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Funny, that could apply to Great Britain and France in 1938 when they signed the Munich Pact.

Those that do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.

I was sure the incident sounded familiar, but not for the reason stated.

Port Chicago is known as a tragedy and milestone in race relations in the U.S. military, which was segregated throughout WWII. Here is the Navy account, not bad in its honesty.

"The explosion at Port Chicago accounted for fifteen percent of all African-American casualties of World War II." Some 320 people were killed instantly, nearly all of them black. The ordnance loaders were a black unit. Hundreds of the survivors refused to return to work after the accident without safety changes. A couple hundred were summarily court-martialed, and 50 more were tried for mutiny with a possible death sentence.

The incident drew a great deal of attention, again not for allegedly being nuclear, and mau have factored into President Truman's historic integration of the military.

This may not be a technological angle, but it does emphasize that poor safety practice with conventional explosives caused the disaster, as I suggested in an earlier post.

I was thinking of the pirate ship story and then I recalled a story on the radio about Captain Kidd. Kidd was a bucaneer, and I beleive that he once stole a ship full of china plates. When other bucaneers came looking for Kidd, to collect the bounty placed on him and his ship, he used the china for ammo to shred the sails of the other ship. I'm not sure where this is going, but I just had to say something about it, beeing that there are already about 600+ posts here. Well, anyways I thought it funny, if not off topic. I'm not sure if The History channel is done filming The Ship. Maybe those AOL CD collectors could send them some CDs to fire from their cannon.

I was thinking of the pirate ship story and then I recalled a story on the radio about Captain Kidd. Kidd was a bucaneer, and I beleive that he once stole a ship full of china plates. When other bucaneers came looking for Kidd, to collect the bounty placed on him and his ship, he used the china for ammo to shred the sails of the other ship. I'm not sure where this is going, but I just had to say something about it, beeing that there are already about 600+ posts here. Well, anyways I thought it funny, if not off topic. I'm not sure if The History channel is done filming The Ship. Maybe those AOL CD collectors could send them some CDs to fire from their cannon.

Huh. Unintentional. The links are different, but the one I referred to does indeed reroute to the payola link in the article. I SWEAR I didn't take any cash from Slashdot to do that! Ok, to put some original payola link up, here's Moondog's (a.k.a Alan Freed's final sign-off speech after resigning in disgrace from radio...

What I think is funny is that Parker Brothers never really invented the game to start with. It's a dirty little secret. Parker Brothers used to include a little sheet inside the game with a story about the game's "inventor" Charles B. Darrow. The problem? The guy copied a game that was invented by a Quaker woman and was already in the public domain.

Check out the excellent book "The Monopoly Swindle" by Ralph Anspatch:
http://www.firstprint.com/Anspach.htm
http://www.acesup.com/books/monopoly_swindle.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738831395/ qid=1018627182/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_7_1/104-0536921-788 3116

Or these web sites:
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997 . tm
http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/36/monopoly.html
http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi? p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/toys/mo nopoly.html

Patrick Kellogg
kellogg@dimensional.com
http://www.patrickkellogg.com

It was interesting but I still wouldn't know what to do with them. Check out the History Channel web page to find times of broadcast. I really like the History Channel, Discovery and TLC (except for the Maternity Ward - ick!). Its like PBS without the losers begging for money so I can watch Bert Wolf cook something I can't pronounce.

Check out the history channel. I saw a preview for shows they are going to air about the history of christmas which seemed to make reference to the 'integration' of christian celebration with non-christian festivals, rituals and feasts.

Tune into The History Channel on Tuesday, December 25 at 9pm ET/PT for the world premiere of In Search of Christmas and explore the historical truth behind the birth of Christ.

also...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ch ristmas/index.html

as well as...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ha nukkah/index.html

and...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/kw anzaa/index.html

Check out the history channel. I saw a preview for shows they are going to air about the history of christmas which seemed to make reference to the 'integration' of christian celebration with non-christian festivals, rituals and feasts.

Tune into The History Channel on Tuesday, December 25 at 9pm ET/PT for the world premiere of In Search of Christmas and explore the historical truth behind the birth of Christ.

also...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ch ristmas/index.html

as well as...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ha nukkah/index.html

and...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/kw anzaa/index.html

Check out the history channel. I saw a preview for shows they are going to air about the history of christmas which seemed to make reference to the 'integration' of christian celebration with non-christian festivals, rituals and feasts.

