Last time i had kidney stones it just felt like it was a needle stuck in my back. Mine was 4x6mm though, my moms was 6x8
[t]http://i.imgur.com/JGREXNE.jpg[/t]
STGs in 1954. Interesting
[QUOTE=Melnek;45037361][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/X1xyJBf.jpg[/img_thumb]
The origins and literal linguistic meaning of country names.[/QUOTE]
"Area Where There is Nothing"
"Frizzy Hair New Blacks".. wat
"Gilbert"
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45037676]STGs in 1954. Interesting[/QUOTE]
iirc the American military was still using Garands and Thompsons in the 50's. It wasn't really until the 60s when more modern weapons were used.
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;45037908]iirc the American military was still using Garands and Thompsons in the 50's. It wasn't really until the 60s when more modern weapons were used.[/QUOTE]
I understand, but here's the thing.
If they were FRG, why not be using Garands/Enfields?
If they were GDR, why not AKs?
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45037944]I understand, but here's the thing.
If they were FRG, why not be using Garands/Enfields?
If they were GDR, why not AKs?[/QUOTE]
Because they had StGs? The StG-44 was an objectively better gun than the Garand/Enfield for warfare, and the AK wasn't really any better except in cost/reliability.
Guns don't get thrown away after a war - they get reused, or sold. StG-44s are apparently still showing up in Syria.
[QUOTE=Melnek;45037361][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/X1xyJBf.jpg[/img_thumb]
The origins and literal linguistic meaning of country names.[/QUOTE]
I like the sound of 'Abundance of Butterflies'
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;45037944]I understand, but here's the thing.
If they were FRG, why not be using Garands/Enfields?
If they were GDR, why not AKs?[/QUOTE]
The guys with the StGs are GDR/DDR (the FRG/BRD guys appear to have BARs), and they made use of the WW2 equipment for some time after the war was over, I don't think they adopted an AK until the AKM came out so that would be late 50s to early 60s.
And it wasn't entirely uncommon for people to keep using the old hardware after the war was over, by my understanding a good amount of German rifles captured during the liberation of France ended up staying in the arsenals of the French military and police for some time. And then the US kept up its use of the M1 Garand and M1 carbine all the way into Vietnam.
[QUOTE=Melnek;45037361][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/X1xyJBf.jpg[/img_thumb]
The origins and literal linguistic meaning of country names.[/QUOTE]
Ukraine is "Border land"
Did Putin name it? :v:
[QUOTE=Bonde;45024723]Just imagine how much radioactive pollution that has been spread in the worlds oceans because of nuclear weapons testing, dumping of radioactive materials and the now decaying nuclear submarines the USSR left behind.[/QUOTE]
They actually use it to [URL="http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC51/GC51InfDocuments/English/gc51inf-3-att3_en.pdf"]study ocean currents and climate change[/URL].
[QUOTE=Melnek;45037361][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/X1xyJBf.jpg[/img_thumb]
The origins and literal linguistic meaning of country names.[/QUOTE]
I thought America being named after Amerigo Vespucci was a myth? After all, it's weird naming a country after somebody's first name; it's literally the Republic of Dave.
[QUOTE=Kydoes;45031865]Seattle public library
[THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/nt9Tzkx.jpg[/THUMB][/QUOTE]
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) is also really cool imo
[t]http://worldalldetails.com/sightseeing/bibliotheca_alexandrina_egypt_046024.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/CW_BibliotechaAlexandrina_Inside.jpg[/t]
[t]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qSYNsvp9oPA/TEwpG5ty7jI/AAAAAAAAA0s/wPLhLZmf5-E/s1600/IMG_9015_fhdr_filtered.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Words_on_a_Wall_%283555324820%29.jpg/800px-Words_on_a_Wall_%283555324820%29.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45040587]I thought America being named after Amerigo Vespucci was a myth? After all, it's weird naming a country after somebody's first name; it's literally the Republic of Dave.[/QUOTE]
Some stuff on that map is painfully wrong. Slovakia and Slovenia in no way come from the word 'slave', but from the word for slavic tribes, which comes from 'slovo' which means 'word'.
