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April 22, 2020

Tanks of the Early North Africa Campaigns, by The Chieftain – WW2 Special

Filed under: Africa, Britain, Germany, History, Italy, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, NorthAfrica, TimeGhost — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 21 Apr 2020

The Chieftain takes us to North Africa, where he talks us through the tanks that were used during the first months of the Battles in North Africa between the Italians and Germans on the one side and British and Commonwealth forces on the other.

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Written and Hosted by: The Chieftain
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: The Chieftain
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

Colorizations by:
Carlos Ortega Pereira,
BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…
Adrien Fillon – https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colo…

Sources:
Bundesarchiv
IWM KID 502, H 20697, E 443, H 1148, E380, KID346, E 1002, E 5366, E676, F 4594, E 1416, E 6605, E 15182, O 747, E 5559, E 142, F 2919, E 5036, F 2441, E 1772, E 9562, NA 2304, E 7304, E 2138
Noun Project: company soldiers by Andrei Yushchenko, Radio by Pravin Unagar, gearbox by Baboons, Shield by Nikita Kozin, Weight by Vadim Solomakhin, Game by Ecem Afacan, Target by RITASYA

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”
Johan Hynynen – “Dark Beginning”
Max Anson – “Ancient Saga”
Rannar Sillard – “Split Decision”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”
Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Rannar Sillard – “Easy Target”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Phoenix Tails – “At the Front”

Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

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The REAL Heroes of the M1 Carbine – not “Carbine” Williams

Filed under: History, Military, USA, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: Design, ForgottenWeapons, Guns, Manufacturing — Nicholas @ 04:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 21 Apr 2020

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The Hollywood-spawned mythos of the M1 Carbine is that it was created by David Marshall “Carbine” Williams. The reality is far different. In real life, Williams was talented, but short-tempered, stubborn, and unable to work effectively as part of a team — and a cohesive, cooperative team is what the M1 Carbine required.

While Williams was off sulking about how the work was being done wrong, a team of Winchester machinists and engineers including William Roemer and Fred Humiston were actually making it happen.

The most impressive anecdote of the whole story, to me, is from when the solitary Winchester prototype broke its bolt in the middle of the final testing. Fred Humiston was representing Winchester at the trials, and he was told that if he could provide a new bolt within 24 hours the gun could continue the trials — but he could not take the gun off the testing ground. So Humiston went back to the Winchester shop and made a new bolt from memory (no drawings yet existed for the gun) and without being able to test-fit it in the gun. When he returned the next day, his new bolt dropped in perfectly, and the gun went on to win the trials. That is an epic feat of skill, and it is really a shame that he does not get more recognition for it.

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Can We Build A Space Elevator? | Earth Lab

Filed under: Economics, Science, Space, Technology — Tags: Engineering, JamesMay, LowEarthOrbit, Physics — Nicholas @ 02:00

BBC Earth Lab
Published 5 Aug 2013

Getting to space in a rocket is expensive! One of the most popular alternative ideas is the space elevator, but is it really possible?

Here at BBC Earth Lab we answer all your curious questions about science in the world around you. If there’s a question you have that we haven’t yet answered or an experiment you’d like us to try let us know in the comments on any of our videos and it could be answered by one of our Earth Lab experts.

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QotD: Actors

Filed under: Humour, Media, Quotations, USA — Tags: Criticism, HLMencken, Theatre — Nicholas @ 01:00

Why waste a whole evening, once or twice a week, in a stuffy and over-red theater, breathing zymotic air, sniffing discordant perfumery, looking at idiotic scenery, listening to the bleeding English of ignorant and preposterous actors? Have you ever, in all your life, seen five leading men who actually looked like civilized gentlemen, or even like the authentic valets, head clerks or unburied corpses of civilized gentlemen? Have you ever sat through a whole performance without wishing it were possible to take at least one of the actors out into the alley, there to do execution of the lex non scripta upon him? Eheu, Postume, what all of us have suffered at the hands of such strutting mummers and mountebanks! How we have writhed and squirmed beneath their astounding outrages upon the vulgate! What is worse than an actor? Two actors? Three actors? A whole stage full of actors! An endless succession of actors! … How we have leaped and squealed under their broad a‘s, their fearful renderings of proper names, their obscene attempts at boarding school French! How our paws have itched to grab them by the collars of their advanced coats, and to strangle them with their futurist shirts, and to anatomize them with the razor edges of their superbly ironed pantaloons! …

There are, of course, such things as good actors. Let us be just and admit it. I have seen and known a few myself, and have heard of a few more. There are half a dozen in England and as many in France. In Germany, I dare say, the police have the names of twenty. (One memorable night, in that strange land, I saw two on the stage at once!) But is the good actor, either at home or abroad, the normal actor, the average actor? Of course he is not. He is the rare actor, the miraculous actor, almost the fabulous actor. Examine a hundred bartenders and you will find that fully sixty of them actually know how to tend bar: they can mix a cocktail that, whatever its faults, is at least fit to drink, and they have the craft needed to draw a Seidel of Pilsner and to beat the cash register. But in the allied art of acting there is no such general dispersion of talent. A handful of outstanding super-actors have it all. The rest of them not only don’t know how to act, but they don’t know that they don’t know.

H.L. Mencken, “Getting Rid of the Actor”, The Smart Set, 1913-09.

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