one million

[dicksbro]

A NEW MILESTONE

12,000 done
988,000 to go

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,001~Looks to be another gorgeous day in Iowa, and my son's sixth birthday, to boot!

[dadaist]

12002

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12003

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12004

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12005

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12006

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12007

[dicksbro]

12,008

[dicksbro]

12,009

[dadaist]

12010

[dicksbro]

12,011 down
987,989 to go.

[dadaist]

12012

[dadaist]

12013

[dadaist]

12014

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12015

[dadaist]

12016

[dadaist]

12017

[dadaist]

12018

[dadaist]

12019

[dadaist]

12020

[dadaist]

12021

Next palindromic number in 1010 posts.

[dadaist]

12022

[dadaist]

12023

Anyone run stats recently for us?

[dadaist]

12024

I'm not even going to venture guesses when I might hit 10k anymore.
I'm still lucky I might hit 2k. :p

[dadaist]

12025

And that's it for now. Got other stuff to do :p

[horseman12]

#12,026

[Nubian]

12,027

Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270 million 1999 dollars.

[Nubian]

12,028

After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.

[MilkToast]

--12029--

back from vacation, took me a while to read up on this thread :) Nice job Nubian!

[Nubian]

12,029

Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.

[Nubian]

12,030

As of 1996, Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over 4 decades, from the late '60s to the early '90s, airing every Saturday night at 7:00.

[Nubian]

12,031

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.

[MilkToast]

--12033--

(Nubian, check your count :) )...

Off to work now... for a half day or so....

[Nubian]

12,032

Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.

[Nubian]

12,033

By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.

[Nubian]

12,034

C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

[Nubian]

12,035

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

[Nubian]

12,036

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."

[Nubian]

12,037

Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.

[Nubian]

12,038

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

[Nubian]

12,039

Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.

[Nubian]

12,040

Disneyland opened in 1955.

[Nubian]

12,041

Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.

[Nubian]

12,042

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

[Nubian]

12,043

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."

[Nubian]

12,044

Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

[Nubian]

12,045

Gaetano Albert "Guy" Lombardo did the first New Year's Eve broadcast of "Auld Lang Syne," from the Roosevelt Grill in New York City in 1929/1930.

[Nubian]

12,046

George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

[Nubian]

12,047

Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV in 1955, and went on to become the longest-running (20 years) series on television.

[Nubian]

12,048

In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man. In 1990, only 18% had the leading lady given top billing.

[Nubian]

12,049

In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.

[Nubian]

12,049

In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.

[Nubian]

12,050

In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)

[Nubian]

12,051

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

[Nubian]

12,052

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.

[Nubian]

12,053

In October 1959 Elizabeth Taylor became the first Hollywood star to receive $1 million for a single picture. (for Cleopatra)

[Nubian]

12,054

In the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!". Ilsa says "Play it, Sam. Play `As Time Goes By"'.

[Nubian]

12,055

In the US, federal law states that children's TV shows may contain only 10 minutes of advertising per hour and on weekends the limit is 10 and one-half minutes.

[Nubian]

12,056

In The Wizard of Oz the Scarecrow was looking for a brain, the Cowardly Lion was looking for courage, and the Tin Man was looking for a heart.

[Nubian]

12,057

Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

[Nubian]

12,058

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

[Nubian]

12,059

Little Jackie Paper was the name of Puff the Magic Dragon's human friend.

[Nubian]

12,060

Mickey Mouse is known as 'Topolino' in Italy.

[Nubian]

12,061

Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.

[Nubian]

12,062

MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.

[Nubian]

12,063

Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.

[Nubian]

12,064

On February 9, 1993, "Dateline NBC" was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner resigned for a scandal caused by "Dateline" rigging a GM truck with explosives to simulate a "scientific" crash-test demo.

[Nubian]

12,065

Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big.

[Nubian]

12,066

Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond was in 1995 Golden Eye.

[Nubian]

12,067

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores for a Christmas promotion. The lyrics were written as a poem by Robert May, but weren't set to music until 1947. Gene Autry recorded the hit song in 1949.

[Nubian]

12,068

Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.

[Nubian]

12,069

The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC In 1954. Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.

[Nubian]

12,070

The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)

[Nubian]

12,071

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.

