RacingRodent
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Major Ivan Hirst of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers deserves mentioning for helping raise the Wolfsburg plan from the ashes. Herbie could never have gone bananas without him.
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Major Ivan Hirst of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers deserves mentioning for helping raise the Wolfsburg plan from the ashes. Herbie could never have gone bananas without him.
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oho me have same garbus VW beige color with afrika corps white emblem meow
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
The Last VW Beetle Rolls Off The Assembly Line In Mexico This Week
An emblem of the hippie era in America, the car was marketed in the U.S. as adorably uncool. Volkswagen sold the bug with cheeky slogans like "It's ugly, but it gets you there."
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Perhaps a little bit of personal nostalgia, but...
Today, fifty years ago, on May 31st 1970, the ninth FIFA World Cup started, hosted in Mexico.
That edition is often referred to as 'finest world cup ever'. With 'the save of the century' (Gordon Banks in England - Brazil), 'the match of the century' (the semi-finals Italy against West-Germany 4-3 in extra time) and 'the squad of the century', or 'the best squad ever' (the Brazilian winning squad).
All five previous winners were present. In the quarter finals, ruling world champion England met West-Germany, the runner up of the previous eventful final in Wembley in 1966. Time either to confirm or for revenge. Despite an initial 2-0 advantage for England, it ended up with revenge, when, in the extra time, top scorer Gerd Müller (10 goals) made the 2-3 for West Germany.
All other four previous winners qualified for the semi-finals : Uruguay (1930, 1950), Italy (1934, 1938), West-Germany (1954) and Brazil (1958, 1962). Uruguay was the weakest (they would only score 4 times in six encounters). With a final between Brazil and Italy, one of them would win the Jules Rimet trophy for the third time. Regulations specified that the first team to win it three times, would keep it permanently. In the finals, Italy was no match for the Brazilians : 4-1. Brazil went home with the Jules Rimet Trophy (it was replaced by the current trophy, for which there is no such arrangement; the Jules Rimet Cup was stolen while on display in 1983 and was never recovered; a replica has been made afterwards).
The qualification round in Central America had ended in a short war between neighbouring countries El Salvador and Honduras, after the former qualified during play-offs. This (and existing tensions) lead to riots and the so called 'Football War' or 'Hundred hours War, in July 1969. Both countries used planes, tanks and artillery from World War II. It was the last war exclusively fought with piston engined aircraft.
Today, fifty years ago, on May 31st 1970, the ninth FIFA World Cup started, hosted in Mexico.
That edition is often referred to as 'finest world cup ever'. With 'the save of the century' (Gordon Banks in England - Brazil), 'the match of the century' (the semi-finals Italy against West-Germany 4-3 in extra time) and 'the squad of the century', or 'the best squad ever' (the Brazilian winning squad).
All five previous winners were present. In the quarter finals, ruling world champion England met West-Germany, the runner up of the previous eventful final in Wembley in 1966. Time either to confirm or for revenge. Despite an initial 2-0 advantage for England, it ended up with revenge, when, in the extra time, top scorer Gerd Müller (10 goals) made the 2-3 for West Germany.
All other four previous winners qualified for the semi-finals : Uruguay (1930, 1950), Italy (1934, 1938), West-Germany (1954) and Brazil (1958, 1962). Uruguay was the weakest (they would only score 4 times in six encounters). With a final between Brazil and Italy, one of them would win the Jules Rimet trophy for the third time. Regulations specified that the first team to win it three times, would keep it permanently. In the finals, Italy was no match for the Brazilians : 4-1. Brazil went home with the Jules Rimet Trophy (it was replaced by the current trophy, for which there is no such arrangement; the Jules Rimet Cup was stolen while on display in 1983 and was never recovered; a replica has been made afterwards).
The qualification round in Central America had ended in a short war between neighbouring countries El Salvador and Honduras, after the former qualified during play-offs. This (and existing tensions) lead to riots and the so called 'Football War' or 'Hundred hours War, in July 1969. Both countries used planes, tanks and artillery from World War II. It was the last war exclusively fought with piston engined aircraft.
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Let us not forget!
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Thousands of Hong Kongers defy ban for massacre vigil
Thousands of Hong Kongers defied a police ban Thursday to gather in the city's Victoria Park and mark the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Another June 6th rolls around and there are now very few with us who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944 to begin the Liberation Europe.
