The giant hands of the rail splitter weren't only good for splitting rails and the South, they apparently were also good for annihilating jabronis.

Excerpt from the linked release^1 by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:

>WHOI is debuting 80 minutes of rare video footage from the 1986 expedition to explore the famous wreck.

>The newly released video highlights the remarkable achievement by the team to bring iconic images of the ship back to the surface.

>On September 1, 1985, a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) led by Dr. Robert Ballard in partnership with Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFEMER) discovered the final resting place of the ship.

>In July 1986, nine months after the discovery, a team from WHOI returned to the wreck site, this time using three-person research submersible Alvin and the newly developed remotely operated vehicle Jason Jr.

>The trip marked the first time that humans laid eyes on the vessel since its ill-fated voyage in 1912.

Video highlights include:

>• Captured in July 1986 from cameras on HOV Alvin and ROV Jason Jr, most of this footage has never been released for public viewing.

>• Footage begins with Alvin approaching Titanic exploring the bow and parking on its deck.

>• Split screen views syncing camera feeds from Alvin and Jason Jr. as the smaller vehicle leaves Alvin to explore the wreck.

>• Interior shots of Titanic from Jason Jr

^1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution releases rare video footage from the first submersible dives to RMS Titanic, 15 Feb. 2023, https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/woods-hole-oceanographic-institution-releases-rare-video-footage-from-the-first-submersible-dives-to-rms-titanic/

Just so people are clear on timelines, Reconstruction ended with the election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 and election of Hayes. Then the US entered a period generally known as Redemption in the south. It started a little earlier than 1877 and was more powerful in different places, and continued until the early 1910s. The violence in Wilmington is part of that period and redemption is marked by racial violence against Black Americans, the solidifying of Democrat Party rule of the South, Lochner Era jurisprudence gutting the 14th and 15th Amendment, and the development of Jim Crow and segregation.

After WWI, there was a period of racist violence from 1919 to about 1923 that generally coincides with the kicking off with the Red Summer. Chicago's famous riot in 1919 is considered part of the Red Summer. The Rosewood massacre in Florida happened near the end of this period, where there are still incidence of racist violence but they don't happen as frequently and aren't was wide spread.

Tulsa was part of that wave of violence. It's tied to the push by Black Americans for Civil Rights, partially based on their service in WWI and is marked by frequent lynching of veterans returning to the south. There was a pretty consistent pattern of attacking and stealing Black wealth, whether it's things like the looting and burning of Greenwood in Tulsa, or the stealing of land in places like Rosewood.

Tulsa happened a looong time after reconstruction.

Every politician who did public speaking did. It cut through the din better in an era without microphones.

I lived in Wilmington, NC for 6 years - middle school and most of high school - and never heard of this.

...Admittedly, that was 25 years ago, but damn.

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You sure he didn’t tell them to play with Dixie and they misinterpreted it?

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To build on /u/Doctor_Impossible_ answer, the person usually counted as the final casualty in the war was a US soldier, Henry Gunther who was taking part in the Meuse -Argonne offensive. It was a joint offensive by the US and France. Gunther apparently died at 10:59.

But France especially was pushing for these advances up until the last minute. They had suffered extraordinary casualties and now that they had US reinforcements, new and better tactics, and restored morale they were trying to get every benefit they could out of the fighting before armistice.

I liked the part where he lifted that incredible heavyweight

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Now I’m wondering what his ring music would be. Hail to the Chief seems to cliche.

I thought he threw the undertaker off a cage, crashing him through the announcers table

Reminds me of the teddy bear being named after Roosevelt.

I hear he had a fiery orange tabby named Sherman.

Lincoln the unknown. Good book from what I remember at 10yo

You must not have gone to school in Texas. We got nothing. We did learn that Lincoln was going to help the South and that the Radical Republicans, scalawags and carpet baggers were terrible people.

The down votes you're getting make me sad, because it's just more proof that there's no will to fix our problems.

What you proposed isn't radical or unreasonable. It's ridiculous and unfair that kids growing up in Kansas don't have the same opportunity to be, say, an engineer when they grow up as kids growing up in California because of the difference in educational quality. Even the educational quality between towns and cities in any state is dramatically differnt because school funding is based on property taxes in many places. Its a system that simply does not work. It's outright shameful and a betrayal of everything we insist we stand for.

There are solutions but too many of us are too easily angered and frightened to move forward with any kind of meaningful change.

Was this before or after the vampire slaying phase?

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If Arnold Schwarzenegger had gone into wrestling instead of acting he’d be president already

I’m from Wilmington and didn’t hear about this until just a few years ago.

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