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Panzerkampfwagen V “Panther” The king of all mediums

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

What was the one tank that inspired people to shit their pants for almost five years? Of course, it must be the Panther. Often confused by people that don’t understand the difference between the German word for Armour and the wild black cat , the Panther is (due to human stupidity) , the only tank that comes to people’s minds when they think “German Tank World War II”.

Panther Tank

Panther Tank

Unlike the more famous M4 Sherman and t34-76 tanks, the panther just doesn’t get enough credit. The reason why the panther isn’t called the “best tank of world war II” is because too few were produced, and the panzer mark IV was a far easier to produce and more widely used German tank.

But at that time, every tanker of French, American, Soviet or English origin can tell you: if you saw a panther, you shat your pants. Not only did the panther have 33% more frontal and side Armour than any other medium tank ever mass produced, but it carried a whopping 88 mm cannon (same as tiger prototype) , which could pretty much obliterate even the heaviest allied tank ever fielded (tog II lol ).

Just imagine it like this: The Panther had sloped armour like the t34, it had a larger gun, it was faster than the t34, and the sherman , and it’s turret traverse speeds were far faster than the sherman or t-34.

That pretty much means one thing: head on anything you send against the panther will DIE. As a result, the preferred allied method of avoiding these lolcat tanks was to ambush them , hitting the weaker side armour , or kill them with air-strikes , no tank ever had much armour on the roof we suppose.  Direct Confrontation was never the logical option , as statistics show  (for every killed panther , 8 shermans were destroyed by a panther).

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Dragutin Novak

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Drukatin Novak

Drukatin Novak

We have all heard of the wright brothers, they invented the first airplanes and started a new era of exploration and expansion. But do you know who the first person to ever start building iron and metal airplanes was?

Of-course you don’t! Dragutin Novak , aeronautics pioneer of the early 1900s began a private flight program for the Austrio-Hungarian crown in 1901. He theorized that the heavier a material was, the stronger the force propelling it would be necessary to keep it in flight. He created multiple prototypes of this “leading innovation” in aeronautics while all other nations were still building wood framed biplanes.

Novak used titanium plates welded with an aluminum frame to produce something truly remarkable , and although the Austrian crown took note of his fine work, and his contribution to the municipality of Croatia, world war I came before any “mass production” of these prototypes could be built.

Nova would serve his empire well during world war 1 , first in the infantry, and later in his majesty’s air force. He would become an ace, rumored to have downed many enemy French aircraft.

Unfortunately, with the loss of the war, came the lack of funds for innovation in Croatia and Novak died without ever truly showing the world the true extent of his genius.

 

vk3601h -Henschel-

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

In 1942, the panzer4 medium tank no longer cut it for the German army. As such , all assemblies had to move forward, pushing out innovation after innovation every year. Amongs these came the vk3000 (medium) series , as oppose to the 1000 light and 4000 heavy series.

Of these , three heavy contenders came about , it is still very difficult to understand why none of these base models went into circulation. These were two Henschel models , and one Porsche model.

The Porsche model was too difficult to build, and at that time being resourceful was important. It was not garbage in the least , but it was probably not a popular design (reference vk3001p).

Henschel on the other hand created two vk series tanks that would both become very popular. The second of these was the vk3601 h , which was a revolutionary move towards a heavier tank.

Vk3601H

Vk3601H

This tank was equipped with the heaviest armour of the time (100 mm). The tank had a 3601 instead of a 3001 series plate because it was not seen as a medium , but rather a medium-heavy tank hybrid.

It was intended to carry the newest and most powerful anti tank gun of the time, the famous 88mm KwK 36 L/56  , which was only slightly smaller than it’s offspring, the Tiger I type Henschel.

3 known prototypes were built of the 3601H, all were used as towing vehicles throughout the war. No prototype has survived history, but blueprints give us a close idea of what one would have looked like.

Tiger H would be later replaced by tiger 2 and lowe concept tanks, borrowing porsche over henschel design, the 3601H chassis and structure would never be used again.

Intended mainly as an armored column tank, little armour was places on the sides and rear, this would be changed when the first tiger prototype was created in 1942.

The tank was relatively fast for its weight, going in excess of 48 km/h (roughly 30 mph). And although it was definitely much stronger , more agile and generally better than the panzer IV , it never entered production, simply because the men working on the Heschel faster counterpart (3001H) moved towards the ultra medium tank : panther I , which could mount the same 88mm 36 L/56.

In all honesty, the 3601 H is literally a “baby tiger”. It’s chassis front and 1942 turret are nearly identical. Then it comes as no surprise than in late 1942, the 3601H was used as the basis for the tiger H.

Although the sides were elongated and thickened, the front structure remained relatively the same. Vk3601H is not famous, and you probably won’t be reading about it, but it’s innovative design became the basis for what up to 1960 would be classified as a “heavy tank” , as oppose to moving forts of WW1.

Hans Christian Petersen

Thursday, December 27th, 2012

Hans Christian Peterson was a ruler of Noway-Sweden. He was in fact the prime minister, acting as head of government while Charles XIII ran the empire as “regnant”.

Hans began life early in the field of law. He would later become a profound barrister.

By age 39, he had become the Attorney General of Swedish-Norwegian union. He would then leave this position due to “low pay” and decided to join the government as prime minister instead.

He became counselor of state in 1836, and the chief of naval operations for the empire. In 1844 , he added minister of justice, head of interior armed land forces and lead justice to his duties.

by 1858 , he was uncontested prime minister of this union.  Rumor has it that under his leadership, Norway was made more equal in terms of economy and equality in labor to Sweden, under the orders of King Oscar I.

Flag of Sweden-Norway

Flag of Sweden-Norway

 

Flying Cats

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

In years of research, scientists have never discovered , or been able to show us an example of the concept of “evolution”. Now , this is sort of old news, but at the same time , it is still relatively new.

I , of course, am talking about winged cats. Winged cats are a phenomenon of “mutation” , which in essence is the core definition of evolution.

Winged cat

Winged cat

What appears to happen is that every cat in the world possibly carries a gene for wings. When two cats get together, the chance of their baby having wings is like 0.0001%, roughly the same as winning the powerball.

But much like the lucky fux that won the powerball, this will happen from time to time. According to science, mutation is intentional by nature, and if it is a “beneficial” mutation, the mutant will live, and breed, passing down that “good” mutated gene (in this case wings).

Since wings are certainly not a disadvantage, this gene could be isolated, and ones with a higher frequency should be bred together to make a new species of cat : the winged cat.

Close up of winged cat

Close up of winged cat

Although beta winged cats cannot fly with their wings, here is strong evidence leading us to believe that these wings are indeed functional. Although covered with fur, the wings on the beta “winged cats” have a support structure that can , if properly developed a bit further in thickness, support the cat as it lifts into the air.

If you think this is fiction, a myth , or wishful thinking, you should really go live in a hole for the rest of your life, this is reality.

Just imagine, a world where winged domestic cats are a reality, imagine how cute winged kittens must be, imagine what they can do!

There are hundreds of incidents of semi-popularized winged cats:

-The first ever recored was by Henry David Thoreau, he had been hunting in a forest, when he creeped upon a cabin where a lone old lady lived with a winged cat. Thoreau thought it was half flying squirrel, or perhaps half bat. He claimed “it could glide” short distances. It was black in color with white

-The second instance we have is that of a cat identified as either Bessy or Thomas. Although the name is unclear, was born in the Bremley workhouse. Upon it’s demise, it was mummified and taken to fares, scientific exhibitions and museums , where it’s validity was unquestionable. The cat was last seen in a local pub with a Mr. Clague , it then simply “vanishes” into history.

-Going to 1976, S.Peter Dance mentioned a flying cat, about 4 feet long which had been displayed live at showing , carnivals, and events. The animal died in early 1976, and from then on was stuffed(ancient taxidermy). the owner of said cat had the animal recalled, where it escapes the clutches of history, never to be seen or heard from again. Peter Dance suggests no physical examination by professionals was ever in order.

