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"Why does everywhere look exactly the same?": Come read this thread on modern architecture and how some cities are bucking the trend
Do you ever spend a day in a urban center, surrounded by modern, newly-built architecture, and then when you get home you're just like...
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Wee Willie’s Last Flight: Unveiling the B-17 Startling Photo
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Wee Willie falling apart after a direct hit by German flak, April 1945.
“Following the impact, the fuselage ignited, and after descending approximately 5,000 feet the left wing detached. The descent continued, and when the fuselage was approximately 3,000 feet above the ground, it experienced a first explosion, followed by another upon impact with the ground.”
Among the nine-man crew of Wee Willie, only Lt. Fuller survived. Reports indicate that the initial explosion forcefully ejected him from the ****pit, from where he successfully deployed his parachute and safely landed on the ground. Regrettably, he was promptly captured by German forces, and his subsequent fate remains unknown.
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Interesting side note: Wallis Simpson's maiden name was Wallis Warfield. She was the niece of Solomon Davies Warfield, who built railways through Florida as well as the Seminole Inn in Indiantown.
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Revealed: The secret deal for Wallis Simpson to leave Edward
As the Abdication crisis reached boiling-point in the dying days of 1936, was Wallis Simpson ready and willing to be bought out of her forthcoming marriage to King Edward VIII?
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what a waste. April 1945 is when the war endsWee Willie’s Last Flight: Unveiling the B-17 Startling Photo
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Wee Willie falling apart after a direct hit by German flak, April 1945.
“Following the impact, the fuselage ignited, and after descending approximately 5,000 feet the left wing detached. The descent continued, and when the fuselage was approximately 3,000 feet above the ground, it experienced a first explosion, followed by another upon impact with the ground.”
Among the nine-man crew of Wee Willie, only Lt. Fuller survived. Reports indicate that the initial explosion forcefully ejected him from the ****pit, from where he successfully deployed his parachute and safely landed on the ground. Regrettably, he was promptly captured by German forces, and his subsequent fate remains unknown.
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