Awesome Thread

^AWESOME!!!
 
epic bear man #2?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY7gCSFocsE&feature=player_embedded#[/youtube]
(skip to about 1.20)
 
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Yes those pictures are awesome but not nearly as awesome as the story behind them.

I heard this on NPR the other day.

Oh and yes NPR is awesome.

In the American Civil war the 8th Wisonsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment had a Bald eagle named Old Abe as their mascot.

Tell me how awesome that is going into battle with a Bald Eagle flying overhead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Abe

Old Abe was captured in 1861 by Chief Sky near the Chippewa River, near the town of Jim Falls, in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. She was subsequently traded to local farmer, Daniel McCann, for a bushel of corn, who in turn sold her to the 8th Wisconsin's Company C for $2.50.

Company C named the eagle after President Abraham Lincoln, and designed a special perch on which they carried the bird into battle. Old Abe participated in the Second Battle of Corinth (in which the 8th Wisconsin lost half of its men) and the Siege of Vicksburg, among other battles. In battle, Old Abe quickly became legendary, screaming and spreading her wings at the enemy. Confederate troops called her the "Yankee Buzzard" and made several attempts to capture her but never succeeded. Several times she lost feathers to bullets and saw her handlers get shot out from under her. When passing by, Generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and William Rosecrans were known to doff their hats to the eagle.

In 1864, Old Abe returned to Wisconsin with several veterans who did not reenlist. Nevertheless, she remained famous and was invited to, among other events, the 1880 Grand Army of the Republic National Convention, and the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When not at public events, her caretaker kept her in the Wisconsin State Capitol.


America FUCK YEAH.
 
i have no idea what i'm looking at :|

the last thing looks like a baseball glove, no goalies in baseball though...
 
^Yep.

edit, this is what the glove is for:
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This thing is sick! Apparently it's what the US marines use to clear out mine fields and open routes in hostile territory. When it shoots that string of bombs to clear out a mine field it's friggin awesome!

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And then there's this guy...Now I've seen variation of this kinda thing before but the speeds he reaches, the way he takes turns and actually overtaking cars and motorcycles as you go along for so long is absolutely amazing. The road looks like an awesome driving road as well. Can't embed so here it is
 
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our house
http://img717.imageshack.**/img717/6302/neuschwansteincastle.jpg
in the middle of our street. Neuschwanstein.
 
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Air - now known as Sissi.

And I don't mean the gross "guy in female clothing" type of Sissi you get when accidentally image-googling for Sissie.
I mean her.

Sissi.jpg
 
That is awesome. Have a complementary castle as a reward.

http://img705.imageshack.**/img705/1095/1545645.jpg

Bonus points will be awarded to the one who can identifiy the castle. Not that I don't know, I'm just being secret.
 
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