A man who served as a machine operator on U 776 lived in the neighboring village. It was the only boat that had to enter the port of London after the crew surrendered and was exhibited there.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Aren't you confusing with USS Yorktown in the Battle of Midway? I thought USS Lexington sunk, because torpedo and bomb hits from a Japanese air attack had ripped open fuel pipes. Fuel fumes has accumulated, and an electric short circuit made them explode, causing uncontrollable, fatal fires.
Gibbs505
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Always looking on the bright side!Or provide all that extra trade for the local prostitutes...
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Yes, you are right. It is true, however, that Japanese submarines were a constant threat to the US fleet early in the war. Yorktown was sunk under tow, after it had been badly damaged at Midway by the Japanese counter attack. The book "Crossing the Line" is an eyewitness account of Lexington's demise by an airman in his early twenties who later became an English professor. It is an excellent book.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had a U-boat on display (which one could tour) when I was a kid, and apparently still does.
U-505 Submarine
Experience the real U-505, the only German submarine in the United States.
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
November 26th and 27th mark the 79th anniversary of the not-so-famous Battle of Brisbane.
"They're overpaid, oversexed, and over here."
"They're overpaid, oversexed, and over here."
Marcius
Tribune
Three hundred years ago today, on 28 November 1721, Cartouche was broken on the wheel at the Place de Grève in Paris.
The famous leader of the gang was scheduled to die the day before. However, not seeing any of his faithul comrades ready to sprung him on arrival at the Place de Grève, Cartouche decided that dying all alone is too dull and spent the rest of the day giving all of his underlings away.
His confessions kept the courts of Paris busy throughout 1722 and into 1723 -- and were kept out of the legend of Cartouche.
The famous leader of the gang was scheduled to die the day before. However, not seeing any of his faithul comrades ready to sprung him on arrival at the Place de Grève, Cartouche decided that dying all alone is too dull and spent the rest of the day giving all of his underlings away.
His confessions kept the courts of Paris busy throughout 1722 and into 1723 -- and were kept out of the legend of Cartouche.
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Silent_Water
Tribune
By the way, in many of these French stories about criminals like Cartouche, whose biography was also used for a really good movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo ...
... you will sometimes be surprised like I was when I have often read the same name of the executioner of thousands of delinquents in Paris during the last century of the French kingdom, during the the whole French Revolution and the time of the Restauration ... which was always "Sanson", for 159 years?!!
It was always a member of the same family and even at least one of them hated his "job", but he could never escape the "tradition" and the "pressures" of his society of that time:
All of this family seemed to have been above average intelligence - possibly except one who fell from the scaffold and broke his own neck when showing a severed head - but it also seems to have been their destiny not to escape their "family tradition".
It is not a job you can really love, although you can meet interesting people like King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette - possibly the most polite person because she apologized to Sanson for stepping inadvertently on his feet - and many of the persons who caused their "meetings" with Sanson, but in the end it must have been very unsatisfying to meet all these influential people without being able to have a small-talk with them because they all were expected to lose their heads very soon during their meeting with the "Sanson"-family.
No, not really a job you would like to have ...
... you will sometimes be surprised like I was when I have often read the same name of the executioner of thousands of delinquents in Paris during the last century of the French kingdom, during the the whole French Revolution and the time of the Restauration ... which was always "Sanson", for 159 years?!!
It was always a member of the same family and even at least one of them hated his "job", but he could never escape the "tradition" and the "pressures" of his society of that time:
All of this family seemed to have been above average intelligence - possibly except one who fell from the scaffold and broke his own neck when showing a severed head - but it also seems to have been their destiny not to escape their "family tradition".
It is not a job you can really love, although you can meet interesting people like King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette - possibly the most polite person because she apologized to Sanson for stepping inadvertently on his feet - and many of the persons who caused their "meetings" with Sanson, but in the end it must have been very unsatisfying to meet all these influential people without being able to have a small-talk with them because they all were expected to lose their heads very soon during their meeting with the "Sanson"-family.
No, not really a job you would like to have ...
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
I've never heard of this, but I did know that that early in the war the American troops in New Guinea performed very poorly. I am not surprised at MacArthur's attitude at all--he was a complete, pompous ass.
My family knew the late Bil Keane, who drew (his son draws it now) a popular American comic strip called "The Family Circus". His wife (also deceased) was Australian, and he met her while he was stationed in Brisbane (I don't think he saw combat--at least I never heard him talk about it). One of my younger brothers went to grade school with one of his sons, and they were good friends, so I wasn't so clued it, but I was at his home numerous times.
