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    On this day:

    1862
    The Battle of Yorktown begins as Union gen. George B. McClellan closes in on Richmond, Va.

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    On this day:

    1917
    The U.S. Senate votes 90-6 to enter World War I on Allied side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    On this day:

    1917
    The U.S. Senate votes 90-6 to enter World War I on Allied side.
    Nomad, have you ever read the Jekyll Island book?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    Nomad, have you ever read the Jekyll Island book?
    I havent. I've been looking for an interesting book lately. Is it a good read?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    I havent. I've been looking for an interesting book lately. Is it a good read?
    Idk. It's a conspiracy theory book, but it's immaculately sourced. It shaped how I look at things, but I still don't know what to make of it all. Your post made me think about it because the Lusitania was the catalyst, and there's some interesting circumstantial in the Jekyll Island book that I can't ignore. JP Morgan influence I think it was to publish an advertisement warning about not going aboard as well as funding for the munitions shipment aboard the Lusitania. It gets the cogs turning, but make of it what you will.

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    I don't rock that way. You do i think, but not me.
    Beef is not that way I am pretty sure but not like super duper positive either though really. Anyway......

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    Wasn't sure where to put this, but here seems about right.

    I visited the dachau concentration camp yesterday. It is just outside Munich and was the first Nazi concentration camp.... Everything else that followed was modeled in some way on dachau

    It was pretty interesting how it started as a place for political prisoners and gradually began to accommodate undesirables of varying descriptions before becoming the horror that it ended up.
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    Is that "Work Makes you Free" on the door as they worked the prisoners to death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco View Post
    Is that "Work Makes you Free" on the door as they worked the prisoners to death.
    Yup!!

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    This is a cool story, a real life situation that paralleled the fictional career of the WW2 tank "Fury." In this case it was a WW1 British tank named "Fray Bentos" (essentially a British brand of canned beef, like Spam in a way) in 1917

    These were some tough SOB's on both sides in that War. Good Lord

    “What fresh hell is this?”

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    Happy Trafalgar Day, everyone! I always have a top-notch British beer every October 21st, and this year is no exception!
    “What fresh hell is this?”

    "A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns something which he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
    Happy Trafalgar Day, everyone! I always have a top-notch British beer every October 21st, and this year is no exception!
    What's the name of the brew?

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    Wild celebrations in the UK tonight


    ....... actually dread appears to be celebrating more than the entire UK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    What's the name of the brew?
    Samuel Smith's India Pale Ale
    “What fresh hell is this?”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis View Post
    Wild celebrations in the UK tonight


    ....... actually dread appears to be celebrating more than the entire UK
    So the sheep are running scared
    "We saw it…. the hussars let loose their horses. God, what power! They ran through the smoke and the sound was like that of a thousand blacksmiths beating with a thousand hammers

    They rush on to the Swedes! They crash into the Swedish riters…. Overwhelm them! They crash into the second regiment - Overwhelmed! Resistance collapses, dissolves, they move forward as easily as if they were parading on a grand boulevard

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