.
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mark tucker
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| Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:12 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Jacks wrote: |
| 61 years ago today, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson and their pilot Roger Peterson we’re killed when their plane crashed. Don McLean memorialized them in his song “The Day the Music Died”. |
With that said I think I will just go for a long ride today listening to tunes. weather is finally good...almost top down weather!!!! I needed a day off any way. |
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Fish
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62DoKaGuy
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Damn you! Here we go again with this on loop in my brain...
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Fish
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| Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Damn you! Here we go again with this on loop in my brain... |
He is 54 years old today.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Joe 20
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| April 19, 1995 The Oklahoma City bombing. This is the 25th. anniversary of this terrible crime and the services had to be held remotely due to the COVID 19 emergency. May we all say a silent prayer for all the people this tragedy still effects all these years later. |
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Splitdog
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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April 19, 1969 Led Zeppelin recorded 'Whole Lotta Love'.
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mukluk
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Nineteenth of April, 1775, saw the two opening battles of the American Revolution at Concord and Lexington.
On this day in 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started as well.
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:27 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Today marks 50th anniversary of Earth Day. |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:57 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| 75th anniversary of liberation of Autschwitz death camp. When I was a small boy man across street lost his whole family during the Holocaust. |
The devastation that Poland took in WWII is one of those areas in history that is often neglected with the stories of the Victors and the Evil Losers getting top billing.
The German Army was about 10% mechanized, much less than the French and English. Not what I was taught.
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Yes that anniversary was 3 months ago this ones Earth Day. In my lifetime I see less visible trash and pollution. Less tolerance for dumping  |
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Abscate wrote: |
| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| 75th anniversary of liberation of Autschwitz death camp. When I was a small boy man across street lost his whole family during the Holocaust. |
The devastation that Poland took in WWII is one of those areas in history that is often neglected with the stories of the Victors and the Evil Losers getting top billing.
The German Army was about 10% mechanized, much less than the French and English. Not what I was taught. |
While they might not have been as mechanized, the German troops were “meth-anized”. None of the opposing forces were prepared for the speed & non-stop push forward.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/intern...5-amp.html
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:42 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
| Abscate wrote: |
| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| 75th anniversary of liberation of Autschwitz death camp. When I was a small boy man across street lost his whole family during the Holocaust. |
The devastation that Poland took in WWII is one of those areas in history that is often neglected with the stories of the Victors and the Evil Losers getting top billing.
The German Army was about 10% mechanized, much less than the French and English. Not what I was taught. |
While they might not have been as mechanized, the German troops were “meth-anized”. None of the opposing forces were prepared for the speed & non-stop push forward.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/intern...5-amp.html |
Yes, I just learned that this year, courtesy of the great PBS SPECIAL.
in the technical fields we make fun of History majors, but I think the Creator has made them our Society’s Cassandra...... 
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raygreenwood
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:00 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Today is the 34th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
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vwinnovator
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:26 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Yes that anniversary was 3 months ago this ones Earth Day. In my lifetime I see less visible trash and pollution. Less tolerance for dumping |
It's just been shipped to other countries as well as dumped way out in the oceans.
Good documentary called "Broken: Recycling Sham" on netflix... |
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:10 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| vwinnovator wrote: |
| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| Yes that anniversary was 3 months ago this ones Earth Day. In my lifetime I see less visible trash and pollution. Less tolerance for dumping |
It's just been shipped to other countries as well as dumped way out in the oceans.
Good documentary called "Broken: Recycling Sham" on netflix... |
Maybe where you live but I grew up in a time of pop tops, people were still burning trash or throwing into a ravine. Some outhouses still in use. Used motor oil dumped or spilled onto the ground without regard because nobody cared, no EPA. Great Lakes so polluted we had massive fish kills. Cuyahoga River on fire. So from where I’m standing it’s gotten cleaner.
Offshoring waste? Oh ya I helped dump bags of trash mostly plastic and oil waste from a Navy ship back in the 70s. Who’s gonna say we can’t? We are the govt. |
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