"Every sailor knows that the relationship between weather and the world’s oceans is complex. Oceans modify weather which modifies oceans. But sailors are often fixated on what weather does to the surface of the...
created by ValiantSkipper | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 317 views | 19 recommendations | 4 comments
Talk about going big... I've never heard of a hotel robbery on this scale before. "A gang of thieves held up an entire hotel in northern KwaZulu-Natal, robbing the hotel, staff and guests of cash, cellphones and cars, police said on Wednesday.
Superintendent Jay Naicker said...
When I was entering my teens, I got an under-the-table job at a pizza place. This kid is going bigger. Much, much bigger. Forest Endicott is aiming to finance his college education by refitting vintage Land Cruisers with biodeisel engines. "Last year, Forest hatched a plan to...
This is a crazy story. The DugOut posted a story yesterday. And I found these amazing photographs from the after game semi-riot at UCLA. Superskeleton captured four images and described what the scene was like...
created by clorenz1 | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 10493 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson
wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be
done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first
bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After
meeting...
created by Haecus | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 709 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"I want you to know that your government has no information which it
has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the
most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.
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June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait
five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor.
The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something
that should now be solid American history.
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June 6, 2001::Robert Ogg had been in Naval Intelligence during the war.
Ogg had detected the presence of a Japanese task force working its way
toward Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Japanese force had been
under radio silence. But the silence had been broken on a number...
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A code clerk at the U.S. embassy in London discovered secret dispatches
between Roosevelt and Churchill. These revealed that FDR, despite
contrary campaign promises, was determined to engage America in the
war. He smuggled some of the documents out of the embassy, hoping...
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"When the Japanese attack hit Pearl Harbor, the targets they found were
older relics from a bygone age; the 21 modern ships of the Pacific
fleet, including the two carriers, were safely out of harm's way."
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"Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during
World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and
concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to
bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war...
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