I think the U.S. only ever had one ship of the line in the USS Independence. They were terribly expensive and the U.S. Navy focused on frigates instead. This was the USS Independence before she was cut down to a 54-gun frigate. She was originally 90 guns.
Pretty interesting and I think it applies here: http://thechive.com/2012/03/19/then-and-now-31-photos/
I know where I am going when the Zombie apocalypse hits. Between the moat, and the walls lining the water- it's easily the safest place. Just have to stock up enough supplies.
I'm heading to Helms Deep because lets be honest, Zombies aren't working together to build ladders and seige towers
Surrounded by wet sand. Walls are still 30 feet high and 10 feet thick. And you are all welcome to join me, but you must address me as Lord MK the Third.
That's not the sun, that's the largest bomb ever detonated. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter. Tsar Bomba from 100 miles away
Historical significance is that this is a big ass cannon from the 1400s. It shot 20", 400 pound cannon balls up to 2 miles, and could only be fired 8-10 times a day because of the heat generated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_Meg
Standing at 3'7", Eddie Gaedel is officially the shortest player to ever register an MLB plate appearance. Gaedel walked on four pitches in his only plate appearance and was then pinch run for. His uniform No. 1/8, is immortalized in the baseball Hall of Fame.
3 things 1. you got to CROSS THE MOTHER FUCKING T in naval warfare 2. those huge standard bearing ships (the constitution and others like it) would literally rise 5-10+ feet out of the water during a battle due to the thousands and thousands of lbs of metal being shot off of it 3. TSAR BOMBA was meant to be detonated closer to the ground: Although simplistic fireball calculations predicted the fireball would impact the ground, the bomb's own shock wave reflected back and prevented this.[9] The fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane and was seen almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 64 kilometres (40 mi) high (nearly eight times the height of Mount Everest), which meant that the cloud was well inside the mesosphere when it peaked. The base of the cloud was 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide. All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 kilometres (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were completely destroyed.
Crossing the T or Capping the T is a classic naval warfare tactic attempted from the late 19th to mid 20th century, in which a line of warships crossed in front of a line of enemy ships, allowing the crossing line to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy.[1]
yes i know he went full on badass and split them in 3, i was just saying in naval battle back then the prevailing view at least was to try and cross the t
http://www.amazon.com/Nelsons-Trafa...7951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332206382&sr=8-1 It's a really good read, coming from someone who doesn't like reading that much I think back then(18th/early 19th) it was to sail in parallel lines, with the windward line in an attacking position and the leeward line in a defensive position.
love reading about British naval history, the gf is currently taking History of Seapower and so I always take her books and read when she is done with them
I think there was a post in here somewhere about Stalin and his tendency to edit people out of photographs after they were killed for wronging him or something. Is that what you were looking for?
nah. just reexamined the prompt and i need one that "exemplifies the definition of pictorial falsehood"