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Vietnamese bar girls & GFs of the 1960s & 1970s (many pics) These are some pretty nice looking ladies. I suppose I have an affinity with those times as my primary and secondary school years coincided with the Vietnam war and it ended the year I left school/home. Growing up as a teenager, our family had the habit of eating an early dinner and then watching the news on TV at 7pm. And of course the Vietnam war featured in the headlines. So I grew up on a diet of this sort of news. I still have vivid memories of the monk who splashed petrol and lit himself in protest, the viet traitor guy that was shot in the head point blank with a pistol in the street and the napalm girl running away for help.. Around 1971-72, my father was offered a job on a hydro dam project in Cambodia and was all set to go and then, the civil war there got worse and the project was shut down. Australia had a ballot system for conscription to serve in Vietnam and my older brother drew a short straw with his mo...

The public executions of Indian Muslims soldiers by British firing squad for refusing to fight in WWI (The 1915 Singapore Mutiny) The 5th Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army arrived in Singapore from Madras in October 1914. They had been sent to replace the Yorkshire Light Infantry, which had been ordered to France. The regiment was a long established one dating from 1803. Unusually for 1914-15 it was an entirely Muslim unit. In November 1914, the British government decided to send the 5th Light Infantry to Hong Kong. However, rumours were circulated among the sepoys that they might be sent to Europe or Turkey, to fight against their Muslim brethren. When the order to sail to Hong Kong aboard the Nile arrived in February 1915, the sepoys (Indian soldiers), believing the rumours to be true, decided it was the time to rebel. The Bolshevik's (Russians) would round up every village in the east and south of Poland and cleanse them whilst leaving behind the women for rape before k...

HEADPHONES FROM THE 1920S  Acoustic system dating from 1922 abandoned then taken up and improved between the 30s and 40s before Hitler came to power to hear enemy planes arriving from afar.  Called "The Big Dutch Ears"  This could make it possible to detect a fighter plane and fighter-bomber plane penetrating an airspace below radar detection coverage and thus raise the alert.  Casually “big ears” could hear an engine more than 200 kilometers away by a seasoned technician Welcome to Summitgist.blogspot.com This is a blog site that focused on all that’s interesting and matters and history event. As a visitor, you are free to participate by sharing, comment, and asking of questions and don't forget minding our policy in regards to whatever things you choose to do. You can also subscribe to our Leak sex video channel A place where you can watch real lives leak sex video that has surface online. Don't be left out. Thank you.

In 2001, author Steve Kemper  got a $250,000 advance  to write about a forthcoming invention that, he said, "would sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking." The media went into a frenzy trying to predict what it might be. Some sort of miraculous  Stirling engine  that would run on hydrogen, perhaps? The invention turned out to be the Segway, and it was more  punchline  than revolutionary transportation device. As you've probably noticed, the Segway never became a feasible alternative to cars in developing nations (as its inventor Dean Kamen predicted) and it didn't solve the problem of gridlock. History is filled with examples of new inventions that supporters thought would be transformational — and then turned out to be minor fads. And these failures show how hard it is for inventors to anticipate society's needs.  It's tough to predict what will change the world, because it's tough to predict how the world will change. 1) ...