Trusting ships and crews to do the right thing....LOL. I guess they're so clean that they dump before they get to the canal.. Hmm I wonder where that overabundance of oil came from on the Delaware and MD beaches came from....Space Aliens! Most likely. Either that or law abiding ships I guess.
But now that you have steered the thread into the proverbial cesspool, .....
Are you saying Jim that human waste is being used on farm fields? The farms around here have waste ponds from the animal areas that are pumped out a few times a year and sprayed on fields with huge sprayers as opposed to older method of mechanical spreading of solids, do NOT fall into that pond. But, back in the 80's I started seeing tanker trucks marked "Agri-Sludge" smeared with nasty looking stuff and smelling awful and leaving horrible, slippery, nasty looking stuff on the street.......
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a very well- known person, is probably better known by his nickname, The Red Baron due to him painting his plane red so he could be recognized in combat by the enemy. A fighter pilot in WWI, he is credited with 80 air victories before being shot down himself and killed in 1918. He won much acclaim and many decorations, including the Prussian Pour le Mérite, better known to English speakers as The Blue Max. He was the commanding officer of Jagdgeschwader 1, again better known to English speakers as The Flying Circus.
Most casual accounts and I think memories of the man and the squadron end with Richthofen but he was not the last, or even the next- to- last commander of that squadron. He was simply the last famous commander, at least in his own time. As Richthofen died in April 1918, and the war did not end until Nov. 1918, there would be time for two more officers to command that group, both aces in their own rights with 20 kills each. But it is the second and final commander that I think surprises most people- he started WWI in the infantry and did not even learn to fly until 1916 and was then wounded so badly that he was hospitalized for nearly a year before again returning to the war. He would be awarded the Iron Cross, First Class as well as the coveted Blue Max in addition to gaining 20 air victories. He survived the war and went onto.... oh, I guess politics, broadly speaking. His name was Herman Goering, eventually Reichsmarschall of the Luftwaffe, a morphine addict after 1923, second in the command structure only to Adolf Hitler and would end up being the highest ranking Nazi to be tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Found guilty, he was sentenced to death by hanging but cheated the hangman by committing suicide using cyanide the night before his scheduled execution. Goering was instrumental in bringing the National Socialist or Nazi party to power, as well as moving Hitler from the chancellor of a republic to the dictator of the nation.
At least this provides us a small break from the hectic political discussions going on now, Sat., 31 Oct. 2020..... three days before the US election.
For those of you dating Barbie dolls....
Looking just above the butt on the back of the torso, there is a date stamp. Most of the Barbies we have at the house have 1966 on that. That is not an indicator of when it was produced. Look at the back of the head or around the neck for the true date of manufacture. Mattel has used the 1966 torsos for many years after that.
This has been a Word to the Wise Public Service Announcement.
Well, after a couple of years, he [Francis Gary Powers] was traded for a Soviet spy, across a bridge in Berlin, real cold- war stuff ...