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We stayed with friends at a Kibbutz close to the Jordan border crossing. We arrived the night of the Bar Mitzvah celebration. By fire lit structures that formed the Alpha and Omega, the entire class of 13 year old boys and girls performed feats of courage that looked like a cross between high wire circus acts and paratrooper training. When it was over we celebrated with hot dogs, chips and soda.
Quite different from the extravaganzas I'm used to.
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PANTICOSA, Spain (Feb. 5, 2020) An Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 (EODMU 8), assigned to Navy Expeditionary Combat Force Europe-Africa/Task Force (CTF) 68, conducts a simulated rescue drill as part annual bi-lateral altitude and ice dive training in the Pyrenees Mountains with dives from the Spanish Navy Center for Diving (Centro de Buceo de la Armada, CBA) Feb. 5, 2020. CTF 68 provides explosive ordnance operations, naval construction, expeditionary security, and theater security efforts in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Katie Cox/Released)
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Responding to a tip, Hawk sends the Joe SEAL team to Jacksonville to investigate. Torpedo checks a local warehouse and discovers a weapon shipment that screams Cobra Operation. As he inspects the crates, a door alerts him to a Cobra patrol.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published on behalf of Reims Cathedral. The card has a divided back.
The famous smiling angel (on the right) has been decapitated by enemy artillery. To see what she looked like before the Great War, please search for the tag 54TSA43
Reims Cathedral in the Great War
The medieval masterpiece of Reims Cathedral was reduced to a roofless shell by the 287 explosive and incendiary shells that rained upon it during the course of the Great War.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
A Poem by Grace Conkling
Grace Hazard Conkling (1878-1958) wrote a poem about Reims Cathedral in 1914:
'A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells,
And poured them molten from thy tragic towers:
Now are the windows dust that were thy flowers
Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels.
Gone are the angels and the archangels,
The saints, the little lamb above thy door,
The shepherd Christ! They are not, any more,
Save in the soul where exiled beauty dwells.
But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom
That old divine insistence of the sea,
When music flows along the sculptured stone
In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom'.
Like faithful sunset, warm immortally!
Thy bells live on, and Heaven is in their tone!'
In fact the bells of Reims Cathedral did not melt, although they did fall. The solidified pools of metal on the floor of the Cathedral actually came from the covering of lead on the roof which had melted when the wooden structure blazed from end to end.
Molten lead also flowed from the medieval stained glass windows, and poured through the gargoyles designed to channel rain from the roof. The gargoyles were not designed for the roof itself to pour out of them.
Reims Cathedral Before the Great War
If you want to see what Reims Cathedral looked like before the Great War, please search for the tag 32RCB34
Rouen Cathedral
If Grace had wanted to write about bells which really did melt, she could have waited another 30 years and written about Rouen Cathedral. This was bombed by the Germans in the Second World War, leading inter alia to a fire in the medieval north tower containing the famous bells.
The tower acted as a chimney for the extensive woodwork inside to burn and create very high temperatures - sufficient to calcify the ancient stonework and leave pools of molten bell metal at the base of the tower.
You can see more about Rouen Cathedral if you search for the tag 87RCL55
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
With an average length of two feet, that number of shells if laid end to end would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres). That's over two and a half times round the Earth. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
at long last, i've built my first fireworks after much theory & study. the little one is just a firecracker, though with about 1o times the bang. the larger has, from the bottom of the barrell, anchor-nail in putty, cardboard buffers, propellant charge (strong) with a double fuse (visible is the faster ignition but joining it just outside the shell is the slower fuse attached to the projectile), another cardboard separator, the explosive projectile (both ends puttied), some cotton wadding, & a tissue cap. the projectile is basically the same as the firecracker leaning on it but with about 4 times the charge (cordite supplemented with copper powder, which is supposed to give a blue tint (i didn't have much)).
will report below after firing'em off how well they worked.
021124-N-0331L-003.-Central Command AOR. Engineman first class (DV/SW/SS) Timothy Andros of Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit 6(EODMU-6) prepares the MK-16 re-breather for diving during a joint training exercise in the Central Command AOR in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph by: Photographers Mate Second Class (DV) Jeffrey Lehrberg.
