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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_oWCgV2MJo
  2. November 7 — 10. Great Lakes Storm of 1913. An extratropical cyclone (blizzard with hurricane-force winds and thirty-five foot waves) called a "November gale". More than 250 killed, nineteen boats destroyed, nineteen boats stranded. Not all of the boats were freighters. On the lakes, a ship which sails on the freshwater seas called a boat. Ocean-going ships can enter the lakes via the St Lawrence Seaway. Boats are larger than ships and cannot fit through the locks to get to the ocean. A lesser but same type of storm sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 .... ELIZABETH AND EDMUND FITZGERALD ONBOARD THE SS EDMUND FITZGERALD. MILWAUKEE JOURNAL. .... and the E M Ford sank at her berth in the Port of Milwaukee on Christmas Eve 1979. The Ford was refloated and towed to Manitowoc, Wisconsin shipyards for repair. Christened SS Presque Isle on May 25, 1898. Rechristened E M Ford, 1956. Delivered to shipyard for dismantling, November 13, 2008.
  3. The First Game by Arnold Friberg. See the guy wearing the stovepipe hat at the top of the picture to the left? A Rutgers professor who shouted "You will come to no Christian end!" and shook his umbrella at the players.
  4. First she's a trainwreck and I agree she's a dirty girl and now you are having trouble embedding an incredulous clip. WTF. Make up your mind. Personally, to me her facial tattoos are a dead giveaway.
  5. 156 mph. No turbo although I am considering recoding and a supercharger. Racing fuel not readily available. I have to drive quite a distance to buy non-ethanol 93 octane. My winter / utility truck gets better mileage. A modern governor also effects shifting patterns. Which is why the world version - although identical mechanically to the American - is preferred. No big deal but I'd have to send for a reprogramming kit which plugs into the dashboard port. I am using my car as an example. Winter tires? I replaced the run-flats on my car. The suspension is rigid as hell. Streets are rough enough; I could feel every tar seam and pebble in the road. It's strange. The faster I go, the smoother the ride. Once I'm past 130 with the top down everything is pretty much just a sensation anyways. Went with Y rated tires in a summer compound. In my climate, she spends late September through early June in a heated warehouse. The tires aren't even supposed to be stored under 35° F much less driven. I used to go to the airport for high octane leaded gasoline for my Firebirds. When I took them in for vehicle emissions, there were rollers built into the floor of the examining station and a flexible tube was put on the exhaust pipe. The examiner would sit in the car and put it through its paces. Nowadays those testing stations are closed. I go to one of those quick change oils places to be tested. If I still owned the Firebird (1967), how would it be tested?
  6. In the market for a bride? You're probably better off in Lulz or Football. Little dirty girl.
  7. Governors. You can use the wrong grade of gasoline if the engine is limited. My premium fuel car is allegedly capable of 196mph but by electronic governor limited to 156mph. Other guys on the car forum with recoded chips report top speeds of 178 on the American version and slightly higher on the world version. Why would anyone want to do that? Go ahead. Take your minivan to the track. No one's stopping you.
  8. 1928. Organized crime leader and gambler Arnold Rothstein dies in Manhattan hospital two days after being shot. Unclear if motivated by Rothstein not paying poker debt incurred during a marathon game in October (roughly $4.7M in 2018 dollars) or as retaliation by Dutch Schultz for the killing of Joey Noel by Rothstein associate Jack "Legs" Diamond. Even though he was dying, he refused to cooperate with the shooting investigation. Rothstein testified before a Chicago grand jury but not indicted for the Black Sox Scandal. My interest in Rothstein began with F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby takes Nick Carraway to lunch and introduces Meyer Wolfsheim as the gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series. A clear allusion to Rothstein. What are Gatsby's ties to Wolfsheim? Is Gatsby's fortune based on bootlegging liquor?
  9. She seems kind of slutty. In a good way. https://www.facebook.com/dop3yhop3y
  10. Well ... there's the part about murdering hundreds of innocent people and Guy Fawkes being sentenced to hanged, drawn, and quartered. In a last minute attempt to escape, he jumped from the steps to the gallows and broke his neck. That didn't stop them from chopping off his head and parading it around on the end of a pike and displaying in on London Bridge. Party on!
  11. You didn't fix shit. Godzilla is released nationally in Japan on this date in 1954. Not premiered nationally. Godzilla premiered October 27, 1954 in Nagoya. The name of the movie isn't even Godzilla. See how the movie poster reads ゴ ジ ラ in big red letters? Gojira. A combination of ゴリラ (gorilla) and クジラ (whale). Gorilla whale. From an early concept before the monster we know and love today was settled on. U.S. reintroduces the income tax. Not " "introduces" ". As I mentioned, the first income tax was during the Civil War. Whoever you copied that from fucked up. Production of Chevrolets began in 1913. The company was founded in 1912. Chevrolet was not intended to compete with Ford as it was more than twice as expensive. Series C Classic Six was $2150 vs the Model T at $850 in 1908 to less than $300 by 1925.
  12. Godzilla premiered October 27, 1954. Revenue Act of 1861, signed into law by Lincoln on August 5, 1861. First U.S. Federal income tax. Chevrolet was founded in 1912. Production began 1913. 1911 Chevrolet Series C Classic Six was a prototype.
  13. TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING TAPATALK SIGNATURE.
  14. 1946. Happy Birthday, Yuko Shimizu! Created Hello Kitty as a designer at Sanrio. 1974. Happy Birthday, Hello Kitty! FUN FACT: Japan produces 17.5 trillion metric tons of cute shit annually, most of it for export. Shimizu left Sanrio in 1976 to get married. Despite her character's enduring popularity and sales in the billions of dollars, she saw very little money.
  15. 1981. Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter but fails to kill Harry.
  16. 1938. Orson Welles' version of H G Wells' The War of the Worlds about a Martian invasion of Earth is broadcast. Some people do not understand it is a radio drama.
  17. 1965. On this date, the Second Vatican Council addressed relations between Jews and Catholics. Nostra ætate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions) stopped blaming Jews for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration. I was born before Vatican II. There was no blaming or hatred for centuries. This was pretty much engineered between rabbis and cardinals to bring Jews and Catholics (and all religions) closer together. And there were other changes. The Holy Ghost became the Holy Spirit. Stopped speaking prayers and singing hymns in Latin. Instead of the altar facing the tabernacle, it was reversed to face the congregation. And I may be disremembering things but it seems around that time the girls in my class didn't have to wear veils in church any longer and the nuns wore more contemporary habits instead of the eighteenth century wimple and starched collar. Like Mary Tyler Moore in Change Of Habit.
  18. Yeah except Morticus and Gaul were Romans and did nail Christ to the cross and Catholicism is mainly derived from Judaism. Why do think think so many holy days and periods of fasting coincide? Just as Christian faiths are derived from Catholicism. We're all adults. You don't want to see anything bad happen to anyone.
  19. Iceland is probably thankful the marines weren't hungry for kæstur hákarl (fermented shark - as in a 400 hundred year old shark - which is a traditional delicacy).
  20. In Illinois, trucks must stay in the right lanes.
  21. 2002. Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL record for career rushing with 18,355 yards.
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