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- "Never interrupt an enemy who's making a mistake." Napoléon Bonaparte
7 years 10 months ago - 7 years 10 months ago #493
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7 years 8 months ago - 7 years 8 months ago #494
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December 24...
- Jesus is about to went on Earth... Lol
- Ku Klux Klan is created... Fuck
- Arms Trade Treaty comes into force... Superlol
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon joins the Free French Forces led by general Charles de Gaulle... 081!
EDIT : And don't ask me for precise dates and years, you should know that this world is a quantum one, since the time i tell it to you...
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December 24...
- Jesus is about to went on Earth... Lol
- Ku Klux Klan is created... Fuck
- Arms Trade Treaty comes into force... Superlol
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon joins the Free French Forces led by general Charles de Gaulle... 081!
EDIT : And don't ask me for precise dates and years, you should know that this world is a quantum one, since the time i tell it to you...
Last edit: 7 years 8 months ago by Nikita.
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7 years 8 months ago - 7 years 8 months ago #495
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January 7, 1785
The French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard , accompanied by his friend and American patron John Jeffries , cross the English Channel from Douvres to Guînes in 2 hours 25 minutes, aboard a balloon inflated with hydrogen.
The flight is dangerous: After making about a third of the crossing, their balloon begins to go down. After the two balloonists have thrown overboard everything they have, the balloon resumes altitude to two-thirds when it starts to go down again. Blanchard and Jeffries must, this time, throw not only the anchor and ropes, but also undress and throw overboard some of their clothes. As their balloon recovers some altitude, they plan to use their last resource, which would be to cut the basket. Finally, as they approach the French coast, the balloon rises at last, describes a magnificent arc over the shore before landing in the forest of Guînes, in the Pas-de-Calais.
This feat has a resonance throughout Europe and Blanchard travels to many countries to perform balloon flight demonstrations, as well as parachute trials with animals. Blanchard will make a total of sixteen flights in Europe in 1785.
In 1793, during his stay in United-States, he performs his forty-fifth flight which is also the first flight in United-States, between Philadelphia and Woodbury, under the gaze of prestigious witnesses as President-in-Office George Washington and four of his successors who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.
In 1808, during his sixty-sixth flight, Blanchard has a heart attack and crashes from heighteen meters high. He will die from his injuries on March 7, 1809. His second wife, Madeleine Sophie Armant, who had accompanied him since 1805, continued the free flight presentations.
She will also lose her life during a flight, in Paris on July 6, 1819, in the fire of her balloon.
The French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard , accompanied by his friend and American patron John Jeffries , cross the English Channel from Douvres to Guînes in 2 hours 25 minutes, aboard a balloon inflated with hydrogen.
The flight is dangerous: After making about a third of the crossing, their balloon begins to go down. After the two balloonists have thrown overboard everything they have, the balloon resumes altitude to two-thirds when it starts to go down again. Blanchard and Jeffries must, this time, throw not only the anchor and ropes, but also undress and throw overboard some of their clothes. As their balloon recovers some altitude, they plan to use their last resource, which would be to cut the basket. Finally, as they approach the French coast, the balloon rises at last, describes a magnificent arc over the shore before landing in the forest of Guînes, in the Pas-de-Calais.
Monument in the forest of Guînes, at Blanchard and Jeffries landing spot.
This feat has a resonance throughout Europe and Blanchard travels to many countries to perform balloon flight demonstrations, as well as parachute trials with animals. Blanchard will make a total of sixteen flights in Europe in 1785.
In 1793, during his stay in United-States, he performs his forty-fifth flight which is also the first flight in United-States, between Philadelphia and Woodbury, under the gaze of prestigious witnesses as President-in-Office George Washington and four of his successors who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.
In 1808, during his sixty-sixth flight, Blanchard has a heart attack and crashes from heighteen meters high. He will die from his injuries on March 7, 1809. His second wife, Madeleine Sophie Armant, who had accompanied him since 1805, continued the free flight presentations.
She will also lose her life during a flight, in Paris on July 6, 1819, in the fire of her balloon.
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On January 27, 1968, the submarine La Minerve sinks off Toulon
On January 27, 1968 at 07:55 hrs, Minerve was travelling just under the surface using her snorkel, roughly 25 nautical miles (46 km) from her base in Toulon, when she advised an accompanying Breguet Atlantic aircraft that she would be at her berth in about an hour; 52 crewmen, including six officers, were on board. She was never heard from again. She was lost in waters between 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) deep.
Commander Philipe Bouillot later said that Minerve's new captain Lieutenant André Fauve had spent 7,000 hours submerged over four years on submarines of the same class and never had a problem. The only factor known that could have caused her to sink was the weather, which was extremely bad at the time of her loss.]
The French Navy promptly launched a search for the missing submarine mobilizing numerous ships, including the aircraft carrier Clemenceau and the submersible SP-350 Denise under the supervision of Jacques Cousteau, but found nothing and the operation was called off on 2 February. However, the search for Minerve, under the name Operation Reminer continued into 1969 and utilized the submersible Archimède with the U.S. survey ship USNS Mizar. To this day no trace of the vessel has been found.
Minerve was lost at about the same time as the INS Dakar (a few days apart), over 1,450 miles (2,330 km) away. Two more submarines were lost to unknown causes in the same year; the Soviet submarine K-129 and the U.S. submarine USS Scorpion.
On January 27, 1968 at 07:55 hrs, Minerve was travelling just under the surface using her snorkel, roughly 25 nautical miles (46 km) from her base in Toulon, when she advised an accompanying Breguet Atlantic aircraft that she would be at her berth in about an hour; 52 crewmen, including six officers, were on board. She was never heard from again. She was lost in waters between 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) deep.
Commander Philipe Bouillot later said that Minerve's new captain Lieutenant André Fauve had spent 7,000 hours submerged over four years on submarines of the same class and never had a problem. The only factor known that could have caused her to sink was the weather, which was extremely bad at the time of her loss.]
The French Navy promptly launched a search for the missing submarine mobilizing numerous ships, including the aircraft carrier Clemenceau and the submersible SP-350 Denise under the supervision of Jacques Cousteau, but found nothing and the operation was called off on 2 February. However, the search for Minerve, under the name Operation Reminer continued into 1969 and utilized the submersible Archimède with the U.S. survey ship USNS Mizar. To this day no trace of the vessel has been found.
Minerve was lost at about the same time as the INS Dakar (a few days apart), over 1,450 miles (2,330 km) away. Two more submarines were lost to unknown causes in the same year; the Soviet submarine K-129 and the U.S. submarine USS Scorpion.
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7 years 7 months ago #497
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February 9th, 1971
Worst accident in the history of European first class train Trans Europ Express (TEE) with many casualties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitrang#Major_rail_accident
You can get more information from the German Wikipedia page
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_von_Aitrang
Worst accident in the history of European first class train Trans Europ Express (TEE) with many casualties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitrang#Major_rail_accident
You can get more information from the German Wikipedia page
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenbahnunfall_von_Aitrang
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7 years 6 months ago - 7 years 6 months ago #498
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March 9, 1831
By order of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and at the instigation of Marshal Soult, Minister of War, the French Foreign Legion is created.
By order of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, and at the instigation of Marshal Soult, Minister of War, the French Foreign Legion is created.
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