My father-in-law, who fought in the South Pacific with the Army Engineers, was always annoyed when people would act like this was THE D-Day. "D-Day means "Disembarkation Day and there were many of those in the Pacific. I waded ashore in several!" He did indeed, Guadalcanal, Palau, Philipines...
Waded ashore indeed. For those who enjoy the surf at the beach - imaging being a quarter-mile out with those waves trying to knock you over, walking in combat boots, carrying a heavy rifle a metal helmet and a full pack with entrenching tool -and all the while hearing bullets whiz by, sounding for all the world like giant mosquitoes, out to kill you. And as you struggle forward, seeing and hearing men around you, your friends, crying out in pain and dying!
Here's to the young men who sacrificed years of their lives and sometimes their lives themselves, to defend freedom.
My father-in-law, who fought in the South Pacific with the Army Engineers, was always annoyed when people would act like this was THE D-Day. "D-Day means "Disembarkation Day and there were many of those in the Pacific. I waded ashore in several!" He did indeed, Guadalcanal, Palau, Philipines...
Waded ashore indeed. For those who enjoy the surf at the beach - imaging being a quarter-mile out with those waves trying to knock you over, walking in combat boots, carrying a heavy rifle a metal helmet and a full pack with entrenching tool -and all the while hearing bullets whiz by, sounding for all the world like giant mosquitoes, out to kill you. And as you struggle forward, seeing and hearing men around you, your friends, crying out in pain and dying!
Here's to the young men who sacrificed years of their lives and sometimes their lives themselves, to defend freedom.
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twonines
LIMERICUS
The England,Germany match was a classic example of hubris on the part of Alf Ramsey the England manager,when despite already missing Banks, who was ill,he made substitutions to save his key players for the Final. This was not typical of Ramsey and he paid a heavy price for his decision.
Praefectus Praetorio
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RacingRodent
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Former astronaut becomes first person to have been in space and at full ocean depth
Dr Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space in 1983
So congrats to Kathryn Sullivan to going both to space and to the deepest point of our oceans.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
In the 1960's there was already Scott Carpenter, one of the Mercury 7, who has been in space and at the bottom of the sea, living 30 days in SEALAB II in 1965. But not at the full deep of the ocean. It's two ways of living in hostile environment. But Carpenter found underwater a harder challenge than outer space.
A monumental understatement!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
A news story many may have missed.Former astronaut becomes first person to have been in space and at full ocean depth
Dr Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space in 1983www.independent.co.uk
So congrats to Kathryn Sullivan to going both to space and to the deepest point of our oceans.
For the first time in history, half of the senior leaders of the US National Security Council are women. Twelve of the 24 directorates are led by women now, including three of the six regional directorates that cover the world. The White House National Security Council is no longer an "old boys" network.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
De Gaulle makes not doubt that he puts the blame of France's defeat on the army : 'badly organised' and 'errors in conducting operations'. Meanwhile, his former commander and mentor, Field Marshall Pétain, accepted to lead a government of an authoritarian client state of The Reich. As de Gaulle appealed the French to join him in resistance, Pétain tried to persuade them to carry on working as if nothing had changed.
For Pétain, the defeat was a result of the decadency, socialism, pacifism and a lifestyle that had undermined the strength of the French nation and the support of the army. So, no army to blame for Pétain. The defeat and the ensuing hardships of occupation were simply a punishment. So, he took the responsability to guide France through these times of 'purgatory'.
While these events were going on, the British were conducting a 'second Dunkerque'. There had been troops left in France outside the encirclement of Dunkerque, but after the evacuation, new British troops had been sent to France, a 'second BEF', which came too late to stop the German advance.
After the fall of Paris, they were evacuated again, through ports from Le Havre to Bordeaux : operation Ariel.
The operation went fairly well, until the 17th of June. A former Cunard liner, RMS Lancastria, lay off the port of Saint Nazaire, just outside the Loire estuary. The ship had a capacity of 1300 passengers, but all vessels were ordered to stow as many evacuees as possible, disregarding capacity and regulations. Shortly after noon, the embarkation on Lancastria had finished, mainly with engineering, signal and RAF troops, but also tens of civilians. The captain got advised to sail immediately. But he refused to do so without a destroyer escort. Around 4 pm, the still anchored Lancastria was attacked by Luftwaffe planes. Bombs exploded inside, and the ship capsized and sunk within twenty minutes. Some 2477 survived, but the death toll was immense, estimated between 5000 and 9000. The Lancastria disaster is the heaviest of a British ship ever, and accounts on its own for (according to estimations) one third to nearly half the number of fallen British soldiers during the campaign in the west in May-June 1940.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
On this day in 1941, the largest military invasion in history began and Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union began. Tens of millions of soldiers and about as many civilians would die as a result.
