Originally Posted By devilskwerl:



http://i0.wp.com/pulptastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/09-Annette-Kellerman-promotes-womens-right-to-wear-a-fitted-one-piece-bathing-suit-1907-She-was-arrested-for-indecency.jpg?resize=605%2C944



Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecency



IBTL!





 

Originally Posted By JDC_VA_USMC:



That ship should have sunk.  The fact that it didn't is an amazing testament to the crew.

 

Originally Posted By HEATSEAKER:


Geez, she couldn't even fake a smile for the poor guy?  

Originally Posted By GregMc:
http://i.imgur.com/p7N2MyN.jpg


http://www.mondoserver.org/images/ppen.jpg
 

Originally Posted By Mxpatriot51:


This can't be allowed to slip by.

Originally Posted By Colt_sporter:


Pretty sure that was done to see if you really look or not.

Originally Posted By webnole78:


I'm guessing searching for wreckage/remains.

Originally Posted By Tyrendeth:
A screenshot, not a photograph. However still powerful when you understand why.



To explain to non gamer types. One player association was using an area to store their ships and supplies. Said area had a pay to protect barrier around it, they missed a payment and another Russian player association attacked them when their protection lapsed. What transpired was a battle that lasted almost 20 hours and cost nearly $300,000.00 in damages (U.S.) In game currency can be bought and sold for real life currency. They estimated the damages based off of the exchange rate.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d98/shadowsith331/WP65_zps26bfe88f.jpg

Originally Posted By TinLeg:



Posting that pic without any info will lead folks to the wrong idea about what is going on - and will assume it's the Nazi salute.


I didn't know myself until I bothered to look it up.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

Originally Posted By Rcd567:



Another awe fuck moment.

Originally Posted By hwj_chim:


I am related to them. My dad said something about a bank robbery in the family history. But I did not know that it was this big.

Originally Posted By parshooter:

Recent article about him.

http://www.laxmagazine.com/mag/14November/Golczynski-with-Looney-Manion-280.jpg?max_height=195&max_width=280

 

Originally Posted By TexasTechVette:


We were one bad decision away from Civil War

Originally Posted By AlamTX:


You like?



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Originally Posted By Flogger23m:


I believe the pilot was shot down in Desert Storm. Believed to have been a MIG-25; only Iraqi air to air kill in the war. I assume the Marine didn't make it. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Originally Posted By afroney:


Although life has mercilessly kicked me in the balls many times more than the average man in this country. ,  I look at pictures like that and think.   "Damn.   Ive got it good."

Originally Posted By BushBoar:

  Actually a lot were pushed over to make room for this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Major_Buang_lands_his_Cessna_O-1_on_USS_Midway.jpg


On that same day, South Vietnamese Air Force Major Buang-Ly loaded his wife and five children into a two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and took off from Con Son Island. After evading enemy ground fire Major Buang headed out to sea and spotted the Midway. The Midway's crew attempted to contact the aircraft on emergency frequencies but the pilot continued to circle overhead with his landing lights turned on. When a spotter reported that there were at least four people in the two-place aircraft, all thoughts of forcing the pilot to ditch alongside were abandoned - it was unlikely the passengers of the overloaded Bird Dog could survive the ditching and safely egress before the plane sank. After three tries, Major Buang managed to drop a note from a low pass over the deck: "Can you move the helicopter to the other side, I can land on your runway, I can fly for one hour more, we have enough time to move. Please rescue me! Major Buang, wife and 5 child."

After consultation with the USS Midway Carrier Task Force CO, Admiral William L. Harris, Chambers issued the order to allow the plane to land on the Midway's flight deck.^{[url=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Chambers#cite_note-kpbs.org-6][6][/url]} The arresting wires were then removed, all helicopters that could not be safely or quickly relocated were pushed over the side and into the sea. To get the job done he called for volunteers, and soon every available seaman was on deck, regardless of rank or duty, to provide the manpower to get the job done. An estimated US$10 million worth of UH-1 Hueyhelicopters were pushed overboard into the South China Sea. With a 500-foot ceiling, five miles visibility, light rain, and 15 knots of surface wind, Chambers ordered the ship to make 25 knots into the wind. Warnings about the dangerous downdrafts created behind a steaming carrier were transmitted blind in both Vietnamese and English. To make matters worse, five additional UH-1s landed and cluttered up the deck. Without hesitation, Chambers ordered them scuttled as well. Captain Chambers recalled in an article in the Fall 1993 issue of the national Museum of Aviation History's "Foundation" magazine that

[div style='margin-left: 40px;']the aircraft cleared the ramp and touched down on center line at the normal touchdown point. Had he been equipped with a tailhook he could have bagged a number 3 wire. He bounced once and came stop abeam of the island, amid a wildly cheering, arms-waving flight deck crew.


Major Buang was escorted to the bridge where Captain Chambers congratulated him on his outstanding airmanship and his bravery in risking everything on a gamble beyond the point of no return without knowing for certain a carrier would be where he needed it. The crew of the Midway was so impressed that they established a fund to help him and his family get settled in the United States.^{[url=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Chambers#cite_note-7][7][/url]} The Bird Dog that Major Buang landed is now on display at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL.^{[url=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Chambers#cite_note-8][8[/url]}

Originally Posted By afroney:


Although life has mercilessly kicked me in the balls many times more than the average man in this country. ,  I look at pictures like that and think.   "Damn.   Ive got it good."

Originally Posted By Two-dogs:


another picture here of GWB with Lt. Stockwell.

Originally Posted By mikelachoy:

I've often wondered that. Would a million or two or three be willing to take it that far. Give everything up and do it. I have wondered.

Originally Posted By HEATSEAKER:


Geez, she couldn't even fake a smile for the poor guy?  

Originally Posted By JDC_VA_USMC:
That ship should have sunk.  The fact that it didn't is an amazing testament to the crew.
 

Originally Posted By joker581:
IIRC, they got divorced after something like a year and he died some time after that.

Originally Posted By AlamTX:
Here you go, my friend.  

http://i.imgur.com/p7N2MyN.jpg

Originally Posted By Balista:
And where did that Muslim terrorist attack occur? The Port of Aden in ----- ta dahhhh --- fucking Yemen.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/MV_Blue_Marlin_carrying_USS_Cole.jpg

Originally Posted By eeeticket:



Is that just camera angle or is he pointing that gun at his face?

Originally Posted By M-60:


Damnit.


That one hurts my soul.