Slavs are 'wordy' to each other as opposed to for example Germans, who at least in Polish, are called Mutes (Niemcy), cause they couldn't understand a word or something.
:eng101:
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45040587]I thought America being named after Amerigo Vespucci was a myth? After all, it's weird naming a country after somebody's first name; it's literally the Republic of Dave.[/QUOTE]
I always thought it was named after Richard Amerike:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Amerike[/url]
[quote]In 1908, the local Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd first proposed the theory that the word America had evolved from Amerike or ap Meryk, based on a lost manuscript that he claimed to have seen.
Hudd proposed that the word "America" was originally applied to a destination across the western ocean, possibly an island or a fishing station in Newfoundland. After the king of Iceland had cut off trade for fish, England sent out expeditions to find new sources. Hudd suggested Amerike's sponsorship made his name known in Bristol in association with the North American destinations prior to other mapmaking or voyages. The writer Jonathan Cohen noted he made a conjectural leap to reach that conclusion, and no extant evidence supports it.[2] In 2001, scholar John Davies briefly mentioned the story as a kind of Welsh patriot piece.[3]
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, authors of "The Book of General Ignorance" (2006) explained that John Cabot mapped the coastline of "America" from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland in 1497, a decade before Waldseemüller's world map appeared in 1507 and five years before Amerigo Vespucci set out with Christopher Columbus. Lloyd and Mitchinson wrote, "As the chief patron of the voyage, Richard Ameryk would have expected discoveries to be named him. There is a record in the Bristol calendar for that year: '... on Saint John the Baptist's day [June 24], the land of America was found by the merchants of Bristowe, in a ship of Bristowe called the Mathew." (p. 94) However, neither authors cite the source of their material that claims "America" was first named by Cabot after his patron.
The traditionally accepted person attributed to the naming is cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who used the Latinized feminine form of Amerigo Vespucci's first name, "America", on his world map of 1507, which has survived the centuries. However, Jules Marcou, a prominent French geologist who while studying North America argued, as did other 19th-century writers, that Vespucci changed his Christian name from Alberico to Amerigo after his discovery. Indeed, the only records of Vespucci's full name were created a few years before his death,[citation needed] long after his voyage. Specifically, Marcou introduced the name of an Indian tribe and of a district in Nicaragua called Amerrique (Land of the Wind), visited by both Columbus and Vespucci. The region was rich in gold, which led to Amerrique and gold becoming synonymous with the explorers. Vespucci may have been bequeathed with the nickname by others, or invented it himself; either way, he signed two documents using "Amerigo" before his death in 1512. In 1507, Vespucci's published letters came into the hands of German scholars at St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France. Among them was cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who drew a new map of the world, and used the Latinized feminine form of Vespucci's first name to name the newly discovered continent, whereafter it was published in Cosmographiae Introductio.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Melnek;45037361][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/X1xyJBf.jpg[/img_thumb]
The origins and literal linguistic meaning of country names.[/QUOTE]Iran, the [B]Land of the Free[/B]
checkmate yanks
[t]http://i.imgur.com/K1YAzjd.jpg[/t]
An Afghan civilian saving a policeman after a bomb blast.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45040587]I thought America being named after Amerigo Vespucci was a myth? After all, it's weird naming a country after somebody's first name; it's literally the Republic of Dave.[/QUOTE]
Not quite a myth, there are many compelling arguments when it comes to the original and first naming of America. One argument claims that it was in fact named after Richard Amerike, who was a Bristol merchant tasked with finding a new source of fish and trade.
[quote]"Bristol merchants bought salt cod in Iceland until the King of Denmark stopped the trade in 1475. In 1479, four Bristol merchants received a royal charter to find another source of fish and trade. Not until 1960 did someone find bills of trading records indicating that Richard Amerike was involved in this business. Records show that in 1481, Amerike shipped a load of salt (for salting fish) to these men in
Newfoundland and I believe the Bristol sailors named the area after the Bristol merchant they worked for."[/quote]
This is also pretty disputed, there seems to be no universally agreed-upon consensus regarding the naming of America. I think the map just takes the most popularly accepted notion and goes with that instead of dwelling into arguments or presenting all the other views on each individual linguistic origin.
