Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M6 operating temps
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:17:42 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011109101231.00a5d740@student.uq.edu.au>

At 02:18 PM 11/9/01 -0500, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>hooray for rugged individuals!  i recently read Admiral Byrd's book _Alone_
>wherein he mentions when it hit -70 F degrees at the south pole, the 
>kerosene in his lanterns froze solid.  that's cold!

Rei

RADM Byrd wasn't at the South Pole but about a thousand miles to the North,
in Little America.  The book is a magnificent read, especially the part
where, after he's been alone for some months, he suddenly realizes he is
READING AT THE DINNER TABLE and wondering what his mother would think of
such relaxation of her Virginia standards!

The Richmond, Virginia, airport used to be Byrd Municipal Field but the
local buffoons renamed it, "Richmond International Airport" some years
back.  All the highway signs say, "RIC" but the locals, bless their
conservative hearts, still call it, "Byrd Field".

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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