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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought
Posted on 04/16/2014 5:12:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/16/2014 11:32:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: tioga
A++
Not often that we get snow after Tax Day.
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posted on
04/16/2014 11:35:45 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree; KC_Lion; Robert A. Cook, PE
Any discussion of HMS Dreadnought will need to reference her creator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,[3] GCB OM GCVO (25 January 1841 10 July 1920) was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.
He was a driving force behind the development of the fast, all-big-gun battleship, and chaired the Committee on Designs which produced the outline design for the first modern battleship, HMS Dreadnought.
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posted on
04/16/2014 11:37:57 AM PDT
by
abb
To: Texan5; xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; secret garden
84
posted on
04/16/2014 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
This was the original Dreadnought - wasn't even a military vessel, it was a clipper ship and the fastest ship in the world at the time. Sandy Hook to Liverpool in 10 days. Unbelievable.
It's also the name of a Vancouver folk-punk band that also does Celtic, polkas and sea shanties...here's one of the latter about the clipper ship by that name...
The Dreadnought.
:-)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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04/16/2014 11:40:46 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: tioga
87
posted on
04/16/2014 11:48:22 AM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: abb
A+++
Another excellent contribution today.
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posted on
04/16/2014 11:52:18 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: tioga
To: Billthedrill
90
posted on
04/16/2014 12:00:51 PM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: dfwgator
91
posted on
04/16/2014 12:03:59 PM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
To: Texan5; SoothingDave; xsmommy
92
posted on
04/16/2014 1:13:39 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: tioga
Very good to hear him answer unashamedly. And he sounds EXACTLY like xs teen’s friend Mary Liz, as far as accent !
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04/16/2014 1:57:07 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy; TruthShallSetYouFree; hobbes1; SoothingDave; Texan5
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posted on
04/16/2014 3:51:39 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
The introduction, of critical theory, in any endeavor, is putrid.
And race based is putrid squared.
At some point the original competitors should have asked, when the debate became about critical theory as applied to debate, and had them explain the question.
They eat the marxist pablum,without knowing what it is.
Soylent Green...it’s....HUMANS... Fcol.
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posted on
04/16/2014 4:27:00 PM PDT
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hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
To: SoothingDave
These days, I need to pretend I’m a shot of whiskey, to hope for a beer chaser....
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04/16/2014 4:29:05 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
To: xsmommy; SoothingDave
Malkin slides across the net, no contact...draws a cross checking foul? Really?
This is looking like last years Islanders series.
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posted on
04/16/2014 5:18:07 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
To: abb; TruthShallSetYouFree; Robert A. Cook, PE
“Build them First and Build Them Fast. Each One Better than the Last”- Admiral Fisher.
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posted on
04/16/2014 8:08:03 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: SoothingDave
99
posted on
04/16/2014 8:51:43 PM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: abb; TruthShallSetYouFree; KC_Lion; hobbes1; neverdem
And thoroughly fouled up his Navy’s best chance of actually getting a fire-control system that really worked!
Went with the “Navy-approved experts” ... Instead of the better system
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04/17/2014 1:55:41 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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