Category Archives: Historical Stuff

Remember, those who don’t know their history are bound to repeat it. You will find some items of history and genealogy as these are among my many habits.

A History of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Another great space video from SpaceRip

“NASA’s tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope on its 20th anniversary in space. This beautiful video surveys the incredible accomplishments of this revolutionary instrument: everybody’s favorite telescope.”

This is a great video about the Hubble Space Telescope from it’s conception, to launch, and the many repair and upgrade missions that make it what it is today. The Hubble will be remembered in history because it changed the way we look at the universe and has produced more knowledge in it’s 20+ years than all of the 400 years back to Galileo combined.

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Battleship – Part 1 & 2 of a 12 part series on the history of the Battleship, including the intro.

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These are copies of what seems to be a documentary from the Discovery Channel on the history of the battleship. I could be wrong and, if wrong, will correct the matter but, to the best of my knowledge this one was done by the Discovery Channel around 2002. ABC and other have similar documentaries and if they have good of differing content I will post them. This being said this is a very good watch if your interested in the most powerful ships to sail the seas. They present a great timeline on the development and evolution of the modern battleships up today when though in moth ball, the mighty Missouri and Iowa lay at ready. Remember they were both once again called back into service during the recent gulf war and, the Missouri fired the first shot of the war in the form of a Tomahawk missile. Once again the mighty 16 inch guns were fired again in anger during this war for the first timer in  50 years since the Korean conflict. I will post all 12 parts two at a time.

Enjoy!

Intro

Part 1

part 2