jay07ag said:
I recently learned the full in depth story on Cortez' conquest of the valley Mexico, after listening to Daniele Bolelli's History on Fire. Had no idea the Aztecs (or Mejica as they referred to themsleves as) had such a technologically and socially advanced society. Even had a zoo. Next on the docket is Guns, Germs and Steel to get a little deeper into it.
Also, I learned you did not want to become a captive or slave of the Aztecs, especially if you were from a rival clan. The amount of human sacrifice and the seemingly cavalier attitude towards it was quite shocking.
RedAgs01 said:jay07ag said:
I recently learned the full in depth story on Cortez' conquest of the valley Mexico, after listening to Daniele Bolelli's History on Fire. Had no idea the Aztecs (or Mejica as they referred to themsleves as) had such a technologically and socially advanced society. Even had a zoo. Next on the docket is Guns, Germs and Steel to get a little deeper into it.
Also, I learned you did not want to become a captive or slave of the Aztecs, especially if you were from a rival clan. The amount of human sacrifice and the seemingly cavalier attitude towards it was quite shocking.
How'd you get past his accent?
No. With some exceptions where the environment has more mutagens.Dr. Watson said:
Based on what? Mutations can happen quickly in adverse environments.
According to a colleague who has read the book, some Russian sub officer saved us from nuclear war during the crisis by overruling other who wanted to launch while we were dropping training depth charges on them.Quote:
In his book, Ellsberg gives a first-person account of what he reckons was humanity's closest brush with annihilation. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October 1962, he was called into emergency duty at the Pentagon. (He crashed some nights on a leather couch belonging to Paul Nitze, a top Defense Department official.) At the time, Ellsberg thought there was little chance that the confrontation would go nuclear. What he didn't realize until many years later is that the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev was more reckless than he presumed, and had actually given his commanders in Cuba the authority to use nuclear weapons at the first sign of an American invasion. "He wasn't an insane person," Ellsberg says. "He just did insane things from time to time."
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ELLSBERG: Well, an incident that only became revealed many years after the Cuban missile crisis, in which I participated in 1962 - and I researched it really ever since. But it was decades before it became known that Khrushchev had in fact done something we thought no centralized communist commander would ever do or head of state. He had delegated and the Presidium, Politburo had delegated before President Kennedy's speech on October 22 announcing the blockade - they had delegated authority to local commanders to use their nuclear weapons.
Moreover, their submarines had nuclear torpedoes aboard which we didn't know. Now, one of those actually under what they thought was a depth bomb attack on the most critical day of the crisis, October 27 - they thought they were being attacked and were going to go down. And two - the commander and his second in command both needed - their decision was both needed. Both decided to fire a nuclear torpedo at the destroyers and the carriers that were harassing them.
DAVIES: The American destroyers, yeah, yeah.
ELLSBERG: Yeah. There happened to be - there was a carrier there in the vicinity, and we didn't even know there was a nuclear torpedo on those submarines. I would like to think we would not have been dropping mock depth charges on them to force them to the surface. But in any case, had a destroyer or a carrier blown up in the midst of the Caribbean, it would almost surely have been assumed at every level of our command that that had come from Cuba and that the time had come, as President Kennedy said in his speech on the 22, for an all-out attack on the Soviet Union. And that might not have waited for a presidential decision. It was one man who prevented that.
There was a commodore on that particular sub who was of the same military rank as the captain who had decided to shoot the torpedo, but as commodore, he did outrank him. And his position was - his decision was needed, too, and he decided not to do that. I think if he had decided otherwise or if he'd been on a different submarine not under attack at that moment, we wouldn't be here.
Cen-Tex said:
Golfer Ben Hogan had an extra spike placed in each shoe to help with better footing during his golf swing.
There was a fascinating show on the Hitler family on one of the nazi channels a while back. Perhaps in between the " Search for Alien Hitler Sasquatches on Oak Island" garbage that now infests these formerly good channels they will show it again.Cen-Tex said:
Here's a new one for me. I recently learned that Adolph Hitler had a nephew in the US navy during WW2. His name was William Patrick Hitler. He changed his last name to Stuart-Houston. He was the son of Alois Hitler Jr (Adolph's brother) and Bridget Dowling.
details ?JaneDoe02 said:
The Aberfan Disaster
I'd never heard of it until a few weeks ago.
So horrible and so easily prevented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disasterBigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:details ?JaneDoe02 said:
The Aberfan Disaster
I'd never heard of it until a few weeks ago.
So horrible and so easily prevented.
CanyonAg77 said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disasterBigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:details ?JaneDoe02 said:
The Aberfan Disaster
I'd never heard of it until a few weeks ago.
So horrible and so easily prevented.
A Natural diasaster in Alaska forced a 1700 foot tsunami out of a bay, more amazingly, a boat in the harbor rode the crest of the wave out to sea.hennyj15 said:CanyonAg77 said:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disasterBigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:details ?JaneDoe02 said:
The Aberfan Disaster
I'd never heard of it until a few weeks ago.
So horrible and so easily prevented.
The Vajont Dam disaster in Italy is a similar event I learned about last year. An landslide caused a 850 foot high tsunami to hit a village in the Italian Alps.
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Mayberry Campground is a privately owned RV park located in the small town of Mt. Airy, NC which is often referred to as Mayberry. The land the campground is built on was once part of a 2,000 acre farm owned by the original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang Bunker. The twins and their wives, Sarah (Eng) and Adelaide (Chang), settled in Mt. Airy, NC. Eng and Chang each had their own home and would stay at one residence for three nights, then go to the other residence for three nights. Eng and Sara had 11 children while Chang and Adelaide had 10. The twins were never separated and died on January 17, 1874 at the age of 62.
Within the campground property there is a white farmhouse (pictured left) that was built by Eng's son, William Bunker in 1900. Occasional tours are offered to groups interested in viewing the old homeplace. The campground owner, Benny East, is the great-great grandson of Eng. His mother, Ruby Bunker East, was born and raised in the farmhouse along with her 5 sisters. Benny's daughter's, Kali and Lakin East can also be found working at the campground and are great-great-great granddaughters of Eng.
Stive said:
Which pod cast? I know very little about the French Rev but have become a bit more curious over the last year or so
Yeah, I read about and watched a doc on this for my WW2 class in my graduate program. Pretty surprising.DartAg1970 said:
I didn't know that the British fired on and attacked French battleships during WW2. Evidently, after the surrender of the French there were several battleships in the Mediterranean and once the French declined to give the battleships to the British, they decided to sink them rather than risk them falling into the hands of the Nazis.
BQ_90 said:
I didn't realize UK offered to merge countries with France prior to France surrendering to the Nazis. Guess the French thought Britain would,fall so best to kiss up to the nazies sooner than later
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In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a homesick, hungover mechanic in the US Air Force stole a plane from his base in East Anglia and set off for Virginia. Nearly two hours later, he disappeared suddenly over the English Channel. Did he simply crash or was he shot down? Emma Jane Kirby has been scouring the archives to find out.
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I've known for some time that 23-year-old Sgt Paul Meyer called his wife from the cockpit of his stolen Hercules aircraft - Jane Goodson, as she's now called, told me this herself when she spoke to me from her home in Virginia.
"Honey!" he had told her triumphantly, waking her from a deep sleep. "I got a bird in the sky and I'm coming home!"
What I didn't realise then, however, was that the last 20 minutes or so of their conversation was recorded. And when the transcript of that recording was sent to me, I will admit that I sat down and wept.
By the time the tape recorder was rolling, Meyer's jubilation and bravado had left him. The cold reality of what he'd just done - and what lay ahead - had hit him squarely.
