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ORIGINAL: Yava

Hi an Hello.

I see some old faces and some "new" ones. [:D]

Anyways, long time no see.

YAVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: Yava

Yup, sadly no time on my side. [:(] I got AE some time ago and I am playing a bit but against AI. 

Get married yet? [;)]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Yava

Yup, sadly no time on my side. [:(] I got AE some time ago and I am playing a bit but against AI. 

Get married yet? [;)]

Now, that's a punchline [:D]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Terminus




Bah Humbug! When I was a teenager, we WALKED to school every day, uphill BOTH ways, through 20 feet of snow, and if we HAD shoes, we counted ourselves blessed. Kids these days, with their IPhones and their Twitter and their garbage... No respect...[:@]

Ah, we used to DREAM of having garbage...[:'(]

We lived in a box on the side of the motorway......20 of us...........

Might be time for the real thing [:D]

Four Yorkshiremen

Lazy Sunday afternoon.   The best kind.  [8D]  Time to fiddle with the opening of my AE AI game some more.  I might actually move onto turn 3 (2 day turns) before the end of April.  [:D]

G'night gents [>:][>:][>:]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Thank you brother Onime! [;)]


We went for a 1 day vacation on Saturday to near by (60 km) thermal resort (lots of indoor swimming pools)... [:)]

BTW, I am proud to announce that I can still hold my breath to swim under water (without jumping - starting in water in the swimming pool) the full length (25 meters) of 1/2 size Olympic swimming pool! [:)]

So what youre saying is that me smoking is a bad idea? [&:]

Well... it is most certainly not helping... [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

Yep, writing my MA at the English dept and attending classes at the History dept. A lot of work... a lot... btw. I am collecting resources on Afro Americans in the Navy since it is a very very "forgotten" topic in Poland and I am trying to popularize the knowledge by writing an article for a magazine concerned with navies, sea etc...

Yava, I've also looked into this topic. The following is a source that contained some good info regarding African Americans in the Navy.

Harrod, Frederick, Manning the New Navy: The Development of a Modern Naval Enlisted Force, 1899-1940. Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 1978. This book was based on the author’s thesis.

The following is a quote I pulled from the book for one of my papers. “Those blacks still accepted in the early twentieth century were placed in the less desirable engine-room ratings and in the messmen branch” p. 58

I have other resources regarding black sailors saved on another machine but if you are interested I can dig some of it up. One intriguing photo I found shows the USS Maine's Baseball team. The pitcher is black and named in the photo, this at a time when professional Baseball was segregated. I always meant to try and track down the record of the man pictured and finding out if he participated in the Negro Baseball League. In any case I wish you luck with your research.

Tithe from Elkhart Indiana.........[:D]

Travel safe, Steve!  [:)]

New page.  [8D]

Monday's coming.  

Good night - Tithe.  [>:]

Goodnight Tithe[>:][>:][>:]

Well, another dark morning... Damn time change...

Mornin' gents.

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

Morning gentlemens.

Just lost a friend this week end; committed suicide [:(].

May God (or any name you want to give him) bless him; and may HE protect you all.

Sorry to hear that. I'll say a little prayer for him and his family.