Tune into The History Channel on Tuesday, December 25 at 9pm ET/PT for the world premiere of In Search of Christmas and explore the historical truth behind the birth of Christ.

also...
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ch ristmas/index.html

as well as...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/ha nukkah/index.html

and...

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/holidays/kw anzaa/index.html

A lot of other things happened on that day, too:

1998 ICANN, nonprofit controlling Internet naming, formed
1985 Stephen Jobs resigns from Apple

Could it be an ICANN protest?

The paperless office is a vision that belongs in the same category as the flying car.

That's a bad analogy. A flying car actually *was* produced in the 1960's, I believe. I saw the story of it on the History Channel. The problem was not whether it was reproducible cheaply or not, or whether it worked and was viable or anything. The problem was that *consumers* are simply not ready for cars that fly. Most people can barely drive a car that goes in *two* dimensions, let a alone a car that goes in *three*. Take a drive on a freeway in any crowded city in America and you'll see what I mean. :-)

If it's the episode on forts, then the show repeats on Saturday, Sept. 8th, at 5pm.

Pardon my historical failings, but weren't you guys already fighting the Brits when the (American) war of 1812 broke out? I thought the whole war started over the British impressing American sailors into their navy to fight Napolean and the French. France is defeated in 1814, before the war in the New World is over, with Napolean exiled to Elba. And the war ended in 1815, roughly contemporaneously with the return of Napolean and his subsequent defeat at Waterloo. I'm not denying that there may have been French help in the war (I don't know of it, but its possible), but it would certainly have been more as a part of your own pre-existing war.

Protectionism was rampant throughout the Western world in the 19th century, and the American South was opposed to it, to the point where South Carolina drew up articles of nullification, nullifying two federal tarrif acts, in the 1840s prompting President Jackson to draw up articles of force authorizing the use of the US Army to prevent South Carolina from ceceding from the Union. This is 15 years before the start of the civil war. After the civil war the political power of the south is of course almost nil, and the protectionism by the industrialists of the north goes unchallenged for most of the rest of the century.

Much of my fact checking and timeline checking was done using The History Channel's website, with the remainder being filled in from my high school and college history courses over a decade ago, so there may be mistakes and distortions here.

Ah yes, remind me...

Which country has a higher percentage of its population in prison?

Which administration is more likely to launch a missile attack? Which may or may not hit its target?

Or crash their secret spy plane, for that matter?

Which country recently lost its seat on the U.N. human rights committee?

In other words, you probably have to buy one from Russia.

Yes, that could never happen. With Russia being so stable and all.

the US is pushing for increased Canadian border security and unified policies on security and entry into North America

No one ever gets anything past the Canadians.

suitcase nukes are low-yield.

Uhhhh... Yah.

After all, look how nice the world is being to China, what with giving them the Olympics and all (worked really well in Berlin in 1936, didn't it?).

This is Yes, you are absolutely right. Jesse Owens' televised humiliation of "Aryan superiority" having lead to WWII and all...

You have to understand that the Mutual Assured Destruction policies of the Cold War don't apply to unstable and fundamentalist regimes.

Hmm. Strange that the rest of the civilized world seems to disagree. Of course, I'm sure this is the only time that Bush would dare propose breaking an anti-nuke treaty. I mean, any guy who's cutting the EPA by 6.5% while giving an additional 13.6 billion to defense has his priorities totally straight. That, and his unbiased choices to head the EPA show that he isn't swayed by special interests. Which is why ultimately, other countries everywhere love and respect and cherish him and support his wise policies.

Don't let the facts stop you, though, Michael.

Yeah, whatever man.

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No the empire state building is not the tallest in any category. Sorry, but you're wrong. and the truth.. shall whatever

2.) IMO, the Petronas Towers is essentially ripping-off the Sears Tower in the World's Tallest category. The Sears Tower has more occupied floors and the heighets occupied floor. As can be seen from a side-by-side to-scale comparison here, the only reason the Petronas Tower is considered tallier is that the antenna on top is considered to be part of the art-deco cap, while the antennae on the Sears Tower aren't.

So, now we have proof that architecs (sp?) smoke crack! :)