The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's Dreadnought, had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar subsequent battleships were referred to as "dreadnoughts". Her design had two revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme and steam turbine propulsion. As dreadnoughts became a crucial symbol of national power, the arrival of these new warships renewed the naval arms race, principally between the United Kingdom and Germany but reflected worldwide, including South America (a Brazilian Minas Geraes-class battleship pictured). The concept of an all-big-gun ship had been in development for several years before Dreadnought's construction. The Imperial Japanese Navy had begun work on an all-big-gun battleship in 1904, but finished the ship as a semi-dreadnought; the United States Navy was also building all-big-gun battleships. Technical development continued rapidly through the dreadnought era and within ten years, new battleships outclassed Dreadnought herself. Most of the original dreadnoughts were scrapped after the end of World War I under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. Large dreadnought fleets only fought once, at the Battle of Jutland.
Sunday, April 06, 2025
From my email: Dreadnought Class Battleship
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
marmoreal \mahr-MAWR-ee-uhl, -MOHR-\, adjective:
- of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness.
First appearing in English in the late 1700s, marmoreal comes from the Latin term marmoreus, which literally means "of marble."
window eating
- The act of standing in front of a refrigerator with the door open for an over-excessive amount of time and then closing the door without taking anything. Usually done by picky eaters or one who is bored out of his/her mind.
If your so hungry stop window eating and just grab something!
History
- Olympics: the first modern games opened in Athens (1896)
- North Pole: Robert Peary and his assistant, Matthew Henson, along with four Inuit men, became the first visitors to the site; their claim has been disputed (1909)
- WWI: US declared war on Germany and entered the Great War (1917)
- Twinkie: golden sponge cake snack food with creamy filling was invented (1930)
- Teflon: nonstick coating was accidentally invented by Roy J. Plunkett (1938)
Birthdays
- Raphael Sanit 1483 - Artist
- Rose Schneiderman 1882 - U.S. women’s rights activist
- Walter Huston (Houghston) 1884 - Actor (Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948])
- Lowell Thomas 1892 - Broadcaster, journalist
- "Pappy" Wade Ray 1913 - Country musician, entertainer ("Grand Ol' Opry")
- Herb Thomas 1923 - NASCAR auto racer
- Mimi Benzell 1924 - Opera singer
- Dorothy Donegan 1924 - Jazz pianist
- Gerry Mulligan 1927 - Jazz musician, composer
- Joi Lansing (Joyce Wassmansdoff) 1928 - Actress ("Easter Parade", "Singin’ in the Rain")
- Ivan Dixon 1931 - Actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), director, producer
- Merle Haggard 1937 - Country musician, songwriter
- Billy Dee (December) Williams 1937 - Actor ("The Return of the Jedi")
- Roy Thinnes 1938 - Actor ("The Invaders", "Outer Limits")
- Philip Austin 1941 - Comedian and writer
- Barry Levinson 1942 - Director, producer
- John Stax 1944 - Musician (The Pretty Things)
- John Huarte 1944 - Football player
- John Ratzenberger 1947 - Actor ("Empire Strikes Back"' "Cheers")
- Bert (Rik Aalbert) Blyleven 1951 - Baseball pitcher
- Janet Lynn (Nowicki) 1953 - Figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist
- Michael Rooker 1955 - Actor (TWD)
- Warren Haynes 1960 - Musician (Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers)
- Stan Cullimore 1962 - Musician, songwriter (The Housemartins)
- Frank Black 1965 - Singer, musician (The Pixies)
- Vince Flynn 1966 - Author
- Paul Rudd 1969 - Actor ("Friends")
- Ari Meyers 1970 - Actress ("Author! Author!", "Kate & Allie")
- Jason Hervey 1972 - Actor ("The Wonder Years", "Back to the Future")
- Markku Lappalainen 1973 - Musician (Hoobastank)
- Zach Braff 1975 - Actor ("Scrubs")
- Candace Cameron Bure 1976 - Actress ("Full House")
- Bret Harrison 1982 - Actor ("Grounded for Life")
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Saturday, April 05, 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
daven \DAH-vuhn\, verb:
- to pray.
Daven entered English in the mid-nineteenth century from Yiddish.
Link Diving
- The act of clicking further and further from your original subject of research. Commonly related to the popular website Wikipedia.com
I started out reading about Big Foot on Wikipedia, but two hours later of link diving later and I knew all about The Spring Heeled Jack of London.
Trivia
Which element is the best conductor of both electricity and heat?
- Silver.
History
- Pocahontas: Algonquian princess married English colonist John Rolfe, a tobacco planter (1614)
- veto: was used by a US president for 1st time — by George Washington; it was another half century before Congress first overrode a presidential veto (1792)
- manual alphabet: Anne Sullivan breaks through to Helen Keller when she spells "water" into her hand (1887)
- Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: Japanese "Pearl Bridge" opened; it links Kobe to Awaji Island and, at 1,991 meters or 6,532 feet, is the world's longest suspension bridge (1998)
Birthdays
- Thomas Hobbes 1588
- Elihu Yale 1649
- Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)
- Robert Smalls 1839
- Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)
- Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")
- Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There")
- Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India
- Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")
- Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis)
- Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth")
- Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie")
- Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer
- Roger Corman 1926 - Director
- Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters)
- Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition")
- Cowboy Jack Clement 1931
- Billy Bland 1932 - Singer
- Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player
- Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Ronnie White - Singer (The Miracles)
- Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash
- David LaFlamme 1941
- Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods")
- Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer
- Allan Clark 1942 - Singer (The Hollies)
- Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller")
- Dave Holland 1944 - Musician (Judas Priest)
- Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player
- Jane Asher 1946 - Actress
- Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut
- Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA)
- Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player
- Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player
- Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player
- Peter Greenway 1952
- Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls)
- Stan Ridgeway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo)
- Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam)
- Troy Gentry 1967 - Country singer
- Paula Cole 1968 - Singer
- Krista Allen 1971 - hottie
- Pharrel Williams 1973 - Rapper


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Friday, April 04, 2025
Rock out with your Slim Jim out!