[QUOTE=galimatias;45041542]Some stuff on that map is painfully wrong. Slovakia and Slovenia in no way come from the word 'slave', but from the word for slavic tribes, which comes from 'slovo' which means 'word'.
Slavs are 'wordy' to each other as opposed to for example Germans, who at least in Polish, are called Mutes (Niemcy), cause they couldn't understand a word or something.
:eng101:[/QUOTE]
This is disputed. "Slovo" (word) could be confused with "Slava" which is the cyrillic word for "Glory", like the map says. Or "Slav" which, of course, stands for Slavic people. It could be either of those three, because the etymology of Slav itself remains uncertain. Some etymologists believe that the part -ven refers to the ancient Germanic tribes of the Venetii who supposedly also gave their name to the city of Venice.
As for the "Slave" interpretation - the English word Slav is derived from the Middle English word sclave, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus, borrowing itself from Byzantine Greek (sklábos) - "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of their own languages).
The map just takes the most commonly accepted theory among etymologists. You theoretically could dispute every name on that map, but the fact is, none of them can be definitively proved or disproved.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;45042305][t]http://i.imgur.com/K1YAzjd.jpg[/t]
An Afghan civilian saving a policeman after a bomb blast.[/QUOTE]
That is one seriously strong dude, carrying a corpse with your arms extended like that is probably not easy at all, even if he is supporting him with his leg.
[QUOTE=genkaz92;45043286]That is one seriously strong dude, carrying a corpse with your arms extended like that is probably not easy at all, even if he is supporting him with his leg.[/QUOTE]
Adrenaline does certain things to a human being
[QUOTE=genkaz92;45043286]That is one seriously strong dude, carrying a [b]corpse[/b] with your arms extended like that is probably not easy at all, even if he is supporting him with his leg.[/QUOTE]
He's not dead though :v:
Those pictures always make me wonder though (and correct me if I'm wrong); shouldn't the cameraman use his time to help the man save that guy's life instead of taking pictures of the ordeal?
[QUOTE=Joazzz;45041622]Iran, the [B]Land of the Free[/B]
checkmate yanks[/QUOTE]
I thought Iran means "Land of the Aryans"?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45043779]I thought Iran means "Land of the Aryans"?[/QUOTE]
"Iran" is the name that was switched during the 30s. It's probably taking from its earlier name of "Persia"
[QUOTE=Chief Martini;45043754]Those pictures always make me wonder though (and correct me if I'm wrong); shouldn't the cameraman use his time to help the man save that guy's life instead of taking pictures of the ordeal?[/QUOTE]
unless the cameraman is a trained paramedic, theres not a lot he could have done in a situation like that.
[QUOTE=Chief Martini;45043754]Those pictures always make me wonder though (and correct me if I'm wrong); shouldn't the cameraman use his time to help the man save that guy's life instead of taking pictures of the ordeal?[/QUOTE]
He could've taken a quick picture and then went to help.
[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;45044000]He could've taken a quick picture and then went to help.[/QUOTE]
What makes you assume that isn't what happened?
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45044026]What makes you assume that isn't what happened?[/QUOTE]
Sometimes journalists/photographers care more about their pictures of the situation than the situation. Its shitty, but it happens. But, I have hopes this guy helped anyway.
No it is more of the nature of a journalist as a neutral party meant to observe and record. It has been argued around a billion times before, over whether a journalist should help or not, but if they do help it can put their lives in danger and you lose pretty much the neutral pursuit of journalism at that point.
This isn't even considering you aren't supposed to move someone who is injured as you can make it worse. That journalist has no medical training and the best he can do is what he is trained to do.
edit - also take into consideration in situations like that the journalist is most likely using a lens that is zoomed in on the scene and is probably quite a distance away, they don't just stand 10 feet away and snap the picture. Always be aware of the context of a situation before passing judgement.
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