This is from Wikipedia.
Keane served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, drawing for Yank and creating the "At Ease with the Japanese" feature for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes.
Fremantle in Western Australia was a major submarine base for the US Pacific Fleet. I read a memoir of a submarine officer who all but admitted he'd had an extra-marital affair with an Australian woman. I wonder whether there were "tensions" on the other side of the continent as well.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
No one was proud of the"affair." It was heavily censored by both sides.
Maybe time, to reading it again.
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Gibbs505
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I read a book from the library called "The Sansons" about thirty years ago.
I have since tried to find it with no success.
Marcius
Tribune
Five hundred years ago today, on 1 December 1521, Pope Leo X died in Rome.
Best remembered as the indulgence-selling adversary of Martin Luther, the first Medici to sit on the papal throne could well have been one of Roman emperors, having refined literary and carnal tastes -- and not shying away from putting this or that recalcitrant senator, I mean cardinal, to death. He had joy
, he had fun , he had seasons in the sun and in his menagerie, and he emptied the Papal Treasury in the process.
Leo X was a pope of his wild times, perhaps even of the better kind -- the rest of 16th Century pontiffs were either stone fuck-ups (Clement VII, Julius III, Gregory XIII of the calendar fame) or paragons of fanaticism and cruelty (Paul IV, Pius V), or just cruelty (Julius II, Sixtus V), with Alexander VI Borgia in a class of his (and his son's) own. I think no other century had so many short-lived popes, too -- all those Renaissance poisoners...
The legend has it that one of Leo's buffoons implored the dying pontiff: 'Holy Father, think of God!' Yet the pope stayed an atheist to the end.
Best remembered as the indulgence-selling adversary of Martin Luther, the first Medici to sit on the papal throne could well have been one of Roman emperors, having refined literary and carnal tastes -- and not shying away from putting this or that recalcitrant senator, I mean cardinal, to death. He had joy
, he had fun , he had seasons in the sun and in his menagerie, and he emptied the Papal Treasury in the process.Leo X was a pope of his wild times, perhaps even of the better kind -- the rest of 16th Century pontiffs were either stone fuck-ups (Clement VII, Julius III, Gregory XIII of the calendar fame) or paragons of fanaticism and cruelty (Paul IV, Pius V), or just cruelty (Julius II, Sixtus V), with Alexander VI Borgia in a class of his (and his son's) own. I think no other century had so many short-lived popes, too -- all those Renaissance poisoners...
The legend has it that one of Leo's buffoons implored the dying pontiff: 'Holy Father, think of God!' Yet the pope stayed an atheist to the end.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Very tactically, you ignore Adrian VI, the immediate successor of Leo X. First and only Dutch pope, the last non-Italian before John-Paul II in 1978.Five hundred years ago today, on 1 December 1521, Pope Leo X died in Rome.
Best remembered as the indulgence-selling adversary of Martin Luther, the first Medici to sit on the papal throne could well have been one of Roman emperors, having refined literary and carnal tastes -- and not shying away from putting this or that recalcitrant senator, I mean cardinal, to death. He had joy
Leo X was a pope of his wild times, perhaps even of the better kind -- the rest of 16th Century pontiffs were either stone fuck-ups (Clement VII, Julius III, Gregory XIII of the calendar fame) or paragons of fanaticism and cruelty (Paul IV, Pius V), or just cruelty (Julius II, Sixtus V), with Alexander VI Borgia in a class of his (and his son's) own. I think no other century had so many short-lived popes, too -- all those Renaissance poisoners...
The legend has it that one of Leo's buffoons implored the dying pontiff: 'Holy Father, think of God!' Yet the pope stayed an atheist to the end.
He only ruled a year and a half. Leading a simple life, particularly in contrast to his predecessor, attempting reforms, and considered a 'Barbarian', since no Italian, by the people of Rome, he was far from popular.
windar
Teller of Tales
Today is World AIDS Day. Possibly lost in the concern over COVID is the on-going AIDS pandemic, which has so far killed, by a median estimate, 36 million people. The two pandemics may well have intersected, since at least one theory for the origin of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is that it arose in an immunosuppressed patient, very possibly someone with HIV, who didn't clear the coronavirus, giving it ample opportunity to accumulate mutations.
Marcius
Tribune
Adrian VI's personal physician must've been Italian.