ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
edited February 2014
Second Lieutenant Marinos Mitralexis was a Greek fighter pilot in WWII. During the war, the Mussolini was eager to prove the mettle of Italian troops. Oh and to grab land. So Italy invaded Greece on October 28th . The Italian Air Force allocated 463 planes to this invasion. The Greeks had 77 planes in their force. Five days after the invasion, the Italians sent 15 bombers and 14 fighters to attack the airfield at Thessaloniki. Mitralexis was assigned to the 22nd Pursuit Squadron at Thessaloniki, which was scrambled to stop the bombers. The two groups met up in the air, and the Italians found themselves in engaged in a furious dogfight. Three Italian CANT Z.1007 bombers were shot down, one of them by Mitralexis. He damaged another but the Italian forces finding they had taken extensive damage turned around. Also the Greeks scared the shit out of them. But Mitralexis pursued one of the damaged bombers, firing on it till he ran out of ammo.
Now if Mitralexis was the kind of guy to let something like being out of ammo stop him, I wouldn't be writing about him. He matched up speed with the damaged bomber and began to clip it's tail with his propeller. And bits of the tail started coming away. Now a number of pilots used a similar technique of using their props as a weapon. It's very important while doing this not to crash into the other plane, just give it a shave. What makes Marinos different is he followed the damaged bomber down, landed next to it, got out of his PZL P.24, pulled his service pistol and took the crew of the bomber prisoner and walked them back to the air base at Thessaloniki.
The Greeks did a pretty good job of beating up on the Italians up until the point where Germany entered the theater. Lt Mitralexis was among those Greek airmen who managed to get out ahead of the German forces. From there he joined up with the British and shot down five more plans during his military career. For his actions of November 2nd, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Valour.
In the 1940s, Sam B. Williams was a mild mannered engineer working for Chrysler. He helped design their first automotive gas turbine engine. Feeling that there were other direction he could take the technology, he started his own company in 1954. Then, in the '70s, he made this:
The video is somewhat crappy, but what you are looking at is the Williams Aerial Systems Platform, a personal turbofan flying machine and proof that Dr. Sam was one secret volcano base away from being a real-life Bond villain. The WASP had a top speed of 60 MPH, a ceiling of 10,000 ft and only two controls, throttle and yaw. All other steering was handled by leaning in the direction you wanted to go. Williams built the WASP with private funds, then took it to the military. Unfortunately, the half-hour running time was too short for the military's liking, and the project was not adopted. That did not spell the end for the WASP, however...or at least not all of it. The revolutionary small turbofan engine that Williams invented for the WASP would make possible the modern cruise missile and go into production as the power plant for the Tomahawk.
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
Well, the bar is a bit limited in selection, three lagers and a bitter, then the usual spirits. The gin was of course Beefeater's. So I had a Beefeater serve me a Beefeater's in the Beefeater's bar. My life has peaked.
Well, you can only make cider out of apples, so it seems a bit redundant.
If you're using pears, it's perry.
Anything else is a filthy lie.
...This is just plausible enough to be true. Dammit.
*googles*
EDIT: No shit, it's actually a thing. How about that.
Yeah, those two are the only real varieties. You should try out some old-school cloudy cider and perry from Wales or West of England(scrumpies, as they're called). Good stuff.
Incidentally, cider is made thus:
Bags of apples are pressed for the juice, left to ferment, and then you drink it and achieve Applevana.
After beer, cider is also the oldest man-made beverage in Britain. The Romans observed Britons fermenting crabapples for a type of cider, and later when the Normans conquered Britain, more varieties of apples came to use. Historically, day laborers in parts of England were also paid a part of their wage in cider, like the Ancient Egyptians paid part of the laborers wages in beer.
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edited February 2014
In the late 1700's and early 1800's the US Army had a daily whiskey ration of 2 oz. It was given out in battalion formation with an officer following the dispensing sergeant to ensure the solider drank the ration on the spot and did not try to hoard it in a cup with a false bottom or by pouring it down their musket barrel. If a solider chose, they could decline the ration by having their cup inverted and the cost of the ration would be added to their next pay. Double rations could be ordered at the discretion of the commanding officer, usually for hard work, or almost always during the 4th of July celebration. It was generally stopped in 1832.
The US Navy rum ration was given at noon every day until 1862.
The British Navy rum ration was given every day at noon until July 31st 1970. I had a biology teacher in high school that was in the US Navy at the time and they were docked with some Royal Naval ships in Australia on July 31st. He said his crew watched as the British ships held full naval funerals for their last kegs of rum in full dress uniforms with a gun salute. The crew of his ship quickly formed up and saluted along with the Brits when the kegs went overboard.
In the late 1700's and early 1800's the US Army had a daily whiskey ration of 2 oz. It was given out in battalion formation with an officer following the dispensing sergeant to ensure the solider drank the ration on the spot and did not try to hoard it in a cup with a false bottom or by pouring it down their musket barrel. If a solider chose, they could decline the ration by having their cup inverted and the cost of the ration would be added to their next pay. Double rations could be ordered at the discretion of the commanding officer, usually for hard work, or almost always during the 4th of July celebration. It was generally stopped in 1832.
The US Navy rum ration was given at noon every day until 1862.
The British Navy rum ration was given every day at noon until July 31st 1970. I had a biology teacher in high school that was in the US Navy at the time and they were docked with some Royal Naval ships in Australia on July 31st. He said his crew watched as the British ships held full naval funerals for their last kegs of rum in full dress uniforms with a gun salute. The crew of his ship quickly formed up and saluted along with the Brits when the kegs went overboard.
Having known a couple of R.N. persons, I would be astonished if those kegs had been given unto the corruption with more than a token tot in them.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I went out to a Civil War camp site and found this:
It's a Staff Officer's Button from a New York Regiment. Thanks to the location and generally decent records of troop movements, I hope to be able to find out exactly when it was dropped.
It still has about 90% of the gilt on it which is pretty unusual.
Not sure if i's been mentioned before but do people know the story of the time the Austrian army unintentionally fought a battle against itself over booze and decimated itself? Well this is the story of the Battle of Karánsebes
See it was 1788 and Austria was yet again at war with the Turks. Austria had an army of 100000 troops drawn from all over its Empire in its army. Now this will turn out to be important because these troops did not share the same language and this would come back to bite them.
Now some Austrian cavalry was on patrol late one night/early one morning, when they came across some gypsies, who offered to sell them some booze, the cavalry patrol proceeded to get roaringly drunk. Soon some infantry appeared on the scene and demanded to share the booze, however like any attempt to take booze from a drunk person this ended badly as the cavalry told the infantry to fuck off. So some scuffles broke out over got the booze and someone fired a shot.
Hell broke out and both 'sides' started firing wildly at each other. Reinforcements rushed to the 'battle', and one of the infantry decided to yell out "Turci! Turci!" ("Turks! Turks!") for some bizzarre reason (possibly to scare off the calvalry). Now the infantry was comprised of the aforementioned people from across the Empire who didn't share the same language and also didn't care much to defend it, however they could understand someone was shouting out Turks. So the infantry ran from the apparently approaching Turks (who were actually days away) because fuck fighting the Turkish army.
Meanwhile an artillery commander had spotted the ruckus and decided that his cannons were needed to shell the masses of 'enemy' in front of him. These cannons woke up the main Austrian army in their camp, who thought the Turks were attacking the camp.
The newly awake soldiers collectively shat themselves and fled as fast as they could, only taking time to shoot at any shadow and movement they saw. This wasn't helped by further language issues when some officers trying to stop the rout yelled 'Halt', which somehow got mistaken for Turks yelling 'Allah!', further making the Austrian army troops think the Turks were attacking the camp
At one point during the retreat the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II was pushed off his horse into a small creek. Probably so some soldier could steal his horse and run away faster, either that or just to add further indiginity to this whole event.
2 days later the Turks arrived only to find 10,000 dead bodies. Needless to say they were thoroughly confused as to how this had happened as they knew they hadn't done it!
