• Welcome to BellGab.com Archive.
 

One Hundred Years Ago

Started by Rix Gins, January 01, 2016, 08:20:14 PM

WOTR

Quote from: Uncle Duke on December 05, 2019, 07:44:28 PM
BBC News - German WWI wreck Scharnhorst discovered off Falklands
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50670743

Ok, 105 years ago, but still a cool find.  The Battle of the Falklands Islands was the first major naval victory for the Royal Navy since Trafalgar.
It looked remarkably intact for a century under salt water. It also looked like a really heavy duty hull from the "before" picture...

Rix Gins

The great science and sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov was born on this day 100 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov


Kidnostad3

Good to see you posting again Rix.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 16, 2020, 03:36:38 AM
https://youtu.be/dLG6OCtbu8A

Apparently, early cars including the Model T were designed to run on any old fermentation until Rockefeller got involved. He was the main funder of the Temperance League. He wanted alcohol banned because it was competing with his investment in petroleum and he didn’t believe in competion, only in eliminating it. I saw a decent video on this awhile ago but I can’t find it right now. It might have been someone on Rogan who laid out the historical case for this theory.


swordpoint9

Damn Haven't been here in that many Years . Hope all is well Folks.




Rix Gins

January 21, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 22, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 23, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 24, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 25, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 26, 1920.  Public Domain

WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 20, 2020, 04:35:57 AM
Bones was born 100 years ago today.
https://youtu.be/_K5a5m386ps

Nice to see this thread getting a bit of love again. I really did not think he was that old...

Rix Gins

Quote from: WOTR on January 26, 2020, 03:59:12 AM
Nice to see this thread getting a bit of love again. I really did not think he was that old...
Interesting to note that DeForest Kelley got his start playing in westerns, among them, the 1957 film, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.  One of the final episodes in the original Star Trek had him playing as outlaw Tom McLaury, one of the Clanton gang, who fought it out at the original OK Corral.  The episode was called Spectre of the Gun.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_of_the_Gun     


Rix Gins

January 27, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

January 28, 1920.  Public Domain

Rix Gins

Gasoline Alley.  January 29, 1920.  Public Domain

pate

Something inexplicably tells me that Fred enjoyed Gasoline Alley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc77Vlb-yAE

Apogees, Rix!

-p

Rix Gins

Quote from: pate on January 30, 2020, 02:18:14 AM
Something inexplicably tells me that Fred enjoyed Gasoline Alley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc77Vlb-yAE

Apogees, Rix!

-p

No apogees necessary, pate.

Rix Gins

A professional wrestling match exactly 100 years ago.   The match was filmed by pioneer cinematographer Freeman Harrison Owens, and is currently the oldest surviving film of a professional wrestling match.  I advise fast forwarding to the fifteen minute mark, when the footage becomes a little easier to view.  Earl Caddock vs Joe Stecher.  Stecher won the match.

https://youtu.be/18wMsQsLMGI

Rix Gins

January 30, 1920.  Public Domain

WOTR

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 27, 2020, 02:39:00 AM
https://youtu.be/hfnFerJjWr0
Cool footage. Not a single hard hat to be found. Beams wrapped with a strap and an open "S" hook. No high visibility vests.

pate

Quote from: Rix Gins on January 30, 2020, 03:21:11 AM
A professional wrestling match exactly 100 years ago.   The match was filmed by pioneer cinematographer Freeman Harrison Owens, and is currently the oldest surviving film of a professional wrestling match.  I advise fast forwarding to the fifteen minute mark, when the footage becomes a little easier to view.  Earl Caddock vs Joe Stecher.  Stecher won the match.

https://youtu.be/18wMsQsLMGI


An ARMY/NAVY match, go ARMY...  doh!

pate

What is it about the "Gasoline Alley" comic that reminds me of the "Zippy the {zika-virus baby}" comic?



Nautical Shore...

-p

Rix Gins

January 31, 1920.  Public Domain

Powered by SMFPacks Menu Editor Mod