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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #105 on: August 01, 2018, 10:11:47 AM »
And 100 years later there is still trouble on The Danforth, Mr. Rikki.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/one-killed-least-nine-injured-shooting-toronto-n893561

https://torontosun.com/news/national/friend-of-alleged-greektown-assassin-accused-of-possessing-historic-drug-firearm-arsenal

Again they are calling for gun control. I will note that the shooter and his friends are not of Greek extraction.....

"Court transcripts state 33-year-old Maisum Ansari — who grew up in the same neighbourhood as Fahad Hussain, the brother of Greektown gunman Faisal Hussain — was charged last September with possessing 53 kilograms of carfentanil, an analog of fentanyl and 100 times stronger than the painkiller and notoriously deadly street narcotic."

But release these kinds of people on bail:

"long-time friend of Danforth Ave. shooter Faisal Hussain was released on bail after being accused in the largest seizure of carfentanil in Canadian history — along with 33 firearms and ammunition "

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #106 on: August 01, 2018, 06:10:44 PM »
And 100 years later there is still trouble on The Danforth, Mr. Rikki.

Great Cesare's Ghost.  Still trouble after all those years.  I thank you and mr. a for pointing that out.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #107 on: August 02, 2018, 12:36:12 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 2, 1918. 


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Private Albert Jones 254669. Unit: 2nd/4th Regiment, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).  Son of Mr. H. Jones and Mrs. M. C. Jones, of 33, Cobden Rd., Leytonstone, Essex. Private Jones died, aged 19, on 2 August 1918 at No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, Pernois, from wounds received whilst in action. He is buried at Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France.
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Mrs Violet Long, Deputy Controller in Chief, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Warlida was torpedoed in the English Channel 02 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #108 on: August 02, 2018, 01:07:17 AM »
Michael James Delligatti, the creator of McDonald's "Big Mac" hamburger, was born on August 2, 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Delligatti

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« Reply #109 on: August 03, 2018, 01:36:06 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 3, 1918.

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French and American troops on the emplacement for a heavy German gun captured whilst in course of construction near Sarcy, 3 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #110 on: August 03, 2018, 02:17:30 AM »
Jazz vocalist Eddie Jefferson was born on August 3, 1918.

Biography of Eddie Jefferson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson


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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #111 on: August 03, 2018, 02:19:47 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, August 3, 1918.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #112 on: August 04, 2018, 01:17:45 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 4, 1918.

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American troops examining a base of a heavy German gun at Breey, 4 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #113 on: August 04, 2018, 01:41:44 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Omaha Daily Bee, August 4, 1918.

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« Reply #114 on: August 05, 2018, 01:48:53 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 5, 1918.

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Battle of Amiens. An 8 inch howitzer of the 57th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, and its crew. Near Warloy, 5 August 1918.
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King George V on the bridge of the destroyer (H41) in which he reached Calais, 5 August 1918.
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King George V landing at Calais, 5 August 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #115 on: August 05, 2018, 02:40:28 AM »

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« Reply #116 on: August 06, 2018, 01:00:49 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 6, 1918.

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Receiving photographic plates from the observer Lieutenant J. H. Snyder, after a reconnaissance flight, and rushing them to the field studio by a motorcycle. Pilot: Major J. N. Reynolds. Aircraft: Salmson 2 A2 biplane. Unit: 91st Aero Squadron. Gondreville-sur-Moselle aerodrome, 6 August 1918.
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A soldier of the 18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) on daylight patrol in Albert firing a telescopic rifle to silence a sniper, 6 August 1918.
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Daylight patrol of the 18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) entering Albert, 6 August 1918. Albert was retaken by the 18th Division on 22 August.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #117 on: August 06, 2018, 01:54:19 AM »
On August 6, 1918 a big dumping scow carrying rock got stuck just above Niagara Falls.  It is still there to this day.

Info: https://www.niagaraparks.com/events/event/centenary-of-the-iron-scow-rescue/

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_scow_wrecked_in_1918_just_above_Niagara_Falls.jpg  Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #118 on: August 07, 2018, 01:09:54 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, August 7, 1918.

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King George V riding through Hesdin Forest on a light railway while visiting a company of the Forestry Corps working there, 7 August 1918.
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King George V and his staff watching a man of the 365th Company, Forestry Corps, Royal Engineers felling a tree. Bouin, 7 August 1918.
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King George V talking to a man of a company of the Forestry Corps working in Hesdin Forest who was felling a tree, 7 August 1918.
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Australian soldiers. August 7, 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #119 on: August 07, 2018, 01:38:27 AM »
The French SPAD S.XX was flown for the first time on August 7, 1918.  They were developed too late for use in WWI but they were used extensively by the French in the years after the war.  It was a fast plane.  A number of speed records were set by it.

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Avion Spad-Herbermon en 1920.
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