[Nubian]

12,072

The 1st Academy Awards were presented in 1927.

[Nubian]

12,073

The 1st annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959. The Record of the Year was "Volare" by Domenico Modugno, the Album of the Year was "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini and the winner of the best R&B performance was "Tequila" by Champs.

[Nubian]

12,074

The 1st CMA (Country Music Association) Awards, hosted by Sonny James and Bobbie Gentry, were presented at an awards banquet and show in 1967.

[Nubian]

12,075

The 1st comic strip was "The Yellow Kid," in the New York World in 1896. The cartoonist was Richard Felton Outcault.

[Nubian]

12,076

The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

[Nubian]

12,077

The 1st inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 were Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose and Hank Williams were.

[Nubian]

12,078

The 1st interracial kiss on TV took place Nov. 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."

[Nubian]

12,079

The 1st kiss in a movie was between May Irwin and John Rice in "The Widow Jones," in 1896.

[Nubian]

12,080

The 1st live televised murder was in 1963, when Jack Ruby killed JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald while millions of viewers watched.

[Nubian]

12,081

The 1st performance of Handel's "Messiah" was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

[Nubian]

12,082

The 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV was in 1955. Eisenhower was the president.

[Nubian]

12,083

The 1st televised presidential debate was September 26, 1960, between Nixon and Kennedy.

[Nubian]

12,084

The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.

[Nubian]

12,085

The 1st winner of the Academy Award for best picture, and the only silent film to achieve that honor, was the 1927 film, "Wings."

[Nubian]

12,086

The 7 Dwarfs are Happy, Grumpy, Dopey (the beardless one), Doc, Bashful, Sneezy, Sleepy. They were miners.

[Nubian]

12,087

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

[Nubian]

12,088

The Beatles' 1st song to hit the UK charts was "From Me to You" in June, 1963.

[Nubian]

12,089

The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.

[Nubian]

12,090

The Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe.

[Nubian]

12,091

The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney's first PG-rated movie.

[Nubian]

12,092

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

[Nubian]

12,093

The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.

[Nubian]

12,094

The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

[Nubian]

12,095

The first film granted permission by the Chinese government to be filmed in the Forbidden City was The Last Emperor, 1987.

[Nubian]

12,096

The first issue of People Magazine, in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.

[Nubian]

12,097

The four principal characters from the cartoon series "The Chipmunks" are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave.

[Nubian]

12,098

The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.

[Nubian]

12,099

The Lone Ranger's "real" name is John Reid.

[Nubian]

12,100

The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 1924's "Mrs. Miniver." It took an hour.

[Nubian]

12,101

The Looney Tunes song is actually called "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down."

[Nubian]

12,102

The Mills Brothers have recorded the most songs of any artist: about 2,250.

[Nubian]

12,103

The Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" was banned in Scotland.

[Nubian]

12,104

The official state song of Georgia since 1922 has been "Georgia on My Mind".

[Nubian]

12,105

The Oscar statuette was designed by MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons, in 1928. The design has remained unchanged, except for getting a higher pedestal in the 1940's.

[GusAspar]

33920

[Nubian]

12,107

The Professor on "Gilligan's Island" was named Roy Hinkley. The Skipper was named Jonas Grumby. Both names were used only once in the entire series, on the first episode.

[GusAspar]

33921?

Hold it!!! I may have misread something here!

[Nubian]

12,109

The Russian Imperial Necklace has been loaned out by Joseff jewelers of Hollywood for 1,215 different feature films.

[GusAspar]

12113

Sorry, I was reading "views", not "posts" before!

[Nubian]

12,111

Originally posted by GusAspar
33921?

Hold it!!! I may have misread something here!

Not a problem, just edit your posts to be in numerical sequence and we'll be on track.:)

[Nubian]

12,112

The science-fiction series "Lost in Space" (set in the year 1997) premiered on CBS in 1965.

[Nubian]

12,113

The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill as "Good Morning to You." The words were changed and it was published in 1935.

[Nubian]

12,114

The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life.

[Nubian]

12,115

The term karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese, and the karaoke machine was designed originally to provide backing tracks for solo cabaret performers.