The night before, Adolf Hitler entertained at dinner Albert Speer and Erich Raeder. After dinner, he played on the gramophone, Les Préludes by Franz Liszt. He said that would be the victory march through the Reich after victory over Stalin.
The night before, Adolf Hitler entertained at dinner Albert Speer and Erich Raeder. After dinner, he played on the gramophone, Les Préludes by Franz Liszt. He said that would be the victory march through the Reich after victory over Stalin.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The ending of Les Preludes was played during WW2 German war newsreels.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Napoleon choose this day to start his invasion of Russia in 1812. He had the largest army ever seen in Europe. But he could not catch up the Russian army, who deprived him from spullies by scorged earth tactics, while Napoleon's supply train was insufficient to feed his army. Finally, he met the Russians in the Battle of Borodino (september 7th 1812), then the largest and bloodiest battle in history yet. Finally, he captured Moscow, but after the city was put on fire, he was forced to retreat, in a very early cold Russian winter, almost wiping out his army by disease, starvation, and relentless action by the Russian army.
Another piece with such troubling associations is the 2nd movement, adagio, from
Schubert's String Quintet in C major op.163 D.956 - it's put on the gramophone by Heydrich
at the end of the film 'Conspiracy', based on the Wannsee Conference when the 'final solution'
was agreed upon - I don't know that that was historically true, it made for a very unsettling ending,
and Schubert's tortured romanticism did seem to have a fascination for the more 'intellectual' Nazis -
fallenmystic
Tribune
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, which had utterly ravaged my country which was barely recovering from the sufferings of the Japanese colonization period.
I have never met my grandfather, but I still have his photograph in the empty room of my late grandmother, who passed away just a few years ago. He was wearing a military uniform in the picture, and he was sent to a battle not long afterwards and got killed in action.
S. Korea was completely outmatched in military strength by its northern brethren at that time. And within a few months, the N. Korean army drove our forces to a tiny patch of land at the southern end of the peninsula.
More than 40 countries sent their troops to help us fight back the invading force. And it was because of the sacrifices like my grandfather's and of those foreign soldiers who had fallen alongside him that now I can enjoy my freedom, well, the freedom to create renderings of naked slave girls, for example.
I don't know if our northern friends use Daz or Blender to create inspiring renders of their venerable leader. I find Kim Jung Eun's sister to be quite good-looking, so I wouldn't be too unhappy to feature her in my renderings if I don't have other choices.
But I have a feeling that I would be granted a change to experience the horrors of being a mine slave in a very realistic manner if I don her in my usual preferred costume (or lack thereof) used in my renderings. So I feel thankful for all who have fought in the war to save me from having to sacrifice such artistic freedom that I enjoy now.
I have never met my grandfather, but I still have his photograph in the empty room of my late grandmother, who passed away just a few years ago. He was wearing a military uniform in the picture, and he was sent to a battle not long afterwards and got killed in action.
S. Korea was completely outmatched in military strength by its northern brethren at that time. And within a few months, the N. Korean army drove our forces to a tiny patch of land at the southern end of the peninsula.
More than 40 countries sent their troops to help us fight back the invading force. And it was because of the sacrifices like my grandfather's and of those foreign soldiers who had fallen alongside him that now I can enjoy my freedom, well, the freedom to create renderings of naked slave girls, for example.
I don't know if our northern friends use Daz or Blender to create inspiring renders of their venerable leader. I find Kim Jung Eun's sister to be quite good-looking, so I wouldn't be too unhappy to feature her in my renderings if I don't have other choices.
But I have a feeling that I would be granted a change to experience the horrors of being a mine slave in a very realistic manner if I don her in my usual preferred costume (or lack thereof) used in my renderings. So I feel thankful for all who have fought in the war to save me from having to sacrifice such artistic freedom that I enjoy now.