ISOLAYTORE
Static-X
Kill myself nothing left
I feel this
Slowly I'm put to death
I've seen it all no regrets
Mental regress
Chemicals used in excess
Die old breathing cold
Cries heating broken lies
Kiss the world alive
Murder click
Let's begin
Overdrive let's go
Come alive let's go
Decimator
Isolaytore
Track the coming attack
Break your broken up back
Slow recirculation
Resilient
Take the time to do it
Take the time for tuning
Chew it up
Swallow it down
Will you unhinge me
Mend the physical bend
Try to smooth the grain out
Grind it 'til it's shallow
Take the sedatives
Make sense out of nothing
One of many talents
Sew it up
Put it to rest
To find a balance
Kill myself nothing left
I feel this
Slowly I'm put to death
I've seen it all no regrets
Mental regress
Chemicals used in excess
Die old breathing cold
Cries heating broken lies
Kiss the world alive
Murder click
Let's begin
Overdrive let's go
Come alive let's go
Decimator
Isolaytore
Track the coming attack
Break your broken up back
Slow recirculation
Resilient
Take the time to do it
Take the time for tuning
Chew it up
Swallow it down
Will you unhinge me
Mend the physical bend
Try to smooth the grain out
Grind it 'til it's shallow
Take the sedatives
Make sense out of nothing
One of many talents
Sew it up
Put it to rest
To find a balance
Have a great weekend!
Friday, April 4, 2025
*4*4*
preterition \pret-uh-RISH-uhn\, noun:- the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
- Law. the passing over by a testator of an heir otherwise entitled to a portion.
- Calvinistic Theology. the passing over by God of those not elected to salvation or eternal life.
- Rhetoric. paralipsis.
From the Latin stem praeterit- meaning "to go past," preterition first entered English at the turn of the sixteenth century. While the rhetorical and theological senses were present from the beginning, it took another 100 years for the legal sense to arise in the English language.
MeDD
- People who have trouble talking about anyone but themselves for any length of time. The "enough about me, what do you think of me" syndrome.
I like hanging out with Andrea, but her MeDD (Me-D-D) is so annoying. She'll ask me a question, but then jumps in with something about her.
My wallet is bursting with some serious williams.
History
- William Henry Harrison: went on record as the US president with the shortest tenure, dying one month after inauguration (1841)
- The Beatles: held all of the top 5 places on the Billboard Hot 100 (1964)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting striking sanitation workers (1968)
- World Trade Center: a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to mark the opening of the Twin Towers (1973)
- Microsoft: software behemoth was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1975)
Birthdays
- Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock)
- Isoroku Yamamoto 1884
- Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman) 1895 - Dancer
- John Cameron Swayze 1906 - Newsman
- Frances Langford (Frances Newbern) 1914 - Radio singer, actress ("Born to Dance", "Yankee Doodle Dandy")
- Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee")
- Elizabeth W. Wilson 1921 - Actress (TV: "The Addams Family", Movie: "The Graduate")
- Elmer Bernstein 1922 - Composer of film scores
- William Manchester 1922
- Gil (Gilbert Raymond) Hodges 1924 - Baseball player
- Maya Angelou 1928 - Author, poet
- Clive Davis 1932 - Record company executive
- Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series)
- Michael Parks 1938
- Angelo Giamatti 1938
- JoAnne Carner 1939 - Golfer
- Hugh Masekela 1939 - Musician, band leader
- Ernie Terrell 1939 - Boxer
- Major Lance 1941
- Jim (James Louis) Fregosi 1942 - Baseball player
- Kris Jensen 1942 - Singer
- Kitty Kelley 1942 - Author
- Mike (Michael Peter) Epstein 1943 - baseball player
- Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Poltergeist")
- Caroline McWilliams 1945 - Actress
- Ray (Raymond Earl) Fosse 1947 - Baseball catcher
- Ed White 1947 - Football player
- Barry Oakley 1948 - Musician, bass player (Allman Brothers)
- Christine Lahti 1950 - Actress
- Steve Gatlin 1951 - Singer (The Gatlin Brothers)
- Dave Hill 1952 - Musician, guitar player (Slade)
- Jerry Shirley 1952 - Musician (Humble Pie)
- Peter Haycock 1952 - Musician (Climax Blues Band)
- Graeme Kelling 1957 - Musician (Deacon Blue)
- Phil Morris 1959 - Actor
- Lorraine Toussaint 1960 - Actress ("Crossing Jordan," "Any Day Now")
- Ava Fabian 1962 - Playmate 08/1986, model, actress
- Craig Adams 1962 - Musician (The Cult)
- David Gavurin 1963 - Musician (Sundays)
- Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Iron Man)
- Frank Black 1965 - Musician (Pixies)
- Mike Starr (Michael Christopher Starr) 1966 - Musician (Alice in Chains)
- Barry Pepper 1970 - Actor
- Clay Davidson 1971 - Country Singer
- Jill Scott 1972 - Singer
- Magnus Sveningsson 1972 - Musician (The Cardigans)
- Kelly Price 1973 - Singer
- David Blaine 1973 - Magician
- Andre Dalyrimple 1974 - Singer (Soul for Real)
- Scott Rolen 1975 - Baseball player
- Natasha Lyonne 1979 - Actress
- Heath Ledger 1979 - Actor





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