Watched a video about the opening of that McDonald's in one of my classes, the inaugural customers were a group of Moscow orphans. Even then, the whole affair seemed almost absurdist from a western perspective.
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A shot of the recent SpaceX falcon barge landing.
No real pic, but it has a cool story:
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[quote]When the Germans started using tanks to cross the bridge, Digby led a bayonet charge against them wearing a bowler hat. He later disabled a German armoured car with his umbrella, incapacitating the driver by shoving the umbrella through the car's observational slit.
Digby then noticed the Padre pinned down by enemy fire while trying to cross the street to get to injured soldiers. Digby got to him and said "Don't worry about the bullets, I've got an umbrella". He then escorted the padre across the street under his umbrella. When he returned to the front line, one of his fellow officers said about his umbrella that "that thing won't do you any good", to which Digby replied "Oh my goodness Pat, but what if it rains?"[/quote]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter[/url]
Took out an armoured car with a fuckin umbrella
[QUOTE=shian;51694149]No real pic, but it has a cool story:
[IMG]http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv140/ctreize/DSC_0270-1.jpg[/IMG]
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter[/URL]
Took out an armoured car with a fuckin umbrella[/QUOTE]
Should've posted the rest of his Wikipedia article, this man's legend continues as colourfully as it began.
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Digby was later injured by shrapnel, which also cut open the rear of his trousers but continued to fight until A Company had run out of ammunition. Despite the radios being unreliable as Digby had predicted and the bugle calls were used most in the battle, the message "out of ammo, God save The King" was radioed out before Digby was captured.[8]
Because of his injury, Digby was sent to St. Elizabeth's Hospital but escaped out of a window with his second in command Captain Tony Frank, when the German nurses had left them alone. After creating an escape compass from buttons on his uniform, Digby and Frank headed towards Mariendaal. Upon arriving, they were hidden by a Dutch woman who spoke no English before being put in contact with her neighbour. He disguised them as painters and moved them to Bill Wildeboer's house. Wildeboer was the leader of the Dutch Resistance. They then met Menno de Nooy of the Dutch Resistance who gave them a bicycle. Wildeboer had a fake Dutch identity card made for Digby to allow him to pose as Peter Jensen, a deaf-mute son of a lawyer.
Digby used the bicycle to visit fellow soldiers in hiding and the Germans did not recognise him despite him helping to push a Nazi staff car out of a ditch and German soldiers being billeted in the same house that he was staying in. Digby then gathered 150 escaped soldiers to head towards the front line. This was known as Operation Pegasus. Digby and the soldiers cycled to the Rhine and Digby flashed a V for Victory sign with his torch. Members of XXX Corps then ferried them across the river. Upon return to the United Kingdom, Digby was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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After the war ended, Digby later served in British-controlled [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine"]Mandatory Palestine[/URL] before being appointed to the 5th [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_African_Rifles"]King's African Rifles[/URL] in [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Kenya"]British Kenya[/URL] in 1946, where he also bought two estates in [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eburru"]Eburru[/URL] and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanyuki"]Nanyuki[/URL]. During the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising"]Mau Mau Uprising[/URL], Digby raised a volunteer mounted police force at his own expense and led them into battle against the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau"]Mau Mau[/URL].] After that, he retired to run his estates. He also created the concept of the modern [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari"]safari[/URL] where animals would be photographed rather than hunted. During [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyan_independence"]Kenyan independence[/URL], it is reported that the British Defence staff told the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_High_Commissioner"]British High Commissioner[/URL] to "look after Tatham-Warter".
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[QUOTE=shian;51694149]No real pic, but it has a cool story:
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter[/URL]
Took out an armoured car with a fuckin umbrella[/QUOTE]
A true Englishman, but he's tame compared to Jack Churchill.
[video]https://youtu.be/WbMV9qYIXqM[/video]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51697271][video]https://youtu.be/WbMV9qYIXqM[/video][/QUOTE]
This will come in handy at parties
[QUOTE=shian;51694149]No real pic, but it has a cool story:
[img]http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv140/ctreize/DSC_0270-1.jpg[/img]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter[/url]
Took out an armoured car with a fuckin umbrella[/QUOTE]
This is so fucking british that it oozes, reading it feels like getting tree-sap on your hands.
Not to defend Trump in any way, but Obama's Inauguration was a much more historic moment that people wanted to be a part of.
Just on a side note: that curved road near the red building on the right looks so out of place and just ruins all the symmetry :(
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51697271][video]https://youtu.be/WbMV9qYIXqM[/video][/QUOTE]
These arent all theyre cracked up to be and it seems many real beekeepers are against this thing for various reasons from the Bees well being to quality of honey.
[url=https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/controversial-flow-hive]Some reading if youre interested[/url] and [url=https://www.milkwood.net/2015/02/26/going-flow-flow-hive-actually-good-idea/]here[/url]
[QUOTE=MadBomber;51700237]These arent all theyre cracked up to be and it seems many real beekeepers are against this thing for various reasons from the Bees well being to quality of honey.
