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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #180 on: September 01, 2018, 10:29:16 AM »
Hey - Is that a wind-up key on the side of that tank ?    ;D

Nope just a dude standing there and a protruding cannon barrel.    ;)

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #181 on: September 01, 2018, 08:26:35 PM »
Hey - Is that a wind-up key on the side of that tank ?    ;D

Nope just a dude standing there and a protruding cannon barrel.    ;)

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Ha!  When I blur my vision slightly, that does look like a toy wind up key.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #182 on: September 02, 2018, 01:26:15 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 2, 1918.

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The ruined Rue d'Armentieres at Bailleul, 2 September 1918.
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Ruined college in Bailleul, 2 September 1918.
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British troops passing through Dranouter, 2 September 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #183 on: September 02, 2018, 02:06:01 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Webster City Freeman, (Iowa) September 2, 1918.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #184 on: September 02, 2018, 02:08:19 AM »

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« Reply #185 on: September 03, 2018, 12:51:42 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 3, 1918.

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A soldier, possibly from 5th Australian Division surveys a barricade erected by the Germans at the entrance to Peronne, following the capture of the town, 3 September 1918, during the Battle of Bapaume.
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A soldier, probably from 5th Australian Division, darts across open ground amongst the ruins of Peronne following the capture of the town as part of the Battle of Bapaume, 3 September 1918.
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View of the town from a British outpost in Lens, 3 September 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #186 on: September 03, 2018, 01:32:12 AM »
Jimmie Riddle (of Hee Haw fame) was born on September 3, 1918.


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #187 on: September 03, 2018, 01:36:13 AM »
Hey RG - good to see you're keeping your thread going over here @ EG.   ;)
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #188 on: September 03, 2018, 01:38:29 AM »
Ha!  When I blur my vision slightly, that does look like a toy wind up key.
;)

It's kind of sad the younger generation has no idea what wind up toys were.
In a word - 'Fun'   :)
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #189 on: September 03, 2018, 01:40:56 AM »
Ha!  When I blur my vision slightly, that does look like a toy wind up key.
Pareidolia  strikes again.

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Oh, you're going to love this. In order to make sure I got the spelling correct on Pareidolia, I typed it into startpage. the first entry that came up was wikipedia. The picture they used was the face on Mars. They didn't mention Hoagy directly, but...
 ;D
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #190 on: September 03, 2018, 02:37:31 AM »
Hey RG - good to see you're keeping your thread going over here @ EG.   ;)

Thanks.  Very glad to be here.  All thanks to Bart.  He's the greatest.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #191 on: September 03, 2018, 02:40:46 AM »
Pareidolia  strikes again.

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Oh, you're going to love this. In order to make sure I got the spelling correct on Pareidolia, I typed it into startpage. the first entry that came up was wikipedia. The picture they used was the face on Mars. They didn't mention Hoagy directly, but...
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Yes, I do love it.  Poor Richard, I don't think he has ever been a fan of that word, lol.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #192 on: September 04, 2018, 01:44:26 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 4, 1918.

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Men of the Hampshire Regiment and Army Service Corps working a propaganda balloon distributing unit. One balloon is being inflated with hydrogen and the 'release' (with leaflets attached) is being fastened to the neck of another, near Bethune, 4th September 1918.
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A soldier of the Army Service Corps about to liberate a propaganda balloon, the 'release' having bean attached and lighted, near Bethune, 4th September 1918.
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Two soldiers of the Hampshire Regiment releasing shall balloons, to which are attached bundles of propaganda leaflets. Near Bethune, 4 September 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247723 © IWM (Q 12193)


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #193 on: September 04, 2018, 02:01:58 AM »
Paul Harvey was born on September 4, 1918. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harvey)


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #194 on: September 06, 2018, 12:13:27 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 6, 1918.

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Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line. Royal Engineers laying the railroad at Ecoust, 6 September 1918.
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Captured German anti-aircraft guns and other war material near Attichy, 6 September 1918.
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German 21 cm (210 mm) Mörser 16 heavy howitzer captured near Saint-Leger, 6 September 1918. Note scribbling on the barrel noting the 281st Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery.
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A gun caterpillar-tractor hauling a lorry out of a shell-hole. Noreuil, 6 September 1918 (Captured by 3rd Division on 2 September).
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British officers in Place de l'Hotel de Ville at Bapaume, 6 September 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205323494 © IWM (Q 78734)