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At random: A typical modern submarine may require as many as 2,000 working drawings for the more than 7,000,000 items used in its construction. Blueprints from these drawings if placed end to end would make a strip 250 miles long.
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Corabelle
Posted 2009-01-31 10:03 AM (#23953)


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Subject: On this day . . .

in 1917, during WWI, Germany served notice it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

Also on this day in 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satelite into orbit, Explorer I.

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Edited by Corabelle 2009-01-31 10:23 PM
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