Morning everyone.
Posted on 06/20/2005 10:40:33 PM PDT by SAMWolf
On This Day In history
Birthdates which occurred on June 21:
1002 Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
1596 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
1732 Martha Washington 1st, 1st lady
1774 Daniel D Tompkins (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1839 John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1851 Daniel Carter Beard US, organized 1st boy scout troop
1882 Rockwell Kent artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
1884 Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (8th Army)
1892 Reinhold Niebuhr US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
1901 Darkwing104 Lifer Extraordinaire and world famous connoisseur of SOS
"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40,....sometimes more than once."
1905 Jean-Paul Sartre France, philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964; declined)
1912 Mary McCarthy US, novelist (Group)
1921 Jane Russell Bemidji, MN, actress full-figured gal (The Outlaw)
1922 Judy Holliday NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
1925 Maureen Stapleton Troy NY, actress (All in the Family, Coccoon)
1927 Carl Stokes (Cleve-Mayor)
1928 V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1932 Lalo (Boris) Schifrin Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
1932 Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)
1933 Bernie Kopell NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
1938 Ron Ely Hereford Tx, actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1938 Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )
1940 Joe Flaherty Pitts Pa, comedian (SCTV, Blue Monday)
1940 Mariette Hartley NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
1944 "Crazy" Ray Davies singer/guitarist (The Kinks-Come Dancing)
1947 Meredith Baxter-Birney Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget loves Bernie)
1947 Michael Gross Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, Tremors)
1953 Benazir Bhutto 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
1964 Kari Kennell Colorado Springs Co, playmate (Feb, 1988)
1967 Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far and Away)
1982 Prince William of Wales Prince Chuck & Lady Di's baby
Nuttin wrong with 2 F-O-Gs, the more the merrier :-)
You probably didn't recognize it because it wasn't one of them newfangled flying devices, he he
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I'm flattered. Given your knowledge of the CW and love for Dixie, I better stay sharp with my studies if I'm going to meet that "tall order". Thanks again for your thoughts.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. We walked those very grounds and it brought us to tears on more than one occassion. Visiting these places is as close as we'll ever get to living it. From the history we learn we are able to see in our minds eye more than the grass, trees and bridges. We can see the battlefield. Thank you so much sweetie for sharing with us.
P.S. It was good to talk to you this morning but Sam was a phone hog! :-)
P.S. It was good to talk to you this morning but Sam was a phone hog!
ROFLOL! Usually, he wants to get back to running the store . . . so, I have to be thankful he was willing to hog the phone for my call. ;^)
Thanks again for the pictures. I'm sure Antietam was a bittersweet visit, given how much blood was shed there.
Mornin' sb. Good to see you.
Thank you Mrs. PE. :-)
It's kinda eerie to read Soviet Union threads. FSU was such a central part of my service and life up to the time it broke up, but today's kids know little of it.
Interesting insight into Stalinist Russia.
Indeed. Almost a repeat of Gettysburg . . . you just can't hold back when you realize where you are standing.
And thank you for your thoughts.
Excellent stories. I especially liked the "I didn't have a spoon" story, the one about the stolen potatoes. Imagine an old soldier without a spoon! Amazing. Just as important as a good can opener!
It has been a spell since I carried a spoon at all times myself. Food and water is so darn regular these days, never ever go hungry or thirsty except on purpose. Odd to think back on the old days, when you had to eat whenever the opportunity arose, but always eating only the best available!! I suppose I was just a hungry all the time kid.
Interesting looking at the transition from T-34 to T-55.
Thanks alfa6.
From October 1940, after the death of M.I. Koshkin, Aleksandr A. Morozov was appointed the Chief Designer of the Design Bureau.At that time he was only 36 years old. When the war against the Nazi Germany broke out, the Design Bureau, together with the Plant, shifted to the town of Nizhny Tagil, in which tank production facilities were reestablished In October 1941, Aleksandr A. Morozov was appointed the Chief Designer of the Urals Tank Plant. In 1943, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour for his outstanding achievements in arranging production, development and improvement of tanks.
The military insisted on enhancing the firepower of tanks, and the designers of the Design Bureau had to work hard to fulfil the requirement. Their efforts resulted in successful development of the T-34-85 tank,which was on a par with the new German heavy tanks as to their fighting capabilities. On 22 January 1945, Aleksandr A. Morozov was given the rank of Major General of Tank Engineer Corps by the Decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR for his efforts in development and continual improvement of the T-34 tank.
Towards the end of the Second World War, the Design Bureau, headed by Aleksandr A. Morozov, developed the T-44 medium Tank, with the T-54 tank being developed in the post-war period. Aleksandr A Morozov was given State Awards for his participation in the development of the afore-mentioned tanks. On 13 November 1951, Aleksandr A. Morozov was ordered by the Minister to move to Kharkiv to work at his native plant. In Kharkiv, Morozov immediately started to work on development of a new, more capable tank. As early as October 1963, these efforts resulted in the T-64 tank which was decades in advance of any other vehicles existing elsewhere in the world at the time.
The T-64 became the basis for subsequent development of other tanks including the T-72, the T-80, etc.
How big is your computer monitor? Some of the pictures don't display well for those of us with old, 17 inch monitors. For example, I have no idea what that 'training stand' would look like if I could see it all at once. Both it and the tank are 940 pixels wide. It would be more universally user friendly if the pictures were no larger than the old 640x480 format or at least 800 x 600, although most of us can handle larger larger displays now.
For autoresizing Windows offers this useful information:
For nearly 4 hours Union and Confederate infantry contested this sunken country road, resulting in over 5000 casualties.
1,700 KIA in 2+ YEARS in Iraq. Some people say this is too much. Some people need to get some perspective.
Great photos, thanks for sharing them
Thanks for the link, but for a long list of reasons, I generally don't use Internet Explorer. I can always shift my monitor display to 1024x768, but it generally does not display properly when I switch back to my usual resolution.
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