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for a thirteen-year-old im pretty good at painting

SonsOfLoki wrote:for a thirteen-year-old im pretty good at painting

Thats a fact?

looked it up US Dollar Bills are made from 25% Cotton and 75& Linen. So I was off a little. But it's still not made out of paper.

Rubbing a spider causes it to have premature (Yes, premature) baldness.

Italy has a larger population than australia

Texas is larger than France

Imperial wrote:Italy has a larger population than australia

Indonesia, with a quarter of the landmass, has at least ten times the population of Australia.

General Order No. 11 was the title of an order issued by Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862, during the American Civil War. It instructed for the expulsion of all Jews in his military district comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served from 1933 to 1945, is the only president elected to more than two terms.

To keep the weight low enough, the engine block of the Wright Flyer I was cast from aluminum, a rare practice for the time.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest religious body in the United States.

Iowa has 99 counties.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest religious body in the United States.

it also was not recognized as a religion until the late 70s to early 80s by the U.S. Government, until that time, it was viewed as an occult group.

the LDS people also did not allow blacks and other minorities into the church until the late 70s, when they were trying to get recognition as a full religion, the U.S. govt. wouldnt fund them until they allowed minorities into the congregation. a few months later, their elders had a "vision from god" that showed them people who were minorities in heaven with all the rest of the "faithful mormons" and suddenly it was cool.

The Pratt & Whitney J58-P4 engines used in the SR-71 Blackbird were the only military engines ever designed to operate continuously on afterburner, and actually became more efficient as the aircraft went faster.

M.

the state of Oregon, USA, has more Microbreweries per capita than Germany.

would xav please look at my dakka gallery

Ensis Ferrae wrote:the state of Oregon, USA, has more Microbreweries per capita than Germany.

yes and my city of portland is where it started mmmmmmmmmm beeeer

you can float a wwII battle ship on a table spoon of water

it is snowing here today

Heh. I'm heading to Portland this summer for a Microbrewery bender with some good friends.

It will be awesome!

Ozymandias, King of Kings

sonofruss wrote:

Ensis Ferrae wrote:the state of Oregon, USA, has more Microbreweries per capita than Germany.

yes and my city of portland is where it started mmmmmmmmmm beeeer

you can float a wwII battle ship on a table spoon of water

it is snowing here today

yes, and in my city of salem, the capitol building has 212 steps from the bottom floor, to the roof where the golden man is sat.

each mcmenamin's pubs features a different brew that is brewed in the back of each one

German tanks at the start of the second world war were almost universally inferior to anything the allies were able to dish out. The reason why they won was primarily because of a 3-man turret as opposed to a 1-or-2 man turret in most allied tanks at the time. Most german tanks, with only 37mm guns simply could not penetrate british infantry tanks, or the soviet T-34 or KV-1 tanks.

also, on the subject of tanks:

The soviets and the americans produced the two most produced tanks of the war, with both of them producing more than 50,000 T-34's and M4 Shermans, respectively, by the end of the war. Meanwhile, german AFV production totals only reached around 50,000, because they never utilized assembly-line production, and remained reliant on workshop-production.

This did mean, however, that German tanks were almost universally superior to allied tanks late in the war, because they were well-engineered, had more armour and better weaponry than that of the allies, even if a bit mechanically unreliable. In some cases, for the loss of a single panther or tiger, hundreds of allied tanks were lost.
However, In a war of quality and quantity, quantity won.

Allied air-power didn't help much either.

At the start of the WW2, German military doctrine emphasized asymmetrical warfare. Tanks were primarily infantry support vehicles, so the 37mm guns were fine.

However, you neglect to note that the PzKw III was designed for future usage with a larger turret ring accomodating a 50mm gun. That is why the PzKw III stayed in production throughout the war.

Also, the Germans used quite a bit of factory / mass production as time went on - just compare a MG34 with a mass-production stamped-steel MG42.

President Taft was so fat they had to replace the bathtub in the whitehouse for him.

the sherman tank was called the ronson by the us army guys becouse it lit every time

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:US Paper Money isn't actually made from paper, its made from a type of cotton fabric.

This is because US currency was first printed when cotton was a common source of paper. Paper from wood pulp is a more recent invention, I think it was around 1850.

Australian money is plastic, and looks kind of futurey. For this reason it was used as currency in the TV series Space: Above and Beyond. To most viewers it probably looked kind of like future money. To Australians it indicated a future world dominated by the Australian economy, so that was kind of cool.

The city of Bangkok's full, ceremonial name is:
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

(Thanks, Dim!)

Arctik_Firangi wrote:Indonesia, with a quarter of the landmass, has at least ten times the population of Australia.

And an economy about half the size, meaning the average Australian produces and consumes around twenty times that of the average Indonesian.

sonofruss wrote:the sherman tank was called the ronson by the us army guys becouse it lit every time

Although this was commonly blamed on the petrol engine of early Shermans, that wasn't the problem. In fact, the US star on the side of the tank was unfortunately placed to be in front of the ammo bins. German gunners would use the star as a convenient aiming point and score a massive number of ammo explosions.

As far as fires in tanks go due to shoddy design, early Panthers had a far greater problem. Some caught fire while manouvering at slow speeds.

Orkeosaurus wrote:The city of Bangkok's full, ceremonial name is:
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

I like it even better written in Thai:

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานี บุรีรมย์อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Speaking about fuels and fires

From the SR-71 Flight Manual:
"The operating envelope of the JT11D-20 engine requires special fuel. The fuel is not only the source of energy but is also used in the engine hydraulic system. During high Mach flight, the fuel is also a heat sink for the various aircraft and engine accessories which would otherwise overheat at the high temperatures encountered."

M.

It's both the fuel and the heat sink?

Crazy like a fox!