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its a prototype of the Barnes Wallis Bouncing Bomb (or Rotating Mine), and thats two army techs removing it from its home at the Elvington Air Museum in Yorkshire to move it to its new home at Newark Air Museum in Lincs.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4 ... cing_bomb/
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4 ... cing_bomb/
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In light of sandman67's revelation, I think the above dismissal was a little harsh.pharvey wrote:Nope.....richard wrote:Bouncing bomb replica
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Walter, Jack and John were but three of them.
Three what and when?
(Obscure, I know - further clue to follow if required)
Three what and when?
(Obscure, I know - further clue to follow if required)
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OK, we now move continents. Where and what? Pete
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For our archives, here is the complete story on Shackleton. Peterichard wrote:SM
Shackleton, my hero too
Read the book and was amazed how those guys survived
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000097.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton
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American Civil War - Gettysburg Monument in Gettysburg National Cemetary Pennsylvania USA - Battle of Gettysburg 1st to 3rd July 1863
DM..... got me stumped
(the hat and the Enfield percussion cap rifle gave it away)Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
DM..... got me stumped
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So the answer is?????pharvey wrote:Come on, guess and guess again...richard wrote:Atomic bomb dropped on Japan in WWII
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Sorry - just extracting the urine Richard just got it too bl**dy quickly. Had fully intended to re-post 20 minutes later, but got diverted Yes, absolutely correct as is SMBig Boy wrote:In light of sandman67's revelation, I think the above dismissal was a little harsh.pharvey wrote:Nope.....richard wrote:Bouncing bomb replica
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Sandman nails it, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Here is a map of the battle:
Photography was in its infancy in the mid 1800's and I'm amazed at the amount of actual battle and Civil War era photos that are available.
How about on the European side, any photos of conflicts during the same time period? Pete
Photography was in its infancy in the mid 1800's and I'm amazed at the amount of actual battle and Civil War era photos that are available.
How about on the European side, any photos of conflicts during the same time period? Pete
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Okay...dtaai-maai wrote:Walter, Jack and John were but three of them.
Three what and when?
(Obscure, I know - further clue to follow if required)
British history
Walter (better known by another name) may have been a kind of bouncer in a Kent pub. Pissed off a mayor right royally and ended up with his head on a pikestaff.
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Not a clue on the ''bouncer'' comment, but going to have a wild stab in the dark and say pirates......
Walter Raleigh - piracy against the Spanish.
Calico Jack (Jack Rackham)
John Hawkins
Mid 1500's ?
Well, it was worth a try
Walter Raleigh - piracy against the Spanish.
Calico Jack (Jack Rackham)
John Hawkins
Mid 1500's ?
Well, it was worth a try
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Pete
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_photography
seems the UKs earliest was the Crimean War....Ive never seen any of those about tho. The earliest photos ive seen of UK troops are from the Second Afghan War and the Younghusband Tibet Expeditionary Force at the end of the 1800s in the Imperial War Museum. Fascinating stuff. I also have books of early Japanese Samurai photographs back in the UK from about the same period - the Meji Restoration.
The American Civil War was really the first time you got the perfect storm of truly mobile portable photography kit, a free press encouraging reporters to follow events as they happened, press able to reproduce photographic images, a public curious to see images of battle, and a fully industrialised country.
It was also the real genesis of funeral services like embalming and post mortem makeup, which in turn was linked into an effective rail service to transport corpses back to families.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_photography
seems the UKs earliest was the Crimean War....Ive never seen any of those about tho. The earliest photos ive seen of UK troops are from the Second Afghan War and the Younghusband Tibet Expeditionary Force at the end of the 1800s in the Imperial War Museum. Fascinating stuff. I also have books of early Japanese Samurai photographs back in the UK from about the same period - the Meji Restoration.
The American Civil War was really the first time you got the perfect storm of truly mobile portable photography kit, a free press encouraging reporters to follow events as they happened, press able to reproduce photographic images, a public curious to see images of battle, and a fully industrialised country.
It was also the real genesis of funeral services like embalming and post mortem makeup, which in turn was linked into an effective rail service to transport corpses back to families.
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Buggerdtaai-maai wrote:^^No cigar, I'm afraid.
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Leaders of The Peasants Revolt of 1381?
John Ball. Jack Straw and Watt Tyler
All three ended up beheaded with their heads on pikes paraded through the streets of London
Leaders of The Peasants Revolt of 1381?
John Ball. Jack Straw and Watt Tyler
All three ended up beheaded with their heads on pikes paraded through the streets of London
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