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I imagine America would gladly profit from Germany's fighting as well, but the British blockade limited the possibilities. There is a reason why unrestricted submarine warfare was such a big deal,...

No, off the blood of other nations' citizens, mostly. The US only entered at the very end, to make sure the side that owed it the most won.

Before:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Maginot_Fortification_Diagram.JPG

After:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Destroyed_fortification_at_Liege.JPG

If we do this chronologically, we would have to start with the German siege guns used to smash the Belgian forts, without which there could have been no advance through Belgium:
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A static front: note the light railway to bring shells and the guns mounted in a way that signals they are not too worried about a sudden enemy advance...

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Sailing the cold seas on a pilot cutter with Tilman telling stories of the Somme must make for some amazing memories...
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From the Wikipedia article on the 18-pounder:



This is about a battle in 1917, but it could be referring to 1914. Over and over attacking troops found that their guns couldn't keep up. In...

Von Moltke thought he did: 39 days' worth, exactly.

We need more pictures in this thread:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/18pounderCrewDescriptions.jpg

These guys look like they are behind a trench line. Wouldn't they be...

Against the French 75s, the Germans had 150 and 210 mm howitzers, pulled by teams of six horses. I wonder how close they would let enemy troops get before having to stop firing and retreat to avoid...

Just looked it up. The French at the Marne had begun to use concealed 75s with aerial spotting to break up German attacks. They fired half a million 75 mm shells at the Marne.

I wonder how the...

I have read that one of the main reasons the French finally stopped the Germans at the Marne was that they had finally figured out how to effectively use the 75s. Does anyone know what exactly they...

But the 75s were not so good against entrenched troops, and at first only the Germans had lots of howitzers.

A major advance was the pre-registering of guns. By 1917, I think, each gun had a...

What a happy coincidence, to check the Bilge two weeks before being off to Flanders for our 20th wedding niver, and find not one but two threads about the Great War! :d

One on communications, and...

Another successful terrorist attack on American democracy...

A sad story, with no good guys, I am afraid. Both parties tried to exploit the other, and it seems they are now hopelessly entangled in a rancorous struggle, while the boat rots.

Having tried...

Why would a machine that dropped bombs on civilians from high altitude be anyone's "favorite" is beyond me. I am sure they are not so popular in Germany...

It's all worth it. Their economy is growing. It proves that excess regulation is the problem. Plus, the market provides solutions. All the rich and party fat cats have high-tech air filters in...

"As sure as possible" applies to all mythological entities. Sure, there could be some sudden thunder and lightning followed by a voice, and then I would have to admit that Zeus exists. It is...

Being agnostic, to me,doesnt simply mean "I dont know". It means that I believe it is not possible to know. That there are concepts that simply cannot fit inside a 1600 cc mass of neurons no matter...

You mean like Wikipedia?

I assure you that on this issue, we are number one.

Too much liberty is anarchy. Too little is tyranny. Pan metron ariston.

I feel alone whenever I amdealing with a near-runmaneuver on a boat full of oblivious "crew", everyone having relaxed funin the knowledge that someone is doing the worrying for them, no one aware of...

I am god to my dog...or is it the other way around?

Russia's top income tax rate: 13 percent

France's threatened top rate: 75 percent.

Where would you rather live?

Hmmm. Should I or shouldn't I? :D

Wonderful thread. Please say you went to a national park at some point...

If ever a cat is going to attack a man, that's when: crouching down in the dark, back to the cat, between the cat and a source of prey animal scent. And the cat is probably habituated, meaning it no...

West Germany? :D

At least in starred articles like "Giant Otter" the WikiPatrol is relentless... :D

I edit, but I agree it is more cumbersome than it should.

Looks like you guys been smoking some of that Martian junk...

Socialanimals in general, though they fight, and often to the death, spend the vast majority of their time in peaceful cooperation. Giant otters, for example, seem to get into fights no more than...

How do you give them money easily and safely?

Israel is a permanent US beachhead in the heart of the Middle East. Where else would the US Army land and deploy if the Arabs and Persians ever united?

Funny. I used to not "get" Wagner at all. Then one day I heard the prelude to "Lohengrin" on headphones, swinging on a hammock somewhere out there, and couldn't get enough of it. For a while I...

That's a blockade, not an invasion. You have to land troops and occupy some ground to score an invasion.

Rubbish. They never invaded Brasil, unless you count the Beatles.

Harold Burnham is a great guy. He gave us a copy of the sail and spar plans of the Thomas E. Lannon's, which became the basis for Dalia's.

Here she is last month in Paraty:

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That's it: a right brain/left brain thing... :D

Thanks, everyone. It is so frustrating, but I am at a phase where when I have access to your collective minds, I have no cello to try your tips,...

I knew I would find my answers here... :D

Quite a lesson there. So then, if I were to put the digital tuner next to Pau Casals playing Bach, he would be playing "out of tune?" By how much?

Just spent some time in the bush, where I have long hot afternoons to play with the cello in the shade, and the wildlife seems not to mind when I play out of tune. My tutor is an iPhone app that...

Wow, they really are stitched together...

That's what they get for using newfangled glues - they should have built them with carvel planking.

Was it? I think I recall that Ploesti functioned until the Russians actually occupied the area, and the synthetic gasoline plants were too far east to bomb effectively on the required regular basis...

Firstly, huh??

Secondly, I know. My mother is Basque.

The bombing of Berlin might have been a result, but terror bombing was a pre-war strategy. The Brits embraced it and designed and built a heavy bomber force. The Nazis might have too, but they had...

BTW, the only Dvorak I really knew was Rusalka. Sil and I had the pleasure of watching it in Prague back when, and bought the CD.

Thanks so much for exposing me to Dvorak's cello, although I fear...

Not explicitly, but I insinuated them. I thought innuendo was good enough for the Bilge. :D