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by klr » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:52 pm
Staying on matters WWI + naval, I remember reading a feature about this in the Reader's Digest many, many moons ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar
... By ironic coincidence the "Cap Trafalgar" was disguised as the "Carmania"; while the "Carmania" was disguised as the "Cap Trafalgar".
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Simpson, Colin. The Ship That Hunted Itself - Penguin Books, 1977
Yup, that would be about right.
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by Clinton Huxley » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:56 pm
klr wrote:Staying on matters WWI + naval, I remember reading a feature about this in the Reader's Digest many, many moons ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar
... By ironic coincidence the "Cap Trafalgar" was disguised as the "Carmania"; while the "Carmania" was disguised as the "Cap Trafalgar".
References
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Simpson, Colin. The Ship That Hunted Itself - Penguin Books, 1977
Yup, that would be about right.
Just read a bit where von Spee's Pacific squadron sails to some remote French island to take on supplies. The local French officals assume they are British and give them all they need. The Germans only allow English speaking officers to deal with the French. As the squadron sails away, the French raise the Tricolor in salute. At which point von Spee raises the flag of the Kriegsmarine....
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by klr » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:57 pm
Clinton Huxley wrote:klr wrote:Staying on matters WWI + naval, I remember reading a feature about this in the Reader's Digest many, many moons ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar
... By ironic coincidence the "Cap Trafalgar" was disguised as the "Carmania"; while the "Carmania" was disguised as the "Cap Trafalgar".
References
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Simpson, Colin. The Ship That Hunted Itself - Penguin Books, 1977
Yup, that would be about right.
Just read a bit where von Spee's Pacific squadron sails to some remote French island to take on supplies. The local French officals assume they are British and give them all they need. The Germans only allow English speaking officers to deal with the French. As the squadron sails away, the French raise the Tricolor in salute. At which point von Spee raises the flag of the Kriegsmarine....
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by Red Katie » Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:32 pm
I just finished Mark Twain, A Life, by Ron Powers. A good read. I was thrilled to find out that Susy, his eldest, most beloved daughter, was a lesbian. Why this is thrilling I don't quite know; it has nothing to do with me. I guess it's good to meet family when you read history.
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by AshtonBlack » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:16 pm
Re-reading the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.
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by klr » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:19 pm
Red Katie wrote:I just finished Mark Twain, A Life, by Ron Powers. A good read. I was thrilled to find out that Susy, his eldest, most beloved daughter, was a lesbian. Why this is thrilling I don't quite know; it has nothing to do with me. I guess it's good to meet family when you read history.
I have this book as well ...
... but like a hundred or more others that I have, it is still unread.
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by Azathoth » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:23 pm
Lord of the Rings again. Have read it 30 odd times now and it is always fresh every time I pick it up. I do have a reason to reread it though. Wifey has to write her English dissertation on it so I'm filling it up with post it notes in the relevant places for her.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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by Red Katie » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:12 am
klr wrote:Red Katie wrote:I just finished Mark Twain, A Life, by Ron Powers. A good read. I was thrilled to find out that Susy, his eldest, most beloved daughter, was a lesbian. Why this is thrilling I don't quite know; it has nothing to do with me. I guess it's good to meet family when you read history.
I have this book as well ...
... but like a hundred or more others that I have, it is still unread.
Well worth reading. Move it to the top of the list.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:51 pm
Finally got The Greatest Show on Earth. Seems exclusionary. I mean, really, couldn't evolution happen on other planets?
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by Xamonas Chegwé » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:40 pm
Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:Finally got The Greatest Show on Earth. Seems exclusionary. I mean, really, couldn't evolution happen on other planets?
He doesn't say that. He merely says that, if it did happen, it would have to be very similar to what has happened here.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:41 pm
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:Finally got The Greatest Show on Earth. Seems exclusionary. I mean, really, couldn't evolution happen on other planets?
He doesn't say that. He merely says that, if it did happen, it would have to be very similar to what has happened here.
He takes the blame for the title in the foreword, so that won't fly. He has made a permanent enemy.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:42 pm
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