(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.) Inverters Most of us are interested in running a few 120 volt AC appliances. The fridge, the furnace, the shallow well pump – standard AC devices that we want to keep alive during a power outage. For these we will require what is known as an inverter. Inverters take DC battery power and invert it into standard 120 volt AC household power. Inverters are available in all shapes and sizes these days. You can get off-shore-manufactured modified sine wave inverters that plug into the cigarette lighter plug in your car, rather cheaply. … The post Weather the Storm with Backup Power – Part 3, by E.R. appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On June 22, 1476, the army of Charles the Bold of Burgundy invaded Switzerland. Their first engagement was the Battle of Morat (pictured), which was fought about 30 kilometers from Bern. The successive Burgundian invasions were successfully repelled by the pike tactics of the well-trained and organized Swiss militias. — On June 22, 1940, France surrendered to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 113 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this … The post Preparedness Notes for Saturday — June 22, 2024 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

The entire exercise over the last four and half years was wilfully misleading the population into taking something through coercion that would not have otherwise ever been accepted. “Since 2002, there has […]

Featuring Glenn Frey’s “The Heat Is On,” the “Beverly Hills Cop” soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks.  Frey was the only Rock-oriented performer on the soundtrack which included Patti LaBelle (“New Attitude:), Pointer Sisters (“Neutron Dance”) and Harold Faltermeyer (“Axel F”). It won a Grammy Award in ’86 for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.  Released in ’84, the buddy cop-comedy-action-film starred Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit detective who visits Beverly Hills, to solve the murder of his best friend. The film shot Murphy to international stardom. ### The post June 22nd, 1985: “Beverly Hills Cop” Soundtrack appeared first on RockinTown.

from Great Game India: Recently, Malaysia Airlines reported that a Boeing 737-800 was forced to conduct an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India after one of its engines caught fire shortly after takeoff on Thursday. An engine failure forced a Boeing 737-800 to make an emergency landing soon after takeoff, Malaysia […]

You know you’e gone too far, when one of your own says you’ve gone too far. 

86 years ago today, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in a re-match of perhaps the most famous fight series in history. It completely transcended the sport, as taking place in the months leading up to the Second World War, the fight between a black man born in Alabama versus a white German became a […] The post Good News in History, June 22 appeared first on Good News Network.

Epic Games surprised Fortnite fans yesterday evening when it confirmed that a brand-new update would be deployed this weekend. This would be no ordinary update, as it marks the arrival of Fortnite Reload, a brand-new mode that many are comparing to Warzone's popular Resurgence game mode.