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this is polish reciepe pierogi are available with: meat, with cabbage and mushrooms, with cottage cheese, with cheese and potatoes(this called russian pierogi but only call reciepe still polish!)
My step-daughter's father's family is Ukrainian. They make homemade pierogi like that! To die be crucified for!:hambre:
 
75 years ago
On October 14th 1944, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (52) got a visit from two Wehrmacht generals, Burgdorf and Maisel, at his home in Herrlingen, Würtemberg. They handed over an ‘order’, an ultimatum, from Hitler himself, to commit suicide. Otherwise, Rommel would be put on trial before a ‘people’s court’, for his involvement in conspiracy against The Führer. Rommel was given the option, not only because the outcome of the trial was already arranged, but also, his family would be protected. Rommel followed the two generals and took the deadly poison they had brought with.

So ended the life of the famous ‘Desert Fox’, who had been out of action, after, on July 17th, his car had been strafed at the Normandy front, leaving him badly wounded. Rommel got a state funeral. Officially his death was attributed to the wounds he got in Normandy.
 
75 years ago
On October 14th 1944, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (52) got a visit from two Wehrmacht generals, Burgdorf and Maisel, at his home in Herrlingen, Würtemberg. They handed over an ‘order’, an ultimatum, from Hitler himself, to commit suicide. Otherwise, Rommel would be put on trial before a ‘people’s court’, for his involvement in conspiracy against The Führer. Rommel was given the option, not only because the outcome of the trial was already arranged, but also, his family would be protected. Rommel followed the two generals and took the deadly poison they had brought with.

So ended the life of the famous ‘Desert Fox’, who had been out of action, after, on July 17th, his car had been strafed at the Normandy front, leaving him badly wounded. Rommel got a state funeral. Officially his death was attributed to the wounds he got in Normandy.
desert fox ? :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :cat:
 
The same!

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That's jame Mason, actually, in the 1951 British movie that cemented the myth of Rommel as "the good German."
me not watch this movie me heard in school and in discovery channel general Erwin Rommel have pseudonym "desert fox" and also heard he not listen Hitler and rescue about 100k german soldiers from desert beacouse they was be lose battle for 100% ? and also heard Allies when he back house car give bomb and almost hit his car and he back injury house and also have two figures of desert fox in mine soldiers figures from famous generals figures set and sometime kittys make fun with allies and afrika korps soldiers in desert diorama model :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :cat:
 
In blue state WI it’s now Indigenous Peoples Day ;)
Since Columbus naver stepped on what became the US renaming this holiday (or event) should not have been touched. Pick a new day. Has anyone done a damn thing for the American Indians... besides pushing them from their native lands, slaughtering countless numbers, and pushing them to welfare dependence?

Tree must admit he has not done so....
 
Since Columbus naver stepped on what became the US renaming this holiday (or event) should not have been touched. Pick a new day. Has anyone done a damn thing for the American Indians... besides pushing them from their native lands, slaughtering countless numbers, and pushing them to welfare dependence?

Tree must admit he has not done so....
oho indians now me think must found mine Pocahontas doll :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :cat:
 
Since Columbus naver stepped on what became the US renaming this holiday (or event) should not have been touched. Pick a new day. Has anyone done a damn thing for the American Indians... besides pushing them from their native lands, slaughtering countless numbers, and pushing them to welfare dependence?

Tree must admit he has not done so....
Columbus may never have actually landed on the NA continent, but he began and encouraged the genocide of millions of native peoples both there and elsewhere in the western hemisphere.

See A People's History of the United States, by Professor Howard Zinn. Available excerpt at http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html. Here's part:
Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas. That beginning, when you read Las Casas-even if his figures are exaggerations (were there 3 million Indians to begin with, as he says, or less than a million, as some historians have calculated, or 8 million as others now believe?)-is conquest, slavery, death. When we read the history books given to children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure-there is no bloodshed-and Columbus Day is a celebration.
Past the elementary and high schools, there are only occasional hints of something else. Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, was the most distinguished writer on Columbus, the author of a multivolume biography, and was himself a sailor who retraced Columbus's route across the Atlantic. In his popular book
Christopher Columbus, Mariner, written in 1954, he tells about the enslavement and the killing: "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."

Columbus Day should not be a day of celebration, but one of mourning.
 
Columbus may never have actually landed on the NA continent, but he began and encouraged the genocide of millions of native peoples both there and elsewhere in the western hemisphere.

See A People's History of the United States, by Professor Howard Zinn. Available excerpt at http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html. Here's part:
Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas. That beginning, when you read Las Casas-even if his figures are exaggerations (were there 3 million Indians to begin with, as he says, or less than a million, as some historians have calculated, or 8 million as others now believe?)-is conquest, slavery, death. When we read the history books given to children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure-there is no bloodshed-and Columbus Day is a celebration.
Past the elementary and high schools, there are only occasional hints of something else. Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, was the most distinguished writer on Columbus, the author of a multivolume biography, and was himself a sailor who retraced Columbus's route across the Atlantic. In his popular book
Christopher Columbus, Mariner, written in 1954, he tells about the enslavement and the killing: "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."

Columbus Day should not be a day of celebration, but one of mourning.
You are looking at this in this year, not then. I am not calling Columbus a hero. For what what 'known' he should have sailed off the edge of the flat earth...
 
