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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 29, 2026 5:04AM

    VIDEO FROM LAST EVENING CAPTURES A RING OF FIRE AS JOHNNY CASH SINGS "RING OF FIRE"

    Captain Cook explored the waters of Alaska at time concurrent with the American Revolution. On his ship was a your seaman named Captain George Vancouver. Close to two decades later that young seaman captained his own ship as he led the Vancouver Expedition from 1791 to 1795.

    The expedition charted the coastline from Oregon to Alaska. His expedition was responsible for naming Mount Ranier, Mount Baker, Vancouver, and Whitbey Island. Expedition member Lt. Joseph Whitbey, for whom Whitbey Island was named, was himself responsible for naming Point Woronzof located today in the Municipality of Anchorage. He named it after the then serving Russian Ambassador to Great Britain, Count Simon Romanovitch Woronzof who was very popular among the British.

    In the below linked video you will first see the aforementioned Captain Cook's image as he overlooks Cook Inlet named after him. You will then see a "Ring of Fire" Sunset as it spans from the Captain to the aforementioned Point Woronzof where the fire red sunset is reflected in the waters fronting the Point.

    Link to Video of Johnny Cash singing "Ring of Fire" as a Ring of Fire Stretches from Cook's Image to the Sunset Reflecting Waters below Anchorage's Point Woronzof:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pbGRmBSnPEU

    Concurrently taken photos beginning with a view that includes the sunset's reflection off of my office building as my vehicle is parked in front of it. In the photo both the distant silhouette of Captain Cook and the Fire Red Sunset are visible:

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    Come on summer............ B)
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    OSU football is 0-2 in their last 2 games...... :p

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    Silver coins??

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    Watch your step - fast trip down

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    Snow & ice - help

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    This has gotta hurt

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    Hail the gift of memory in this fifty-second state. Who sold me down the river and shafts me while he waits. Outside the gates of Eden, star spangled and so late.

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    edited January 31, 2026 4:31PM

    The ice storm of 2026 - West TN 5 - 8 inches of ice




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  • JWPJWP Posts: 31,738 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 1, 2026 12:31PM


    I really like the TV show.

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    Although the narrative sounds accurate, I am guessing that the photo is AI generated as those definitely are not weather balloons.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    I really like the TV show.

    The Rest of the Story (Credit Wikipedia):

    In January 1944, Boyington, outnumbered by Japanese "Zero" planes, was shot down into the Pacific Ocean after downing one of the enemy planes. He was captured by a Japanese submarine crew and was held as a prisoner of war for more than a year and a half. He was released shortly after the surrender of Japan.

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    Danger Will Robinson

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