FReeper Canteen ~ Do You Know Your State Capitals? ~ 22 January 2014

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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Do You Know Your State Capitols?

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[AZamericonnie]

Have you tried an egg on a sidewalk yet? ;-}

I remember Old Sarge saying once that he just had to put his ramen noodles in a covered cup with water & sat then outside when he was in Iraq in to cook them!

[Aliska]

I'm back.

I got 17. At one time I knew them all. I don’t even know which ones I missed.

Same here. Said I have a good memory but 17 hoping for better. I went through real fast hoping the subconscious would kick in.

[ConservativeStatement]

Hi Kathy. My results:

You Got 20 State Capitols Correct

You’re either a geography buff... or you have an excellent memory.

[AZamericonnie]

No way!!!!!

You get discounts now right?

I need something to look forward too! LOL

[Aliska]

Priceless!

[ConorMacNessa]

From Today in U.S. Military History:

USS Nautilus – SSN-571

Construction of NAUTILUS was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission, under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover, USN. In July of 1951 Congress authorized construction of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine. On December 12th of that year, the Navy Department announced that she would be the sixth ship of the fleet to bear the name NAUTILUS.

Her keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut on June 14, 1952. After nearly 18 months of construction, NAUTILUS was launched with First Lady Mamie Eisenhower breaking the traditional bottle of champagne across NAUTILUS’ bow as she slid down the ways into the Thames River. Eight months later, on September 30, 1954, NAUTILUS became the first commissioned nuclear powered ship in the United States Navy. On the morning of January 17, 1955, at 11 am EST, NAUTILUS’ first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, USN, ordered all lines cast off and signaled the memorable and historic message, “Underway On Nuclear Power.”

Over the next several years, NAUTILUS shattered all submerged speed and distance records. On July 23, 1958, NAUTILUS departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii under top secret orders to conduct “Operation Sunshine,” the first crossing of the north pole by a ship. At 11:15 pm on August 3, 1958, NAUTILUS’ second Commanding Officer, Commander William R. Anderson, USN, announced to his crew “For the world, Our Country, and the Navy – the North Pole.” With 116 men aboard, NAUTILUS had accomplished the “impossible,” reaching the geographic North Pole–90 degrees north.

In May 1959, NAUTILUS entered Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine for her first complete overhaul–the first of any nuclear powered ship–and the replacement of her second fuel core. Upon completion of her overhaul in August 1960, NAUTILUS departed for a period of refresher training, then deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to become the first nuclear powered submarine assigned to the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Over the next six years, NAUTILUS participated in several fleet exercises while steaming over 200,000 miles. In the spring of 1966, she again entered the record books when she logged her 300,000th mile underway.

During the following 12 years, NAUTILUS was involved in a variety of developmental testing programs while continuing to serve alongside many of the more modern nuclear powered submarines she had preceded. In the spring of 1979, NAUTILUS set out from Groton, Connecticut on her final voyage. She reached Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California on May 26, 1979–her last day underway. She was decommissioned on March 3, 1980 after a career spanning 25 years and almost half a million miles steamed.

In recognition of her pioneering role in the practical use of nuclear power, NAUTILUS was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior on May 20, 1982. Following an extensive historic ship conversion at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, NAUTILUS was towed to Groton, Connecticut arriving on July 6, 1985.

On April 11, 1986, eighty-six years to the day after the birth of the Submarine Force, Historic Ship NAUTILUS, joined by the Submarine Force Museum, opened to the public as the first and finest exhibit of its kind in the world, providing an exciting, visible link between yesterday’s Submarine Force and the Submarine Force of tomorrow.

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[AZamericonnie]

It looks like a triple tie!!!

It's a "THreeper"!

Miss you Hope & trust you are doing well! (HopeandGlory coined that phrase) *Hugs*

[yarddog]

I know I missed Oregon but not sure which other ones.

[SandRat]

Hadn’t even though of that.

[Publius]

SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

WINTER FESTIVAL

JANUARY 24 THRU FEBRUARY 2

There will be six concerts in this series, all of which will be broadcast by Seattle’s classical radio KING-FM. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, these concerts will be available live at the KING-FM website, and on concert nights I will lay out the schedule and provide a link to the concert. Chamber music can put a little light into people’s lives.

I’ll provide insights into the musicians if I happen to know them. I’ll also give a preview of the pieces to be played.

For those who remember my series on Johannes Brahms a few years ago, his last sonata, the Sonata for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 108, to be played Saturday night, shows the Brahms of his final years. He turned 55 in 1888, and he had nine more years to live before liver cancer cut him down. His last works show a compression that he had worked hard to achieve. In his youth, a work of this sort would unfold for about 45 minutes; this sonata clocks in at a mere 21. He had learned how to say more with less, a sign of musical maturity.

He wanted Clara Schumann, widow of composer Robert, to play the piece, but at age 69 she was starting to fade. The first reading occurred in Clara’s house with daughter Elise on the piano and a local violinist playing the score. Clara wrote Jo about the first time she heard the piece.

”I marveled at the way everything is interwoven, like fragrant tendrils of the vine. I loved very much indeed the third movement, which is like a beautiful girl sweetly frolicking with her lover – then suddenly in the middle of it all, a flash of deep passion, only to make way for sweet dalliance once more.”

It was a letter like this that makes biographers suspect that Jo’s involvement with Clara some 35 years earlier was not entirely platonic.

The first movement, marked simply allegro, is in traditional sonata format. Catch that beautiful and lyrical second subject. The entire development is set under an “A” pedal point on the piano. The recap is straightforward, but the long coda is set with the piano playing a long “D” pedal point, thus unifying the movement. The sun comes out at the end.

The slow movement is marked simply adagio, and is a stately and heartbreakingly beautiful song for violin with the piano playing a dreamy chordal accompaniment. Have your hankie ready.

The scherzo movement in third position is marked un poco presto e con sentimento, which requires no translation. It’s short and simple, in duple time.

The finale, marked presto agitato, is turbulent and in sonata format. Brahms compresses his development and recapitulation in such a way that you can’t find the line that divides them. And what a finish!

This video is by two members of the Kosher Nostra, Itzhak Perlman and Daniel Barenboim, from 1985.

Brahms: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 108

[AZamericonnie]

Well shoot...we should get the benefits due right? :)

Got anything special planned for your special day?

[Kathy in Alaska]

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I didn’t do so well on the test. probably because, in elementary school, I was too busy memorizing Gilbert & Sullivan to be bothered memorizing state capitals.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SANDY!!!!!!

((((HUGS))))

[Aliska]

I think TN and Washington state. Can’t think of the other one. Oh maybe Alaska. I know I put Juneau for that.

[CrazyIvan]

Illinois is a trick question. It's actually Chicago.

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Mayor!!

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Good Evening, Publius!

Thank You for the Music Tonight.

[AZamericonnie]

Thanks for this military history Conor! *Hugs*

[Publius]

Tune in during the weekend when I link to the live concerts from Seattle.

[SandRat]

THX,...((((HUGS))))