Yup!
Posted on 01/16/2006 9:01:50 PM PST by snippy_about_it
American Experience is on PBS. Here (Texas), it comes on Monays at 8:00pm.
My mother and I have also been watching (or trying to remember to watch) a series on PBS about Henry VIII (Sunday nights). The Henry VIII show is a bit vivid. There is a warning at the beginning of the show.
Oh my gosh! That's priceless.
The first settlers didn't go to Georgia until 1733 and it didn't become a royal colony until 1752, so Ben may not yet have considered Georgia part of the club when he did the cartoon.
Hi PE! There are a lot of Colorado connections with the Pluto mission with CU team designing much of the vehicle. (Yes, there is a part of CU that has nothing to do with dumb jocks or drunken orgies!) I'm sure there will be plenty of surprises when it gets there. I'm so proud and impressed with how NASA has handled the planetary exploration missions.
Hello to everyone in the Foxhole. How about those Broncos!!!
Yup!
You bet. Do you remember how Voyager discovered the rings at Neptune and Uranus?
The chicken and dumplins is not worth a repeat performance.
12 hour days are fun, 12 hour nights are even funner
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alfa6 ;>}
Nice doggie.
Hey P.E. What has four legs and an arm?
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alfa6 ;>}
Oh yeah. Voyager was incredible. It seemed we just kept getting jaw-dropping picture after picture. It really opened up new worlds for a non-scientist like me. Now, just so long as it doesn't show back up as veeger . . . .
Woof?
Cool!
A Happy Pit Bull
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alfa6 ;>}
USS Franklin (CV-13; later CVA-13, CVS-13 and AVT-8), 1944-1966
USS Franklin, a 27,100 ton Essex class aircraft carrier, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned at the end of January 1944, she arrived in the Pacific in time to participate in later stages of the Marianas operation. From late June into September, her planes conducted strikes on enemy targets in the Bonins, Marianas, Palaus and Carolines. In October, after supporting the September landings in the Palaus, she took part in the Third Fleet's raids in the Western Pacific and in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was lightly damaged by a Japanese bomb on 15 October, and was hit by a suicide plane on 30 October. The latter caused serious damage and killed 56 of her crew, necessitating a trip back to the United States for repairs.
Franklin returned to the war zone in mid-March 1945 and joined the Fifth fleet for strikes on the Japanese home islands. On the morning of 19 March, while her flight and hangar decks were crowded with fully armed and fueled planes preparing to take off to attack the enemy, a Japanese plane approached undetected and hit the carrier with two bombs. The resulting inferno badly damaged the ship and resulted in the deaths of 724 of her crew. Heroic work by the survivors, assisted by nearby ships, brought the fires and flooding under control. After a brief period under tow, Franklin's engineers again had her steaming on her own.
The badly damaged carrier crossed the Pacific, transited the Panama Canal and in late April arrived at the New York Navy Yard for repairs. These were completed shortly after the end of the Pacific War, and Franklin saw no further active flight service. She decommissioned in February 1947. Though reclassified CVA-13 in 1952, CVS-13 a year later and AVT-8 in 1959, Franklin remained in the Reserve Fleet until she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in October 1964. She was sold for scrapping in July 1966.
Sneaking a Freep while at work, good to see ya there aomagrat :-) Quite the story of the Franklin ain't it.
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alfa6 ;>}
Look at you! Good to see you. Perfect posting for the day. ;-)
Thank you. I know I have PBS because I recently ran across the story on Wal-Mart and their evil ways and was shocked that it was airing on PBS.
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