Market-Garden Tour

On Oct 13, 3:28 am, "Raymond O'Hara" <raymond-oh....RemoveThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On Oct 12, 9:37 am, "eddyster...@hotmail.com"
>
> <eddyster....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I thought I'd share with you guys the pictures of the Panther Games
> > beta bunnies Market-Garden tour
>
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/sets/72157607953973814/
>
> > For the juicy stories you'll have to wait until tomorrow
>
> > Greetz,
>
> > Eddy Sterckx
>
> living near battlefields is cool.

In Europe, you're never far away from a battlefield site...


-von Schmidt

On 13 okt, 13:44, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg....RemoveThis@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <879e9ea9-218f-4cca-9a65-d7c2cb38a507
> @t42g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, eddyster....RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...
>
> > Anyway, here's the official report on our Market-Garden Tour
> > 2008-10-11
>
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/sets/72157607953973814/
>
> Huh.  Lots of pictures *by* Eddy, but I can't find one *of* Eddy.  
>
> You know the drill in *this* group; no way am I going to believe you
> were really there unless you show me a picture of you there.

LOL - well, I *claim* to be the 4th from the left in this one :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/2934548330/in/set-72157607953973814/

.... but some will never believe it anyway that we climbed that
mountain

For extra credit : what's the type of the arty piece directly behind
us and how come nobody spots it the first time they see the picture

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

On 13 okt, 13:51, Frank E <fakeaddr... RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's almost certainly the middle east. They had a few thousand years
> head start before there was any organized warfare in europe.

You mean they have organized warfare *today* ?

Well, after thinking this over for a bit I think Megiddo (Armageddon)
might be a good candidate - it's the bottleneck point for any army
coming or going from the ME to the rich Nile lands and vice versa.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

On 13 okt, 14:12, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg....TakeThisOut@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <5fdc03ee-d182-428a-9cf7-13f78933fd65
> @d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, eddyster....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com says...
>
> > For extra credit : what's the type of the arty piece directly behind
> > us and how come nobody spots it the first time they see the picture
>
> 17 lb AT?

Whew - you got it in 1 - nice one.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

In article <231443fa-65a9-467e-90fa-
a77357e24b2c.DeleteThis@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, von_schmidt.DeleteThis@mail.com says...

> In Europe, you're never far away from a battlefield site...

I wonder what a statistical analysis would show? Figures by continent
and region for "average distance from major historical battlefield
site?"

Europe has gotta be the king, right?

--
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In article <879e9ea9-218f-4cca-9a65-d7c2cb38a507
@t42g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx DeleteThis @hotmail.com says...

> Anyway, here's the official report on our Market-Garden Tour
> 2008-10-11
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/sets/72157607953973814/

Huh. Lots of pictures *by* Eddy, but I can't find one *of* Eddy.

You know the drill in *this* group; no way am I going to believe you
were really there unless you show me a picture of you there.



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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:19:53 -0400, Giftzwerg
<giftzwerg999 DeleteThis @NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:

>I wonder what a statistical analysis would show? Figures by continent
>and region for "average distance from major historical battlefield
>site?"
>
>Europe has gotta be the king, right?

It's almost certainly the middle east. They had a few thousand years
head start before there was any organized warfare in europe.

Rgds, Frank

In article <5fdc03ee-d182-428a-9cf7-13f78933fd65
@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx.RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...

> > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/sets/72157607953973814/
> >
> > Huh.  Lots of pictures *by* Eddy, but I can't find one *of* Eddy.  
> >
> > You know the drill in *this* group; no way am I going to believe you
> > were really there unless you show me a picture of you there.
>
> LOL - well, I *claim* to be the 4th from the left in this one :
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/2934548330/in/set-72157607953973814/
>
> ... but some will never believe it anyway that we climbed that
> mountain

Some.

> For extra credit : what's the type of the arty piece directly behind
> us and how come nobody spots it the first time they see the picture

17 lb AT?