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Not sure if i's been mentioned before but do people know the story of the time the Austrian army unintentionally fought a battle against itself over booze and decimated itself? Well this is the story of the Battle of Karánsebes
See it was 1788 and Austria was yet again at war with the Turks. Austria had an army of 100000 troops drawn from all over its Empire in its army. Now this will turn out to be important because these troops did not share the same language and this would come back to bite them.
Now some Austrian cavalry was on patrol late one night/early one morning, when they came across some gypsies, who offered to sell them some booze, the cavalry patrol proceeded to get roaringly drunk. Soon some infantry appeared on the scene and demanded to share the booze, however like any attempt to take booze from a drunk person this ended badly as the cavalry told the infantry to fuck off. So some scuffles broke out over got the booze and someone fired a shot.
Hell broke out and both 'sides' started firing wildly at each other. Reinforcements rushed to the 'battle', and one of the infantry decided to yell out "Turci! Turci!" ("Turks! Turks!") for some bizzarre reason (possibly to scare off the calvalry). Now the infantry was comprised of the aforementioned people from across the Empire who didn't share the same language and also didn't care much to defend it, however they could understand someone was shouting out Turks. So the infantry ran from the apparently approaching Turks (who were actually days away) because fuck fighting the Turkish army.
Meanwhile an artillery commander had spotted the ruckus and decided that his cannons were needed to shell the masses of 'enemy' in front of him. These cannons woke up the main Austrian army in their camp, who thought the Turks were attacking the camp.
The newly awake soldiers collectively shat themselves and fled as fast as they could, only taking time to shoot at any shadow and movement they saw. This wasn't helped by further language issues when some officers trying to stop the rout yelled 'Halt', which somehow got mistaken for Turks yelling 'Allah!', further making the Austrian army troops think the Turks were attacking the camp
At one point during the retreat the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II was pushed off his horse into a small creek. Probably so some soldier could steal his horse and run away faster, either that or just to add further indiginity to this whole event.
2 days later the Turks arrived only to find 10,000 dead bodies. Needless to say they were thoroughly confused as to how this had happened as they knew they hadn't done it!
This is likely to be myth. The major sources for it don't appear till 50+ years afterwards and there isn't any supporting evidence.
I went out to a Civil War camp site and found this:
It's a Staff Officer's Button from a New York Regiment. Thanks to the location and generally decent records of troop movements, I hope to be able to find out exactly when it was dropped.
It still has about 90% of the gilt on it which is pretty unusual.
I don't know why, but the tooth marks* are striking me as incredibly odd. I've no idea when they started using evenly spaced teeth on tools though.
*the straight, evenly spaced areas where the gilt has worn look like the marks that a pair of pliers' teeth make on pretty much anything they touch if you squeeze too hard (or even slightly on loose material)
I went out to a Civil War camp site and found this:
It's a Staff Officer's Button from a New York Regiment. Thanks to the location and generally decent records of troop movements, I hope to be able to find out exactly when it was dropped.
It still has about 90% of the gilt on it which is pretty unusual.
I don't know why, but the tooth marks* are striking me as incredibly odd. I've no idea when they started using evenly spaced teeth on tools though.
*the straight, evenly spaced areas where the gilt has worn look like the marks that a pair of pliers' teeth make on pretty much anything they touch if you squeeze too hard (or even slightly on loose material)
that's a good question.
I have no idea lol
however, here is a button I found from a Royal Navy Captain (or Commander) coat dropped on April 6th 1781 (which I know because that's the only time the British raided the place that I found it)
I went out to a Civil War camp site and found this:
It's a Staff Officer's Button from a New York Regiment. Thanks to the location and generally decent records of troop movements, I hope to be able to find out exactly when it was dropped.
It still has about 90% of the gilt on it which is pretty unusual.
I don't know why, but the tooth marks* are striking me as incredibly odd. I've no idea when they started using evenly spaced teeth on tools though.
*the straight, evenly spaced areas where the gilt has worn look like the marks that a pair of pliers' teeth make on pretty much anything they touch if you squeeze too hard (or even slightly on loose material)
that's a good question.