Photography cleared for release by CDR. Jeff Alderson, COMUSNAVCENT/5TH Fleet PAO.
Mister T - Explosive Jazz Trio au Cargo de Nuit (Arles), le 30 avril 2009.
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Sergeant Marc Haycook provides more details regarding the explosive device case at Holts Summit Municipal Center, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Five suspects face up to 90 days in jail or a $500 fine after planting the homemade device in Blank’s mailbox and several more throughout the neighborhood.
SAN FRANCISCO (July 23, 2008) -- Petty Officer Sandor Csitar with Hawk (left) and Petty Officer Anthony Ross with Chiquita prepare to search for explosives as the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle approaches a San Francisco pier during the Festival of Sail on San Francisco Bay. Petty Officers Csitar and Ross, as well as their dogs, are part of Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) San Francisco. The Eagle is a three-masted barque that carries square-rigged sails on the fore and main masts. The 295-foot long sailing vessel has served the Coast Guard since 1946 and is used as a training platform for cadets and officer candidates to learn leadership, teamwork, seamanship and navigation skills. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Rachel Polish)
Sgt. Stuart Bowman, 663rd Ordnance Company, 242nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), collects a sample from a homemade explosive lab, Feb. 22.
Liberty ship with 1,400 Tons of explosives still on board after running aground in 1944 just off Sheerness, the cargo is equivalent to 2,800 V-1 bombs. The bombs themselves have watertight cases and most experts agree that the TNT they contain is probably in first-class condition. The authorities prefer to leave it alone, put warning buoys all around and hope no other ship hits it, 24 "near misses" have been recorded.
The explosive and elemental experience of lava flowing into the Pacific Ocean, hissing and sparking and steaming and creating new land, from the Kilauea Lava Flow, May 13, 2013, Kalapana area of Puna District, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
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PANTICOSA, Spain (Feb. 4, 2020) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians, from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 (EODMU 8), assigned to Navy Expeditionary Combat Force Europe-Africa/Task Force (CTF) 68, conduct in-water safety checks as part of annual bi-lateral altitude and ice dive training in the Pyrenees Mountains with dives from the Spanish Navy Center for Diving (Centro de Buceo de la Armada, CBA) Feb. 4, 2020. CTF 68 provides explosive ordnance operations, naval construction, expeditionary security, and theater security efforts in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Katie Cox/Released)
Activar audio , fundamental .Video sobre la ciudad de Valencia.Edición Juan Mtnez Lejarza.
Edición de 400 fotografias de J.Lejarza, sobre video de The Bond "explosive". Sincronizando las imágenes con la musica.Por desgracia recortado a 1,5 minutos. Entero en:
1944 - 'OPERATION ORB' - (OPERATION RUFFORD BRIDGE) - 'EXPLOSIVE EXERCISE'
502nd PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT (502nd PIR)
The 40,6cm Adolf Guns are among the largest naval guns of WW II placed ashore in Europe.
The Trondenes Battery with its 4 guns was the most powerful of all batteries in Hitler's Atlantic Wall. The wall was 5000km long, from the border between Spain and France in the south to the border between Norway and Russia in the north.
came up on the roof to check out the scene following two big explosions in this direction but just saw this instead.
news i've gotten so far is that the bombs were the detonation of found UXO by police officers. they find the stuff, either left over from war or newly planted in town, then take it out to the hills and blow it up.
i've heard police detonations a lot here, but today's were much louder and shakier than usual, so i guess they found something really powerful.
anyway, this sunset is nice, but if you compared it to other Afghan sunsets and gave it a grade it would be about a B- ... they get better the dustier the air is, but it's been snowy and rainy recently.
Animated version is available on my blog @ link: fujinliow.tumblr.com/post/25735333207/surprise-what-an-ex...
Surprise!: What an explosive looking doll. Imagine it coming to live like the toys in the Toy Story, what would it be like?