What's the real story behind Kilroy?
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Legend: This Legend of how "Kilroy was here" starts is with James J. Kilroy, a shipyard inspector during WWII. He chalked the words on bulkheads to show that he had been there and inspected the riveting in the newly constructed ship. To the troops in those ships, however, it was a complete mystery — all they knew for sure was that he had "been there first." As a joke, they began placing the graffiti wherever they (the US forces) landed or went, claiming it was already there when they arrived.\n\nKilroy became the US super-GI who always got there first — wherever GI's went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places. It was said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arch de Triumphe, and scrawled in the dust on the moon. An outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill who were there for the Potsdam conference. The first person to use it was Stalin. He emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"\n\nWWII UDT (Under Water Demolition - later Navy Seals) divers swam ashore on Japanese held islands in the Pacific to prepare the beaches for the coming landings by US troops. They were sure to be the first GIs there! On more than one occasion, they reported seeing "Kilroy was here" scrawled on make shift signs or as graffiti on enemy pillboxes. They, in turn, often left similar signs for the next incoming GIs.\n\nThe tradition continued in every US military theater of operations throughout and following WWII.\n\nIn 1946 the Transit Company of America held a contest offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the "real" Kilroy. Almost forty men stepped forward to make that claim, but James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters to help prove his authenticity. James Kilroy won the prize of the trolley car which he gave it to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up in their front yard for a playhouse.
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Kirlian photography has been around for a many years and has been studied by amateurs as well as serious scientists.  IN the source links are connections to a number of sites that approach this subject from different perspectives.
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Can you give us any information?  Where did you see the name?
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True, horses are not renowned as surgeons as they lack the thumb that is so useful for holding implements. Although I think you'll find if you re-examine the story it makes no mention at all that Mr. Dumpty was in fact an egg. \n\nWe can't be sure of the facts here, the reports are at best sketchy. I would surmise that the King had a mounted brigade of surgeons and sent them to do a cut and shut job on Humpty, but by the time they got there they could only scrape his head into a bucket and carry it back like an egg in a cup thus adding fuel to the spurious rumors.\n\nEither that or the King was just a Dope!
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I know Frank McAvennie played for St Mirren. I would ask a Scotsman but I canna understand it.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16303507&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=spooky-truth--name_page.html\n\nTells you everything, Yvette Fielding's husband got suspicious and made an anagram of Dereks's name and the word fake, left it lying about as a deasesed persons name from that place they were at, and Derek used the name as a 'spirit' name and they exposed him
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#1. Of course it was an inside job. The thermite residue; Bldg 7 being "pulled" for no reason; the 175ft plane disappearing into a 16ft hole (that alone is still the kicker to me). The Northwood Documents show this exact scenario planned in the early 60's to start a war against Castro.\n\nLove the name btw.....not too many seem to realize Bush's obvious humanistic values. If he were a real Christian, we'd know it by his actions. But since he chose to advertise it, it became a sales pitch instead of an attribute.
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There was on online article about just this!\n\nI think it is just journalists trying to make up fluff.
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"Where did his ancestors come from?" would have been a better way of asking it. I believe he is of Irish decent.
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He's a traitor period.\nSkerry would dime off his own granny to get some air time now.
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I'm American.  Of course I don't know about the outside world.\nSeriously, all I know is that he was a partner-in-crime with Bush and Blair on the Iraq war.
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I need know a little more about the story to answer this question.
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If you're Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or a neo-Nazi or something, it's a myth.  Here on planet Earth, however, it's a horrifying reality.  I've seen actual footage -to say it's horrific is something of an understatement, I think.
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It's Culloden...\n\nBattle of Culloden\n\n\n\nBonnie Prince Charlie\nIt was the greatest ever moment in the history of the Jacobite movement. Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army had victoriously marched down through England, and were poised to strike at London itself.\nThen, at the very moment of their triumph, the Young Pretender and his forces decided to turn back and retreat to Scotland. \nIt was a decision which eventually turned out to be a disaster, because it led to their bloody and inglorious defeat at Culloden - the last military battle ever to be fought on British soil. \n\nWith the capital in panic at the thought of a Jacobite advance, the prince was determined to press on to try and secure the British throne for his father, the exiled would be James VIII. However, his chief lieutenants knew that victory would be no easy matter. As the prince's forces had marched south, they had not secured territory behind them.\nTwo of the king's most formidable military commanders, General George Wade and the Duke of Cumberland, were in pursuit and London itself had a large militia of loyalist troops ready to take the prince on. The sensible thing to do, it seemed, was to pull back. Charles sullenly agreed and, on December 6, 1745, the retreat started.\n\nOn his way north, the Scots fought off an attack at Clifton, in the Lake District and left 400 men to garrison the castle in Carlisle.