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February 4 Information
Another Ronald Reagan assassination attempt question
So, I have another question about the
Ronald Reagan assassination attempt: What are the odds of someone getting shot at the specific angle and bodily location at which
Ronald Reagan was shot actually surviving? As in, was Reagan's survival a fluke or was getting shot at the same angle and bodily location (so, on the left side, right under the armpit, I believe) as Reagan generally not fatal?
Also, what about if Ronald Reagan would have gotten shot slightly to the left, or slightly to the right, or slightly above, or slightly below the bodily location that he was shot at in real life? Then would Reagan's odds of survival have increased, decreased, or remained the same? This question is speculative but is factual in the sense that you could rely on other real life shooting stories to draw conclusions about what might have occurred to Reagan had this shooting been done slightly differently–as in, at a slightly different location/place in Reagan's body.
Futurist110 (
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00:06, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
It was indeed widely mentioned at the time that Reagan was very lucky to survive the shooting. He needed immediate medical attention, major surgery and the transfusion of a lot of blood to survive, and that's even though no major organs were impacted by the bullet. You would need to search some of the newspapers of the period to get more precise info.
Xuxl (
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16:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
I think it's probably wise to take news reports with a (big) grain of salt, even if Reagan's own doctors are quoted, simply because of just how sensationalized this sort of thing gets, and how conservative any doctor in that position is going to be in terms of prognosis.
69.174.144.79 (
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20:52, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Who's the chap to the right of
Patrick Ewing (likely a US president)?
The question specifies "to the right of Patrick Ewing", President Reagan is to Mr. Ewing's right. The picture of Franklin is to the left of Mr. Ewing. It is, however, to the viewer's right. --
Khajidha (
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12:20, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
To the right is typically assumed to mean from our viewpoint. Otherwise you would say "to Ewing's left." In fact, it's not flatly to Ewing's left; it's behind him and to his left, at maybe the 8:00 position. ←
Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→
14:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Obviously not everyone makes that assumption. To me, "to the right of Patrick Ewing" and "to Ewing's right" mean the exact same thing. --
Khajidha (
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15:15, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Our article about
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon says "Henderson donated his Rolls Royce car and had it converted into a makeshift ambulance to serve republicans and anti-fascists. This ambulance saw frequent use and was saw action during the
Battle of Teruel where it was used to evacuate people with serious abdominal wounds. Henderson's Rolls Royce ambulance, though heavily damaged and covered in bullet holes, survived the war and was shipped back to Britain in September 1938. The ambulance was then displayed at a conference for officials of the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC), where it was used to raise monetary funds for Spanish medical programmes". Do we know what happened to it after this? Thank you,
DuncanHill (
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12:19, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
[1] seems to indicate it was in use in the 1950s to transport vegetables to market at Buscot Park - "Sadly, most of these glass houses were torn down in the 1950’s when they became too expensive to maintain; and the economy was such that the family’s 1915 Rolls Royce Limousine (which had served as an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War) was used to transport vegetables to markets"
MilborneOne (
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15:16, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
There don't seem to be many points of similarity, except for the Rolls, and even that's a different model. It might make a good film plot though!
Alansplodge (
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12:26, 5 February 2021 (UTC)reply
It says on our page for
orangutans (in the section about captivity) that there was an orangutan at the
Exeter Exchange in 1817, and then describes details about the behaviour and pastimes of the orangutan. It gives (I think) a book as its reference, but short of buying this book, I can't find any details anywhere about an orangutan that lived at the Exeter Exchange. Does anyone know any details about this particular ape and its time at the exchange?
95.150.37.129 (
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12:45, 4 February 2021 (UTC)reply
"Closely tied to the culture of museums of natural history, the English naturalist
Edward Donovan became interested in the behavior of an orangutan from Borneo that arrived, alive, in England in 1817. The ape was kept for two years at the menagerie at the Exeter Exchange in the Strand. He drank tea, ate with a spoon, liked brandy, and showed a lot of affection for his keeper. He easily recognized the person who had brought him from Java, the doctor Abel Clark, when he came to visit, searching the doctor's pockets for sweets as he had when they traveled together".