The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - the Soviet T35 Heavy Tank

Morning PE.

They can join anytime they want. :-)

I have gotten so use to getting the update at night and posting it in the Canteen.
I went to bed early so I didn't do it.

This morning I just posted and didn't realise it till I stopped to read it. ooops!

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on January 18:
1726 Hendrik prince of Prussia/diplomat
1779 Peter Roget thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 Daniel Webster Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer
1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden inventor (1st commercial usable barbed wire)
1815 James Chesnut Jr Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1820 Abraham Buford Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1831 Edward Ferrero Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1854 Thomas A Watson needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1857 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI)
1880 Paul Ehrenfest Austria/Netherlands physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1882 A A Milne English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
1892 Oliver Hardy Harlem GA, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1904 Cary Grant England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1908 Jacob Bronowsky British mathematician/cultural historian
1913 Danny Kaye Brooklyn NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1932 Robert Anton Wilson US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 John Boorman producer/director (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
1933 Ray Dolby sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1941 Bobby Goldsboro Marianna FL, singer (Honey)
1941 David Ruffin Mississippi, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1948 Takeshi Kitano Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1955 Kevin Costner Los Angeles CA, actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham, Waterworld)
1958 Jeffrey N Williams Superior WI, Major Army/astronaut
1981 Kimberly Gloudemans Miss California Teen-USA (1997)
1981 Latoya Farley Miss Oklahoma Teen-USA (1996)

Deaths which occurred on January 18:
1367 Pedro I king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46
1666 Adriaen A Bloemaert Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 John A van Riebeeck Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1730 Peter II czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1862 John Tyler 10th US President (1841-45), dies in Richmond VA at 71
1921 Adolf von Hildebrand German sculptor, dies at 73
1923 Wallace Reid actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31

1936 Rudyard Kipling author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies in Burwash England at 70

1954 Sydney Greenstreet actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1967 Harry Antrim actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
1967 Reese "Goose" Tatum basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
1978 Carl Betz actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
1984 Malcolm H Kerr 9th president of American University of Beirut, shot dead
1985 Mahmoud Taha Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76
1991 Nita Krebs actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1996 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1997 Paul Tsongas (Senator-D-MA), dies at 55

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1964 METOYER BRYFORD G.---OAKDALE LA.
1964 STRALEY JOHN L.---BEAVER FALLS PA.
1967 MADSEN MARLOW E.---MINNEAPOLIS MN.
1968 BOLES WARREN W.---MARBLEHEAD NECK MA.
1968 HINCKLEY ROBERT B.---SPRINGFIELD ME.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1968 JONES ROBERT C.---MADISON NJ.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 ROEHRICH RONALD L.---SPRINGDALE AR.
1968 SMITH WAYNE O.---LOUISVILLE KY.
[/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 SIMONET KENNETH A.---CHICAGO IL.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV]
1969 COADY ROBERT F.---NEW ORLEANS LA.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0336 St Mark begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
0532 Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1307 German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1520 Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1671 Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panamá
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 San Jose CA founded
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1862 Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed
1865 Battle of Fort Moultrie SC
1869 Elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco CA
1871 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1896 1st demonstration of an x-ray machine in the US, New York City NY
1901 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1919 WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1929 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 -27ºF (-33ºC), Watts OK (state record)
1933 White Sands National Monument, NM established
1938 Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Hall of Fame

1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

1943 Soviets announce they broke the long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1944 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1950 Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion
1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore Colts
1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"
1954 Fanfani forms Italian government
1956 German Democratic Republic forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1964 Beatles 1st appearance in Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 Plans for the World Trade Center announced (New York City NY)
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1969 Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1969 Soyuz 5 returns to Earth
1973 Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC
1974 "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 Super Bowl X Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, Wide Receiver
1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1980 Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1
1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000
1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years
1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

World : Pooh Day
Tunisia : Revolution Day (1956)
US : Cuckoo Dancing Week Begins
US : Healthy Weight Week Begins
US : Pizza Week Begins
Wheat Bread Month

Religious Observances
Judism : Tu B'Shvat
Anglican, Lutheran : Commemoration of the Confession of St Peter the Apostle
Lutheran : Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
Roman Catholic-Mexico : Commemoration of St Prisca, virgin/martyr at 13
Roman Catholic : Feast of Blessed Beatrix d'Este
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Leobardus
Christian : Church & Economic Life Week begins
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Margaret of Hungary

Religious History
1562 The Council of Trent Ä called by the popes to deal with the monumental problems caused by the Reformation Ä reconvened, following a suspension of ten years.
1815 Birth of L.F.K. Tischendorf, German biblical and textual scholar. In 1844 he discovered one of the oldest and most valuable manuscripts of the Greek Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates back to the 4th century.
1846 Taylor University was established in Fort Wayne, Indiana, under Methodist sponsorship.
1891 The first Armenian Church in the U.S. was consecrated in Worcester, MA. New churches were later consecrated in Fresno, CA (1900); West Hoboken, NJ (1907); and Fowler, CA (1910).
1936 In Washington, DC, Catholic biblical scholars met to discuss two proposals: the preparation of a new Bible translation and the formation of a society of Catholic biblical scholars. In result, the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) was formed in 1937, and the New American Bible (NAB) was published in 1970.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

it's cold here this morning...25 degrees

How do you stand it! :-)

I'm going through several dozen resumes right now. I'm looking to hire an entry level Engineer, and one or two interns.

One of the resumes I just saw is for a guy who was a Nuke Reactor guy aboard the USS OHIO. Gotta see if we can talk with him!

Good morning! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

Cheers!

1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis

Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto.

In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. When reports of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed an organization called the Z.O.B. (for the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). The Z.O.B., led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz, issued a proclamation calling for the Jewish people to resist going to the railroad cars. In January 1943, Warsaw ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. Fighters used a small supply of weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto. After a few days, the troops retreated. This small victory inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance.

On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to killing centers or concentration camps.

That's almost as long as the entire french army, air force and navy held out.

Nuke Reactor guy aboard the USS OHIO

That should be interesting.

Morning SZonian

The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance.

While the soviet forces waited a couple of miles down the road.

2 weeks of fun and frivolity on days, 6AM to 6PM, then 2 weeks of frivolity and fun on nights 6PM to 6AM.

The schedule I am now on is a two week rotation, whereas last years schedule was a 4 week rotation. Here is the current schedule with my off days in CAPS.

MON tues WED THU fri sat sun mon TUE wed thu FRI SAT SUN

Have to run see ya later

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

HI, snippy!

free dixie HUGS,sw

Hiya Sam

I'm a Treadhead, she's a Treadhead, wouldn't you like to be a Treadhead too!

They can join anytime they want. :-)

LOL, I thought you'd see it my way.

Good morning 'tanker' radu.

1974 "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV

Howdy ma'am

cool!

Oh hey, I am going to take in my printer to best buy for servicig. I got a letter in the mail stating my service plan is expiring in Feb!!! I had forgotten I had the service plan. Better use it while we still can.