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Jungles don't automatically provide access to water. In fact, one of the characteristics of the Yucatan is the near-absence of streams or ponds, caused by the extensive ring-fracturing of the underlying limestone bedrock due to the Chicxulub "dinosaur killer" meterorite impact. If they can...

Boxilar, Regarding the US Navy sending shells to a US Army artillery unit--Army artillery in that period was 37mm, 57mm, 75mm, 76.2mm (AT only), 105mm, 155mm, and 208mm plus various recoilless rifle calibers. The US Navy had .50 cal. (12.7mm), 20mm, 40mm, 3" (76.2mm), 5" (127mm), 6" (...

Somehow I completely missed the fact that I was supposed to write an introduction after registering, so here is my belated introduction. Not that I post much, mostly just lurk. Real name is Ken, I go by sq_rigger because I like the old-time square-rigged sailing ships. Modern fore-and-aft rigs are m...

Not enough room to pass ANYTHING under the door. There was a threshold covering a height difference between the hallway and the bathroom floor, and the bathroom door fit TIGHTLY against it--tight enough to put some strain on the latch, which may have contributed to why the latch broke loose from the...

My adult son was trapped in the bathroom one time when the doorknob latch broke. The door opened inward, the screws for the doorknob were on his side, and he didn't have any tools inside that would have enabled him to take the hinges off. Adding to the problem was the fact that the bathroom window w...

When I try to display the cast list, I get a horrible mishmash of overtypes, in roughly 20-point type. Any suggestions as to how I can straighten things out? I'm somewhat limited in my ability to alter settings on this computer. I have tried copying the text into Word, which eliminates the overtypes...