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1763: Dr Johnson & James Boswell met at a book shop.πŸ€”
1770: Dauphin & Antoinette got married.
1888: Flat Disc.
1919: Liberace was born.
1920: Joan of Arc.
1943: Bouncing Bomb.
1951: Flight between New York & Heathrow.
1956: Jim Laker takes wickets for Surrey against the Aussie's.πŸ†
1974: Tito gets life.
1988: C Everett Kopp - Nicotine/Heroin.
1991: QE2 & Congress address.
2007: Sarkozy....πŸ˜’
2023: More bombs🀦‍♂️

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Pierce Brosnan, Janet Jackson, Gagrieela SabatiniπŸ†πŸ₯‡πŸ…

Kewpie
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Birthdays. Apostrophes have nothing to do with plurals.

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@kewpie said
Birthdays. Apostrophes have nothing to do with plurals.
Grammar Police?😲

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@great-big-stees said
Grammar Police?😲
watch out
she'll whack you for capitalizing both words in yer rhetorical question
then she'll hunt me down like a lizard for lack of capitalization
and soon enough the whole world will implode from the policing efforts of the guardians of language

and then you know what will happen?
that's right
beware

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@rookie54 said
watch out
she'll whack you for capitalizing both words in yer rhetorical question
then she'll hunt me down like a lizard for lack of capitalization
and soon enough the whole world will implode from the policing efforts of the guardians of language

and then you know what will happen?
that's right
beware
OK…maybe I’d have been better off using GP.πŸ€”

Chris Guffogg
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Beware of the 6...🚬

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@chris-guffogg said
1943: Bouncing Bomb.
It would be interesting to hear from any physicists here if the bombs actually “bounced” or where they deflected by the water like a stone skipping across water?

I.e. if the bomb was dropped vertically onto the water it wouldn’t bounce so did they really “bounce”?

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@chris-guffogg said
@rookie54
Beware of the 6...🚬
if a 6 turned out to be 9
i don't mind


apologies, jimi
but you said it so well

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@divegeester said
It would be interesting to hear from any physicists here if the bombs actually “bounced” or where they deflected by the water like a stone skipping across water?

I.e. if the bomb was dropped vertically onto the water it wouldn’t bounce so did they really “bounce”?
You of course need the rotation of the bomb to achieve the required effect (as you do if you let "hop" a stone over the surface).
So no the bomb does not bounce from the water surface as it would from a (sufficiently strong) trampoline.

And of course I am only a lowly chemist, but I am qualified to teach high school physics if need be.

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Today 50 year ago, the Kingdom of Afghanistan was abolished and a republic was founded.

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@ponderable said
Today 50 year ago, the Kingdom of Afghanistan was abolished and a republic was founded.
They should have left it alone.

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@kewpie said
They should have left it alone.
... or blown it up lol

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531 years ago Christobal Colon starts the famous expedition with his three ships to find the westward way to India.

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100 years ago a Helium-filled airship took flight as a first of its kind (ZR-1) [in germany still Hydrogen was the gas of choice].

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Today 480 years agao Maria Stuart was crowned Queen of Scotland.

She has some fame in Germany due to Schiller's play, which is routinely read in german schools.

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