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Loved the wordle today - not the answer you would expect. As for QOD, these ones asking for a specific date, have a theme. Not knowing any of the specific dates for various happenings, I look for the equivalent of the date today - seems to work, but then someone will come along and trip me up!
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@EdW Hi Have since discovered the same info. Papers released by the US government. So the Ai got it wrong 🤣 Here is what I found.
The author (Andy Burns) Studied History at United States Naval Academy.
"The Gulf of Tonkin incident wasn’t faked. But the Johnson administration inflated a minor incident and deliberately suppressed news that a second attack didn’t actually happen, and used it as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do - escalate direct US military involvement in Vietnam. Here’s what happened:
In the summer of 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was on a signals-intelligence patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the Maddox. The US ship returned fire and, along with F-8 Crusader fighters from USS Saratoga, damaged and drive away the North Vietnamese. The destroyer was undamaged except for one bullet hole. The attack occurred in daylight and there are photos of the torpedo boats. The North Vietnamese never claimed that the August 2 attack didn’t happen, but claimed it was in retaliation for Americans sinking Vietnamese fishing boats. Regardless, it was a very minor skirmish.
Two days later, at night and during a storm, Maddox’s radar operators reported contacts that the Captain evaluated and reported up the chain of command as another torpedo boat attack. For several hours Maddox fired on the radar contacts and maneuvered aggressively. With daylight and calming seas, and finding no wreckage or other physical evidence, the captain of Maddox reported that the attack might not have actually occurred. It’s suspected that the destroyer’s sensor operators misinterpreted radar and sonar artifacts from the heavy weather.
In any case, the US government wanted to escalate military intervention in Vietnam and the Tonkin Gulf incidents were a good excuse. Within 30 minutes of the reported attack, President Johnson had already decided upon retaliatory bombing. Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which gave legal authority for military action. The facts that the August 2 attack was exaggerated and the August 4 ‘attack’ was almost certainly nervous sailors shooting at radar ghosts, were ignored and suppressed."
The author (Andy Burns) Studied History at United States Naval Academy.
"The Gulf of Tonkin incident wasn’t faked. But the Johnson administration inflated a minor incident and deliberately suppressed news that a second attack didn’t actually happen, and used it as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do - escalate direct US military involvement in Vietnam. Here’s what happened:
In the summer of 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox was on a signals-intelligence patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the Maddox. The US ship returned fire and, along with F-8 Crusader fighters from USS Saratoga, damaged and drive away the North Vietnamese. The destroyer was undamaged except for one bullet hole. The attack occurred in daylight and there are photos of the torpedo boats. The North Vietnamese never claimed that the August 2 attack didn’t happen, but claimed it was in retaliation for Americans sinking Vietnamese fishing boats. Regardless, it was a very minor skirmish.
Two days later, at night and during a storm, Maddox’s radar operators reported contacts that the Captain evaluated and reported up the chain of command as another torpedo boat attack. For several hours Maddox fired on the radar contacts and maneuvered aggressively. With daylight and calming seas, and finding no wreckage or other physical evidence, the captain of Maddox reported that the attack might not have actually occurred. It’s suspected that the destroyer’s sensor operators misinterpreted radar and sonar artifacts from the heavy weather.
In any case, the US government wanted to escalate military intervention in Vietnam and the Tonkin Gulf incidents were a good excuse. Within 30 minutes of the reported attack, President Johnson had already decided upon retaliatory bombing. Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which gave legal authority for military action. The facts that the August 2 attack was exaggerated and the August 4 ‘attack’ was almost certainly nervous sailors shooting at radar ghosts, were ignored and suppressed."
Yup. No longer in the top of the leader board. Just shows we don't all look things up. It was a guess from some distant memory. It also helps if you read the question properly. I have since looked it up just to check if Ai was correct. It is. I should also have realised that today is the anniversary.
Steve HARBOUR would have given you a green A
so the rest were wrong before you tried them
I Started with HARBOUR and then started writing down words fitting the clue with A as the second
Letter and LANDING was the only one that I came up with after nearly half an hour
so the rest were wrong before you tried them
I Started with HARBOUR and then started writing down words fitting the clue with A as the second
Letter and LANDING was the only one that I came up with after nearly half an hour
Ed
Hi, EdW, Pat, I ran out of answers for this one. I tried Harbour, Mooring, Wharves, Wharfes, Seaport, Jetties 🤔🤔🤔and it was--Landing 😣😥
I should have known ?? Two of my boats are only 3ft away from our landing, in the spare bedroom 😀😆😀 😥.
I should have known ?? Two of my boats are only 3ft away from our landing, in the spare bedroom 😀😆😀 😥.