\nOn Christmas day, Charles reached Glasgow and found he had huge problems picking up support for his cause. The city was strongly pro-government, and hundreds of its men were fighting on the Hanoverian side against him. Reluctantly - and probably more to get rid of him than anything - Glaswegians did provide Charles with provisions to refit his army, which left 10 days later. By now, Edinburgh had been reclaimed for the king by General Henry Hawley and the Jacobites knew that a showdown was in prospect. Reinforced by the arrival of a further 4000 troops, they finally came face to face with Hawley's forces at Falkirk.\nThe battle was a disaster for the Hanoverians. They lost ten times as many men as the prince - 400 to 40 - with most of the government forces fleeing the field and leaving behind their artillery and baggage.\nVictory at Falkirk, combined with the fact that still more troops and supplies were arriving from France and elsewhere, bolstered the Jacobite army. With government forces continuing to press against him and with the clan chiefs insisting on returning to the Highlands, however, the only way Charles could realistically go was north. He tried and failed to seize Stirling Castle before arriving in Inverness and taking the town on February 18. Fort Augustus succumbed in March, though Fort William held out. By now, there was another problem: the able Duke of Cumberland was in pursuit of the Jacobite forces along with an army of 9000 men. A seasoned and intelligent military strategist - and son of the King - Cumberland would not make the sort of tactical mistake which had allowed the Jacobites to win the battles of Prestonpans and Falkirk.\nBy April 14, Cumberland was in Nairn, while the prince's army was only 10 miles west at Drummossie. Charles's Quartermaster General, John William O'Sullivan, decided that the best approach was to try and catch the Hanoverian forces by surprise. The Pretender's troops, by then tired out and hungry, marched to Nairn, only to find Cumberland's forces awake - they were celebrating their leaders 25th birthday. The Highlanders were then forced to trudge back to Drummossie, where they arrived, exhausted and demoralised, just after dawn.\nUnknown to them, however, word had reached Cumberland that the enemy forces had tried to pounce on him. Knowing full well how tired and hungry the Jacobites were, he decided to attack them when they were at their weakest.\nThe two sides finally faced each other at Drummossie Moor, better known as Culloden, in a howling, freezing gale, o
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When in Belfast, be sure to look up the headquarters of the Ulster Freedom Fighters.  They're the radical Orangemen who decorate their buildings with murals of masked gunmen carrying assault weapons and displaying the "bloody red hand", a modern symbol of terrorism in Northern Ireland.  Golly, the liberal media had you thinking that the IRA were the bad guys, right?
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Yes look up\n\nRent out the Micheal Ryan movie about the guy who started the IRA in ireland.\n\nLook up the standstead hijack in england\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4675327-108920,00.html\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/07/nhij07.xml\nhttp://www.whatthepaperssay.co.uk/archive/stories/2001/19-04-2001-8304.cfm\n\nSeeing the movie the 'Magdelene sisters' may help you with understanding why catholics were hated in northern ireland.\nThough not so relavant\n\nThe french resistance were terrorists and rent out the TV mini-series 'V' and you will understand about terrorists and weapons of mass destruction like bio, chem and nuke weapons.\n\nPretty much terrorsisim can fall into three camps. The relgious facists wanting dominance. ie islamic, kkk etc violence. State sponsored (see School of the Americas) and what is effectively freedom fighters.\n\nThe latter do things like take hostages to demand troops out of their country Ie quit bombing our people.\n\nOr free their people etc, or equality etc.\n\nOften terrorisim comes about as a reaction to oppression.\n\nFor example in Iraq there are the insurgents. Basically just wanting the americans etc to piss off and leave them along, stop nicking their oils and oppressing them.\n\nAnd the religious extreamists who seek an islamic state (very bad)... this leads to the likes of the taliban in control which oppressed women and gays.\n\nLook up what the taliban did ie stone to death\n\nhttp://www.iran-e-azad.org/stoning/video.html\n\nany girl for having sex outside marriage or even walking outside a house without a brother/husband or father.\n\nhttp://www.soaw.org/new/\nwww.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583254,00.html\n\nIf you look at the conflict between between the palestinians and the isrealis it started due to the israelis taking control of the palestinians land, throwing them out of their homes into the gutters and camps with no toilets, or decent conditions, then building settlements (ie nice houses with swimming pools) on the stolen land in sght of the palestinians, Living in tents with open sewage, little medical treatment, awful lives etc etc, constantly bullied.. Tand then gloating from their nice homes at those who got kicked out of their homes. so the Palestinains pissed off. Faught back only they didn't have tanks,and f16 jet fighters and aircraft carriers so they hijacked planes etc instead.\n\nAs this went on with generations growing up very upset in these horrible conditions. Islamic relgious groups moved in offering schools and help But as incharge of education. Fill kids with stories of how perfect their relgion is, how evil the jews are and that they must not think and obey Islam. And that they will meet many virgin girlfriends if they kill as many jews as possible, blowing themselves up or shooting.\n\nBasically bring kids up to be weapons.\n\nThey target civilians partly as All isrealis have to join the army so theirfor discos are full of 'soldiers' off duty to them.\n\nPlus saying we are going to make life so horrible you will get fed up and go away... in simple terms.\n\nUnfortunetley this has gone on so long that all there is is hate on both sides and the relgious leaders are in control.\n\nAmerica you will find is often in up to its neck in opressing people by way of (see school of the americas) putting in place dictators to opress people in return for cheap oil.\n\nMuch of terrorisim are locals fighting mining companies taking their countries minerals and hurting therm and making them poor. These mining companies mines (and other buinesses that exploit, are termed 'american interests' \n\nAnd if american (and uk) forces are not sent in to defend said 'interests' (ie beating up the locals to protect a business thats treating the locals like shit and killing them, They fund and pay and help a nasty dictator to do it for them.\n\nA bit like helping the mafia run a town in r
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I believe it was Brian Trubshaw.  Check out this link for more info. I find it quite exciting as it all happened near me!\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514535.stm