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November 30, 1934: LNER Class A3 4472 steam train, known as "Flying Scotsman" became the 1st steam locomotive to be officially recorded reaching 100 MPH, during a 393-mile trip between London and Edinbugh. The British rail industry in the 1920s and 1930s was competing with new roadways for passengers, meaning that keeping up a reputation for speed and efficiency was extremely important.

By 1924, when it was selected to appear at the British Empire Exhibition in London, the loco had been renumbered 4472 - and been given the name 'Flying Scotsman' after the London to Edinburgh rail service which started daily at 10am in 1862.



No. 4472 Flying Scotsman is a LNER Class A3 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. It was employed on long-distance express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line by LNER and its successors, British Railways' Eastern and North Eastern Regions, notably on The Flying Scotsman service between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley after which it was named.

Retired from British Railways in 1963 after covering 2.08 million miles, Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive. The Flying Scotsman is the only locomotive of its type left in the world.




The ‘Flying Scotsman’ Made Train History When The Speedometer Hit 100

National Railway Museum's site about Flying Scotsman

The official National Railway Museum print website containing many Flying Scotsman prints and posters.

Clips of The Flying Scotsman, 1930s - Archive Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovB-Yc4D6OQ



November 30, 1939: Soviet Union invaded Finland, to begin the "Winter War", a Soviet force of 120,000 troops, 1,000 tanks, 600 artillery pieces and planes crossed the frontier with Finland. The army of Finland was vastly outnumbered and outgunned with only 33,000 men, fewer than 70 aircraft and a dozen tanks. With such overwhelming odds, Stalin expected to overrun Finland in two weeks, but his army was ill equipped, badly trained and the invasion poorly planned.


It ended 3 and a half months later, with a Soviet victory, but Finland maintained its independence. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union.



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He comes across as genuinely knowledgeable, has what appears to be different whiskeys out in different videos and I think he’s actually drinking them. Videos are not monetized, no other social media, properly credits his sources, smokes real cigarettes to enhance the atmosphere of the video. This man appears to do it for the love of the game.

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November 30, 2007: American motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died at age 69. Over the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps, most notably, over lines of buses and trucks, but he sustained numerous serious injuries in bone breaking falls.


On December 12, 1970, Knievel would switch to the Harley-Davidson XR-750, the motorcycle with which he is best known for jumping. Knievel would use the XR-750 in association with Harley-Davidson until 1977.

During his career, Knievel may have suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime". However, this number could be exaggerated: his son Robbie told a reporter in June 2014 that his father had broken 40 to 50 bones; Knievel himself claimed he broke 35.



Trump was only elected 3 weeks ago, and nature is already healing with the return to the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756, and a new Habsburg-Bourbon alliance...LOL...


As the great offshore power, the USA must break this dangerous alliance by a dynastic engagement between the Princess and Barron Trump.


History has shown since time immemorial that making [s]elected officials look like superheroes is simply producing propaganda which would make Lenin proud.



Public service has been a very lucrative job... too lucrative if you ask me.


I doubt it.


Your new FBI director...


https://x.com/ShawnRyanShow/status/1858955333533921459

Here's the full Shawn Ryan episode:



Shawn Ryan, former Navy SEAL, CIA Contractor, and Founder of Vigilance Elite.

The FBI right now after Trump’s Kash Patel announcement...