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tommytalldog
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Date Posted：2022-05-03 09:27:30Copy HTML May 3, 1942 FDR signs Executive Order 9066 which orders the internment of 112,000 Japanese/Americans to 10 camps. Mostly from the West Coast of the U.S. & thought to be sympathetic to Japanese interests. Canadian internment camps
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 12:19:03Copy HTML GB's most senior military figure to be killed in World War I; Field Marshal Horatio, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, the Secretary of State for War died in the sinking of the cruiser HMS Hampshire off the Orkney Islands this day 1916. He was on his way to Russia at the head of a military delegation when the Hampshire struck a German mine. Of the 749 on board only 12 survived. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 04:32:58Copy HTML It was carrying a huge amount of gold and some years ago the Brits and the Russians got together and to agree terms for the reclamation. Although it was the Brits who raised the gold it was in Russian waters so they shared it equally and the Russians certainly made sure they did |
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 05:50:53Copy HTML It sank in British waters, less than two miles off the Mainland Island of Orkney. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 06:05:30Copy HTML After the Revolutionary War, Americans turned their backs on all traditions associated with Britain, among them Christmas. But the popularity of Dicken's A Christmas Carol, in 1843, and a growing reconnection with European customs, saw a return of Christmas. However, December 25th did not become a federal holiday until President Grant signed it into law in 1870. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 07:42:47Copy HTML It sank in British waters, less than two miles off the Mainland Island of Orkney. I’m not going to look it up but why did the Russians end up with half the gold that was reclaimed? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 08:34:24Copy HTML It sank in British waters, less than two miles off the Mainland Island of Orkney. I’m not going to look it up but why did the Russians end up with half the gold that was reclaimed? She was on her way to Russia. Perhaps the valuable cargo belonged to Russia??? |
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 08:54:08Copy HTML I haven't looked it up yet, but I don't think there was any gold on board. Kitchener was leading a mission to Russia to offer further aid in Russia's faltering war effort on the Eastern Front. Are you thinking of HMS Edinburgh which was sunk by a German U-boat in Russian waters in 1942, she was carrying Russian gold to GB in payment for munitions we'd sold to Russia? You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-05 11:56:02Copy HTML That makes more sense. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 12:26:54Copy HTML 1750's
Joseph Hanway was reported to be the first man to carry an umbrella in England. He was mocked as being "too French" & pelted with insults & trash. |
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 12:41:16Copy HTML I still don't think a man looks right with an umbrella, unless it's when out fishing. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 12:45:13Copy HTML Back in my corporate days, my boss, who looked like a Ken Doll, had an umbrella, so not to mess his hair on rainy days. One day we were both leaving the office for the parking lot & he offered to share the umbrella with me. I told him.......I would rather get wet. He found me a very "manly man" after that. |
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 12:50:27Copy HTML A cap on my head suffices. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 02:25:40Copy HTML I haven't looked it up yet, but I don't think there was any gold on board. Kitchener was leading a mission to Russia to offer further aid in Russia's faltering war effort on the Eastern Front. Are you thinking of HMS Edinburgh which was sunk by a German U-boat in Russian waters in 1942, she was carrying Russian gold to GB in payment for munitions we'd sold to Russia? That’s the one. I knew it all the time but I was testing you |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 03:07:30Copy HTML I haven't looked it up yet, but I don't think there was any gold on board. Kitchener was leading a mission to Russia to offer further aid in Russia's faltering war effort on the Eastern Front. Are you thinking of HMS Edinburgh which was sunk by a German U-boat in Russian waters in 1942, she was carrying Russian gold to GB in payment for munitions we'd sold to Russia? That’s the one. I knew it all the time but I was testing you Good answer Major. You would have made a good negotiator. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-06 11:52:26Copy HTML 1953
A letter tucked in a stamp collection mentioned the name of Adolph Eichman, a German living in Argentina. This was brought to the attention of Simon Wiesenthal, a holocaust survivor & famed Nazi Hunter. Eichman was found by Israel's Mossad in 1960, tried by the Supreme Court in Israel, convicted & executed by hanging in 1962. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 11:50:52Copy HTML 6/7/1628
King Charles, I signs The Petition of Right which sets the stage for the Constitutional Monarchy. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 12:04:22Copy HTML March 12, 1911
William Patrick Hitler born in Liverpool. He was the British half nephew of Adolph. He served in the USN in 1944, was wounded & received a purple heart medal. His parents were Alois Hitler Jr. & Bridget Dowling. Hitler legally changed his name to William Patrick Stuart-Houston & he died in NYC on July 14, 1987. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 12:47:16Copy HTML 6/7/1628
King Charles, I signs The Petition of Right which sets the stage for the Constitutional Monarchy. In effect a renewal of the Magna Carta. He never fully accepted it and tried to ignore it, thus leading to the outbreak of Civil War in 1642. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 12:57:49Copy HTML June 7, 2025
World Pride celebration day. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 01:14:45Copy HTML 6/7/1628
King Charles, I signs The Petition of Right which sets the stage for the Constitutional Monarchy. In effect a renewal of the Magna Carta. He never fully accepted it and tried to ignore it, thus leading to the outbreak of Civil War in 1642. Yes, the Magna Carta, the world's first "Big Beautiful Bill" which brought us due process. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 01:21:04Copy HTML WWI
Half a million cats served in the trenches during the war. The hunted disease-ridden rats & served as a morale booster to the troops. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 02:55:55Copy HTML I was watching a prog this afternoon and a collector of WW2 memorabilia showed the presenter a brass button, which you could screw the top off and it was a compass. Unfortunately the Germans discovered them, so the Brits, put a left handed thread on them and the Germans never discovered another one. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-06-07 03:19:47Copy HTML The Germans have always been a regimented lot. They don't respond to change well. |
