I'm not THAT interested in the subject, but I appreciate the author's efforts:

"The T-54/55's and T-62's compact frames made them ergonomic nightmares, with cramped spaces and poor ventilation that rapidly fatigued their crews during combat.... Finally, because their armor was relatively thin... and their hulls were closely packed, both tanks ( Read more... )

Name: NMTC Snowflake 2010
Type: Trail Race
Date: 09/22/2010
Start: 18:01:00
End: 18:35:00
Time Taken: 00:34:06
Workout Weight: 160.0 lbs.
Workout Route: NMTC Snowflake 2010Total Distance: 4.18 mi ( Read more... )

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"The Missouri Compromise was the decision where Maine should be entered into the Union as a slave state or a free state. However, according to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Union should be equally consisted of a slave state and a free state. Therefore, it was decided that Maine would enter the Union as a slave state and Missouri would ( Read more... )

I crack myself up. It's always darkest before the dawn, I guess.

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29 May 1940:

Shot down over Dunkirk, RAF officer Al Deere collected himself, stole a bicycle, and made his way to the beach and onto a departing destroyer (filled with sullen army personnel) and back to England, then sought to return to his squadron:Back at Dover without money or means of identification, he jumped into the first train for London ( Read more... )