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  1. 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.
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    .... and the E M Ford sank at her berth in the Port of Milwaukee on Christmas Eve 1979.

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    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.

  2. 3 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    1869- The First American intercollegiate Football game is played by Rutgers and Princeton. Rutgers wins 6-4.

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    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.
     

  3. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    2 different things.  a governor is always a reference to speed governor.  it simply cuts the fuel above a certain speed . 155mph corresponds to 250kph which is a nice round number.  its also coincident to the V/W tire speed rating.  (most winter tires max out at V and W).  its also a very convenient way to upsell customers for a 2000$ speed-delimited option which cost them nothing in software.

     

    if a car computer detects knocking, it'll retard the timing.  this will reduce maximum horse power.  which will of course decrease top speed.  but this fact is not correlated to the common 155mph governor.

     

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    so 99% of factory cars, its engineered to work with commonly available fuel.  for highly tuned motors (esp turbo motors where lots of tuning is done via software - fuel/air management and timing) , power output is driven very much by fuel.  these really get a boost from AKI 99, 103, etc fuel

    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? 
     

  4. On 10/18/2018 at 4:27 PM, Lobo said:

    Related question---how do rental car companies make sure you are using the right gas?  Like SilverCar, all turbo Audi's but we're all just putting 87 octane in there.  How do they correct for that?  I've gotten some free upgrades in the past and ended up in some premium SUV or sedan and I know for a fact it requires 89 or 93.  But it's a fucking rental, so I just put in 87.  That can't be good to have those different octanes mixing around in there, is it?  

     

    On 10/18/2018 at 7:49 PM, Gil Bang said:

    Had a Mercedes loaner the other  day.  That question occurred to me as I was filling it up with premium. 

    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.

  5. 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.

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    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? 

  6. 3 hours ago, Hate said:

    Do we really need a reason to do this?

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    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!

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Stoogey said:

    You didn't fix shit.

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    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


     
    in big red letters?  Gojira.  A combination of  リラ (gorilla) and ジラ (whale). Gorilla whale. From an early concept before the monster we know and love today was settled on.

    User's avatar checks out.

  8. 16 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    FIFY

    You didn't fix shit.

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    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


     
    in big red letters?  Gojira.  A combination of  リラ (gorilla) and 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.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Doc Reeves said:

    1954- Godzilla premiers.

    1913- US institutes the Invome Tax

    1912- Chevrolet begins producing automobiles 


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    Godzilla premiered October 27, 1954.

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    Revenue Act of 1861, signed into law by Lincoln on August 5, 1861. First U.S. Federal income tax. 

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    Chevrolet was founded in 1912. Production began 1913. 1911 Chevrolet Series C Classic Six was a prototype.  

  10. 1946. Happy Birthday, Yuko Shimizu! Created Hello Kitty as a designer at Sanrio.  

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    1974. Happy Birthday, Hello Kitty! 

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    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.


  11. 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

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  12. 10 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Probably has something to do with Catholics still claiming they killed Jesus.    I’m no theologian, but I don’t remember Morty and Sol nailing Christ to the cross.  

    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.
     

    10 hours ago, SideSlip said:

    Never understood the Jew hate.  Still don’t.

    We're all adults. You don't want to see anything bad happen to anyone. 

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