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Confederate sub upright for first time since 1864
Associated Press ^
| Fri Jun 24, 2011
| Bruce Smith
Posted on 06/24/2011 4:10:05 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck
The South will rise again!
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:11:30 PM PDT
by
Batrachian
(Prepare for four more years)
To: Hunton Peck
I thought she had already been raised? I’m I thinking of some ironclad or something??
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:13:38 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(Fix bayonets!)
To: WKUHilltopper
They raised her in 2000, but she’d been lying on her side ever since.
Not being a morning person, I kind of know the feeling....
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:19:45 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: Hunton Peck
I’ve been to see her personally, in 2003, at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, SC. I don’t know if they still allow groups into the lab- but if they do, and you’re into history- GO.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:20:11 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
I’ve got the t-shirt from when the challenge was still “Raise the Hunley!”
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:24:49 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down!)
To: Hunton Peck
Thanks...glad to know I’m not completely off my nut. I thought she had been raised once.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:28:08 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(Fix bayonets!)
To: PLMerite
Did you go to the conservation center? I was there in August of 2003, after having followed it since it was found. I don’t know what it’s like now, if it’s as public-oriented as it was, but back then it was a great place to visit.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:29:26 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Hunton Peck
cool
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:29:53 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Hunton Peck; SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:31:37 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Hunton Peck
The delicate process of righting the sub involved rotating it between 800 and 1,000 millimeters. A team of workers adjusted the slings by 2 millimeter increments during the two days the job took.I got out the calculator. That should read "rotating it between 31 and 39 inches in increments of .08 inches."
Damn, it P.O.'s me when American journalists don't convert metric into Imperial measurements. It would be like printing a foreign dignitary's speech in his native language without bothering to translate it into English.
I suspect it has something to do with sophistication, but I'll bet the writer didn't have any idea what 800 millimeters meant either.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:32:19 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
To: BfloGuy
Yep.
Sounds like the writer read it off a ‘fact’ sheet.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:35:27 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Hunton Peck
Confederate bubbleheads. God rest their souls.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:36:59 PM PDT
by
j_tull
(I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
To: Riley; All
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:43:57 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: Batrachian
>The South will rise again!<
I pray and hope so. This time, it’s gonna be a lopsided affair. A total wipe-out..hunting libs will be so sweet.
To: Hunton Peck
I was a member on that site for a while.
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:47:49 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
I think it was a reactor leak that sank the sub.
Seriously, are there any documentaries about the
Hunley?
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posted on
06/24/2011 4:57:41 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Sarah Palin, the only candidate to be vetted by the NY Times, the Washington Post and NBC.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
I don’t recall having seen one- I’d be surprised if one didn’t exist.
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posted on
06/24/2011 5:00:18 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Hunton Peck
I thought they would use a tank and Electrolysis to clean it up!
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posted on
06/24/2011 5:00:33 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
To: Cheetahcat
I think that’s exactly what they did.
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posted on
06/24/2011 5:06:56 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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