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« Reply #315 on: August 13, 2008, 09:38:39 PM » |
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 Chicago Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1912: Progressive Party Presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt heads a motorcade through the Windy City. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #316 on: August 13, 2008, 09:41:39 PM » |
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 The Big Apple back in the day: Broadway in the mid 1920s. OswaldTheOsprey Was this before the oil companies bought out the trolley systems and destroyed them because they ran on electricity, in order to pave way for big oil-consuming vehicles? Actually, I believe, it was General Motors that bamboozled cities into doing away with trolleys and street cars so as to sell them GM buses. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #317 on: August 13, 2008, 09:55:29 PM » |
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 Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg (1) is shown with his 1908 University of Chicago Maroons. Big Ten Champs with a 5-0-1 record. Teams of today play twice as many games. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #318 on: August 13, 2008, 10:49:53 PM » |
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The Big Apple back in the day: Broadway in the mid 1920s. OswaldTheOsprey Was this before the oil companies bought out the trolley systems and destroyed them because they ran on electricity, in order to pave way for big oil-consuming vehicles? Actually, I believe, it was General Motors that bamboozled cities into doing away with trolleys and street cars so as to sell them GM buses. OswaldTheOsprey Aah, thanks for the correction. ........ Isn't General Motors a major player in oil, too? |
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« Reply #319 on: August 13, 2008, 10:55:58 PM » |
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 Soviet T-34, Summer 1941 Must have been hit by an 88mm. The turret was ripped off... |
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« Reply #320 on: August 13, 2008, 11:05:11 PM » |
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The Big Apple back in the day: Broadway in the mid 1920s. OswaldTheOsprey Was this before the oil companies bought out the trolley systems and destroyed them because they ran on electricity, in order to pave way for big oil-consuming vehicles? Actually, I believe, it was General Motors that bamboozled cities into doing away with trolleys and street cars so as to sell them GM buses. OswaldTheOsprey Aah, thanks for the correction. ........ Isn't General Motors a major player in oil, too? Lately, if TV and newspaper reports are true, GM isn't doing none too swift. The bigger they are...... OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #321 on: August 13, 2008, 11:24:16 PM » |
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Soviet T-34, Summer 1941 Must have been hit by an 88mm. The turret was ripped off... Sheesh.  |
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« Reply #322 on: August 14, 2008, 09:23:34 PM » |
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 I posted this earlier. It's a Nazi propaganda poster. Dutch Occupation Reichskommissar image, great caricature of Stalin. Add-on text at bottom, "This Was First Published in 1939, Was Every True Netherlander in Agreement? How About Now?"Anyway, it turns out that there is an original for sale...  |
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« Reply #323 on: August 14, 2008, 09:30:38 PM » |
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Soviet T-34, Summer 1941 Must have been hit by an 88mm. The turret was ripped off... Sheesh. US crews would sometimes complain that reissued Shermans (Sherman tanks that had been damaged but not irreparably) smelled like death. Apparently, pieces of flesh and bodily fluids remained in the crew compartments nooks and crannies even after thorough cleaning. When it got hot they would stink. |
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« Reply #324 on: August 14, 2008, 09:39:02 PM » |
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 A knocked out US Sherman M-4. The Germans called them "Ronsons". The Ronson Co. made lighters and the slogan in their ads was, "Lights up the very first time". |
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« Reply #325 on: August 14, 2008, 09:42:18 PM » |
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 German troops advance passed burning US vehicles-December, 1944 |
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« Reply #326 on: August 14, 2008, 09:56:17 PM » |
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 World War I aerial dogfight. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #327 on: August 14, 2008, 09:57:40 PM » |
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World War I aerial dogfight. OswaldTheOsprey Wow that's a crazy shot. They look like Fokkers and Sopwith Camels. |
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« Reply #328 on: August 14, 2008, 09:58:14 PM » |
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 Berlin June 1919: Destitute beaten citizens of the new Weimar republic. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #329 on: August 14, 2008, 09:59:34 PM » |
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World War I aerial dogfight. OswaldTheOsprey Wow that's a crazy shot. They look like Fokkers and Sopwith Camels. Glad you liked it Mr. D. OswaldTheOsprey |
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