[url=https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/controversial-flow-hive]Some reading if youre interested[/url] and [url=https://www.milkwood.net/2015/02/26/going-flow-flow-hive-actually-good-idea/]here[/url][/QUOTE]
Most of those arguments really seem to be pulling at straws. I agree it could use a bit more testing to prove it doesn't effect the bee's in the ways mentioned (like get a 3rd party to do a heap of tests and make the results public) but the same could be said about the arguments against it, offer some actual proof not just "itle do X because its different and as a beekeeper I know itle be bad without any evidence to support my claim".
Complaining that it makes bee's easy and that somehow de-valuates the plight they face is idiotic, harvesting isn't the entirety of bee keeping, there is ALOT more to it than that, I mean that sort of implies that the people making these arguments base their value on the harvesting and not the actual bee keeping.
Yeah in no way is this making a hive a set-and-forget honey maker, so your precious beekeeping skills aren't going to become redundant... All it does it make the process of extracting the honey simple and less stressful to the bees. You still need to remove the frames regularly to inspect the hive's health. Ensure you and your neighbours aren't using harmful pesticides, the hive isn't being robbed by other hives or wasps, the colony has produced enough honey to make it through winter, etc...
Some of them are acting like it is going to completely replace "traditional" hives, which it absolutely won't, as that wouldn't make any sense. The brood and any frames of honey which the bees need aren't going to be harvested anyway, so no one that's done even the slightest bit of research is going to build their whole hive out of flow hives, and thus arguments like plastic being bad for the brood and for communication is blatantly false. The brood will still be made from traditional frames and bees don't really use vibration to communicate in the honey storage frames anyway as honey itself is an excellent insulator against vibrations, so the plastic makes very little difference to them. Since the flow hives will only be storing excess honey, the bees don't even need to fill it, they're free to make the choice of storing their honey in traditional frames or flow frames. Additionally there has already been plastic frames in-use for decades, if there was something critically wrong with using them, people would have found out by now.
Probably the most valid argument they have is that it is based on the langstroth hive design, which is not the most natural, and so likely not the best for the bees. However since it is so popular, it makes sense to try to make it less harmful to the bees, as people are going to keep using it regardless.
So basically: old people afraid of change, and making up flimsy excuses to make NewThing seem like the devil.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;51699768]Not to defend Trump in any way, but Obama's Inauguration was a much more historic moment that people wanted to be a part of.[/QUOTE]
According to Wikipedia, 300k people attended the first inauguration of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_George_W._Bush"]Dubya[/URL], and "hundreds of thousands" attended that of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Bill_Clinton"]Bill Clinton[/URL]. Jimmy Carter's inauguration was allegedly quite popular even under rather cold conditions.
I am going to put money on this; Trump has had the lowest turnout for any inauguration in the last 100 years by sheer virtue of the fact not as many people actually like him as we may think
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[i]Legend says that as long as the bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg stands, the city will never fall. During 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII, citizens of the city built a makeshift bunker around it, the statue survived almost untouched and the city never fell.[/i]
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[i]Legend says that as long as the bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg stands, the city will never fall. During 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII, citizens of the city built a makeshift bunker around it, the statue survived almost untouched and the city never fell.[/i][/QUOTE]
And still, the biggest "Fuck you" to Germans was this:
[video=youtube;VzxI8fqJKjE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzxI8fqJKjE&index=23&list=WL[/video]
Performed by 15 starving musicians in 2 of August, 1942 and broadcasted via radio.
Germans were so shocked by this they even stopped the artillery strike.
[QUOTE=DaBeaver;51708726]And still, the biggest "Fuck you" to Germans was this:
[video=youtube;VzxI8fqJKjE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzxI8fqJKjE&index=23&list=WL[/video]
Performed by 15 starving musicians in 2 of August, 1942 and broadcasted via radio.
Germans were so shocked by this they even stopped the artillery strike.[/QUOTE]
This has a great [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_premi%C3%A8re_of_Shostakovich's_Symphony_No._7"]wiki article[/URL], the fact that they managed to perform it is incredible.
[QUOTE]A report by Babushkin noted that "the first violin is dying, the drum died on his way to work, the French horn is at death's door ..." [...] Instruments were in poor condition and few repairmen were available; one oboist was asked for a cat in exchange for a repair, as the starving repairman had already eaten several. [...] The musicians onstage were "dressed like cabbages" in multiple layers to prevent starvation-induced shivering. [...] when some musicians "faltered" due to exhaustion, the audience stood up "in a remarkable, spontaneous gesture ... willing them to keep going"[/QUOTE]
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[i]Legend says that as long as the bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg stands, the city will never fall. During 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII, citizens of the city built a makeshift bunker around it, the statue survived almost untouched and the city never fell.[/i][/QUOTE]
I'm surprised it wasn't torn down during the revolution since it was a monument to a Czar.
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;51710652]I'm surprised it wasn't torn down during the revolution since it was a monument to a Czar.[/QUOTE]
There is a reason why Saint-Petersburg is called "The Cultural Capital" in Russia.
