Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-4-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-4-15

You’ve heard the media desribed as the “Fourth Estate” but what was the Second Estate? That was in, in the Estates-General of Medeval France, the nobles. The First Estate was the clergy and the Third Estate was the common people.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-3-15

The USS Irene Forsyte was part of the US Navy during World War II. It was armed with a 4-inch gun, a 40 mm gun and two 20 mm guns. And just as the naval vessels in continental times,it was propelled by sails. It was meant to decoy German submarines into attacking it. None ever did.William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-3-15

The  USS Irene Forsyte was part of the US Navy during World War II. It was armed with a 4-inch gun, a 40 mm gun and two 20 mm guns. And just as the naval vessels in continental times,it was propelled by sails. It was meant to decoy German submarines into attacking it. None ever did.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-1-15

Lady Astor
Lady Astor

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-1-15

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was the first women to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. She was an American. She famously told Winston Churchill that she would give him poison if he was her husband. Churchill famously responded that if he was her husband he would drink it. Churchill was half American.

Lady Astor’s first husband was Robert Gould Shaw II who was the cousin of Col. Robert Gould Shaw who was played by Matthew Broderick in the 1989 Oscar winning movie Glory. She divorced him but she never poisoned him.

Lady Astor

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-31-15

Spaniard Joan Pujol Garcia received a special Iron Cross from Adolph Hitler and an knighthood from King George VI for his World War II service. He was an almost unbelievably effective allied spy who pretended really well to be working for the Nazis.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-31-15

Spaniard Joan Pujol Garcia received a special Iron Cross from Adolph Hitler and an knighthood from King George VI for his World War II service. He was an almost unbelievably effective allied spy who pretended really well to be working for the Nazis.

Joan Pujol Garcia

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-29-15

The hottest possible temperature is 1,420,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 degrees Celsius. This occurred but once when the Universe was but .0001 second old. The hottest temperature man ever created was 5,500,000,000,000. This was done at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
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The hottest possible temperature is 1,420,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000,000 degrees Celsius. This occurred but once when the Universe was but .0001 second old. The hottest temperature man ever created was 5,500,000,000,000. This was done at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-29-15

Hottest possible temperature

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-27-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-27-15

Yes Anthony, we all know the highest mountain in the world is Mt. Everest. But did you know the deepest spot in all of the oceans goes 36,198 feet down and is called “Challenger Deep”? It is in the Pacific southwest of Guam. If you plopped Mt. Everest in that spot there would still be over a mile of water above it.