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Post #61…No Common Sense…Example #49
Thresher Submarine * The USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark. On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during...
Post #60…No Common Sense…Example #48
Sydney Opera House * The design for the Sydney Opera House won the architect an award! * The design could not be constructed! * The original plan had a 4 year timetable and a AU $7 million budget, but in the end it took $102 million and 14 years to complete. WHAT WERE...
Post #59…No Common Sense…Example #47
Liberty Ships * Liberty Ships were a class of cargo ships built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction....
Post #58…No Common Sense…Example #46
Electric Blackout * The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut...Delaware...Maryland...Massachusetts...New Hampshire...New Jersey...New...
Post #57…No Common Sense…Example #45
THE SUPREME COURT...NOT SO SUPREME ! From Webster's New World Dictionary...Third College Edition...supreme: (1) highest in rank, power, authority, etc.; dominant. TRUE. (2) highest in quality, achievement, performance, etc.; most excellent. FALSE. (3) highest in...
Post #56…No Common Sense…Example #44
George Santos When we don't understand what Common Sense is (i.e., our current definition for Common Sense is a degrading collection of words), and we suffer from civic ignorance (i.e., we don't understand how government works or how it should work...registered voters...
Post #55…No Common Sense…Example #43
Three Mile Island * The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, near the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg. It began at 4 a.m. on March 28,...
Post #54…No Common Sense…Example # 42
Rats Chicago, Illinois...Los Angeles, California...New York, New York...Washington, DC...San Francisco, California...Baltimore, Maryland... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...Detroit, Michigan...Denver, Colorado...Cleveland, Ohio; as a group they are a mosaic of Americas'...
Post #53…No Common Sense…Example #41
St. Francis Dam * The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in Los Angeles County, California, United States, built from 1924 to 1926 to serve Los Angeles's growing water needs. It catastrophically failed in 1928 due to a...