I have no idea lol
however, here is a button I found from a Royal Navy Captain (or Commander) coat dropped on April 6th 1781 (which I know because that's the only time the British raided the place that I found it)
There is still a tiny bit of gilt on the inlay
note the tooth marks
Hrm. It might be from the casting process then, and not from a tool. If it's in the recessed part it's unlikely to be from some sort of hand tool. I don't know enough about the process during that time to say for sure though.
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Second Lieutenant Marinos Mitralexis was a Greek fighter pilot in WWII. During the war, the Mussolini was eager to prove the mettle of Italian troops. Oh and to grab land. So Italy invaded Greece on October 28th . The Italian Air Force allocated 463 planes to this invasion. The Greeks had 77 planes in their force. Five days after the invasion, the Italians sent 15 bombers and 14 fighters to attack the airfield at Thessaloniki. Mitralexis was assigned to the 22nd Pursuit Squadron at Thessaloniki, which was scrambled to stop the bombers. The two groups met up in the air, and the Italians found themselves in engaged in a furious dogfight. Three Italian CANT Z.1007 bombers were shot down, one of them by Mitralexis. He damaged another but the Italian forces finding they had taken extensive damage turned around. Also the Greeks scared the shit out of them. But Mitralexis pursued one of the damaged bombers, firing on it till he ran out of ammo.
Now if Mitralexis was the kind of guy to let something like being out of ammo stop him, I wouldn't be writing about him. He matched up speed with the damaged bomber and began to clip it's tail with his propeller. And bits of the tail started coming away. Now a number of pilots used a similar technique of using their props as a weapon. It's very important while doing this not to crash into the other plane, just give it a shave. What makes Marinos different is he followed the damaged bomber down, landed next to it, got out of his PZL P.24, pulled his service pistol and took the crew of the bomber prisoner and walked them back to the air base at Thessaloniki.
The Greeks did a pretty good job of beating up on the Italians up until the point where Germany entered the theater. Lt Mitralexis was among those Greek airmen who managed to get out ahead of the German forces. From there he joined up with the British and shot down five more plans during his military career. For his actions of November 2nd, he was awarded the Gold Cross of Valour.
The video is somewhat crappy, but what you are looking at is the Williams Aerial Systems Platform, a personal turbofan flying machine and proof that Dr. Sam was one secret volcano base away from being a real-life Bond villain. The WASP had a top speed of 60 MPH, a ceiling of 10,000 ft and only two controls, throttle and yaw. All other steering was handled by leaning in the direction you wanted to go. Williams built the WASP with private funds, then took it to the military. Unfortunately, the half-hour running time was too short for the military's liking, and the project was not adopted. That did not spell the end for the WASP, however...or at least not all of it. The revolutionary small turbofan engine that Williams invented for the WASP would make possible the modern cruise missile and go into production as the power plant for the Tomahawk.
- John Stuart Mill
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It looks like something the Empire from Star Wars would design.
Notice the lack of a safety railing behind the pilot.
Broccoli tries to warn us its deadly with its terrible taste and bright green color
What do beefeaters stock in their bar? I'm guessing gin and scotch.
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Probably some beef in there too.
Not anymore, but I hear they have a fabulous cider made from apples...well...mostly apples.
- John Stuart Mill
If you're using pears, it's perry.
Anything else is a filthy lie.
If it's 3PM and you don't have a Hitler head, go fuck yourself.
(At least, that's how I interpret that guys facial expression)
Considering his expression, no, you don't.
The beef is for the ravens.
...This is just plausible enough to be true. Dammit.
*googles*
EDIT: No shit, it's actually a thing. How about that.
Yeah, those two are the only real varieties. You should try out some old-school cloudy cider and perry from Wales or West of England(scrumpies, as they're called). Good stuff.
Incidentally, cider is made thus:
Bags of apples are pressed for the juice, left to ferment, and then you drink it and achieve Applevana.
After beer, cider is also the oldest man-made beverage in Britain. The Romans observed Britons fermenting crabapples for a type of cider, and later when the Normans conquered Britain, more varieties of apples came to use. Historically, day laborers in parts of England were also paid a part of their wage in cider, like the Ancient Egyptians paid part of the laborers wages in beer.
You forgot the best part...mostly apples...
- John Stuart Mill
I got drunk, how do ya like dem apples?
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The US Navy rum ration was given at noon every day until 1862.
The British Navy rum ration was given every day at noon until July 31st 1970. I had a biology teacher in high school that was in the US Navy at the time and they were docked with some Royal Naval ships in Australia on July 31st. He said his crew watched as the British ships held full naval funerals for their last kegs of rum in full dress uniforms with a gun salute. The crew of his ship quickly formed up and saluted along with the Brits when the kegs went overboard.
Having known a couple of R.N. persons, I would be astonished if those kegs had been given unto the corruption with more than a token tot in them.
The first use of "fuck" in the modern format.
Appropriately, it comes from a monk bitching about the abbot he was under.
Indeed.
Fuckin A.
The Monk was probably just annoyed that Abbot never saw Frankenstein
It's a Staff Officer's Button from a New York Regiment. Thanks to the location and generally decent records of troop movements, I hope to be able to find out exactly when it was dropped.
It still has about 90% of the gilt on it which is pretty unusual.
See it was 1788 and Austria was yet again at war with the Turks. Austria had an army of 100000 troops drawn from all over its Empire in its army. Now this will turn out to be important because these troops did not share the same language and this would come back to bite them.
Now some Austrian cavalry was on patrol late one night/early one morning, when they came across some gypsies, who offered to sell them some booze, the cavalry patrol proceeded to get roaringly drunk. Soon some infantry appeared on the scene and demanded to share the booze, however like any attempt to take booze from a drunk person this ended badly as the cavalry told the infantry to fuck off. So some scuffles broke out over got the booze and someone fired a shot.
Hell broke out and both 'sides' started firing wildly at each other. Reinforcements rushed to the 'battle', and one of the infantry decided to yell out "Turci! Turci!" ("Turks! Turks!") for some bizzarre reason (possibly to scare off the calvalry). Now the infantry was comprised of the aforementioned people from across the Empire who didn't share the same language and also didn't care much to defend it, however they could understand someone was shouting out Turks. So the infantry ran from the apparently approaching Turks (who were actually days away) because fuck fighting the Turkish army.
Meanwhile an artillery commander had spotted the ruckus and decided that his cannons were needed to shell the masses of 'enemy' in front of him. These cannons woke up the main Austrian army in their camp, who thought the Turks were attacking the camp.
The newly awake soldiers collectively shat themselves and fled as fast as they could, only taking time to shoot at any shadow and movement they saw. This wasn't helped by further language issues when some officers trying to stop the rout yelled 'Halt', which somehow got mistaken for Turks yelling 'Allah!', further making the Austrian army troops think the Turks were attacking the camp
At one point during the retreat the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II was pushed off his horse into a small creek. Probably so some soldier could steal his horse and run away faster, either that or just to add further indiginity to this whole event.
2 days later the Turks arrived only to find 10,000 dead bodies. Needless to say they were thoroughly confused as to how this had happened as they knew they hadn't done it!
This is likely to be myth. The major sources for it don't appear till 50+ years afterwards and there isn't any supporting evidence.
I don't know why, but the tooth marks* are striking me as incredibly odd. I've no idea when they started using evenly spaced teeth on tools though.
*the straight, evenly spaced areas where the gilt has worn look like the marks that a pair of pliers' teeth make on pretty much anything they touch if you squeeze too hard (or even slightly on loose material)
that's a good question.
I have no idea lol
however, here is a button I found from a Royal Navy Captain (or Commander) coat dropped on April 6th 1781 (which I know because that's the only time the British raided the place that I found it)
There is still a tiny bit of gilt on the inlay
note the tooth marks
Hrm. It might be from the casting process then, and not from a tool. If it's in the recessed part it's unlikely to be from some sort of hand tool. I don't know enough about the process during that time to say for sure though.