@SimpleSailor
Start by putting in the word you think is correct. Matching the letter count required. The clue simplifies the process as normally there is no clue
When you press enter the letters will change colour.
Green - correct letter in correct position
Yellow. - the letter is in the word but wrong position
Grey. - the letter is not in the word
When you have the correct word all letters will be green
Start by putting in the word you think is correct. Matching the letter count required. The clue simplifies the process as normally there is no clue
When you press enter the letters will change colour.
Green - correct letter in correct position
Yellow. - the letter is in the word but wrong position
Grey. - the letter is not in the word
When you have the correct word all letters will be green
Ed
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I got it right but hardly the word described.
Roy
Roy
@RNinMunich . . . AND THEY ARE ALMOST THE SAME ANSWER REEF-ER
Force nothing, waste nothing, leave nothing undone
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Ditto repeato today 26.07.26. 🙄
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*PS: QotD uses Midnight 'ZULU TIME to update'. Which is the same 'moment in time' anywhere in the world regardless of the the local time.
So who's ahead or behind is irrelevant.*
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*PS: QotD uses Midnight 'ZULU TIME to update'. Which is the same 'moment in time' anywhere in the world regardless of the the local time.
So who's ahead or behind is irrelevant.*
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.😊 Cheers Doug
@BOATSHED Australia or Canada doesn't get the question early, and stop calling me Surely!! 😁In Canada Eastern Time Zone we get the question at 8 pm local time. I think it is in squence of answering. I will answer moments after 8 pm EST and be the first at the top of the list. I will check back a couple of hours later (really, no life) and find more names above mine.
Force nothing, waste nothing, leave nothing undone
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Having answered QoD in Australia the timing for a new question is still UK time for midnight or thereabouts.
Roy
Roy
I did have a look into this…
It seems it’s totally arbitrary the order of members scoring the same. Not based on surname, username, when registered, last online, or anything particularly. Simply however the database happens to retrieve the data.
An order could be put in… but what would make it fair? Rank maybe? 😆
Stephen
It seems it’s totally arbitrary the order of members scoring the same. Not based on surname, username, when registered, last online, or anything particularly. Simply however the database happens to retrieve the data.
An order could be put in… but what would make it fair? Rank maybe? 😆
Stephen
We may not be able to control the wind 🍃 but we can always adjust our sails ⛵ - MBW Admin
Why worry where you are on the leaderboard, does it give you any advantage. Live with it, it’s only a game
Ed
This comes clearly under 'oneupmanship' a puerile example at attempting to force people like me with a surname beginning with V to the bottom. Unfortunately, I can do that for myself, but it shows how dog eat dog it is at the top!
Roy😉😉
Roy😉😉
Just wondering - now that so many people are in the 100% club and I have my own views on why that is - what is the order in which there names are displayed - is it random, those who answered first or is there indeed a ranking system in the 100% club ?
Sod it I got mixed up with when Mount Vesuvius blew up! How the mighty have fallen, not me but there were 11% of us. Never mind it will be a good day today! My birthday has come around again and we have a family lunch scheduled.
Roy
Roy
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RossM
Ok Ross glad it's working again. I was going to put something about the likes bit at the very bottom of the comments page but I had to end my reply abruptly as my glucose meter readings were alerting me to get my meal asap 🤔☺, which I have just eaten. I have been a diabetic for over 66 years!!
I'm not into stopping to make and to eat meals when I could be doing more interesting things like building models ☺ or not so interesting like gardening 😐. There's just not enough hours in the day!! 😀.
Ok Ross glad it's working again. I was going to put something about the likes bit at the very bottom of the comments page but I had to end my reply abruptly as my glucose meter readings were alerting me to get my meal asap 🤔☺, which I have just eaten. I have been a diabetic for over 66 years!!
I'm not into stopping to make and to eat meals when I could be doing more interesting things like building models ☺ or not so interesting like gardening 😐. There's just not enough hours in the day!! 😀.
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Hi RossM
if anyone likes some of the posts that I have put on here, I get an email that tells me. When I click on any, it automatically takes me to the relevant website posts ☺.
It's the ones that members don't like that I can't see - thank goodness 🙄 😁.
if anyone likes some of the posts that I have put on here, I get an email that tells me. When I click on any, it automatically takes me to the relevant website posts ☺.
It's the ones that members don't like that I can't see - thank goodness 🙄 😁.
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The first to land in a pre-dawn attack were the SAS lead by Paddy Maine, although due to British Army politics they were called SRS (Special Raiding Squadron). The same politics ensured that Paddy Maine never received a Victoria Cross which he deserved many times over.
Ed
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