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I don't know about the first, but yes, people bid in a lottery type system to get low numbers. It's dumb.
I assume you don't have low number?
Isn't it RI where you can pass car license plates on to your descendants and a low number is a status symbol?
As things stand now only a violation of the sovereignty of a NATO member will trigger war and maybe not even that. I can see Russia trying to carve a bridge to the Konigsberg exclave at some point. Danzig Corridor 2.0 anyone?
I have always thought that Christ was Crucified and died on Good Friday and was resurrected on Easter SUnday. That is what I remember from Catechism classes.
I don't think the Germans carry that much guilt over the holocaust. Many still deny it happened and others dismiss it namely the younger generation. My opinion of course.
And you would be wrong. Most Germans fall all over themselves in their feelings and expressions of guilt for the Holocaust. I cannot tell you how many conversations I have had trying to understand why a German born in 1980 should feel guilty about the Holocaust. Then again, I don't understand why any white American should feel guilty about slavery yet plenty still do.
Koblenz was a major administrative town for the Romans and the aqueduct is only about 5km outside of town. I guess the owner of the villa thought it worthwhile to build such a structure. The villa was not in a remote area at all and was right on the river.
This is a mobile infantry shield.More amazing designs here: http://bashny.net/t/en/19625
Right again.
Aeth is right about the first one. It was a sound locator used by AA Batteries to determine the direction the bombers were coming from.He is wrong about the second though. It is a large visual parallax rangefinder. It was used to determine the altitude of bombers caught in searchlights so that the fuses of AA shells could be set for the raid altitude. They had about 10 of these range finders of all different sizes from handheld ones to the monster pictured which was on a fixed mount. Such visual rangefinders were common until laser range-finding became practical in the 70's. We still had on in my mortar platoon in the late 80s that we used when registering our guns before field exercises.