-In 1940, an American soldier in Ashford, England documented the existence of a winged cat, accordingly, this one had an unnatural form of this mutation, for it could “glide” short distances. This was well documented, but the man that documented it died before returning home.

-1950, a Spanish man, and merchant made headline news when his cat, accompanied with two massive , fluffy wings appeared in the public media. This cat, later named “Angolina” would be the first reported winged cat in Spain.

Angolina Winged Cat 1959

Angolina Winged Cat 1959

-In 1951, a somewhat bulky cat, imported from the soviet union made it’s day view on the west end of the English motherland. Although never photographed, the locals made some sort of weird totem i it’s honor.

-As early as 1868, a wealthy British gentleman had reported shooting what appeared to be a “winged cat” on his estate with a hunting rifle. The animal was confirmed to be neither a bat, bird, or vulture. It was something abnormal, and possessed the power to fly. Although it was not feathered, it did indeed fly, not just glide, or so claims lord Alexander Gibson. The pelt of the animal was later exhibited to other gentlemen of the East India trading company. At the conference of Asiatic Societies in Bombay, India , the dried pelt brought much speculation, but nobody ever questioned the validity of it’s existence, for it is well documented.

-1949, about 50 miles west of Stockholm, a “winged cat” lunged at a child, his father fired one shot of an elephant rifle into the cat, killing it. The cat is infamous for it’s 23 inch (58.42cm) wingspan. The animal was never scientifically examined, but it appears to have been fully developed, and capable of flight. It was significantly larger than a house cat, perhaps the size of an adult bobcat, or cheetah.

-1951, a winged cat was documented at an exhibit in London, UK. Accordingly, it had been “a stray” which was abandoned by it’s owner. The cat was taken in by a local family, they even took a picture for us :D

Winged cat London

Winged cat London (click to enlarge)

-1966, a Canadian farmer in the outskirts of urban Ontario shot a 14 inch (35.56 cm) winged cat that was attacking his chickens. A veterinarian did a thorough examination of the cadaver cat, and his findings were that the wings were “extensions of the cat’s backbone, covered in fur, and laced in skin” these joins were articulate, therefore gliding on them is probably natural. The cat body was also infested with the rabies virus, probably why it attacked multiple chickens without being provoked.

-1894, a cat with wings was present in Bridgewater, England. This species had wings resembling that of a “young waterfowl” , the cat was later stolen by burglars, and accordingly shed its wings in fear.

-1897, a winged cat in Derbyshire, England was reported to have used it’s wings to outrun a man seeking to kill it for pleasure (bastard). The cat was noted to be four to ten times faster than average, using the wings to give itself some sort of boost. There is no evidence to suggest that this specimen could have ever lifted off the ground.

-1899, another Londoner fully detailed the birth of an alpha winged kitten. The kitten was born with wings resembling those of “a mature chicken”, about 6 x 4 inches (Length,Width [disambiguation] ( ;,; ) ) (15.24 x 10.16 cm). Surgeons attempted to remove the wings, however, they were well articulated, and thus the kitten died of blood loss. As you can see , what this says is that “the winged cat is literally a new species” , not just a cat with a mutated ligament.

-1933, a winged cat in Oxford, England was placed behind bars to keep it from escaping, and to show the commoners of Oxford what a “winged cat” was. The specimen actually managed to (exact quote) “fly over the bars, and towards the sun, escaping”- oxford directory of stolen and escaped animals.

-1936, In lower Scotland, a cat about the same size, shape color and wing size as the London cat of 1899 was found. This one was left “as is” -thank god-. And would later simply “disappear” into the abyss of documented history books.

 

Further Reading

- Helicopter Cat             -Famous Cats

Codex Sierra

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

The codex sierra is perhaps the first and final look into the adventures of a lost generation of French explorers into the North American wastelands prior to British colonization of the continent.

The Codex is an important piece of literature because it contains loose translations for many of the now dead “indo-american” tongues. Although the Codex was not officially put together until 1933, it has been written for 300 years.

