So I;m in season 3 and I wonder if they really did wash baby Ed’s rooms 3 times a day and keep errything around him mad clean. This might explain why he was so sick, cause he never got to build up an immunity to anything, rather was kept away from all the bacteria and germs that most people come in contact with and buil up antibodies to. So, minus another one for the 16th century people bringing bad shit upon themselves unknowingly.
Just like how we had a question on my bio exam that asked why close relations should have kids and I wrote
“Because then all the bad genes multiply and they end up deformed or deranged, probably why most mid-century nobles a) had mad misscarriages and b)seemed to go a bit crazy. A lot. Like Charles II of Spain. What a trainwreck.
When I was a kid, I couldn’t understand why Eisenhower was so popular. Maybe this will explain why. General Eisenhower Warned Us [
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower,found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened”
This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet.. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the,�6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests Who were ‘murdered, raped, burned, starved, beat, experimented on and humiliated’ while the German people looked the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
[ This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people! Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center
‘NEVER HAPPENED’, Because it offends some Muslim in the U.S. ???
Do not just delete this message; it will take only a minute to pass this along. FREEDOM ISN’T FREE…SOMEONE HAD TO PAY FOR IT!!
“September 26 Today’s: Famous Birthdays
1774 - John Chapman was born. He was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted orchards, befriended wild animals, and was considered at great medicine man by Native Americans.”
He was born in my town. I know waaay too much about him cause I used to work at the visitor’s center. He was a relegious nut who set up farms and never wore a pot on his head.
“1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1892 - “The King of Marches” was introduced to the general public.
1908 - Ed Eulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the first baseball player to pitch both games of a doubleheader and win both with shutouts.
1908 - In “The Saturday Evening Post” an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.
1955 - The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower’s heart attack.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL.^^^The reason Nixon lost the election….
1962 - “The Beverly Hillbillies” premiered on CBS-TV.
1964 - “Gilligan’s Island” premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.
1969 - “The Brady Bunch” series premiered on ABC-TV.
That is kinda awesome. Mad famous shows all on the same day. A random day I decide to check out. Word.
1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA.
1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.
1985 - Shamu was born at Sea World in Orlando, FL. Shamu was the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity.HAPPY BDAY SHAMU!
1986 - The episode of “Dallas” that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court following the retirement of Warren Burger.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films.
1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the “Biosphere II.” The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.
1991 - The U.S. Congress heard a plea from Kimberly Bergalis concerning mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.
1992 - 163 people were killed when a Nigerian military transport crashed shortly after takeoff.
1993 - The eight people who had stayed in “Biosphere II” emerged from their sealed off environment.
1995 - The warring factions of Bosnia agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, CA.
1996 - Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after being in space for 188 days. she set a time record for a U.S. astronaut in space and in the world for time spent by a woman in space.
1997 - In Indonesia, a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed killing 234 people.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The act states that an infant would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the mother and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia’s presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
2001 - In New York City, hundreds of people began the process of filing for death certificates for family members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. At the time more than 6,300 people were still missing. “
“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.
Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.”
Worst Disasters in American History:
(See above for sources, unless otherwise noted)
- 1980 Heat Wave (June-Sept. 1980): 10,000-15,000
- August 16, 1988 AP: “later calculated to have led to 15,000 more deaths than would have been expected in a normal summer”
- 16 Oct. 1980 Associated Press & 7 Nov. 1980 Facts on File World News Digest: NOAA reported direct death toll of 1,265 deaths.
- NCDC: 10,000 d.
- Galveston Hurricane (Sept. 8-9, 1900): 8,000-12,000
- 1901 Heat Wave: 9,508
- November 7, 1980 Facts on File World News Digest: 9,508
- 1988 Drought/Heat Wave: 5,000-10,000
- NCDC: 5,000-10,000
- 1936 Heat Wave : 4,678
- 16 Oct. 1980 Associated Press & 7 Nov. 1980 Facts on File World News Digest: 4,678
- Hurricane Katrina (August 29, 2005 and in subsequent flooding): 2,500 to 4,400
- 22 Nov 2005 USA Today: 6,644 people still missing after Katrina. “Those counting the victims are particularly concerned about an estimated 1,300 unaccounted-for people who lived in areas that were heavily damaged by Katrina, or who were disabled at the time the storm hit.” Official death toll: 1,306 — including 301 unidentified.
- January 19, 2006 CNN: More than 3,200 people are officially still unaccounted for.