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;51710652]I'm surprised it wasn't torn down during the revolution since it was a monument to a Czar.[/QUOTE]
Peter the Great ain't called that for nothing. Sometimes, even the anathema will stay away things that it would otherwise destroy
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;51710962]Peter the Great ain't called that for nothing. Sometimes, even the anathema will stay away things that it would otherwise destroy[/QUOTE]
Including Tolstoy's work. Even though the party deemed his work an anti communist body, which it absolutely was, albiet unintentional. stalin himself asserted that things like War and Peace continue to be published and printed, and was the most printed book in the soviet union during the war, eclipsing even the party's own literature and propaganda.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/A-10_Thunderbolt_II_Low-vis.JPEG[/t]
Also i got bored and read up on the A-10
[QUOTE]The A-10 is exceptionally tough, being able to survive direct hits from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor-piercing"]armor-piercing[/URL] and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-explosive"]high-explosive[/URL] projectiles up to 23 mm. It has double-redundant [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_machinery"]hydraulic[/URL] flight systems, and a mechanical system as a back up if hydraulics are lost. Flight without hydraulic power uses the manual reversion control system; pitch and yaw control engages automatically, roll control is pilot-selected. In manual reversion mode, the A-10 is sufficiently controllable under favorable conditions to return to base, though control forces are greater than normal. The aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one half of tail, one elevator, and half of a wing missing.
The A-10 was envisioned to fly from forward air bases and semi-prepared runways with high risk of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage"]foreign object damage[/URL] to the engines. The unusual location of the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Aviation"]General Electric[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_TF34"]TF34-GE-100[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan"]turbofan[/URL] engines decreases ingestion risk, and allows the engines to run while the aircraft is serviced and rearmed by ground crews, reducing turn-around time. The wings are also mounted closer to the ground, simplifying servicing and rearming operations. The heavy engines require strong supports, four bolts connect the engine pylons to the airframe.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#cite_note-Bell_p64-69"][68][/URL][/SUP] The engines' high 6:1 [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_ratio"]bypass ratio[/URL] have a relatively small [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_signature"]infrared signature[/URL], and their position directs exhaust over the tailplanes further shielding it from detection by [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_homing"]infrared homing[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile"]surface-to-air missiles[/URL]. The engines and exhausts are angled upward by nine degrees to cancel out the nose-down [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitching_moment"]pitching moment[/URL] that would otherwise generate from being mounted above the aircraft's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_gravity"]center of gravity[/URL] and avoids the need to trim the control surfaces to prevent pitching.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#cite_note-Bell_p64-69"][68][/URL][/SUP]
To reduce the likelihood of damage to the A-10's fuel system, all four fuel tanks are located near the aircraft's center and are separated from the fuselage; projectiles would need to penetrate the aircraft's skin before reaching a tank's outer skin.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#cite_note-Stephens_WAPJ_16_p42-64"][63][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#cite_note-AI_Jun_79_p270-65"][64][/URL][/SUP] Compromised fuel transfer lines self-seal; if damage exceeds a tank's self-sealing capabilities, check valves prevent fuel flowing into a compromised tank. Most fuel system components are inside the tanks so that fuel will not be lost due to component failure. The refueling system is also purged after use.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#cite_note-Wilson_p714-70"][69][/URL][/SUP] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulated_foam"]Reticulated polyurethane foam[/URL] lines both the inner and outer sides of the fuel tanks, retaining debris and restricting fuel spillage in the event of damage. The engines are shielded from the rest of the airframe by [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28construction%29#Firewalls_outside_of_building_construction"]firewalls[/URL] and fire extinguishing equipment. In the event of all four main tanks being lost, two self-sealing sump tanks contain fuel for 230 miles (370 km) of flight[/QUOTE]
Now i understand why people love these things so much. What a fucking masterpiece.
And then there's the gun.
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg[/T] [T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/30mm_GAU-8_Avenger_round.jpg[/T]
Yeah.
This is a great video about the ice road the Russians built during the Siege of Leningrad.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZEHJUvZtJs[/media]
That music is disturbingly cheery for what it's talking about.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;51711816]A-10.[/QUOTE]
Feel the BRRRT
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51712335]That music is disturbingly cheery for what it's talking about.[/QUOTE]
Well the clip is from a war propaganda film called Why We Fight, so the music is probably to inspire a sense of triumph and heroism.
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;51714114][IMG]https://68.media.tumblr.com/c88ce7fe14cef9fbd103edee822a9f37/tumblr_ok1tduH7cs1rwjpnyo1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
Paradoggo[/QUOTE]
ah. so [B][I]this[/I][/B] is how dogs wear pants.
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;51710652]I'm surprised it wasn't torn down during the revolution since it was a monument to a Czar.[/QUOTE]
Saint-Petersburg didn't get damaged very much at all during the revolution. The Bolsheviks had taken it in under a day after launching quick coordinated assaults on government buildings that forced Kerensky and the rest of the provisional government to go into hiding. Since it had already been taken by the communists, they probably saw little point in defacing the city they now owned. Plus the Whites forced Lenin out of the city in 1918, forcing him to move to Moscow which is why Moscow is the capital of Russia today.
Though the revolution did deplete a lot of Saint-petersburg's population, millions of people fled the city.
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[url]http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/01/sky-high-images-of-los-angeles/[/url]
Oh and this too
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