It is also a written account of the years before encountering French men in the 1600s in central America, a detailed analysis shows encounters with first Europeans as early as 1670′s.

The book then loops a few decades, somewhere in the SouthWest. This leads archaeologists to believe that the writers, and bookkeepers were forced by Spanish explorers to move further north into the continental United States. Perhaps they then merged with the Cree near 1740 and on?

The weird thing about something like this is, it raises more questions than answers, as with most pieces of first hand account scripture. You could even question it’s validity altogether.

Codex Sierra

Codex Sierra

Will the world really end in two weeks?

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

We all want to believe that something exciting will happen in our lifetimes, unfortunately, what we fantasize about , and what is reality are never one in the same thing.

We were once obsessed with the notion of a doomsday, in fact we read articles, reports, examined real pieces of Mayan scripture. We studied the language, we studied their culture.

We then went on a loop, studying “T he Book Of Revelation “. We really were genuinely interested in this, you could say we were a bit obsessed. We were so into it that we began paralleling things. Like the fact that ancient Babylon(Iran) and Israel were on a collision course, all prepped for nuclear war. We wanted to believe, we wanted to prove that natural disasters up to now have been all part of some uncertain destiny.

Hell, we even wanted to add the North Korean Missile to this mess, assuring that somehow everything we think is true, or want to think, really is.

We studied Nostradamus, and even scriptures by Dante, we literally went all out with ancient Chinese scripture pointing to this exact date , December 21, 2012.

But in the end what seemed so solid seems quite rather random, disorganized and lacking. We therefore must state that we are quite certain that nobody should panic. When the day comes, go about your average lives. Don’t even think about doomsday, if it happens , you wont feel it, nor will we.

If it does not happen, we want you to rest assured that that is because sometimes our imagination makes us foolish in our assumptions. Nothing even remotely points towards a doomsday, so don’t worry , men and women of earth. We will live to see December 22nd, we promise you that!

Mayan Calendar

Mayan Calendar

In fact, in a joking manner, you could say “the world will only end for Mexico“, if anything :P .

Hércules Florence

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Have you ever heard of a badass painter named Hercules? Well if you have not, like most of us, today you will know, Hercules Florence, the most manly painter ever!

Hercules began life as a child, although some may want to believe he never was a child due to his awesomeness. He was created in France, fathered by a Frenchman and a Brazilian mother. This already makes him sound exotic and sexy no?

He , much like any Greek hero, loved the sea, in fact he had many revelations in his dreams in which god told him to use positive/negative light intake glasses to create a still image. He would begin his life aboard the French navy vessels of old, studying, painting and inventing.

Hercules was fully pushed into his passions when the Russians began sending scientists to Brazil, with them they brought many Germans, and those Germans brought with them art, sculpture and finesse.

Hercules later noted that his meetings with high-end Russian and German painters were his inspirations for his famous masterpieces we admire today.Hercules was the only artist to come out of the Amazon venture alive, all the others were eaten by Satan’s hellspawn, apparently.

Hercules came back from the jungles a true man, not only did he paint marvelous pictures in watercolor, but he would now become quite the accomplished inventor.

Well, first Hercules got married and had kids, the wife wanted him to get a real job , so Hercules invented a device that could record animal noises. This failed to impress the people back in the day, and he was mocked.

He then created a process of counterfeiting money, legitimately. This was not popular with the people either because they liked their money uninflated.

Finally , he created the first camera. He called the action of engraving live imagery to still picture “photographia”, and although you may never think of him, he is the inventor of photography, although he died believing it was a failure.

Hércules Florence

Hércules Florence

Weird but true, the song of suicide

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

In 1933, following the collapse of the great imperial and royal Austria-Hungarian empire, the world was a changed place, especially Hungary. Hungary had become a paradox of a country, as it was not allowed to have a regent, it was still called “the kingdom of Hungary” , a kingdom without a king, the people lamented at the loss of their once great country.

