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March 28, 1774: The British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish Massachusetts Bay Colony for rebellion against the British government - namely, the Boston Tea Party.


Unfortunately for England and King George III, the plan backfired as Burke had suggested. Instead, the colonies became more united through their common hatred of the British, referring to the new acts as the “Intolerable Acts.” After years of acts designed to control the colonists who craved liberty and sovereignty, the Intolerable Acts continued to build the colonists’ fervor and eventually led to the “shot heard round the world.”...

“What a glorious morning is this!”
~ Samuel Adams, after hearing news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.


March 29, 1973: the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam. More than 3 million Americans served and 58,279 men and women made the ultimate sacrifice.
March 29, 1973: The last(?) of the 591 POWs during the Vietnam War were released and flown to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The men were hospitalized, debriefed, and returned to the United States.


U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W.


March 29, 2021: The ship Ever Given was finally freed from the Suez Canal.




It's National Nevada Day! In 2012, USS Nevada (SSBN 733) was boarded by a rogue team of elite seals that tried to take over the submarine. The crew of the Nevada managed to repel the seals (harmlessly) before the marine mammals did any damage.


Dawn Wells grew up in Reno & was Miss Nevada 1959.

Dawn Wells Idaho potatoes cooking tip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4W0qIPJmoo


This slick MIAMI VICE-inspired recruiting commercial for the U.S. Coast Guard from 1990 features Louis Gossett Jr. - Gossett passed away today at the age of 87.

Chesapeake, a 1,000-ton lift-capacity derrick barge – the largest crane on the East Coast – arrived by Friday, as well as Ferrell, a 200-ton lift-capacity revolving crane barge, and Oyster, a 150-ton lift-capacity crane barge. The Navy is also sending another 400-ton lift capacity barge, expected to arrive next week, according to a Navy release.

Cheseapeake is owned by Donjon Marine Company, Inc., and was built in 1972, according to the company’s website.

When built in 1972, Chesapeake was originally called SUN 800.

It is its history as SUN 800 that makes the crane infamous. SUN 800 was built to assist in the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a deep-sea drill-ship platform, according to an article from Engineering News-Record. The ship was built by the CIA to recover the 3,000-ton Soviet Golf II ballistic missile submarine K-129, which sunk in 1968, called Project Azorian, according to USNI News.

The cover for the operations was that billionaire Howard Hughes funded the crane to use it to mine the seafloor for manganese nodules, according to a 2010 piece in Proceedings.

By using SUN 800, the CIA was able to recover the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmembers and parts of the submarine, the Engineering News-Record reported. The CIA returned to the site of the submarine wreckage in 1975 under Project Matador, according to Proceedings.

Hughes Glomar Explorer was sold for scrap in 2015, USNI News reported.

Following its original mission, the Sun 800 was rechristented the Penn 800. It was renamed Penn 1,000 after an upgrade following damage, according to a historical account of Sunship, the company that built the crane. When it transferred to Donjon, it was renamed Chesapeake.

Crane Linked to CIA Soviet Sub Misson Now on Station at Key Bridge Collapse



Russia’s Project 22800–class guided-missile patrol combatants are known as the Karakurt class, which translates to Black Widow spider in English.


These warships exemplify recent Russian naval attempts to maximize missile firepower on a compact and relatively simple hull. Based on a design by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau in St. Petersburg, the class incorporates stealth characteristics and seaworthiness. Although only a handful of the new patrol combatants—also classed as corvettes—have so far entered service, many more are planned. Units are being built at multiple shipyards across Russia and in occupied Crimea.
‘Black Widow’ Missile Boats for the Russian Fleet


BGM-109 Tomahawk VLS cells of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, March 28, 2024:


BGM-109 has several variants, one carries a thermonuclear warhead.


Tories personified in one single photo:


Both MPs who blocked upskirting bill have now been knighted for ‘services to public life’


Let's go in the Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel:


Built in 1889 but closed in 1915, because the accumulating soot made it dangerous for trains to pass through, is a railway tunnel that has been abandoned since then and is located in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia.

Officially called the Metropolitan Tunnel, it has become famous because over the decades it has been and still is home to a colony of bioluminescent larvae that illuminate the inner surface of the ceiling with a very striking bright blue constellation of stars.




Words for the Easter Weekend: