Posted on 03/07/2015 4:59:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
I wouldn't hold it against him. Lots of golfers have trouble from the sand.
Thanks for posting. How in the world Caesar’s engineers built two bridges so quickly from nearby materials is still unknown.
I don't doubt that.
Germans had no choice but to try to fight the Russians because they knew what Russian occupation would mean.
Yes but I've heard Russian casualties placed anywhere from 100K to over 1 million. I was always a little suspicious that some of the ever inflating numbers were intended to help generate/maintain sympathetic western views towards Soviet occupation.
I was wondering how they would have driven the pilings into the river bottom. I think I saw how on a documentary once, but my memory fails me. I’m guessing they erected a tripod centered above the piling, had a team of horses pull a rope attached to a boulder and up through the tripod apex, and then released the boulder to fall on the top of the piling—again and again.
Within the past two weeks, someone--henkster, if memory serves--wrote here that the Russians suffered 11 million casualties in all of WW2 (not just in the Berlin assault), if I understood correctly.
Thanks. The 11 million is about what I too understood Soviet military losses to have been for the war.
“There was a large steamer trunk with newspapers and magazines from WW2, somewhat in order. Fascinating!”
That was at my mom’s house too. As a child I would pull up a stool in the basement and go through it all (musty uniform, smelly newspapers, etc.
When mom died my sister had room at her house for the trunk to go through it. I told her to save the papers and stuff and ship them to me. And reminded her several times.
When I asked about them again; “Oh - all that stuff is on microfilm at the library, I dumped it in recycling.”
“WHAT!? What about all of dad’s old letters? (From WWII).”
“Oh yeah - I didn’t know what to do with them.”
Luckily she mailed them to me (I paid her the $14 in postage). My daughter has ambitions to scan and sort all of the letters. But I doubt that will ever happen.
Well, we’ll never know for sure how those incredible men built such structures. What is certain is how Caesar’s engineers saved him from questionable risks several times.
Nope.
From Wiki:
Bonomi came near to resignation in November 1944 over war strategy, but stayed on as Prime Minister at the urging of the British government of Winston Churchill. He remained Prime Minister until 1945, by which time World War II in Europe had ended, and stayed active in the Italian government after that moment, serving on the Constituent Assembly's committee on treaties, and also representing Italy in councils of foreign ministers until 1946. In 1948, he became President of the Italian Senate, and served in that position until his death.
Bridge building
Trajan’s Bridge across the Danube, the longest bridge for over a millennium
Further information: Roman bridge
The engineers also built bridges from both timber and stone depending on required permanence, time available etc. Some Roman stone bridges survive to this day. Stone bridges were made possible by the innovative use of the keystone to allow an arch construction. One of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the Roman Empire was Julius Caesar’s Bridge over the Rhine River. This bridge was completed in only ten days and is conservatively estimated to have been more than 100 m (300 feet) long.[1][2] The construction was deliberately over-engineered for Caesar’s stated purpose of impressing the Germanic tribes,[3] who had little experience of engineering, and to emphasise that Rome could travel wherever she wished. Caesar was able to cross over the completed bridge and explore the area uncontested, before crossing back over and dismantling the bridge. Caesar relates in his War in Gaul that he “sent messengers to the Sugambri to demand the surrender of those who had made war on me and on Gaul, they replied that the Rhine was the limit of Roman power”. The bridge was intended to show otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_engineering
They just knew how to do it!
LOL!
Good to see you here, Tax-chick.
As I've gotten to know you a bit on Homer's threads, I've come to think of you and Hillenbrand as both possessing a quality that I find somewhat rare in women: understanding men. She's a wonderful author, hard to surpass.
Thanks. I’ve just been skimming through the headlines for the last week or so. One of my sons spends most of the day at this computer doing math or computer programming.
That’s a very nice thing to say, although my sons would never agree.
I listened to the recording of “Unbroken,” and my teenagers watched “Seabiscuit.” Maybe I’ll get to the book someday, after “War and Peace.”
Right now I’m reading the biography of Betty Smith, author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” Someone mentioned it on the thread with the movie review. She had a difficult life, some of it her own fault. Her third husband just dropped dead in their living room.
I see Patton is breaking out of the Eifel and is doing more broken field running. Not at all surprising the spearhead is LTC Creighton Abrams, the best American tanker of WWII.
Thanks for that story.
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