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To: Snickering Hound
If there is anything I hate, it's time traveling Russian pre-dreadnoughts.

Onward to Tsushima and victory!

32 posted on 06/18/2012 7:14:05 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: CrazyIvan
When I was a kid living in Yokosuka, Japan, I used to sneak under the fence to go off-base right near this:

I guess there are still a few of these old ships around...this one, the Mikasa, was the flagship of the Japanese fleet at Tsushima Straits. She somehow survived WWII (one can imagine American aviators in 1945 seeing that thing and planting bombs on it, just to be sure) and Admiral Nimitz helped fund her preservation after the war.

Interesting stuff.

46 posted on 06/19/2012 3:41:57 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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