--
Giftzwerg
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nude photos of Hillary Clinton."
- Ann Coulter

In article <5jXzSL5iuBwKvhgTtnTSOi+5TTXe@4ax.com>,
fakeaddress DeleteThis @hotmail.com says...

> >I wonder what a statistical analysis would show? Figures by continent
> >and region for "average distance from major historical battlefield
> >site?"
> >
> >Europe has gotta be the king, right?
>
> It's almost certainly the middle east. They had a few thousand years
> head start before there was any organized warfare in europe.

I guess it matters what our choice of "region" is - and cherry-picking
is going to be the term of art. If, on the other hand, we have to go by
*continent*, then figures for the ME would be diluted by the vast
distances of either Africa or Asia.

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Giftzwerg
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line, do not open it. It might contain a virus. If you get an e-mail
with 'Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton,' do not open it. It might contain
nude photos of Hillary Clinton."
- Ann Coulter

In article <f750dc8e-f063-4699-b042-748764439399
@t41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx.RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...

> > > For extra credit : what's the type of the arty piece directly behind
> > > us and how come nobody spots it the first time they see the picture
> >
> > 17 lb AT?
>
> Whew - you got it in 1 - nice one.

Advantage: scale modelers.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"If you get an e-mail with 'Nude Photos of Sarah Palin' in the subject
line, do not open it. It might contain a virus. If you get an e-mail
with 'Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton,' do not open it. It might contain
nude photos of Hillary Clinton."
- Ann Coulter

On Oct 13, 7:51 am, Frank E <fakeaddr....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:19:53 -0400, Giftzwerg
>
> <giftzwerg....DeleteThis@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I wonder what a statistical analysis would show?  Figures by continent
> >and region for "average distance from major historical battlefield
> >site?"
>
> >Europe has gotta be the king, right?
>
> It's almost certainly the middle east. They had a few thousand years
> head start before there was any organized warfare in europe.
>
> Rgds, Frank


Northern Virgina is chock-a-block with battlefields. 9 hours driving
gets me there.
all at least noted and most preserved. and one can find excellent bar-
b-q pits for eats.
{mmmmm allman's in fredericksburg} with a gallon bucket of pulled
pork, a bottle of sauce, a pile of burger rolls and a few joints ,
plus there are the military museums in and around D.C and richmond,
the army ordnance museum at aberdeen,
the marine museum at quantico, the marine raider museum in richmond
the coast arty, casemate museum at fort monroe.

around the richmond-petersberg siege lines one can still find the
trench/breastworks all over the area and it seems if they cross your
property you can't flatten them out. at least no one does.

here around boston we have a few revolutionary sites {lex-concord,
siege of boston} but except for the lex-concord and bunker hill
nothing is a park. they are plenty of king phillips war sites but they
have been lost to developement.
in my town {dedham mass.} a rather large for its time battle between
the dedhamites and narragansetts took place in 1676 and it is
completely unmarked and maybe 10 of us in town {pop 23,000} know where
and when it happened


New York state is doing a fine job with its french & indian, rev and
1812 sites along the hudson, mohawk valley and canadian border ,
canada sucks, they preserved nothing and barely mark them, at best a
single monument.

i wonder if gifty has bothered to visit the lone battlefield actually
in vermont , that of hubbardton, a small affair but worthy of a small
museum , Vermont's big event Bennington didn't even happen there it
actually happened in New York.


yeah battlefields are cool.

<eddysterckx.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I thought I'd share with you guys the pictures of the Panther Games
> beta bunnies Market-Garden tour

Is that you playing pocket pool?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663989@N07/2933689059/in/set-72157607953973814/

On 13 okt, 12:44, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg....DeleteThis@NOSPAMS.hotmail.com> wrote:

> Huh.  Lots of pictures *by* Eddy, but I can't find one *of* Eddy.  
>
> You know the drill in *this* group; no way am I going to believe you
> were really there unless you show me a picture of you there.

Marc von Martial finally found some time to put his pictures online

http://www.cogwheeldesigns.com/photos/MarketGarden/index.html

Some are really awesome - especially the B&W ones

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx