Why Is the Rook so Short?

You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him

Robert Heinlein

"Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace"

The smallest coffins are the heaviest

"Beware the fury of a patient man" 

John Dryden

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds”

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

 lol ,yeah,even if you screw that up too,you are being yourself.

Same as the,Knowing you were in the good old days,when you were actually in the good old days.So true.

On Wednesday 15 January 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, a 90-foot wide cast iron tank containing two-and-a-half million gallons of crude molasses (for rum manufacture) exploded, probably because its contents had expanded during a rapid overnight rise in temperature.

The tank, belonging to the United States Industrial Alcohol Company, was set 50 feet above street level; its entire contents spilled within a few seconds and with no warning. The resulting thick, sticky “wall of molasses”, which at times was up to 15 feet high, ran through the streets, reaching a speed of 35mph.

It demolished buildings, tearing them from their foundations; it carried off vehicles and drowned horses. People who tried to outrun the wave were engulfed and drowned where they fell. In all, 21 people were killed and 150 injured (arriving at hospital, according to eyewitnesses “looking like toffee-apples”). The clean-up took weeks, and for decades afterwards the locals claimed they could distinctly smell molasses in hot weather.                                                   

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This image depicts the widespread damage in Boston’s North End caused by the explosion of a molasses tank in January 1919. (The Boston Globe via Getty Images)                     

Play-Doh

Play Dough (1956)

Play Dough (1956)

Kutol Wallpaper Cleaner was first conceived and manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio by Noah McVicker The putty compound removed coal soot from walls and wallpaper. When Americans switched to gas and electric heat, Kutol became a toy under the name of “Play-Doh” (1956).

496 new messages! Hello, guys! Have not seen you a long time!

What do we have now? A revolution in KFC!

LOL good one. Bloggs has not been on for a month now,but some of us want to keep the thread going.

@ jazis did you have a similar similar type of propaganda in Russia in the 50s air raid drills in school once a week or other so called safe guards.

I studied in a school in 80's

We had banners like that

I don't think it can be called a propaganda.

А propaganda was in a newspapers.

Phrases (peace, demilitarization...) and bases.

Nato says "Russians go offensive". On arrows: "Disarment proposals","Peacefull initiatives" etc

I hope he is ok.