Eighty-One years ago, in 1938 a single cartoon titled "Vacuum Cleaner" appeared on page 9 of the August 6, New Yorker. The artist, Charles Addams was paid $85 for his work. Before the TV series, before the movies, before The War, in a more innocent time, Addams opened the door on his dark fantasies.
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A vacuum cleaner salesman is shilling his wares to a sultry, pale-skinned lady in a black dress. Next to her stands a bearded, hulking servant resembling the creepy mute Boris Karloff had played in the thriller The Old Dark House. Above, from behind some broken railings, is an indecipherable creature overseeing the action. The joke came from the fact that the clueless pitchman is standing in what appears to be a haunted house, its gloominess punctuated by cobwebs and a bat. Addams would later describe the lady in the illustration, whom he dubbed the “witch-woman,” as “my idea of a pretty girl” and leave it at that. Indeed, his first wife, Barbara (@Barbaria1), possessed such a look.

I have always loved his work
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Including his play on Greek Mythology
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You are looking at this in this year, not then. I am not calling Columbus a hero. For what what 'known' he should have sailed off the edge of the flat earth...

To be fair, Columbus' activities were condemned at the time by the Spanish royalty. It is history that has given him his ill-deserved heroic status. And he knew full well that the Earth was round - everybody with even the most meagre education did back then. This had been known for thousands of years - The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians etc, ALL knew that the Earth was round. The whole idea of people thinking the world was flat was invented in the early 1800s by Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow etc) in his book "The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus".

What Columbus DID get wrong was that he thought the world was much smaller than it really is, and his plan was to sail west to reach China instead of going the long (and incredibly dangerous) route of going around South Africa and the Indian Ocean. He didn't realise that the Americas were in between Europe and Asia when travelliing west.

Having said that, the old myth about Columbus being shouted down by the Spanish authorities for his radical views continues to persist to this day. Then again, there are still people (mostly in America, it has to be said) that still think the Earth is flat to this day :(

I guess you can't fix stupid can you? :rolleyes:
 
Eighty-One years ago, in 1938 a single cartoon titled "Vacuum Cleaner" appeared on page 9 of the August 6, New Yorker. The artist, Charles Addams was paid $85 for his work. Before the TV series, before the movies, before The War, in a more innocent time, Addams opened the door on his dark fantasies.
A vacuum cleaner salesman is shilling his wares to a sultry, pale-skinned lady in a black dress. Next to her stands a bearded, hulking servant resembling the creepy mute Boris Karloff had played in the thriller The Old Dark House. Above, from behind some broken railings, is an indecipherable creature overseeing the action. The joke came from the fact that the clueless pitchman is standing in what appears to be a haunted house, its gloominess punctuated by cobwebs and a bat. Addams would later describe the lady in the illustration, whom he dubbed the “witch-woman,” as “my idea of a pretty girl” and leave it at that. Indeed, his first wife, Barbara (@Barbaria1), possessed such a look.

I have always loved his work
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Including his play on Greek Mythology
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me think kittys still dont like robot vacuum cleaner :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :cat:
 
Since decades, it is a conspicuous landmark in Paris, but it hasn't Always been there.
Today 100 years ago, on October 16th, 1919 the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris has been inaugurated.

Intended as a memorial to the 85000 victims of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), its construction started in 1885. Before its inauguration, France would live an even more bloody war, at the end of which it recovered the territories lost in 1871.

The basilica is a landmark, not only because of its topographic location, on top of the Montmartre Hill, but also because chemical action of rain water on its porous limestone creates a white patina on the surface of its outer walls, undoing effects of urban air pollution.
 
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the invention of the Zamboni Model E21, without which the NHL would not have been possible in its modern form, nor would the inhabitants of the Great White North have a reason for living.
 
On 23th of October 1944, hence 75 years ago, begun the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese Imperial Navy tried to prevent the Allied forces from landings in Leyte Gulf, The Phillipines. The result was a four day long naval battle, which ended with Japanese defeat, in such a way that, thereafter, the Japanese Navy was no longer a real operational threat. In fact composed of four separate battles, sometimes hundred kilometers apart from each other, all together the Battle of Leyte Gulf is the naval battle with the highest number of ship displacement of all ships of the opposing forces, it is the battle with the highest displacement sunk, and the one with the widest area of action. Therefore, the Battle of Leyte Gulf is often called 'the largest naval battle in history'.

It was the first naval encounter, during which Japanese launched considerable kamikaze attacks.
 
On 23th of October 1944, hence 75 years ago, begun the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese Imperial Navy tried to prevent the Allied forces from landings in Leyte Gulf, The Phillipines. The result was a four day long naval battle, which ended with Japanese defeat, in such a way that, thereafter, the Japanese Navy was no longer a real operational threat. In fact composed of four separate battles, sometimes hundred kilometers apart from each other, all together the Battle of Leyte Gulf is the naval battle with the highest number of ship displacement of all ships of the opposing forces, it is the battle with the highest displacement sunk, and the one with the widest area of action. Therefore, the Battle of Leyte Gulf is often called 'the largest naval battle in history'.

It was the first naval encounter, during which Japanese launched considerable kamikaze attacks.
A truly incredibly big naval battle. Here is a painting
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of the carrier Princeton, set ablaze nearly six hours earlier by a 550-pound bomb, explodes after a two-torpedo coup de grace from the cruiser Reno.

Another candidate for greatest based on number of men participating and number of casualties:
Cape Ecnomus, 256 BC. One of Rome's first major naval victories over its rival, the city of Carthage, in the First Punic War. The battle itself involved around 680 ships and 300,000 personnel from both sides. Total casualties were about 40,000–50,000, of which roughly 10,000 were on the Roman side and the rest from the Carthaginian side.
Think of that: 50,000 men killed wounded or captured in one day!
 
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