Stalins Organ
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I think you mean "at it STILL" rather than "again"
you might enjoy reading Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science" blog if you haven't already, especially his "head to head" with "Big Pharma" on this issue in the British Medical Journal
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Let's just fair over the 2nd seat in the spit and take out the extra weight of it....
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Yeah it's all just a matter of gas - the Spitfire's wing and fuselage arrangement could have been redesigned to carry more gas.....but the British did not actually have much need for a long range daylight fighter, once the Mustang was there it filled what need there was so why bother?
with the guns removed a lot of volume was freed up that could carry more petrol without much redesign required.
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Yeah I was on his list too - ordered
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In the US Mortuary Affairs has the responsibility for dealing with the deceased - including battlefield recovery of remains.
not sure what the Brits do/did - this article about WW1 casualties seems to show that dead were initially handled by the medical corps, and the Graves Commission looked after the actual burial.
I suspect the Royal Army Medical Corps has responsibility on the battlefield, but haven't found much to support this.
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A short documentary about
Spitfire 944 and its pilot in particular - all the details you need are in the film
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no, they don't - they make it a condition of you using their software or service - which of course you are perfectly free to not use.
Sorry about that!
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It's money as I'm sure you are aware - if the biggies (Apple, Google, MS) can get you "hooked" in the integrated systems then htey get to know a lot about you, and they sell that info, mostly aggregated.
So their business is NOT selling software - it is marketing.....using software to capture marketing information and then using or selling that information.
This is the information age after all....
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Good stuff - what is also interesting is how many words sound the same in Russian as English - I know about 5 words of Russian, but I recognise "tank", "millimetre" and a few others besides country names!
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Exactly. We all remember what happened last time.
we do??
not sure I do.....it was in 1962 and I dont' think I was really paying much attention, but Wiki tells me a couple of thousand soldiers died and the Indian minister of Defence had to resign due to their poor performance, while on the global political stage China seems to have lost oa little prestige, became more closely aligned with Pakistan (or vice versa), and India had a rallying call to help national unity.
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Looks like another chapter in the on-going border tension following their war in the 60's - it is always of concern when countries with total populations of over 2 billion start talking tough at each other - but no-one is going to launch an actual invasion over the Himalayas in either direction!
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Like I said - "most".....
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Well it's either the P-38 or the B-24 or the Lancaster - most other a/c only had 1 tailfin!!
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The Girandoni military model repeating air rifle mentioned is an obscure but wonderful weapon - Lewis and Clarke using them is mentioned in that article with a YT link to a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUIon one of them it holds.
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the twin engined a/c in the background look like they are Blackburn Botha's - according to that page some of them were converted to target tugs, so I wonder if the location of that movie can be narrowed down to whichever places used TT Bothas as well as Martinets?
Edit: found a reference here:
The Botha went on to be used by twenty training units, nine schools of technical training and the Target Towing Unit at Abbotsinch. Even here the Botha had a short lifespan – all the nine training units to receive the Botha in 1941 had replaced it by the end of 1942 (all but two by July 1942), and off the eight training units to receive the Botha during 1942, all but No.11 Radio School at Hooton Park had replaced their aircraft by the end of 1943.But the movie looks a little too sunny to be Scotland??!!
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No definitely not a Spitfire. A Havard trainer maybe? Bit of a bumpy landing too.
Found it - Miles Martinet - a purpose built target tug.
the Martinet page lists the squadrons that used it, but a quick look through doesnt' have any of htem in Africa...which is perhaps unsurprising.
The a/c in the film appears to be HP120 - which ties in with the RAF Serial numbers page where Martinets are listed from HN861894 to HP528
This page of "The Flyer: British culture and the Royal Airforce 1939-45" notes him and other non-white RAF flyers - an award of a DFC, the loss of one chap who had 4 kills, Jamacians, Maori, Indian, etc.
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There's film of him flying here - from about 9.20 on - not in a Spitfire tho!!
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the Nigerian Artillery Regiment are seen carrying and assembling their weapons. In Freetown, Sierra Leone, anti-aircraft crews practise firing their weapons and sailors are shown receiving their preliminary training in physical exercise and squad drill. Pilot Officer Peter Thomas, the first African pilot with the Royal Air Force, is seen taking off, flying and landing his aircraft. -
conspiracy industry = an industry that makes money from ignorance
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I am impressed that you can know what I think is the "final word"
Perhaps if you read the petition, as I did, you will see that "the final word" is simply that the claims you nmade are not supported by it.
For example if you did so you would find there is nothing in the petition about removing any ingredients from the list of ingredients on anything.
there is also nothing about "redefining milk".
By all means argue that the dairy industry argument about artificial sweeteners helping reduce obesity etc., is nonsense.
But you can do that without having to make up emotive BS about "milk being redefined" or outright lies such as the petition is asking for these sweeteners to not have to be included on the list of ingredients.
those 2 specific claims are bunk.
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BS.
they are not asking for milk to be "redefined" - that is a scaremongering beatup by the conspiracy industry
The application is to no longer require labels such as "Lite" or "Low Calorie" to have to be used for milk that has artificial (non-nutrition) sweeteners - nothing more. the ingredients wil still have to be listed on the packaging.
Many other foods already do not have this requirement.
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Actually I think the military analysis is valid from any period - check out what happened at the battle of Cannae in 216 BC.....
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"Pinched" as in constricted tightly so as to make them completely useless??
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And that's another thing. Here we have Imperial Sardaukar storm troopers,
I thought Sardaukar was Dune??:cool:
II SS Panzer Corps was where on July 11, '43?
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Try here - http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/vy75/dbds11.htm
Edit: Also these guys did a table-top wargame starting on the 11th, so perhaps ask them for their setup info?? http://brigadatripeira.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/espimodel-2012-one-day-campaign-kursk.html