How snipers use their scopes
A lot of people don’t realize that you have to account for gravity and wind and other factors at distance. They think you just put the target on the middle of the cross-hairs.
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In 1995 an Australian doctor created the ‘Deliverance Machine’: a euthanasia device which utilised a software called ‘Deliverance’ – patients were posed three questions via a notebook computer, if they answered yes to all three, the machine administered a lethal dose of barbiturates
The “Deliverance Machine”, invented by Philip Nitschke was a euthanasia device which consisted of a notebook computer and software titled “Deliverance”, which asks the patient a series of questions, and automatically administers a lethal injection of barbiturates if the correct answers are made.
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The Lost German Girl, 1945. V-Day in Europe/
This is Lore Bauer. Born in Kollerschlag, Austria 1921. She was assigned to the Prague anti-aircraft department in late 1944 as a technical assistant, or Helferin.
Raped and beaten by Czech Partisans, Lore was caught fleeing the Red Army into West Czechoslovakia, which had just been declared a demarcated American military zone.
Lore survived the Allied internment camp system, then went on to build a new life, working for an Airlines company after the war.
She died in 94′, at the age of 73… The film footage was taken on May 8, 45′, near Plzeň, along the old Prague Highway, by Oren Haglund of the United States Army Air Corps.
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Born with a rare condition that caused her knees to bend backward, Ella Harper, known professionally as The Camel Girl, received a $200 per week as the star of a touring freak show in the 1880s.
In 1886 she was featured as the star in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, appearing in newspapers wherever the circus visited. The back of her pitch card reads:
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In 1984 Michael Larson was a contestant on Press Your Luck. Using the stop-motion on his VCR, he noticed that the presumed random patterns of the game board weren’t actually random, and memorized the sequences. He won 45 consecutive spins and earned a total of $110,237 in cash and prizes.
For 18 hours a day, he sat perched in front of the screens, analyzing every spin of the Big Board frame-by-frame, looking for patterns.
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This is a photo of Pelorus Jack.
He was a dolphin that used to guide ships through an extremely dangerous channel in New Zealand. First appearing in 1888, Jack escorted ships for the next 24 years.
If the crew did not see Jack, they would wait for him to appear. He guided ships through the narrow channel by swimming alongside them for approximately 20 minutes. There were no shipwrecks under his watch.
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In 1996, Binti Jua, an 8-year-old female Western lowland gorilla, tended to a 3-year-old boy who had fallen into her enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois.
The child had climbed the wall and fallen 24 feet (7.3m), breaking his hand and receiving a large gash on his face. Binti walked over and cradled the boy in her arms. She carried him over to the service entrance and handed him over to her zookeepers. Her 17-month old baby, Koola clutched her back throughout the whole ordeal.
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Hans-Georg Henke, a 16 year old German soldier, after a long battle he was captured by the American’s and taken as a POW. He burst into tears as a combination of shell shock and fear
A sixteen-year-old German anti-aircraft soldier of the Hitler Youth, Hans-Georg Henke, taken prisoner in the state of Hessen, Germany. He was a member of the Luftwaffe anti-air squad who burst into tears as his world crumbled around him.
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Insane dealership markups on a base model Bronco for a total of 83,000. MSRP 37,965.
What is dealer ship markup?
Car dealer markup is what dealerships add to jack up the price of a car. It’s above and beyond the factory MSRP.
A dealership makes its gross profit on a vehicle from the spread between what it must pay the factory for a car and the amount it collects from a customer at the point of sale. Once a dealership subtracts expenses, such as the salesperson’s commission and so forth, that’s their net profit on the vehicle.
There’s your wiggle room for negotiations on that new car.
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Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is frozen in time since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis. It still contains the ashtray with the last cigarette MLK ever smoked.
Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel is exactly the way it was on April 4th, 1968. The bed is made. The food tray is on the coffee table. The ashtray with a partially smoked cigarette is on the desk. As you peer into the hotel room, you see Dr. King’s surroundings during the final minutes of his life — frozen in time.
Dr. King stayed at the Lorraine Motel numerous times while visiting Memphis. In April 1968, he came to the city to support striking sanitation workers. On April 4th, he stepped onto the balcony outside room 306 to talk to friends in the parking lot below. He asked the saxophonist, Ben Branch, to play ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ at a rally that would be held that evening. As he turned to walk back into his room, a bullet struck him in the neck. He died instantly.
