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Angelina a spy? Source says she may be a CIA asset

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The so-called “leading expert” on the relationship between Hollywood and the US government is to be believed, Angelina may have been recruited as an asset by the spy agency at some point in the 2000s.
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2070 year anniversary of Caesar crossing the Rubicon
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More lost and found ships, this time The Endurance
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.

The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.

Video of the remains show Endurance to be in remarkable condition.

Even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.

Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name - Endurance - is clearly visible on the stern.
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the deep sea drones are really opening up the ocean in our lifetime.

the old joke about us knowing more about the moon than about the ocean is slowly losing its sting.
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That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:

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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:02 am

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That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:

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Re fighter pilot & ace Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka "The Red Baron"

highest-scoring pilot in the history of the F-14 Tomcat.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboo ... ran-184856

https://www.ww2wrecks.com/portfolio/jal ... 14-tomcat/

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/intervi ... he-tomcat/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalil_Zandi


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That would be the first burial of the Red Baron. He was later dug up and reinterred several times:
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Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:16 am Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
This reminds me of the one of the "best and the brightest[TM]" using body count and other statistical measures as a proxy for military success during the Vietnam War.
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Typhoon wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:33 am
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:16 am Sabermetricians have developed a formula applied to baseball players called, "Wins Above Replacement" (WAR for short) to quantify how many more wins a player contributed to a team measured against a theoretical replacement level player.

Well, someone tried to apply a similar formula to military generals.

The Top 10?

10. Alexander the Great

9. Georgy Zhukov

8. Frederick the Great

7. Ulysses S. Grant

6. Hannibal Barca

5. Khalid Ibn al-Walid

4. Takeda Shingen

3. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

2. Julius Caesar

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
This reminds me of the one of the "best and the brightest[TM]" using body count and other statistical measures as a proxy for military success during the Vietnam War.
Yes, and with about as much success :mrgreen:
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its the clutch perfomances in high pressure games that count :)
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Ah yes. There was a reddit thread complaining that Napoleon was more a complier.

But the same thread also came to a conclusion that, nevertheless, he was worth more per victory than (Angels centerfielder) Mike Trout; so he's got that going for him.
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