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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 15, 2022 at 6:16 pm
(April 15, 2022 at 3:39 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (April 15, 2022 at 7:14 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Found rolled up and used for insulation at the old weather station on the Outer Banks of NC is the log where the SOS from the Titanic was noted. Because the incident was so far away, it was assumed that rescue efforts would come from much closer to the site. It's not certain the SOS was passed on to other weather and life-saving stations.
The SOS was an afterthought.
The standard distress call at the time the Titanic sank was CQD. SOS was a new call at that time and not widely known and little used. SOS is not sent as three separate characters but as one. 3 dots 3 dash 3 dots with no spacing. Consequently it can be misinterpreted as V7.
CQD was sent first- then the distress message - then an SOS and the distress message repeated.
SOS was adopted as a standard after Titanic sunk.
I used the wrong term. Still was interesting to me because my great aunt was the first woman who worked in that station...I know it well.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 16, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 16, 2022 at 4:17 pm
(April 16, 2022 at 3:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.
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Presumably, Joe joined after he had Jimi whacked?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 16, 2022 at 4:53 pm
Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 16, 2022 at 4:53 pm
(April 16, 2022 at 4:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (April 16, 2022 at 3:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pesci both played guitar in the same band (Joey Dee and the Starliters), but at different times.
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Presumably, Joe joined after he had Jimi whacked?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 17, 2022 at 9:33 am
Oprah didn’t actually give away the cars—Pontiac did, which means Oprah basically did an infomercial for Pontiac. Also, while it was noted in nearly every news story that “Pontiac will pay for the taxes and customizing of the cars,” the reality is that Pontiac was picking up the sales tax, not the state and federal income tax. The lucky winners were responsible for paying thousands of dollars in taxes—up to $7,000 in some cases.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 20, 2022 at 2:45 am
Turns out there’s actually a reason beyond the practical or the theological that Anna Duggar hasn’t divorced Josh. The entire fucking family seems to think he’s innocent:
Somehow, I must have overlooked that possibility, assuming that with all the evidence they found, plus Josh’s self-incrimination, plus the fact that he molested five small girls as an early teen, there would be no way anyone’d think he was innocent. But then I remembered “oh, yeah, the far right has gone all in on conspiracy theories and this is the same family that thinks the entire world population could fit in Jacksonville, Florida.”
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 23, 2022 at 5:20 pm
While I’ve known for years that 12 year old Mike Altman - son of director Robert Altman - wrote the lyrics to ‘Suicide is Painless’ (the ‘M*A*S*H’ theme), what I just learned is that he’s still paid royalties on the song every time the show is re-run. To date, he’s made about $2 million (US) in royalty payments.
His father was paid $75 000 to direct the film.
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