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[bill from lachine]

Simon,

Good evening glad to see you on deck for the night shift.

 

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[Simon1]

My parents and grandparents are dead,.... I don't have anyone to ask.

I did a hard search and narrowed things down by using my last name,.......

There are approximately 795 families in Italy,.....

509 are in Sicily, the next two, bout 100 families, are in Northern Italy

Sicilia - 509
Veneto - 57
Lombardia - 47
Campania - 40
Lazio - 37
Piemonte - 31
Toscana - 23
Liguria - 15
Friuli V.G. - 9

Italian women were considered the most beautiful in the world for decades,......

Here we are in year 2020,.... and they are still ranked way up there,......

If I remember right Brazil holds the record for now,..... say, 9.95

And Italy up there at,..... 9.85

Italian women are warm and beautiful,...can cook, and like to fool around,...

I'm thinking as hard as I can,...... I can't think of anything else I would need.

Oh, for camping,... take two sleeping bags and zip them together.

That's all I can think of,.......
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My wife's grandmother was born in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy
her grandfather was born in Calabria, Italy.

They immigrated over here I believe in mid 1915.

I hear you on your parents and grandparents passing.

Mine did too many years ago. It does leave a void in family history.

Fortunately for my wife, her grandparents had like 17 children that lived and I belive 4 or 5 that died at birth. So for awhile, being able to trace her ancestry has been fairly easy.

 

[bill from lachine]

Paolo Nutini-Let me down easy.

 

[Simon1]

Good evening Bill and Bart

 

[Simon1]

Simon,

Good evening glad to see you on deck for the night shift.

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"On deck"

ARC says I am the "Cabin Boy" so I don't go on deck for fear of what may happen

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Friends I need your help please.

For some studies I am looking for a book with as many as possible old photos of north American natives. Not a history book at all but may with a small description about the tribe of each photographed person.
Is something like this to find in the USA?

 

[Tom_Restorer]

forgotten.

And I need to know which is the best history books about the Navajo!

 

[Simon1]

Did you get suspended from History class again ?

 

[Simon1]

Here are a few Tom:

https://www.pinterest.com/nativeamericans/navajo/


https://www.pinterest.com/zaneymeyer/historic-pictures-of-the-navajo-people/


https://www.navajo-nsn.gov/history.htm


https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Navajo+I...76a2f4fccae36a7e21368ad4c0bd67d&tag=wm2017-20


Navajo People Photo Gallery

 

[ARC]

Good morning Tnet Crew.

 

[Rookster]

Good morning All aboard

 

[Rookster]

Morning ARC and other crew here from the night shift

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning ARC, rook, Simon, Tom and the rest of the gang.

 

[worldtalker]

Good morning Tnet Crew.

I see you survived.

 

[RustyRelics]

What video game is that?

I used to have an F15 Falcon game on floppy, played the crap outta that game in an IBM. I didn't even have a control yolk and didn't have but a one color amber monitor! The games they make these days are amazing. Back in the day we had the Atari 2600, Intelvision, and Colleco. After that it was Nintendo and Sega. It used to be around $100 for a 2600 Atari and 20-35$ apiece for cartridge games. Big money back in 1983. Today, my neighbor's kid has some 600 bootleg Nintendo games on a $25 Chineese unit that does not even need cartridges.

I'm more of a pinball guy, but it's crazy what they can do now considering that Space Invaders is like 50 years old.

War Thunder. You can download it for free, though it takes a while. It's got a steep learning curve, but other than that, it's top notch. It's the first video game I've ever played, and I'm in my later teens, so I'm proud it took me this long to get into it.

 

[RustyRelics]

Good morning everyone.

Hey Tom, my great grandmother was 100% Apache, does a photo of me count?

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning Rusty.

 

[RustyRelics]

Morning Bill.

 

[RustyRelics]

Had some pickup truck sit outside our house last night, idling. As soon as my mom turned on a light, tires spun, and he kicked gravel to get out of there. What the heck?

 

[ARC]

I see you survived.

***ARC checks himself over... and checks the Rum cabinet and sees there is still some rum left in it. ***

Yeah ... looks like I will pull through another day.

Let me tell you... this flu was like a super flu on steroids... sheesh.

I have been sick... but this was serious crap... I thought I was gonna have to go in for treatment... but then it started its turn.

Still feel only 69.7 %. :P