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[Schmidt Meister]

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[railfancwb]

President Woodrow Wilson: “If I am to speak for 10 minutes, I will need a week for preparation; if 15 minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.”

Don’t care for what I know about Wilson’s politics and policies, but he got that right 

[HardlyAble2]

8 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said:

maybe...

 

[railfancwb]

On 6/16/2021 at 2:56 PM, Schmidt Meister said:

A businessman purchased a municipal building underneath the city of Brooksville’s water tower last April for $55,000 with the goal of converting it into a gym. However, when Bobby Read went to the county to get an address for his new business location, he was told the parcel he bought included the entire water tower site, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Luckily for the town, Read was willing to give it back. County records show he transferred the water tower back to Brooksville through a warranty deed last month.

https://apnews.com/article/fl-state-wire-florida-oddities-06eafdb630de8b57ffdefd0a947cb7cf

Actually I would have used a quit claim rather than a warranty deed. 

[MO Fugga]

2 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Bullshit.

[janice6]

11 hours ago, Swampfox762 said:

Punished for his religion and it's beliefs.  What happened to "a free country"?

[gamboolman]

On 1/28/2021 at 6:33 PM, pipedreams said:

Let's see just how country you really are.
10 - 20: A little country
20 - 30: Pretty much country
30 - 40: Bonafide country
How many have you done?
I scored 32

Have you ever...
1. Owned pellet or BB gun as a kid?
2. Owned a real gun?
3. Shot a real gun?
4. Gone squirrel or rabbit hunting?
5. Gone fishing?
6. Owned or used a sling shot?
7. Plucked a chicken/turkey?
8. Gathered wild ginseng?
9. Eaten deer meat?
10. Eaten frog legs?
11. Fed a baby farm animal with a bottle?
12. Gathered fresh eggs?
13. Driven a stick shift?
14. Started a vehicle using a manual choke?
15. Rode around town in the back of a pick-up truck?
16. Shucked corn?
17. Waded barefoot in a creek?
18. Caught fireflies in a jar at night?
19. Tasted wild honeysuckle?
20. Gathered wild blackberries?
21. Used an outhouse?
22. Rode a horse?
23. Smelled the scent of cured tobacco hanging in tobacco barn?
24. Taken the ashes out of a wood stove?
25. Carried in wood?
26. Walked barefoot down a gravel or dirt road?
27. Slept in a tent?
28. Been attacked by a rooster?
29. Eaten raw apple, potato or turnip off the blade of a pocket knife?
30. Dipped skoal or chewed chewing tobacco or applied it to a bee sting?
31. Eaten homemade snow Ice Cream?
32. Used a pump to draw water from a well?
33. Been on a hay ride?
34. Jumped into a pile of raked leaves?
35. Carved your initials into the side of a tree?
36. Sucked on the end of an old piece of water hose in order to siphon gas out of a gas tank?
37. Been shocked by an electric fence?
38. Split wood with an ax?
39. Hung laundry outside on a clothes line to dry?
40. Eaten fried bologna?
41. Drank at Biddle's Gravel bank.
42. Been to Dibert's Homestead
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[Eric]

 

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[Schmidt Meister]

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[Schmidt Meister]

On June 19, 1944, in what would become known as the “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” U.S. carrier-based fighters decimate the Japanese Fleet with only a minimum of losses in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

The security of the Marianas Islands, in the western Pacific, were vital to Japan, which had air bases on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. U.S. troops were already battling the Japanese on Saipan, having landed there on the 15th. Any further intrusion would leave the Philippine Islands, and Japan itself, vulnerable to U.S. attack. The U.S. Fifth Fleet, commanded by Admiral Raymond Spruance, was on its way west from the Marshall Islands as backup for the invasion of Saipan and the rest of the Marianas. But Japanese Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo decided to challenge the American fleet, ordering 430 of his planes, launched from aircraft carriers, to attack. In what became the greatest carrier battle of the war, the United States, having already picked up the Japanese craft on radar, proceeded to shoot down more than 300 aircraft and sink two Japanese aircraft carriers, losing only 29 of their own planes in the process. It was described in the aftermath as a “turkey shoot.”

Admiral Ozawa, believing his missing planes had landed at their Guam air base, maintained his position in the Philippine Sea, allowing for a second attack of U.S. carrier-based fighter planes, this time commanded by Admiral Mitscher, to shoot down an additional 65 Japanese planes and sink another carrier. In total, the Japanese lost 480 aircraft, three-quarters of its total, not to mention most of its crews. American domination of the Marianas was now a foregone conclusion.

