Iâd have gone with âLiverpool win Premier Leagueâ for August.
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On this day in 1919, American aviatrix Ruth Law breaks an altitude record. It was just one of many records that sheâd break! Indeed, Law was so well-known during her day that reporters used to call her Angel Ruth or Queen of the Aces.
And yet most Americans today have never heard of this daring pioneer.
Law bought her first airplane from Orville Wright in 1912. She hoped heâd teach her to fly, but he refused to do it. He thought women were not mechanically inclined. Law was undeterred. She found another teacher and learned to fly in three short weeks.
âThe surest way to make me do a thing is to tell me I canât do it,â she wrote several years later.
Law is perhaps best known for a 1916 attempt to fly from Chicago to New York Cityâand for the speed and distance records that she smashed along the way. The trip was a hard one back then, of course, and she stopped twice for fuel. The Boston Post reported that Law âfell, rather than stepped out ofâ her seat at the first stop. âA mask of ice glazed her face. Her eyes were fixed like those of a marionette. Her arms remained at right angles as though she had not yet let go the wheel. It was several minutes before the daring girl could walk erect or talk connectedly.â
Remember, she was sitting in an open air seat in front of the plane (see picture). She was completely unprotected from the elements for hours. In fact, sheâd prepared for the flight by sleeping in a cold tent atop a hotel roof.
Law was running low on fuel again by the time she concluded her journey in New York. It was foggy and she could barely see, but she managed to glide safely into Governorâs Island. A brass band celebrated her arrival! Her total time in the air had been 8 hours, 55 minutes, 35 seconds. âLittle girl, you beat them all,â General Leonard Wood grinned at her as she landed.
Law had known that fuel might be a problem, of course. She was flying a little Curtiss pusher biplane; her attempts to buy something bigger had run into a dead end because Curtiss thought the âbig machine was too much for a girl to handle.â
Maybe he came to doubt that assessment? He later told a Chicago Tribune reporter that âMiss Lawâs feat is the most wonderful in all aviation.â He wouldnât have thought that the plane sheâd used âwould make more than 100 miles in sustained flight.â
Sheâd flown nearly 900.
Naturally, this episode was just a small part of Lawâs career. She was the first to fly to the Philippine Islands with official air mail. She was the first woman to do the loop-to-loop. When the United States entered World War I, she was prohibited from serving as a military pilot, but she raised money for the Red Cross through exhibitions and air showsâand she was the first woman authorized to wear a non-commissioned officerâs military uniform.
Lawâs flying career came to an abrupt end in 1922. Her husband had long acted as her agent, but now he was worried: Lawâs stunts were getting more and more dangerous. It seems that he got tired of tempting fate. He simply announced her retirement to reporters one day. What would Law have done in another day or another time? Thereâs no way to know. But, in 1922, Ms. Ruth Bancroft Law returned to her life as Mrs. Charles Oliver.
Either way, her decade-long career was inspirational to many other women of her timeâand it had helped to defuse the notion that only men can handle âmechanics.â
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Nope. Nuffink wrong wid Brittin.
Nosiree
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Literally FFS. 
I wouldnât have told themâŠreally would you want to encourage people of such a low intellect to procreate.
Hmmm I havenât thought this through have IâŠFratton Park sometimes has up to 17k for home games. 
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Hi folks,
I have thought long and hard about this and trying to find the right timing. Last year we (family) decided being in the UK was not where we wanted to be anymore. We decided a mass post to all would be easier than a face to face, with tears and the likes.
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From me, I just wanted to say that I donât know whose status this is, but Iâm very jealous of them so thought I would steal it and try and leach on their happinessâŠ
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As loooong as you ainât a Mexican rapist drug dealer who can climb walls youâll be as happy as a hog in sheeeiiiittt.
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Strange wailings and catawhaalinâ round these parts last nightâŠthis morninâ someone hung this on the wireâŠ
Anyone familiar with the Occult?
I was not bored
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Close on the heels of not realising kids come from having sexâŠ
God bless you kay edukayshun
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That is very, very scary, very scary indeedâŠ
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Ahh the little onesâŠlet them eat cake.