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The Tailgate / Today in history 1-20
Last post by remrogers - Today at 08:36:21 AM1942
Jan 20
Nazi officials discuss "Final Solution" at the Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question."
In July 1941, Hermann Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, to submit "as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Central Office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. The agenda was simple and focused: to devise a plan that would render a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. Various gruesome proposals were discussed, including mass sterilization and deportation to the island of Madagascar. Heydrich proposed simply transporting Jews from every corner Europe to concentration camps in Poland and working them to death. Objections to this plan included the belief that this was simply too time-consuming. What about the strong ones who took longer to die? What about the millions of Jews who were already in Poland? Although the word "extermination" was never uttered during the meeting, the implication was clear: anyone who survived the egregious conditions of a work camp would be "treated accordingly."
Months later, the "gas vans" in Chelmno, Poland, which were killing 1,000 people a day, proved to be the "solution" they were looking for—the most efficient means of killing large groups of people at one time.
The minutes of this conference were kept with meticulous care, which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Jan 20
Nazi officials discuss "Final Solution" at the Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question."
In July 1941, Hermann Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, to submit "as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative, material, and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Central Office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. The agenda was simple and focused: to devise a plan that would render a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. Various gruesome proposals were discussed, including mass sterilization and deportation to the island of Madagascar. Heydrich proposed simply transporting Jews from every corner Europe to concentration camps in Poland and working them to death. Objections to this plan included the belief that this was simply too time-consuming. What about the strong ones who took longer to die? What about the millions of Jews who were already in Poland? Although the word "extermination" was never uttered during the meeting, the implication was clear: anyone who survived the egregious conditions of a work camp would be "treated accordingly."
Months later, the "gas vans" in Chelmno, Poland, which were killing 1,000 people a day, proved to be the "solution" they were looking for—the most efficient means of killing large groups of people at one time.
The minutes of this conference were kept with meticulous care, which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
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The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by FinsnFur - Today at 05:25:00 AMI cant do too much griping though I guess. It hasnt really been THAT bad of a winter thus far.
Clyde, I could never handle the constant sogginess you go through. Uuuuhg. That would just eat at my sanity.
Clyde, I could never handle the constant sogginess you go through. Uuuuhg. That would just eat at my sanity.
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The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 04:45:31 PMAn Ohio Poem
It's winter in Ohio,
And the gentle breezes blow,
Seventy miles an hour,
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Ohio,
When the snow's up to your butt,
You take a breath of winter air,
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
So, I guess I'll hang around,
I could never leave Ohio,
Because I'm frozen to the ground.
It's winter in Ohio,
And the gentle breezes blow,
Seventy miles an hour,
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Ohio,
When the snow's up to your butt,
You take a breath of winter air,
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
So, I guess I'll hang around,
I could never leave Ohio,
Because I'm frozen to the ground.
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The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 01:44:04 PMI am ignoring the weather and thinking about buying another fly rod 
#5
The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 12:24:38 PMOur weather guessers are now saying that while the next two days will be very cold, it will be worse on Friday and Saturday. Before, it was going to be warmer at the end of the week.
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The Tailgate / Today in history 1-19
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 11:59:16 AM1807
Jan 19
Robert E. Lee born
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during most of the Civil War and his battlefield leadership earned him a reputation as a renowned military leader.
Lee was born at his family home of Stratford Hall in northeastern Virginia on January 19, 1807. A member of the state's aristocracy, Lee enrolled at West Point at the age of 18. He was second in his graduating class and attained top marks in artillery, infantry and cavalry studies.
Once Lee graduated, he married Mary Custis, the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington from her first marriage, in 1831. The family raised seven children including three sons and four daughters.
In 1846, Lee served the U.S. military in its war against Mexico, where he stood out as a brave commander and brilliant tactician. In the aftermath, Lee was hailed a hero and rose to military prominence.
