I must say 2nd most impressive thing about the Iowa, first being a "Broadside", was actually walking underneath the ship when she was in drydock. Enjoyed showing the flag throughout the Caribbean Islands during our first shakedown cruise. St. Thomas, Barbados, Jamaica, Martinique, Columbia, ...
My new powerchair is heavy and needs two people to lift in and out of cars, but it has been lovely going to local parks and a National Trust property – recently meeting up with other wheelchair users in a local park, on a day the sun actually shone. I spent a lot of August watchi...
The drug trial that Dave told the doctors about was actually fortafenoquine(Arakoda), another type of anti-malarial that was shown in the results of small animal testing to be even more neurotoxic thanmefloquine(Lariam). He was one of some 3,000 Australian troops who were deployed to Bougain...
Using Geoff's SE with "1914-18" in additional info and UK alone, 403 results were shown for those who had served in the Great War and who died during WW2. Just clicking at random on the lists, although some were buried abroad, a good proportion are actually commemorated 'at Home' I ...
The Western media presents China as a very dark place, an evil prison-like dystopia that is unrecognizable to anyone who has actually visited the country. “They are misleading their own public and their own political elite,” he said. The result is that the West doesn’t know itself or ...
The rooms in the hotel are so comfortable and homey! The service is great. This is the exterior, actually on the street Mateos Gago. the street — so charming! This is OUR ROOM with the aforementioned BALCONY! Each room has a plaque beside the door. What does it mean?
actually did disguise himself as a sergeant and managed to avoid capture for three weeks. But Hitler kept his word, and blew out his brains in the Fuhrerbunker in the center of Berlin when the Russians were three hundred meters away. Thus ended the thousand year Reich. For decades, though...
where they cause havoc. Number 9 on our list: Electrosmog. Every day we are bombarded with the invisible electromagnetic radiation from the use of wireless technology and mains electricity. Plus the ever increasing 5G… do you dare to find out what electrosmog actually does to your body and ...
The shogun, or military dictator, actually held the real power. While supposedly being chosen by the emperor, the shoguns ruled by military might, not by the selection of the emperor. By the 1460s, a large dispute over the rule of succession to the ruling shogun eventually led to a civil...
During WW2 German U-boats were wrecking most of the Allied merchant fleet. The British noticed that the subs stayed far away from any ships that could actually shoot back, so it made sense to disguise the warships as small merchant ships. They also noticed that the subs surfaced when they...