#were

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#believe #course #curious #held #i

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#banned #olympics #steroids #until #were

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me. ↗

— Peter Tork

#beatles #courteous #friends #i #know

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up. ↗

— Peter Tork

#before #benefit #charities #concerts #did

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened. ↗

— Peter Tork

#ever #favourite #gigs #happened #monkees

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. ↗

— Peter Tork

#original #produced #purpose #songs #thinly

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

My father and brothers were coal miners. ↗

— Merle Travis

#coal #father #miners #were