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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 18, 2015 17:03:16 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 18, 2015 17:08:32 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 19, 2015 6:30:24 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 19, 2015 6:35:25 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 19, 2015 13:42:29 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 20, 2015 17:33:28 GMT -5
The photo 'Wait for me, Daddy' shows Private Jack Bernard, B.C. Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) saying goodbye to his son Warren Bernard in New Westminster, B.C., 1940. (The National Archives of Canada, Claude P. Dettloff)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 20, 2015 17:35:15 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 20, 2015 17:59:42 GMT -5
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce. However, the peaceful behaviour was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies. The following year, a few units arranged ceasefires, but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914 ... (Wiki)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 20, 2015 18:18:53 GMT -5
Gandhi sent 2 letters two Hitler asking him to curb his actions. The first was just before the war in 1939.   |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 8:33:17 GMT -5
The 1993 World Series was a best-of-seven playoff series to determine the champion of Major League Baseball for the 1993 season. It pitted the defending champions Toronto Blue Jays of the American League against the National League champions Philadelphia Phillies. With Toronto ahead three games to two in the Series, Joe Carter hit a game-winning three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 to win the series for Toronto, its second consecutive championship (the first repeaters since the 1977–78 Yankees). This was only the second Series concluded by such a home run (the first was in the 1960 World Series on a Bill Mazeroski home run for the Pittsburgh Pirates), and the first such occasion where a come-from-behind walk-off home run won a World Series. (Wiki)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 8:43:49 GMT -5
During the 1988 Major League Baseball season, pitcher Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers set the MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings pitched. Over 59 consecutive innings, opposing hitters did not score a run against Hershiser. During the streak, he averted numerous high-risk scoring situations. The streak spanned from the sixth inning of an August 30 game against the Montreal Expos to the tenth inning of a September 28 game against the San Diego Padres. The previous record of 58 2⁄3 innings was set by former Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale in 1968; as the team's radio announcer, Drysdale called Hershiser's as he pursued the new record. Pundits have described the streak as among the greatest individual feats in sports and among the greatest records in baseball history.  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 8:51:48 GMT -5
The signature play of an epic Super Bowl is the one that wasn’t made. Jackie Smith caught nearly 500 passes in a 16-year career but the Hall of Fame tight end went down in history as he went down in the end zone and dropped a wide-open touchdown pass in the Dallas Cowboys’ 35-31 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. (NY Daily News)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 8:56:51 GMT -5
The Immaculate Reception is the nickname given to one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game of the National Football League (NFL), between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972. With the Steelers trailing in the last 30 seconds of the game, Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw a pass attempt to John Fuqua. The ball bounced off the hands of Raiders safety Jack Tatum and, as it fell towards the ground, Steelers fullback Franco Harris scooped it up and ran for a game-winning touchdown. The play has been a source of unresolved controversy and speculation ever since, as many people have contended that the ball touched either Fuqua or the ground before Harris caught it, either of which would have resulted in an incomplete pass by the rules at the time. Kevin Cook's The Last Headbangers cites the play as the beginning of a bitter rivalry between Pittsburgh and Oakland that fueled a historically brutal Raiders team during the NFL's most controversially physical era.(Wiki)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 10:59:16 GMT -5
HMCS Esquimalt was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw service in the Battle of the Atlantic and in the Battle of the St. Lawrence. She was sunk in 1945, the last Canadian warship to suffer that fate. She was named for Esquimalt, British Columbia.  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:42:24 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:46:20 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:49:12 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 21, 2015 21:59:40 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 22, 2015 11:43:42 GMT -5
HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400) was a hydrofoil that served in the Canadian Forces from 1968 to 1971. During sea trials in 1969, the vessel exceeded 63 knots (117 km/h; 72 mph), making her the fastest unarmed warship in the world. Bras d'Or 's trial program was abruptly cancelled on 2 November 1971 by Minister of National Defence Donald S. Macdonald, attributing it to a change in defence priority (from anti-submarine warfare to sovereignty protection). The ship was laid up for five years, then the program was completely cancelled by Liberal Government under Pierre Elliott Trudeau, with most of the valuable components either sold by Crown Assets or scrapped. (Wiki)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 22, 2015 22:49:21 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 22, 2015 22:51:43 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 7:55:29 GMT -5
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher, manager, and coach. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–65) for the New York Yankees. He is widely regarded as one of the best catchers in baseball history. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. (Wiki) Before he became a pro baseball player, manager and Hall of Famer, Berra was a 19-year old U.S. Navy gunner's mate aboard a rocket-launching craft supporting the troops at Normandy Beach. (USA Today)  |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 16:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 16:11:27 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 16:12:25 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 16:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Sept 23, 2015 17:46:05 GMT -5
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