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About combs2jc

I am a dad first. I am also a writer, artist, submarine vet and adventurous. Most of my writing is non-fiction. I concentrate on memior and history. I also have an annual Christmas book I put out that is free, "Christmas Patrol". "Christmas Patrol" gives vetrans (multiple countries and services) a chance to encourage those men and women currently serving their country during the holidays. My readers have been asking for a website and here it is. Feel free to write, I read everything. Thank You!

Speaking of Small Submarines


All of this research on small submarines got me to thinking about photos of my daughter and me in small submarines. When she said she wanted to be a submariner when she got bigger that made me worry (she still says this).

Elizabeth & Joe Combs in an Office of Naval Research (O.N.R.) submarine, April 2008.

Then she said she didn’t want to be in the big black submarines like papa she wants to be in the small research submarines. Now I’m breathing again. HaHaHa

I hope you enjoy my article on our other small submarine, Dr. E. Lee Spence’s Hunley. This week’s article will be published tonight at midnight New York time.

The last article in the Hunley series will be next weekend, Spence VS Cussler: Who Found the Hunley?

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– IN THE WORLD OF THE LIGHTNINGS


These photographs are amazing. Those of you who read cryllic will also enjoy the post. My daughter (Elizabeth is 7 and half Russian) is better at it than I am. Learning Russian is so much harder than many other languages. Some how though my father-in-law and I do pretty good comunicating with each other, he in Russian and me in English. Maybe we just think alike hehehe.

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В СВЕТА НА МЪЛНИИТЕ

Във всеки момент на времето, в различни точки на нашата Земя блестят мълниите на повече от 2000 мълниеносни бури. От друга страна, всяка секунда в повърхността на земята се удрят около 50 мълнии, а средно всеки неин квадратен метър се поразява от мълния около шест пъти в годината. Още Бенджамин Франклин беше казал, че мълниите, „стрелящи” по земята по време на мълниеносните бури, са електрически заряди, които пренасят върху нея отрицателен заряд с величина от няколко десетки кулона, а амплитудата на тока при удара на мълнията е около 20 до 100 кА. Супербързото фотоснимане показало, че разряда на мълнията продължавал няколко десетки части от секундата и се състои от няколко още по-кратки нейни разряди. Учените отдавна се интересуват от природата на мълнията, но и днес все още малко се знае за нея, т.е малко повече отколкото се знаело преди 250 години, макар, че те…

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USS Constitution to sail under own power for second time in over a century – CBS News


Yupper !!! The first time it was escorted on a tour of South America by the submarine USS City of Corpus Christi SSN-705. I was not on the boat then, but I was on the commissioning crew for that submarine (I arrived in 1981 and left in 1984).

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Belle Grove and The Civil War


This is someplace that is on my list of places to visit. I am so happy to see historic places like this enjoyed and cared for today and into the future.

virginiaplantation's avatarBelle Grove Plantation Bed and Breakfast

From the time of the first purchase in 1670 to the present, Belle Grove Plantation would see many wars come and go. But none would make as big of an impact as the American Civil War.

In December, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union. In January, 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana seceded from the Union. In February, 1861 Texas would seceded from the Union. It was also in February, 1861 that these states would come together in Montgomery, Alabama to adopt a Provisional Constitution and declare themselves the Confederate States of American. They would also elect Jefferson Davis as Provisional President and Alexander Stephens as Provisional Vice President. They would be inaugurated President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America on February 18th, 1861. Abraham Lincoln would be inaugurated on March 4, 1861as President of the United States of America.

On April 12…

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Building a paper Titanic


For all of you Titanic fans. 🙂

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