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09-28-2016 , 12:55 AM

#3276

All-inMcLovin

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

That makes like no sense

Seriously.

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09-28-2016 , 01:46 AM

#3277

Huehuecoyotl

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Never heard of low background steel before

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

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09-28-2016 , 02:15 AM

#3278

StimAbuser

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Originally Posted by ncboiler

What made them think that they got killed on a Friday and the killer hung out at the house through the weekend? Ya I know it appeared that someone was using the kitchen, cows were being fed, there was smoke coming out of the chimney, but who's to say they didn't get killed on Monday?

Were they able to estimate time of death that accurately back then?

I tried a quick google search of when estimated time of death started being used but didn't really find anything. That said I'd think they'd be able to do a rough estimate simply based off how decomposed the bodys are to at least determine how many day's they'd been dead.

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09-28-2016 , 02:25 AM

#3279

ncboiler

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Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Ya maybe. But it seems like there wouldn't be that much difference, at least back then, of a couple of days. Just thinking that they may have been killed much closer to the time their bodies were discovered.

Although I forgot that one of the kids didn't show up for school on Friday. However how uncommon was it for a kid to miss school?

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09-28-2016 , 02:26 AM

#3280

too eazy

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Never heard of low background steel before

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

this is fascinating and im surprised i never heard of it before, thanks for the share!

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09-28-2016 , 03:35 AM

#3281

PocketChads

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Originally Posted by Howard Treesong

These disputes seem pretty factual, and should be resolvable, no?

You're incorrect.

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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Yeah I'm seeing strong opinions and like zero citations.

You're incorrect.

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

not trying to be a dick just trying to this awesome thread back on track and organized...

isn't there a WW2 history thread somewhere?

You're incorrect.

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09-28-2016 , 08:31 AM

#3282

JudgeHoldem

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hadn't heard of this, saw a link on goodreads to the new book about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_A...t_shop_murders

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09-28-2016 , 09:45 AM

#3283

W0X0F

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Never heard of low background steel before

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

^This is why I love this thread!

I would have never even conceived of there being differences in types of steel. Interesting stuff.

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09-29-2016 , 12:53 AM

#3284

Purple_Sky

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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem

hadn't heard of this, saw a link on goodreads to the new book about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_A...t_shop_murders

I came across this a couple months ago, very sad story. This article explains what a total cluster**** the investigation was and continues to be

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09-29-2016 , 06:16 PM

#3285

lastcardcharlie

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90% of everything is rubbish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

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09-30-2016 , 01:49 AM

#3286

daveT

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Loving that low background steel article. My mind has been expanded today.

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09-30-2016 , 02:39 AM

#3287

Bluegrassplayer

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Sidney

An orphan taken in by Thomas Day, whose goal was to make her the perfect wife. His methods of instilling what he considered the ideal traits of a wife were a bit extreme.

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He used unusual and eccentric techniques to try to increase her fortitude, such as firing blanks at her skirts, dripping hot wax on her arms, and having her wade into a lake fully dressed to test her resilience to cold water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick

The Elephant Man

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09-30-2016 , 06:21 AM

#3288

O.A.F.K.1.1

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Not a wiki but gives a great overview of the Eastern front.

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10-04-2016 , 05:50 PM

#3289

Carnivore

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This page and many of it's "see also's" is pretty fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

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10-05-2016 , 04:57 PM

#3290

kokiri

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war

Portuguese man o'war: looks like a jellyfish, but it's actually a siphonophorae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae), one type of hydrozoid. That is, a colony of several distinct, highly specialised creatures who cannot exist independently of one another but coexist as what appears to be a single entity.

I can't quite get my head around it. Some of the drawings are really beautiful.

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10-05-2016 , 06:22 PM

#3291

Howard Treesong

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Originally Posted by Carnivore

This page and many of it's "see also's" is pretty fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Good one. There are some entertaining rabbit holes there, such as the fisherman who died when a fish he'd caught flopped up into his throat and choked him to death. WTF, that seems like one in millions and millions.

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10-05-2016 , 07:18 PM

#3292

that_pope

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There are a lot of fishermen catching lots of fish.

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10-06-2016 , 09:07 AM

#3293

daveT

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Originally Posted by kokiri

That is strange. Down on the Keys, they had signs all around the beaches warning about man o'wars. Every once in a while, you'd go down to the beach and find a hundred carcasses along the shore. They are really small.

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10-06-2016 , 10:27 AM

#3294

DudeImBetter

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Originally Posted by Carnivore

This page and many of it's "see also's" is pretty fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

"2006: Steve Irwin, the international celebrity known as the "Crocodile Hunter", died from being pierced hundreds of times in a few seconds by the barb of an 8-foot (2.4 m) stingray in chest-deep water, just as he and his cameraman were filming the final shot of the stingray swimming away from them."

Ignorant to how a stingray gets you hundreds of times in a few seconds...

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10-06-2016 , 10:32 AM

#3295

Bluegrassplayer

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I had to look up a few of the articles there. Mostly I was confused how a chicken stabs someone with a knife.

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10-06-2016 , 05:13 PM

#3296

ScottTK

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2013: Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claim he had become a snake. His mother took this to mean that he had been possessed by a snake, and called for her husband, 53-year-old Katsumi Nagaya. Katsumi spent the next two days head-butting and biting his son "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him" but instead causing his death.

This was my favotite.

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10-06-2016 , 11:09 PM

#3297

happyhappy...

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Originally Posted by Purple_Sky

I came across this a couple months ago, very sad story. This article explains what a total cluster**** the investigation was and continues to be

Unbelievable:

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Garcia says that he has offered to share with D.A. Lehmberg the timeline the defense developed, but to date, he says, she has not accepted that offer.

Just unreal ego.

Two unknown samples of DNA from the sexual assault of the victims, yet the DA and all 5 cold case detectives still believe the two teenagers who were coerced into giving false confessions are guilty of the crime.

Stellar work there guys.

(The original retired detective thinks they are obviously innocent, as has been plainly shown.)

And then the first couple 'fear God' type comments from a couple locals who think the teenagers are guilty as well are just mind numbingly stupid.

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10-10-2016 , 12:23 PM

#3298

darksideofthewal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev

Lost his family in a mid-air collision. Tracked down and killed the air-traffic controller. Got sentences for murder but was released after two years. Was hailed as a local hero and became a deputy minister. Will be portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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10-20-2016 , 04:36 PM

#3299

daveT

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Hedy Lamarr; Hollywood starlet goes nerd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

After an early and brief film career in Germany, which included a controversial film Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.

t the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.[4] Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology,[5][6][7] and this work led to their being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.