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I know the Mongols killed European knights using horse archers. I thought they killed the knights from a distance, and not by killing the horses followed by close-up stabbing, but I can't find anything one way or the other.
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To misquote Tolkein: “some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. Conjecture became theory. Theory became fact.”
Now I have to train myself, when I look at an avocado, to stop thinking about extinct sloths pooping.
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Ahh, they excluded ? , ?, and ? because they are extinct. Then again, until now I didn't even know that sauropod, T. rex, and dodo existed as emoji. Don't worry hoopoe, hiding away in the Egyptian hieroglyph ? - your day as an emoji will come! Clearly there should be a followup study using all Unicode characters, as the hieroglyphs include tilapia, dung beetle, horned viper, and baboon. Time to apply for a grant.
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I visited Battleship Cove some years back. They described how beloved ice cream was to the Navy men in WWII and mentioned not only the dedicated supply ship, but how when one ship was going down, an exiting sailor first went the galley to fill up his hat with ice cream before abandoning ship.
Time-Life - your source - says 1,500 gallons per hour, but those are recent sources. Publications from 1945 say things like "The machine can make 500 gallons of ice cream a day —with storage space for 1500 gallons more." and "a special unit which turns out 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes". There is even a picture of one of the 125 hp refrigeration engines .
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If it were a real-time in-world reunion then 40 years after the end of the Korean War in 1953 is 1993 - dawn of the world-wide web and just 7 years after we last saw Trapper John, MD, working at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Then again, we know time runs funny in that world, where the 4077th was in Korea for more than three times the length of the actual war.
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Something to add for my long fantasized Norwegian road trip to the tidal currents of Saltstraumen and then ferry over to Lofoten on the way up to the Arctic Circle. Some day .....
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I don't come to Neatorama to read about the dating history of a war criminal, and if I do, I prefer the obit include mention of the several million people estimated killed due to his actions, and not just the American deaths.
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