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  1. Grey Havoc

    Dasani Water marketing disaster (UK, 2004)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD79NZroV88
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    • 1992 20th century 21st century mineral water mineral-enhanced treated tap water only fools and horses peckham spring sidcup the coca-cola company united kingdom
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    • Forum: The Bar
  2. Grey Havoc

    Bees, Birds, and Physics

    https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/05/13/2147225/previously-unknown-letter-reveals-einsteins-thinking-on-bees-birds-and-physics
  3. Grey Havoc

    Biak Launch Center (Late '70s, 1980s)

    According to Wikipedia there was an attempt to revive the project in the late 2000s (from 2006 onwards, and possibly into the early 2010s) in co-operation with the Russians. Initially at least this version of the plan included an air launch element. It appears to have been at this time when the...
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    • 1980 1980s 20th century 21st century aeronautical and space agency biak space port cold war indonesia lapan national institute of aeronautics and space
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  4. Grey Havoc

    Airfix

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.
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    • 1939 1940s 1950s 1980s 20th century 21st century great britain model making models toymaker
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  5. Grey Havoc

    Cocaine hippos

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56011594
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    • 1993 2021 20th century 21st century bbc colombia invasive species pablo escobar
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    • Forum: The Bar
  6. Grey Havoc

    Square Kilometre Array Observatory

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55933958 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array https://www.skatelescope.org/
  7. Grey Havoc

    Ben Bova passes away

    http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=45038 https://www.tor.com/2020/11/30/legendary-science-fiction-author-ben-bova-has-passed-at-the-age-of-88/ The hits still just keep coming as 2020 draws to a close. Rest In Peace. :(
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    • 2020 20th century 21st century covid-19 famous authors greats sci-fi wuhan coronavirus
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    • Forum: The Bar
  8. Grey Havoc

    Gracias Diego

    2020, the year that just keeps giving: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/11/25/diego-maradona-dead-aged-60-according-reports-argentina/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/11/25/diego-maradona-one-greatest-footballers-game-has-ever-seen/...
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    • 2020 20th century 21st century sport
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  9. Grey Havoc

    The return of Vinyl records

    Thought we already had a thread touching on this general subject, but could not find it for the life of me. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54904756
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    • 20th century 21st century acetate discs cool lacquers lp record master discs phonograph record
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    • Forum: The Bar
  10. Grey Havoc

    McKinley Climatic Laboratory

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eavbt2GLRLg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinley_Climatic_Laboratory
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    • 20th century 21st century building 440 cold war eglin air force base us army air force usaf world war ii
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  11. Grey Havoc

    Austrian Wine Poisoning Scandal (Fredrik Knudsen)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhN-o2ame-4
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    • 1970s 1976 1980s 1984 1985 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal 20th century adulteration anti-freeze wine germany
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    • Forum: The Bar
  12. covert_shores

    Narco Submarines: Covert Shores Recognition Guide - H I Sutton, March 2020

    Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Narco-Submarines-Covert-Shores-Recognition/dp/B086G11WMM My third book, this time attempting to make sense of the many and varied 'narco submarines' used by drug smugglers. Mostly between Colombia and Mexico, but also in the Atlantic. As well as piecing together...
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    • 20th century 21st century midget submarines reference works semi-submersibles war on drugs
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  13. Grey Havoc

    Christmas Eve In London (1919)

    Meant to post this a few days ago, but didn't get the chance. From the Times December 24th, 1919:
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    • 1919 20th century christmas times of london times past
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    Igor Sikorsky's first helicopters (1909-1910)

    Presenting Igor Sikorsky as the father of the helicopter is not so far-fetched as it may seem. His 1939 tests of the VS-300 were hardly the first successful flights of a rotorcraft, but they marked the first time someone built a helicopter, flew it sufficiently high and long and repeatedly to...
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    Lighter-than-air and hybrid airship concepts

    When was the technology available for the introduction of SkyCats should a demand for their capability arise earlier?
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