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It says a little about the writers of wikipedia history articles, and little about anything else.

@peb
I’m going to define race as a set of loosely defined characteristics that people group together so they can feel superior to other people. Prior to World War I just about everyone had a list...

Massive miscalculation on all sides.
The German General Staff thought it would be a quick war and easily won. The German diplomats (or the Kaiser) gave Austria a blank check with Serbia, the...

Assuming the Wired article is correct, there was a structural failure of the main beam, the hulls stared sailing in different directions and it all fell apart, perhaps with some cartwheeling.
When...

If you really want to enjoy rowing I would get a boat that is designed purely for rowing. I'm posting pics of mine for illustration, I don't have a sliding seat, but as you can see there is room.
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So far the answer to the 150 yard question seems to be: No one on this forum can do it. Most don't even try.

I can't answer your question about pistols, but at one point I was pretty good with...

These laws were originally thought up to deal with homes being used by drug dealers, users, brothels and the like. I'm amazed they are using them for domestic violence cases, that is appalling.

John Dryden, poet lauriate of England, writing about Thomas Shadwell, his successor:

The rest (other poets) to some faint meaning
make pretence,

But Shadwell never deviates
into sense.
...

+1 George, we pretty much made that profit off of Andrew's grandparents and their fellow citizens. America was smart that way in the 20th century.

Noted, but they could have bought ammunition to get gunpowder, or gotten and FID card (Massachusetts law, you state may be different) and bought the powder directly.

Changes in fertalizers, law...

tizziec, if this is you: http://www.academia.edu/1468902/_Britannia_Rules_the_Wireless_Waves_the_British_Admiralty_and_wireless_1899-1914 please upload the document. Otherwise this thread is too...

The number of funerals I attend seems to be going up. In theory they are for the dead, but really we go for the living, if you are living, you might consider going for yourself, even if you are not...

One thing that struck me as different about this bombing vs the others I have read about was the level of anger at the bombers, desire to hit back at them and expressions that they attacked the wrong...

The comments section of Nate Bell's facebook page contains 10,000 posts of outrage, including one from me.

It's entertaining reading if you have a moment.

Truth is there were millions of...

A lot of the comments here are written as if being killed by measles is bad, but having it is not that serious. I agree with the first part, but getting seriously ill for a few weeks is bad on its...

There is a lot to do and see in the area, it depends in part on how long you are here and what kind of things you want to see.

You can visit a settlement from 1626 or the very latest tech at MIT,...

Proximity Garret, the DD is right there in the middle of the crime scene. It was the only business in that immediate area that was open. Other donut shops were open all over town, it's one thing to...

My local library has a locked door, you have to ask for a key.

http://onefundboston.org/pdf/theonefundboston.pdf the fund is over $7 million as of yesterday, and higher now, I put in $20 last night.

John, I don't think the problem is people in situations...

We can apply reasonable pressure and wait. Putting pressure on a regime as bad and North Korea's has some positive effect in the rest of the world. Waiting is cheap. I'm not sure how long North...

@varadero The boats that used to fish San Francisco bay originated in Italy, but you can definitely see the connection with the Med. Lovely boat in your photo's

I'll add that "Danger to yourself and others" has to come from a medical professional, and its not easy to qualify for this one. If you are a danger to yourself and others the state can commit you...

War is never OK, its always an act of barbarism. Once in a great while it is neccessary to stop an even greater act of barbarism, but that does not make it ok.

Think of war as being like...

Mast is angled forward, I think its one of these:

http://horsesmouth.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cb8069e201310f351e20970c-pi

San Francisco Felluca

I don't know if Cheny is wrong or right, but I do know any solution he will propose to the problem will cost a trillion dollars and maybe a few thousand American lives. So I would like to try every...

Can someone explain how spending money to build this is morally different from spending money to build a large hotel, or a cruise ship, or a cathedral, or a really nice airport, or a casino?

All...

http://www.absolu80.com/en/

+1 Bigfella we can find plenty of examples of dumb policies by leaders we greatly respect, Lincoln thought it was a good idea to send all the black people back to Africa, just for one example.

I...

Yes, because the guy has a track record of killing people, and when murders talk about murdering more people its wise to take note. That does not mean we should be getting read for all out war in...

You join a working mans yacht club. There are a bunch of them in Revere, Winthrop, Saugus and Lynn. There may be one or two on the Mystic River.

You will not get a dock this way, there is...

As I've posted elsewhere this mouse occassionally roars by killing people. I'm hopeful that this will all blow over, but the possibility that North Korea will kill some more people is very real, and...

Banks run analytics based on past use of the card. The kind of activity you describe causes a cancel immediately because its impossible for one person to do it, it must be fraud.

The information...

Unfortunately none of us (us being almost everyone on earth) know what is really going on. Certainly some of it is for internal consumption. I'll also point out that the people making the threats...

A crucial fact: key age groups that might sustain the activity — kids under 13, women and early parents — are essentially not sailing at all.
A couple of other crucial facts the author has not...

Or the Washington Post might have spiked it because:
Factual inaccuracies: Talking about 2003 “But wait.* Where were the crowds greeting us as “liberators”?* Why were the Iraqis now shooting at...

Phil Y,

Here is Salem, and around historic places in New England, there are fake stocks of the type used for punishement and torture in the good old days. People take pictures of themselves in...

It's a survival suite, just as much as the orange ones with built in floatation. Probabley costs the same too, I am suprised you guys did not figure that out.

The UK has different boating traditions and regulation that certainly affect this number, but I think the biggest reason is actually the different weather which discourages boating in the UK as...

I would like to appear more childish, but don't own a gun, someone help me.

It would be very interesting to see that from Antigua

For good or I’ll this is a very exceptional build. We should not be proposing laws or policy to deal with the most exceptional cases, that makes for bad law.
True, if we had a mandatory sailing...

Its a well known fact that boats which are built, repaired and maintained in the presence of fine opera look better, sail faster and are more sea kindly.

Italian opera

Don't ever use Wagner
...

It’s a 1928 34’ Consolidated Playboat.
You can buy a copy of an ad for it on ebay, for under $20. 180 hp engine, from Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp Morris Heights NY. Google will find you pics...

Dan, your source material is a youtube video who's author thinks that the M1 itself is the reason for poor armor infantry coordination on the battlefield.

I did a little looking around, and don’t have anything that I think is conclusive.
I don’t think Jappy is an Elco, because they tended to build cabins. She is not a Huckins, they built planning...

In the 1980s we imagined a super intelligent robot slave built like Arnold Schwarzenegger would revolt, kill all the humans and rule the world by the year 2000.

In 2013 a robot slave built like a...

Don't worry GregH, if someone pulls a 2" knife on you send me a PM and I will come beat them to death with a hockey stick. Send it from the plane, a 2" knife can't do squat to a plane load of angry...

Jackster, there is one definitive answer, don’t sail into a hurricane if you don’t have to. How many do you need?
The hearings were interesting, and informative to me as a sailor. I’ll be a bit...

This rule is dumber than my original support for the war. Congatulations, you have exceeded the foolishness of President Bush.

This is a Q&A from Ben and Jerry's web site:

5 to 1 salary ratioAnswer ID 162 | Published 11/16/2000 12:21 PM | Updated 03/05/2010 10:58 AM
Do you still follow the 5 to 1 salary...