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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 0:10:49 GMT -6
I thought it might be fun for our group to foccus on a possible planet or star near the sun or hopefully someone can phrase it better..to see if something is approaching.
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Post by randy on Mar 1, 2013 0:25:42 GMT -6
On June 21 1900 the emperess of China declared war on the whole world. The foreign litigations in Peking were fortunately confined to a small area and were thus mutually supporting in the siege that followed. A strong nationalist movement swept China and the Righteous and Harmonious Fist Society or Boxers for short stirred up the people and moved into Peking to attack the litigation district. Parts of the Chinese govt did not agree with this move and acted to suppress the actions of the Boxers. many foreign missionaries and their families were killed as were Chinese Christians. All foreigners were to be killed where ever found. 8 litigations were besieged with about 1,000 foreigners including litigation guard detachments. 3,000 Chinese Christians were also in the litigations. For 55 days these few defenders stood off the Boxers and at times the Chinese Army. the Chinese built a wall around the litigations and in typical Chinses style slowly closed in day by day instead of staging one big all out attack. Slowly the defenders were forced back brick by brick. the defenders were under command of the British Counsel Claude Mac Donald The constant warfare reduced the defending troops by 40% but a small relief force of just over 400 men broke through and bolstered the defences. A major relief force of 2,000 men tried to get through was was forced back by Chinese numbers and retreating to the coast was on its last legs when they found a Chinese Army arsenal obtaining arms and food. They settled in to wait for relief themselves. A major international effort was put together and an army 20,000 was put together to march to Peking. The Dagu forts guarding the river approaches to Peking were captured and 4 Chinese destroyers were boarded. marching on Peking the relief forces had to attack several gates in the city walls. The Japanese provided the major amount or troops for the relief force and succeeded in stroming the walls and breaking the siege of the litigations. A picture of American troops scaling the walls of Peking was famous in America. In all this was a young Mining Engineer named Herbert Hoover who became President of the US. The litigations survived due to a split Chinese govt who contained elements who considered the war folly and due to the chinese habit of doing things indirectly and slowly instead of a wild Bonzai charge they advanced brick by brick
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Post by skywalker on Mar 1, 2013 18:41:49 GMT -6
I thought it might be fun for our group to foccus on a possible planet or star near the sun or hopefully someone can phrase it better..to see if something is approaching. I think that's a cool idea. You want me to add it to the next experiment poll or should we try to do it as a separate deal? It might be better to try it during one of our experiment trips. It's kind of hard to get everybody together at the same time and when they are all well (and awake).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 23:27:21 GMT -6
For this one it would be nice to have as many as possible..committed to it. The more minds working toward as single task..the better it works. Doesn't matter what the objective..prayer is an example. I was reading yesterday about experiments with meditating monks and 'healers'..and the measurable energy coming from them. Same principal. We might even try some experiments in moving physical objects sometime..if people are interested. If you want to do this next moon..it's cool or add it in the dark of the moon..that's powerful stuff too. Whatever anyone wants.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 20:09:26 GMT -6
"Another potential cause of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is nutrient deficiency, which is widespread throughout America today. Encephalopathies in general have been linked in numerous studies to nutritional deficiencies, particularly a lack of B vitamins and trace minerals." Read more: www.disclose.tv/news/Mysterious_new_disease_Symptoms_mimic_demonic_possession/91091#ixzz2MRFNcmpvHow long have I been talking about problems with nutrition?? This is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. I'm thinking of all the "waifs" out there that don't die of heart failure. . .
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Post by randy on Mar 7, 2013 13:28:24 GMT -6
In the history of the west some men won the medal of honor twice. One such man whos name I have not remembered was leading a convoy of empty supply wagons went he was told indians had carried off two young girls Each wagon had one driver and an extra man but that was it. the indian camp was located and consisted of thrown up brush shelters. Determined to save the girls he lined up the heavy supply wagons at dawn and sounded the charge the heavy wagons rolled over the simple brush shelters scattering the hostiles and the girls were saved from a probable grim fate. The officer who lead the charge received the medal of honor for the 2nd time Survival was a strong strain in our pioneers two men who were attacked by indians in Nevada were missed by friends who went out to look for them soon picked up a trail of arrows stuck in the ground that they followed across the desert expecting the worse The two men were finally found under a large sage brush bush still alive. Each man about 20 arrows in him but they were still alive and had not quit fighting. Both men lived to tell the tale. they never gave up
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Post by randy on Mar 8, 2013 1:35:02 GMT -6
Special forces camp A-242, Dak Pek fell to the NVA 2nd Div. in a surprize attack. The camp consisted of 11 hilltops each heavily fortified for all around defense. Manned by special forces and a mix of Vietnamese and Montyards communist forces had infiltrated the camps prior to the attack. Warnings of the attack were there as the camp cook woman suddenly quit without warning and left fast. The night of the attack infiltrators killled the guards and let in sappers who mined all the military points of the American held hill and set the charges to explode all at once which they did destroying the camps ability to fight. Many were killed in their sleep the surviving Americans clumped together and fought back when Sergeant Weeks noticed the NVA lowering the American Flag. totally ticked off he charged the flag lowering group cussing them out killing them all "No one messes with the American flag you etc etc" Under fire he reraised the flag. Radio contact was established with higher ups and an Arc Light air strike was called down on the camp its self. Arc Light is a B 52 attack using 500 lb bombs. This happened and the NVA attack was smashed as was the camp. The Special forces survivors survived the bombing and were pulled out Thousands of NVA were involved in the attack and a short paragraph does not do justice to the Americans who held out during the fighting and finally called an air strike in on themselves using 500 pound bombs
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Post by lois on Mar 8, 2013 17:35:16 GMT -6
I have been missing my honey bees for three years now. They may have found a reason. i sure hope they find it. A decline in them has been going on too long. I went and planted my snapdragons any way last year. One day I taped a few of the bees there on the flowers. Then did not see them again. I usually have tons all day long. They would follow me from rainbarrel to rainbarrel flying around my bare legs.. I could reach in a mass of them to pull weeds and they never bothered me. Poor little things. We need these bees for so many reasons. Which is on a earlier post if I could find it here under off topic.. www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112795816/unknown-bee-disease-destroys-colonies-030413/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2013 17:49:15 GMT -6
of cource. The culprits are parasites
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Post by randy on Mar 9, 2013 0:25:31 GMT -6
I have an abundance of yellow jackets and wasps to share with anyone who wants them normally. Hornets are rather abundant also Interestingly I saw some small really tiny hummingbirds that look like bumble bees. Same size and color but were birds no less
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Post by randy on Mar 10, 2013 0:31:41 GMT -6
In the spring of 1864 Grant was marching the Union army south to Richmond with 120,000 men Lee was facing him with 66,000 half Grants forces. Between them was an area of 2nd growth pines, thick brush and few roads. The whole cut by steep stream gullies and tinder dry. Only part of Lees forces would there to face Grant. the area was known as the Wilderness. The night before battle the union army camped on an old battlefield among the bones and skulls of men killed earlier in the war a grim omen. They were not really tidy about burying the dead back then. The nature of the land made the Union superiority in cavalry and guns useless. Brigades moved into the brush and were out of sight with visablity only a few feet. Fighting took on the form of man to man bayonet and knife. Soon the forest was on fire mixing wood smoke with powder smoke Units fired into their own forces unable to see who was there. Numbers told and the Union prsssed forward until night That night Longstreets crops was marching to the battle. The next day the Union pressed forward to in sight of the confederate supply wagons. Lee himself was among the guns representing the last line of defense At this point Longsteets forces arrived and pushed the Union back to the edge of the Wilderness where they held and then counter attacked. pushing back the Confederates. Fighting died out among the burning forest and they attempted to save the wounded from the flames. many wounded men loaded their gun with a mind to the flames preferring a quicker death. New bones and skulls were added to the forest and gullies and the war continued lee used the terrain to off set his inferior numbers.
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Post by auntym on Mar 10, 2013 12:09:02 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/lincoln-kennedy-coincidences_n_2829442.html?icid=maing-grid7Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theater. Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are comprised of fifteen letters. Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.
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Post by skywalker on Mar 10, 2013 17:45:12 GMT -6
Both assassinations were also government conspiracies.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2013 19:04:24 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Mar 10, 2013 19:20:50 GMT -6
If I was 4000 years old I would probably have hardened arteries too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2013 19:33:29 GMT -6
Zagonyi’s Charge (Battle of Springfield)Following two significant Union defeats in Missouri in less than six weeks (Wilson’s Creek on August 10 and Lexington on September 20, 1861), the Lincoln administration prodded Western Department commander Major General John Charles Fremont to take decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by the Missouri State Guard. Led by Major General Sterling Price, the Missouri State Guard had enjoyed considerable success against Union forces. Price and his Missourians had managed to force Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon’s army to retreat from southwest Missouri after Wilson’s Creek, then, following a three-day siege, captured the 3,500-man Union garrison in the Missouri River town of Lexington. Hoping to prevent yet another disaster for the Union cause in the state, General Fremont finally left St. Louis in late September in pursuit of the State Guard. He commanded an impressive force of 38,000 troops and 68 pieces of artillery. Price’s smaller army retreated to extreme southwest Missouri, although a detachment of State Guardsmen held Springfield. By late October, as Fremont approached Springfield, he learned that no more than 500 State Guardsmen occupied the town, and that most of them were poorly armed. One of the many foreign-born officers accompanying Fremont’s army was Major Charles Zagonyi, commander of the general’s personal “Body Guard.” Zagonyi and his men had been ridiculed in St. Louis for their fine uniforms and their easy duty protecting the general, so Zagonyi, sensing an excellent opportunity to prove the reliability of his troops and demonstrate they were more than “kid glove soldiers,” asked Fremont for the chance to capture Springfield. Fremont agreed, but ordered him to unite his three companies with three other cavalry companies, the two-company “Prairie Scouts” of Major Frank J. White and the “Irish Dragoons” led by Captain Patrick Naughton. Zagonyi and his men set out from camp about 9 p.m. on October 24 with 172 members of the Body Guard, and soon joined Major White and his 154 Prairie Scouts. Continue Reading : www.ozarkscivilwar.org/archives/354This happened in my neck of the woods during the Civil War.- Cliff
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Post by randy on Mar 12, 2013 23:56:43 GMT -6
The American indians in the days of muzzle loaders learned to bait American troops into firing and then to charge home while the troops were reloading. Volunteers would mock the troops and ride in close to them to get them to fire. This tactic worked until repeating arms came along. Jedeiah Smith ran a test to see how many arrows an indian could fire accurately during the time it took a trapper tp reload his rifle. The indian fired 18 arrows. many indian bows were very powerful and could shoot an arrow clear through a buffalo. Obsidian made a very good arrow point and was very sharp and very strong. Obsidian can hold a finer edge than steel and Obsidian arrows could penetrate steel breast plates at times. The indian practiced with his bow since childhood and boys could shoot arrows through a rolling hoop easily. A bow was a finely made weapon and more than a stick of wood with a string on it. During the Vietnam war the NVA attacked fire base Jack which had a number of problems with its construction. One problem was elephant grass coming up close to the outer defense works. They knew it was being watched and called in rangers to scout out the local area. the rangers were out on night ambush when they heard masses of troops moving fast to the fire base. The 18 rangers laid quiet at hundreds of NVA passed them in the dark and attacked the fire base which was warned they were coming by the rangers. the battle raged with the base firing claymores. foo gas and bee hive rounds to stop the attack. Gun ships came in and worked over the area. The attack they thought was repulsed but like the American indians they were there to draw the teeth of the defense to get them to fire off the mines. and etc and to get the helicopters to run out of ammo and gas. Then the rangers heard move NVA pass in the dark elephant grass it was the real attack this time Rocket grenades and B 40 rockets hit the fire base like drum fire in a roar of explosions. The NVA came close but a puff the magic dragoon arrived and broke up the fun. Retreating the NVA became aware of the rangers in the grass but puff shot up the grass effectively and the NVA ran for the hills. Like the indians of old the NVA learned to draw the fire of the defending troops and then to attack once the defenses were used up.
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Post by randy on Mar 13, 2013 0:14:24 GMT -6
Interestng post Mr Cliff
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Post by skywalker on Mar 13, 2013 6:23:57 GMT -6
Battles between the old soldiers and Indians would have been much different if they had Puff the Magic Dragon.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 22:45:15 GMT -6
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Post by randy on Mar 16, 2013 23:12:57 GMT -6
In the civil war the battle for Fort Pillow is probably the most disputed as to what happened. Fort Pillow mounted six guns and had a garrison of 557 Union troops commanded by Major Booth. It over looked the Miss River and had the gun boat New Era in support. It was attacked by Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest. The fort had a design flaw in that the cannons could no depress to fire on close attackers and musket fire required the defenders to stand on the top of the wall to shoot down. The Confederates took part of the fort with 3 horses being shot from under Forrest. Pouring a hot fire into the Union troops forrest called on them to surrender and at this point accounts vary as to what happened. the Union Commander refused to surrender which is recorded by most accounts but some leave out the rest of what he said that they would fight to the death. the union troops were about evenly divided between white and colored troops. Unable to stand the confederate fire the Union troops ran down to the river still refusing to surrender as Forrest repeatedly called on them to do so. the retreating troops would turn to fire as they ran. At no time did the American flag during the battle come down over the fort showing surrender. the Union commander Booth was killed. It is great theatrics to make bold statements but it is a good idea to win if you do. During the battle the Confederates lost 14 killed and 86 wounded. the Union lost 231 killed and 100 wounded with the remainder prisoners. Some accounts report that the southern troops shot surrendering black troops and that they shot escaped slaves that were in the fort. Others denied this as war time propaganda. the fort never offically surrendered and Forrest tried many times to get the Union troops to surrender as they ran to the river. the rest is open to who you believe. Even today editorials have appeared on Fort Pillow to excite political response in modern politics. Waving the bloody shirt on events that happened 150 years ago. Forrst went on the head the KKK as it was first formed adding to the debate over what happened at Fort Pillow
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Post by skywalker on Mar 17, 2013 7:20:08 GMT -6
Those were pretty cool, Jo. I had never even heard of most of those. I've been out to see the moving rocks at Death Valley but they haven't moved yet. I'll have to go check out the others someday too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 12:05:46 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing Jo.
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Post by lois on Mar 17, 2013 13:22:23 GMT -6
It is so nice to be able to see these places today without having to travel thousands of miles. thanks for posting Jo. Wonder if Paulette has been to the spotted lake?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 19:25:32 GMT -6
Can you imagine..if we have such amazing places..what other worlds might have
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Post by skywalker on Mar 19, 2013 9:46:43 GMT -6
Imagine what the Earth must have looked like before people started changing it.
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Post by randy on Mar 26, 2013 0:10:06 GMT -6
One time when I was working on the Alaskan Pipeline I drove the haul road to the top of the Brooks Range in winter and stopped on the crest and got out and looked at the mtns to either side of the narrow road and realized in all that I saw there was no one but me there. No other roads, houses or phone lines. Just me alone. the wind was blowing and it was well below zero in temp. I was truely alone on the face fo the world. It is a very strange feeling to be that alone.
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Post by randy on Mar 27, 2013 23:38:30 GMT -6
Working on the Alaskan Pipeline I got to see human nature displaed in all its glory. some folk were simple minded and for instance one guy was trying to get a wolf in his camera lense and walking up to it as it backed away from him with its head down low to the ground. we stopped that form of suicide. Another held a steak on one hand and tried to pet a grizzly with the other he got within a foot of the bears head but it backed away. As a joke one time they put a bear in the air lock on the exit door and then waited in a room with the door open to see peoples reaction to opening the door and being faced with a bear. Got few laughs then the bear got in the hall way and they had trouble getting him out. Walking between the buildings was interesting as wolves were all over looking for food. Living on the edge can get boring when you do it all the time. Working our side in minus 70 weather was common. We played catch with a piece of white ice that we could see against the night sky. some could take it and some went "berswerk" as the saying was then and had to been flown out. It was aptly compared to like on a space station as you had to get in your space suit and use shuttle craft to get around in. With only a tiny hole to look out from in your parka and stocking caps and ski masks a space suit helmet would have been great. Just some memories
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Post by lois on Mar 28, 2013 15:47:49 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Mar 28, 2013 18:27:00 GMT -6
"Cancer Drug Kills Every Kind of Tumor"
Wow! If this pans out, it is fantastic news!
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