Lee was added to a shortlist of names to lead the Confederate army should the country go to war with itself around October 1859. Lincoln later offered Lee the post of Union commander during the war, but he turned it down to attend to matters at home. It was only after Virginia voted to secede from the nation on April 17, 1861, that Lee decided to help lead Confederate forces.
Lee challenged Union forces during the war's bloodiest battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg, before surrendering to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, marking the end of the devastating conflict.
He died at age 63 on October 12, 1870, following a stroke.
Jan 19
Robert E. Lee born
Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during most of the Civil War and his battlefield leadership earned him a reputation as a renowned military leader.
Lee was born at his family home of Stratford Hall in northeastern Virginia on January 19, 1807. A member of the state's aristocracy, Lee enrolled at West Point at the age of 18. He was second in his graduating class and attained top marks in artillery, infantry and cavalry studies.
Once Lee graduated, he married Mary Custis, the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington from her first marriage, in 1831. The family raised seven children including three sons and four daughters.
In 1846, Lee served the U.S. military in its war against Mexico, where he stood out as a brave commander and brilliant tactician. In the aftermath, Lee was hailed a hero and rose to military prominence.
Lee was added to a shortlist of names to lead the Confederate army should the country go to war with itself around October 1859. Lincoln later offered Lee the post of Union commander during the war, but he turned it down to attend to matters at home. It was only after Virginia voted to secede from the nation on April 17, 1861, that Lee decided to help lead Confederate forces.
Lee challenged Union forces during the war's bloodiest battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg, before surrendering to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, marking the end of the devastating conflict.
He died at age 63 on October 12, 1870, following a stroke.
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The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 10:46:03 AMBeen wearing mine for a couple of weeks. Our damp wet coastal cold is merely miserable, not like the sharp dry cold we lived in for years in inland Canada. Deep dry cold is pain. Wet coastal cold is long term misery. Pick your poison! 
Feel for you, Jim, as you live through 17 below. Our weather forecasts have consistently missed lately. For the past four days it keeps telling us it will get down to a low of 40 F -- and every morning we wake up to heavy ice on roads and everything. It is more a layer of ice than normal frost. My old bod never seems to get warm. A few nights it rains at midnight and then is frozen solid by morning. The ground has been utterly saturated for almost two months now, puddles on lawns and level ground, rivers in and out of flood levels. A wheel that strays off of a hard driveway onto lawn will bog to the rim or deeper.
I'll take this wet cold over your cold below zero. Need our late friend John to show us pics of sunshine tea in warm Arizona.
Feel for you, Jim, as you live through 17 below. Our weather forecasts have consistently missed lately. For the past four days it keeps telling us it will get down to a low of 40 F -- and every morning we wake up to heavy ice on roads and everything. It is more a layer of ice than normal frost. My old bod never seems to get warm. A few nights it rains at midnight and then is frozen solid by morning. The ground has been utterly saturated for almost two months now, puddles on lawns and level ground, rivers in and out of flood levels. A wheel that strays off of a hard driveway onto lawn will bog to the rim or deeper.
I'll take this wet cold over your cold below zero. Need our late friend John to show us pics of sunshine tea in warm Arizona.
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The Tailgate / Re: Get your long underwear ou...
Last post by Hawks Feather - Yesterday at 08:33:48 AMYou always have better weather than here. I mean, we started at 4 above and are already up to 15, but the 23 mph wind with gusts up to 37 do make it feel a little brisk. ❄️
#9
The Tailgate / Get your long underwear out
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 05:33:23 AMJack frost is coming
5 below zero this morning. They're saying 17 below by Thursday.
Winter has arrived!
I guess be thankful were not in Russia. Anyone see the pics of their storm? Cars buried in 8 feet of snow. Drifts up on the buildings 4 stories high
5 below zero this morning. They're saying 17 below by Thursday.
Winter has arrived!
