World War ll involved the military might of Allied countries versus that of the Axis powers. Each worked to develop weapons and tactics to advance their goals. One of the tactics that were adopted by the Axis powers, especially Germany, was called blitzkrieg....
This, which was the first edition in many years that did not feature the big European stars, opened the door for many smaller pilots and teams, mainly from the axis Australia-New Zealand, to have a chance to stand out. And so it was with the New-Zealander, who, in the first race of...
–they will tell you without asking which tornado you mean. In a city where tornadoes are a way of life, this is pretty significant when you consider the one in question happened some 42 years ago, destroying numerous neighborhoods, schools, and nearly all the old-growth trees in Cherokee ...
I just haven’t written….although I have a really good excuse in that my crazy world has been spinning on a more than usual wobbly axis. I am writing today though! You: We quiver with excitement. Me: Sarcasm does not become you. Today I engaged in one of the most intense RAKs I ...
The main Allied powers were Great Britain‚ The United States‚ and the Soviet Union‚ who had the goal of defeating the Axis powers‚ whose leaders were Germany‚ Japan‚ and Italy. The war was initiated by Adolf Hitler’s invasion Premium Adolf Hitler World War II World War I...
I’m using the term “over-saturated” to mean there is more of the mineral than will dissolve in the water. I assume the mechanism of preservation is that the calcium will deposit on the eggs in the solution and seal up the pores in the egg to keep it from drying out. A“not ...
We checked the orientation of the long axis out of curiosity and found it ran towards the SSE. The stones themselves were more of the ancient gneiss rock, naturally grained and patterned and very beautiful, especially when the sun broke through the scudding clouds. We were told that the ...
mean-spirited, envious, resentful, competitive and status-hungry. Darwinian minds behave in quasi-sociopathic ways towards each other, not least towards sentient beings from other species. The systematic abuse of our cousins in factory-farms and slaughterhouses could have come straight out of Dante’...
WW2 bomb shelter in a “Victory Garden” outside the House. And the house is supposedly haunted. So take care when you visit… What can I say? I loved it! Almost a religious experience; like seeing holy relics. Awesome in every sense of awesome. Downside: you cannot grab the precious ...
Today, we focus on what happened in 2017. Crypto: I went back and looked at my predictions for 2017 and I completely whiffed on the breakout year for crypto. I did not even mention it in my post on New Year’s Day 2017. Maybe I got tired of predicting a breakout year for crypto ...