- Feb 6, 2006 Newsweek: about 2,500 people remain missing and the trail is going cold. About 100 unidentified bodies left.
- [Estimate = 1,300 official + 1,300 to 3,200 missing -100 unidentified probably counted among both the dead and the missing = 2,500 to 4,400 = ca. 3,500 if you split the difference.]
- San Francisco Earthquake (April 18-21, 1906): 3,000
- Lake Okeechobee Hurricane (September 16, 1928): 2,500-3,000
- Johnstown Flood (May 31, 1889): 2,209
- 1975 Heat Wave (July 31-Aug. 3, 1975): 1,500-2,000
- July 9, 1986 AP: 1,500-2,000
- Sultana (April 27, 1865): 1,547
- Sea Islands Hurricane (Aug 27-28, 1893): 1,000-2,000
- 1952 Heat Wave: 1,401
- 16 Oct. 1980 Associated Press & 7 Nov. 1980 Facts on File World News Digest: 1,401
- General Slocum (June 15, 1904): 1,021
Employees aren’t supposed to help, but whatever. Mae Mike and all them were there doing trivia at the BGB tonight. They couldnt find enough stools to all sit on and all the guys ended up standing. So they named their team Still Standing….Literally.
Anyways there was a question about a military weapon named for the inventor who was from Europe or whatever, that explodes and sends shit everywhere.
I go by say, “I think hes talking about IEDs, invented by Henry Shrapnel, say shrapnel!”
They look at me like I’m a dumbass and laugh. They they put down some other answer.
What was the answer? Shrapnel. Bitchessss I know my military history what uppp.
Fwd: The Three Newest Navy Ships
Three New Navy Ships
USS REAGAN
Seeing it next to the Arizona Memorial really puts its size into perspective… ENORMOUS!
When the Bridge pipes ’ Man the Rail’ there is a lot of rail to man on this monster: shoulder to shoulder, around 4…5 acres. Her displacement is about 100,000 tons with full complement..
Capability
Top speed exceeds 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling
1. Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years
2. Carries over 80 combat aircraft
3. Three arresting cables can stop a 28-ton aircraft going 150 miles per hour in less than 400 feet
Size
1. Towers 20 stories above the waterline
2. 1092 feet long; nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall
3. Flight deck covers 4.5 acres
4. 4 bronze propellers, each 21 feet across, weighing 66,200 pounds
5. 2 rudders, each 29 by 22 feet and weighing 50 tons
6. 4 high speed aircraft elevators, each over 4,000 square feet
Capacity
1. Home to about 6,000 Navy personnel
2. Carries enough food and supplies to operate for 90 days
3. 18,150 meals served daily
4. Distillation plants provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water from sea water daily, enough for 2,000 homes
5. Nearly 30,000 light fixtures and 1,325 miles of cable and wiring 1,400 telephones
6. 14,000 pillowcases and 28,000 sheets
7. Costs the Navy approximately $250,000 per day for pier side operation
8. Costs the Navy approximately $25 million per day for underway operations (Sailor’s salaries included).
USS BILL CLINTON
The USS William Jefferson Clinton (CVS1) set sail today from its home port of Vancouver , BC
The ship is the first of its kind in the Navy and is a standing legacy to President Bill Clinton ‘for his foresight in military budget cuts’ and his conduct while holding the (formerly dignified) office of President.
The ship is constructed nearly entirely from recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots..
It boasts an arsenal comprised of one (unarmed) F14 Tomcat or one (unarmed) F18 Hornet aircraft which, although they cannot be launched on the 100 foot flight deck, form a very menacing presence.
As a standing order there are no firearms allowed on board.
This crew, like the crew aboard the USS Jimmy Carter, is specially trained to avoid conflicts and appease any and all enemies of the United States at all costs.
An onboard Type One DNC Universal Translator can send out messages of apology in any language to anyone who may find America offensive.. The number of apologies are limitless and though some may seem hollow and disingenuous, the Navy advises all apologies will sound very sincere.
In times of conflict, the USS Clinton has orders to seek refuge in Canada .
USS BARACK OBAMA
Details are as vague as his past, his economic policies and his credentials to lead. But don’t you worry………..he has a plan!
——- End forwarded message ——-
- Ziva: Okay, so how many amendments to the Constitution?
- Gibbs: The Bill of Rights is the first ten, prohibition is eighteen. I'm guessing twenty-three.
- Ziva: Twenty-seven!
- Gibbs: Nobody likes a smartass, David.
- Ziva: Why do I have to study all this and you don't?!
- Gibbs: I was born here!