I guess be thankful were not in Russia. Anyone see the pics of their storm? Cars buried in 8 feet of snow. Drifts up on the buildings 4 stories high
#10
The Tailgate / Today in history 1-18
Last post by remrogers - January 18, 2026, 10:27:09 AM1803
Jan 18
President Jefferson requests funding for Lewis and Clark expedition
On January 18, 1803, Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000. Meriwether Lewis was joined by his friend William Clark and 50 others on the journey, including an enslaved African American and a female Native American guide named Sacagawea. The team, which Jefferson called the Corps of Discovery, first surveyed the territory that comprised the Louisiana Purchase, a vast expanse that reached as far north as present-day North Dakota, south to the Gulf of Mexico and stopped at the eastern border of Spanish territory in present-day Texas. The team then crossed the Rockies and navigated river routes to the Pacific coast of present-day Oregon. Upon their return, the duo's reports of the exotic and awe-inspiring new lands they had encountered sparked a new wave of westward expansion.
Jefferson first proposed the exploratory expedition even before Napoleon offered to sell France's American territory, which would become known as the Louisiana Purchase, to the United States and had authorization from Congress to launch a survey of the area when news of Napoleon's offer to sell reached Washington. In a stroke of luck for the United States, Napoleon had abandoned plans to establish a French foothold on America's southern flank and sold the land to the U.S. to subsidize his conquest of Europe.
Though he did not disclose his intentions to Congress, Jefferson planned to send Meriwether Lewis, his private secretary, on a reconnaissance mission that far exceeded the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase to determine how far west the U.S. might extend commerce in the North American fur trade and to assess the viability of future territorial expansion into the west. In misleading Congress, Jefferson had temporarily stifled his distaste for abuse of executive privilege to achieve a strategic goal. A product of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a man with strong political principles, but he was also fascinated by what the expedition might yield in terms of scientific discovery and adventure. Jefferson sought to claim more territory for the United States, eliminate foreign competition and convert the Indian nations to Christianity, viewing westward expansion as a way for the nation to maintain its agrarian values and to ward off the same political perils that plagued what he saw as an increasingly overcrowded Europe.
Jan 18
President Jefferson requests funding for Lewis and Clark expedition
On January 18, 1803, Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Jefferson officially asked for $2,500 in funding from Congress, though some sources indicate the expedition ultimately cost closer to $50,000. Meriwether Lewis was joined by his friend William Clark and 50 others on the journey, including an enslaved African American and a female Native American guide named Sacagawea. The team, which Jefferson called the Corps of Discovery, first surveyed the territory that comprised the Louisiana Purchase, a vast expanse that reached as far north as present-day North Dakota, south to the Gulf of Mexico and stopped at the eastern border of Spanish territory in present-day Texas. The team then crossed the Rockies and navigated river routes to the Pacific coast of present-day Oregon. Upon their return, the duo's reports of the exotic and awe-inspiring new lands they had encountered sparked a new wave of westward expansion.
Jefferson first proposed the exploratory expedition even before Napoleon offered to sell France's American territory, which would become known as the Louisiana Purchase, to the United States and had authorization from Congress to launch a survey of the area when news of Napoleon's offer to sell reached Washington. In a stroke of luck for the United States, Napoleon had abandoned plans to establish a French foothold on America's southern flank and sold the land to the U.S. to subsidize his conquest of Europe.
Though he did not disclose his intentions to Congress, Jefferson planned to send Meriwether Lewis, his private secretary, on a reconnaissance mission that far exceeded the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase to determine how far west the U.S. might extend commerce in the North American fur trade and to assess the viability of future territorial expansion into the west. In misleading Congress, Jefferson had temporarily stifled his distaste for abuse of executive privilege to achieve a strategic goal. A product of the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a man with strong political principles, but he was also fascinated by what the expedition might yield in terms of scientific discovery and adventure. Jefferson sought to claim more territory for the United States, eliminate foreign competition and convert the Indian nations to Christianity, viewing westward expansion as a way for the nation to maintain its agrarian values and to ward off the same political perils that plagued what he saw as an increasingly overcrowded Europe.