Not long after this battle at sea, U.S. Marine divisions penetrated farther into the island of Saipan. Two Japanese commanders on the island, Admiral Nagumo and General Saito, both committed suicide in an attempt to rally the remaining Japanese forces. It succeeded: Those forces also committed a virtual suicide as they attacked the Americans’ lines, losing 26,000 men compared with 3,500 lost by the United States. Within another month, the islands of Tinian and Guam were also captured by the United States.

The Japanese government of Premier Hideki Tojo resigned in disgrace at this stunning defeat, in what many have described as the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

[Schmidt Meister]

On June 19, 1864, the most successful and feared Confederate commerce raider of the war, the CSS Alabama, sinks after a spectacular battle off the coast of France with the USS Kearsarge.

Built in an English shipyard and sold to the Confederates in 1861, the Alabama was a state-of-the-art ship, 220 feet long, with a speed of up to 13 knots. The cruiser was equipped with a machine shop and could carry enough coal to steam for 18 days, but its sails could greatly extend that time. Under its captain, Raphael Semmes, the Alabama prowled the world for three years, capturing U.S. commercial ships. It sailed around the globe, usually working out of the West Indies, but taking prizes and bungling Union shipping in the Caribbean, off Newfoundland, and around the coast of South America. In January 1863, Semmes sunk a Union warship, the Hatteras, after luring it out of Galveston, Texas. The Union navy spent an enormous amount of time and effort trying to track down the Alabama.

The ship sailed around South America, across the Pacific, and docked in India in 1864. By the summer, Semmes realized that after three years and 75,000 miles his vessel needed overhauling in a modern shipyard. He sailed around Africa to France, where the French denied him access to a dry dock. Semmes moved out of Cherbourg Harbor and found the USS Kearsarge waiting. In a spectacular battle, the Kearsarge bested and sank the Alabama. During its career, the Alabama captured 66 ships and was hunted by more than 20 Federal warships.

[Schmidt Meister]

On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day.

Julius Rosenberg was an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps who was born in New York on May 12, 1918. His wife, born Ethel Greenglass, also in New York, on September 28, 1915, worked as a secretary. The couple met as members of the Young Communist League, married in 1939 and had two sons.

Julius Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage on June 17, 1950, and accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Ethel was arrested two months later. The Rosenbergs were implicated by David Greenglass, Ethel’s younger brother and a former army sergeant and machinist at Los Alamos, the secret atomic bomb lab in New Mexico. Greenglass, who himself had confessed to providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets through an intermediary, testified against his sister and brother-in-law in court. He later served 10 years in prison.

The Rosenbergs vigorously protested their innocence, but after a brief trial that began on March 6, 1951, and attracted much media attention, the couple was convicted. On April 5, 1951, a judge sentenced them to death and the pair was taken to Sing Sing to await execution.

During the next two years, the couple became the subject of both national and international debate. Some people believed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of a surge of hysterical anti-communist feeling in the United States, and protested that the death sentence handed down was cruel and unusual punishment. Many Americans, however, believed that the Rosenbergs had been dealt with justly. They agreed with President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he issued a statement declining to invoke executive clemency for the pair. He stated, “I can only say that, by immeasurably increasing the chances of atomic war, the Rosenbergs may have condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world. The execution of two human beings is a grave matter. But even graver is the thought of the millions of dead whose deaths may be directly attributable to what these spies have done.”

[Schmidt Meister]

June 19th in music.

1965 - ”I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" by The Four Tops goes to #1 in America, knocking off another Motown song: "Back in My Arms Again" by The Supremes.

1973 - The Rocky Horror Show musical debuts at London's Royal Court Theatre. Two years later, it starts a brief Broadway run and is adapted into the cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Birthdays:

1930 - Tommy Devito. From American rock and pop band The Four Seasons who had the 1960s hits 'Sherry', 'Big Girls Don't Cry', 'Walk Like a Man', and the 1976 US No. 1 single 'December 1963, (Oh What A Night'). They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. Devito died on 20 Sept 2020 age 92.

1963 - Simon Wright. Drummer, AC/DC, joined in 1983. Joined Dio in 1989. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, England.

[Schmidt Meister]

3 hours ago, gamboolman said:

37

37 1/2, lol

[Schmidt Meister]

11 hours ago, railfancwb said:

Actually I would have used a quit claim rather than a warranty deed. 

I believe a warranty deed had to be used because the property had to be divided up before he could deed just the tower back, it was all one parcel when he bought it. A quit claim would have given the entire parcel back to the city, I believe.

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[ChuteTheMall]

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