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Sad but true. Doctors even call the condition "broken heart syndrome." What happens? A sudden, traumatic event stuns the heart, leaving the aggrieved with chest pain and shortness of breath.
Sounds like a heart attack, but is it? Not exactly. Unlike a heart attack, broken heart syndrome is reversible and doesn't cause permanent heart damage. But if left untreated, a heart malfunction can lead to complications and even death.
People aren't the only ones who suffer from broken hearts. Animals suffer, too: Mary G, a dolphin nursed back to health by trainer Tamara Monti, 37, of Rome, was in danger of dying of a broken heart when Monti didn't return to work after being stabbed to death by a neighbor. No word on whether the forlorn creature survived. |
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IN THOSE DAYS TRAVEL TO ALASKA WAS DONE MY SHIP AND THEN INLAND A BIT BY FERRY AND BARGE.. NO ROADS IN. THE ROAD IN WASN'T BUILT UNTIL THE 40'S BY THE AMERICAN MILITARY. MOST PEOPLE FOLLOWED THE OLD PROSPECTORS ROUTES. SOME LOCAL TRAINS BUT NOTHING SOUTH TO THE STATES. |
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Pete, I think Bombardier was the first to make a viable snow machine & it was much later than 1925 & it took years to make em in any large numbers eh? T-Dog |
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T-dog,
Snowmobiles were around at least as early as 1916, and if you stretch the definition, there were machines that resembled those boats you see in the Florida Everglades with the big fans on their rear that had snow skis on them used as snowmobiles dating back to about 1906.
I got that info from wikipedia, they even included some pictures, so you know it's gotta be true. |
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May have been a few prototypes but certainly the dogsled was still the main source of transportation in remote Alaska back in 1925 & the only way to get the serum to Nome. Aircraft eliminated cause to the weather. T-Dog |
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| Snowbird 6, on the Eskimo Nell hunt (hey, just realised!!) Yes, I'm going forth to the frozen north, 59
where a whore can do no wrong,
Where the Arctic blizzard sticks deep in your gizzard
like fourteen inches of dong But in the land of the grinding gland, 62
where the walrus plays with his prong,
Where the polar bear w*nks off in his lair,
that's where they'll sing this song.
They'll tell this tale on the Arctic trail 63
where the nights are sixty below,
Where it's so damn cold, French letters are sold
wrapped up in a ball of snow.
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EVEN FURTHER SOUTH IN ALBERTA THERE WAS LITTLE TRAVEL ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER MONTHS. WOP MAY AN EARLY BUSH PILOT OF WW1 (SEE RED BARON)FAME HAD TO FLY SERUM INTO A SMALL GROUP IN VERMILLION. IT WAS DONE IN AN OPEN COCK-PIT AIRCRAFT. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THE OBSERVER HAD TO BE CARRIED FROM THE PLANE AS HE COULDN'T MOVE AND THE PILOT FINGERS HAD TO BE PRYED ONE AT A TIME FROM THE CONTROLS. In 1929 Wop flew his Avro “Avian�?open-cockpit biplane in the middle of winter from Edmonton to Fort Vermillion carrying a serum to inoculate the communities of Little Red River and Fort Vermillion against diphtheria.
A Hudson’s Bay employee, Bert Logan, had already died.
In freezing temperatures, as low as -33 F, Wop flew 1,240 Miles, return trip, with a flying time of over 14 hours wearing heavy clothes, felt boots and a silk scarf.
Wop was a hero as headlines read “Race Against Death�?in newspapers everywhere.
But Wop wasn’t done just yet.
In 1932 Wop was contacted by the RCMP; they needed his help. As it were, a fellow known as Albert Johnson, The Mad Trapper, was running loose in the north. The RCMP needed Wop to help track him down. And Wop did, helping lead the RCMP to Johnson’s location where he watched a fierce gun battle take place while he flew overhead. In Wop’s own words: “We were up on top and circling, watching the fight and taking pictures of it. I then saw, during the fight, that one man was hit. He was laying by his dog team and he had been hit so I came around the bend of the river and came up to him and picked him up and started back home.�?Wop had managed to help capture Albert Johnson and saved the life of an RCMP officer in the process. NO SNOW MACHINES, NO SWAMP BUGGIES ETC WERE USED IN THE NORTH. ONLY DOG SLEDS. EVEN THE NWMP USED THEM. YOU NEED FUEL ADDITIVES TO USE GASOLINE BURNING EQUIPMENT IN THE NORTH. EVEN DEISEL FUEL WILL TURN TO JELLY WITH OUT ADDITIVES.
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German tank drivers on the Eastern front either kept their engines running, or else set them on fire. There were kinds of canvas tents with braziers for aircraft engines. At my boarding school you just reckoned on no wheeled transport October to May. But we were well hard, John! |
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If you crash your B17 in ALASKA, NO SWEAT |
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IT'S PRETTY RUGGED, SO THEY USUALLY USE FLOAT PLANES IN SUMMER AND SKI PLANES TO LAND ON THE LAKES IN WINTER. |
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ANOTHER PROBLEM FLASH WAS WITH THE OILS. THEY NEVER USED WINTER OILS WHICH WAS A VERY BIG PROBLEM. SAME FOR WEAPONS. YOU NEED LIGHT OR ALMOST NO OIL IN WINTER CONDITION. WEAPONS HAVE TO BE KEEP OUTSIDE THE TENT OR THEY WILL RUST REALLY FAST. |
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We used graphite powder in Germany when I was a boy. In mid winter if you dropped a shotgun the barrels would smash (So I was told) |
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Pete, ref #28 - At the TDL during deer season the smart money keeps their guns outside on the covered porch. After hunting all day with take em inside with the wood stove going & you invite loads of rust. T-Dog |
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TRUE TOMMY. IT ALMOST SEEMS TO APPEAR BEFORE YOUR EYES. |
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OK Question. With very big handguns nowadays (Desert Eagle, Automag, S&W 500 magnum) why aren't shoulder weapons also made from Stainless.S ? No difficulty machining it. |
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