This photo has a '39770' in it.
This insurgent group knows that I am watching this so I am not certain how that factors into their criminal activity strategy. Maybe they think I will miss one.
It stands to reason that since their domestic terrorism activity planned for yesterday has failed then they are actively planning for the next round of their attacks on the United States federal government.
The photo has a 30 October 2010 datestamp but the first time I saw it available on that website was today and it is, at this time, on the first page of photos for today's collection.
from 12/20/1901 to 11/8/2010 ( Today ) is 39770 days
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/101030-N-0126S-001.jpg
NAVY.mil
Official Website of the UNITED STATES NAVY
101030-N-0126S-001 NORTH ARABIAN SEA (Oct. 30, 2010) Vice Adm. Michael LeFever, commander of the Office of the Defense Representative of Pakistan, receives honors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5). LeFever visited Sailors and embarked Marines of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard Peleliu after they spent 10 weeks performing humanitarian relief operations in Pakistan after monsoon rains caused devastating floods throughout the country. Peleliu is the command platform for the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group, supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation events in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John W. Shepherd II/Released)
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101030-N-0126S-001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901
1901
December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Railway
Uganda Railway
The Uganda Railway (known colloquially as The Lunatic Express) is a historical railway system linking the interiors of Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean at Mombasa in Kenya.
The Tsavo Incident
The events for which the construction of the railway may be most famous are the grisly killings of a number of construction workers in 1898, during the building of a bridge across the Tsavo River. Hunting principally at night, a pair of maneless male lions stalked and killed at least 28 Indian and African workers - although some accounts put the number of victims as high as 135.
The lions, dubbed "the Maneaters of Tsavo," were eventually shot and killed by the bridge construction supervisor, Egr. Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, who had their skins made into rugs before selling them, some years later, to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for a sum of $5,000 US.
http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=qw1008954721209B253
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
21 December 2001, 17:24
Kisumu - Kenyans this week marked the centenary of the completion of a railway said to have changed the face of Africa with a mixture of joy and frustration, peppered with a dash of political intrigue.
On December 20, 1901, after more than a decade of planning and construction, the tracks of the Uganda Railway - more poetically known as the Lunatic Express or the Iron Snake - which began at the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, finally reached Port Florence (now Kisumu) on the shore of Lake Victoria.
The human cost of this controversial 900 kilometre project, undertaken despite vociferous opposition in Britain's parliament,was enormous.
Between them, disease, man-eating lions and hostile inhabitants angered by the invasion of their ancestral lands claimed the lives of "almost 2 500 Indian workmen, a score of British engineers and an unrecorded number of Africans"