In face of being stripped to only the Hungarian borders, most of Hungary was ceded to the new Czech republic, Poland and Romania. Unity with the twin fatherland, Austria was prohibited. For this very reason, Hungary which was the economical center of Austria Hungary (Austria being the technological and military portion of the great empire) , had completely collapsed. It had suffered an even worse fate under the great depression than the twin fatherland.

As fate would have it, the battered remnants of a once great country had reached the limits of human suffering. The suicide rate in Hungary became the highest in the entire world at the time. As such it cannot be confirmed that the post we are describing is completely accurate, but it certainly might have played a role.

In 1935, there would be a revolutionary new song, one that would increase suicide rates in Hungary by an astounding 14%, this might seem minor, but 14% increase in suicide rates in a country where suicide rates made up 22% of all recorded dates of the time is indeed significant. So then almost 33% of deaths became suicides.

The song was a piece christened “Gloomy Sunday” written by a noob composer named Rezső Seress, this would be his very first piece , and the only one that would ever hit the global theater. Composed in 1933, it’s staged recording and launch was done in 1935.

Rezső Seress

Rezső Seress

 

 

The song was entitled “Sad Sunday” , but after the English translation in 1936 by Hal Kamp launched , it became known as “gloomy Sunday”. The song from that day on gave English speakers a taste of something truly bizarre, the myth had come to them as well. Men of england, the states and Canada began putting pistols under their chins.

It had been put to a test at live performances, and the mass production via gramophones and newly emerging public radio broadcasts did not help quell the now rising suicide rates.

In an effort to keep the song from causing “bad morale” amongst the royal troops of the English crown during world war II, the song was completely banned in england by BBC, and all other broadcasting stations. It would also be banned in the states in 1941, as Hungary sided with their close ally, Germany.

Following world war II, the world lay in ruins again, the song was almost completely lost. And Rezső Seress was now living in a communist occupied country. He wanted to leave , for he too felt the wrath of what destroyed the great Russian Empire and it’s subsections.

It is rumored that in an attempt to escape the communist Hungary, Rezső Seress booked himself a performance at the border with the no also shattered dual, but neutral fatherland , Austria.

His ingenious plan: to play “gloomy Sunday” for the border guards, causing them to kill themselves, and he would escape to the freer portion of the now dead empire. His plan failed, although a woman in the room grabbed a handgun and shot herself, the others were too shocked at what had just happened to do anything themselves.

Rezső Seress committed suicide that night. And from the day of his demise, there would grow the myth that his song had indeed triggered something in the human brain to wish death upon themselves.

In 1995, all lifts on the song were banned, and somehow it resurged into the public. We have no word on how it has affected those around us up to now, but we will show you a remake down in 1995 below.


Here it is

Moses Sithole

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

You think of murderer, and you probably think of jack the ripper or some perverted man that ended up making children into pies.

But you probably never once hear the name Moses Sithole, and perhaps that is a good thing.

Back in the day, South Africa was run by a British held apartheid government. This government made South Africa the richest country in all of africa, but accordingly the class system was racist, favoring white minorities over the 99% African indigenous.

Among the indigenous, there lived a man (last name Sithole) who was an abusive father, he even kicked his infant son, Moses, like a ball when he was only one year old.

Sithole SR decided to walk out on the family, and he was never heard from again.

His son, Moses Sithole, grew up in the slums of South Africa with his brothers. His mother would later abandon him, calling him an accident before she left.

And thus the most ferocious killer that ever walked the earth was born, his name: Moses Sithole JR.

Moses grew up mining gold, for he could do no skilled labor, needed to eat, and lacked funds for education.

At the age of 30, Moses had strangled 48 people to death. Moses Sithole would dress up in a business jacket, make a “come hither” motion to people with his pointer finger, get them in a dark, secluded area, then rape them and subsequently strangle them (kill).

His victims were far and wide , passing geological gaps, with no regard of race or gender. Sithole was finally found in late 1995, he admitted to all the murders, rapes, and even a bit of cannibalism on the side, he received 958 years with no possibility of parole.

And kids, this is why you never heard of Moses Sithole.

Moses Sithole

Moses Sithole

 

 

 

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