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What about the Man in the Iron Mask? Who was he? Did this episode really influence the creation of our Eighth Amendment?
I watched FMJ in high school. As I recall it was divided into two parts – the boot camp part and the actual war part. To this day I still recall some of those scenes, especially during the war.
Congratulations to Donnie for his latest victory over me in our recent chess match. I was sleeping at the keyboard and so I lost some key pieces early on. I figured I was doomed but decided to play along some more moves until it became pointless for me to continue. He gets the trophy.
I have never heard of Cahokia before :oops:. Was just reading some stuff about it Cahokiahere[/wiki] and it's really cool! And in America. (which makes it doubly embarrassing I didn't know this). You CAN teach an old dog new tricks.
That's true - I hadn't heard of it before. It was news to me when I read the list of ancient cities. I wonder why it's not taught about in American schools.
Guantanamo Bay is large – I noticed a landing strip right near the southern shoreline at the mouth of the Bay, and I assume this is U.S. controlled.I found this on Wikipedia:
A perpetual lease for the area around Guant?namo Bay was offered February 23, 1903, from Tom?s Estrada Palma, an American citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. The Cuban-American Treaty gave, among other things, the Republic of Cuba ultimate sovereignty over Guant?namo Bay while granting the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" of the area for coaling and naval stations.
Ok, now I see where the U.S. jurisdiction is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Guantanamo.jpg
I can move this thread if you want. Guantanamo Bay has been used by the U.S. military from before Castro – I believe back to the Spanish American War. I heard one time that the U.S. still sends regular payments to Cuba for use of the land, but the amount has not changed since Castro took over (it's therefore quite small). I think that Cuba has yet to cash one of these checks. The land outside Gitmo is mined and obviously the border is going to be watched closely. I should take a look at Google satellite images of the area.
Are those two different questions? I think a Cuba without Communism might be possible; Castro's successors might not want to stay out of the world economy any longer. However, it looks like a Socialist Venezuela is what we're going to have…or at least until the country realizes that it's in over its head by nationalizing the oil industry….or when foreign investors don't give the country a second look.
We may be witnessing a dictatorship in the making:[url url=http://Chavez gets OK to approve laws by decree]Chavez gets OK to approve laws by decree[/url]
Another point is that writing with a computer makes it easier to go back and rewrite small or large sections of a work. I think that authors of the past would be less likely to correct minor bits of sentences or passages if they were not borderline about keeping them. How many times have we written essays and upon reading them and re-reading them we change a word here and there and there?
I read in the article that there was an unmanned expedition to the wreck in September of this past year.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)#2006_expedition It seems that an aerial aircraft carrier would have clear benefits to it, though it would also have cleard disadvantages as well. Some of the disadvantages weren't in existence back in the 1930s.
It happened when I installed the arcade. I can look into it to see if there's an easy solution…..and hopefully I won't accidentally dismantle the arcade (or this forum!).
That's interesting. But for some reason it seems like the FBI is jumping on the “cultural bandwagon” – for example by having a separate section on “Unusual Phenomena” (e.g. Roswell, UFOs). Either a) the FBI knows it's true and is putting it on there anyway, b) knows it's false and is putting it on there anyway, or c) doesn't know whether it's true or falsel but is putting it on there anyway. Hmmm….. 😕 😕 😕
I think he survived for 17 days in a raft in the Pacific. I believe that they ran out of fuel after a navigation error. His Rickenbacker Auto was too far ahead of it's time. The public would not accept a vehicle with 4 wheel brakes. They thought brakes on the front wheels were dangerous.
Ok ok, I don't know enough about cars (obviously) but it seems rather intuitive that a basic car setup would suggest that brakes on the front of a car would be dangerous in that the rear end could elevate more easily (or shift) if the brakes were slammed on.
This is interesting to read about. I saw the article where you got it from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)and it mentions that when it crashed it had a crew of 76 people of which only two died (apparently from not following protocol). Also, it mentioned that a "trapeze" was used to retrieve planes. I wonder how this was done. It seems like getting planes back on board would have been a big challenge.
