windar
Teller of Tales
Indeed... unwess I'm wong, Euwailia cawed me a wanker!
Good one! Uh, oh, looks like it may be DUCK SEASON...
Indeed... unwess I'm wong, Euwailia cawed me a wanker!
Be careful Wragg. I know how this one ends...
It is good, that you us remembered. All times tragedys. The only good, a fast death. No long hurts as other must.Today is an anniversary of a sad milestone. Fifty years ago, on January 27th 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Command Module during a launch training of Apollo 1.
The test took place under launch conditions, i.e. with pure oxygen in the cabin, under higher pressure than atmospheric conditions. The fire was most probably caused by an electric spark, which, in the pure oxygen environment of the cabin, started a rapidly spreading fire. The fire spread rapidly due to the presence of a lot of flammable materials. The cabin was overpressured, but the hatch opened inside, while the valve allowing to depressurize was immediately out of reach by the fire, making the escape practically impossible. It took only about fifteen seconds between the discovery of the fire and the death of the astronauts, due to CO intoxication.
Before the disaster, there had already been critics on the design of the Apollo Command Module, concerning safety and flammable materials. Afterwards, the whole craft was redesigned, and only twenty months later, the first manned Apollo mission (Apollo 7) would take place.
Happy Valentine's day...
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'...if you can't be with one you love, tie up the one you are with!!!'
Shucks... that's not too tight, is it, Barb?What a romantic that guy in the yellow hat and shades is!!!
Today Australia marks the 75th Anniversary of the fall of Singapore. Second World War, February 1942.
130,000 allied servicemen and women (mostly from the Commonwealth) taken prisoner. So damned many never survived the brutality of the camps and the forced labour on the Burma Railway and elsewhere.
Of about 22,000 Australians taken prisoner by the Japanese 8,000 never made it home.
Vivian Bullwinkle survived three years as a PoW and was able to give evidence at war crimes trials in Japan in 1947.
All the nurses, i mean! "girls, take it, don't squeal!"An extra-ordinarily brave woman
An extra-ordinarily brave woman
All the nurses, i mean! "girls, take it, don't squeal!"
CF is a good place to remember her.