[Nubian]

12,116

The title role of Dirty Harry, 1971, was originally intended for Frank Sinatra. After he refused, it was offered to John Wayne, and then Paul Newman, finally being accepted by Clint Eastwood.

[Nubian]

12,117

The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.

[Nubian]

12,118

There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.

[Nubian]

12,119

There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).

[Nubian]

12,120

Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.

[Nubian]

12,130

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in"Treasure of Sierra Madre" in 1949.

[Nubian]

12,131

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

[Nubian]

12,132

LONGEST BROADWAY RUNS(as of 05/27/01)

Show Dates Performances

Cats 10/82–9/2000 7,485

A Chorus Line 10/75–4/90 6,137

Oh! Calcutta (revival) 9/76–8/89 5,959

Les Misérables 3/87–present 5,855

The Phantom of the Opera 1/88–present 5,566

Miss Saigon 4/91–1/2001 4,092

42nd Street 8/80–1/89 3,485

Grease 2/72–4/80 3,388

Fiddler on the Roof 9/64–7/72 3,242

Life with Father 11/39–7/47 3,224

Tobacco Road 12/33–5/41 3,182

Beauty and the Beast 4/94–present 2,887

Hello, Dolly! 1/64–12/70 2,844

My Fair Lady 3/56–9/62 2,717

Annie 4/77–1/83 2,377

Man of La Mancha 11/65–6/71 2,329

Abie's Irish Rose 5/22–10/27 2,327

Oklahoma! 3/43–5/48 2,212

Rent 4/96–present 2,120

Smokey Joe's Cafe 3/95–1/00 2,037

Pippin 10/72–6/77 1,944

South Pacific 4/49–1/54 1,925

The Magic Show 5/74–12/78 1,920

Chicago (revival) 11/96–present 1,891

Gemini 6/77–9/81 1,819

Deathtrap 2/78–6/82 1,793

Harvey 11/44–1/49 1,775

Dancin' 3/78–6/82 1,774

La Cage Aux Folles 6/83–11/87 1,761

[celticangel]

12,133

[celticangel]

12,134

[MilkToast]

--12,129--

the count is screwed up...

[MilkToast]

--12,130--

this is the correct reply number according to the reply counter

[MilkToast]

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[MilkToast]

--12,133--


PIXIES "ONE MILLION THREAD END CALCULATOR
-Toast

start time: 5/9/03 9:59 PM
reply goal: 1,000,000
current time: 8/4/03 1:13 PM
reply count: 12,133

still needed: 987867 replies
elapsed time: 86 days 15 hours 14

reply rate: 140.0 replies/day
OR 5.84 replies/hour
OR 0.097 replies/minute

time to goal: 10,157,452 minutes
OR 169,291 hours
OR 7,054 days
OR 19.3 years

est. achievement date: 11/26/22 8:04 AM

[Rosebud42]

12,134

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,035

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

It was an Australian lionfish, named for one of their producer/directors, David Livingston. This was an "unofficial" name, never spoken in any script.

12135

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,054

In the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!". Ilsa says "Play it, Sam. Play `As Time Goes By"'.

12136

And the double DVD set is due out tomorrow in North America.

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,092

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

Jim Henson Productions, and the Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) deny this one to this day. But lots of other interesting stories are recounted in their 30th anniversary book Sesame Street Unpaved

12137

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,094

The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

The first radio station in the US to play a CD 'on the air' was Chicago's WFMT. Unfortunately, the pages that marked the stations 50th anniversary are no longer online, so I can't tell you what piece of music it was.

12138

[dadaist]

Originally posted by Nubian
12,117

The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.

The musical was written, in part, by the book's author, L. Frank Baum, and costumes were designed based on the illustrations by WW Denslow. Characters were created for this version that don't appear in any other. Baum eventually moved to California and attempted to have a couple of black and white, silent movies made of his stories and characters before his death in 1919. One b/w feature done after his death starred Stan Laurel. MGM beat out several studios, including Disney, to get the film rights to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (as it was originally titled in 1900. A reprint by a new publisher changed it to The New Wizard of Oz a couple of years later, but it's essentially been known as The Wizard of Oz for most of its 100+ year history).

12139

[dadaist]

Originally posted by MilkToast
--12,133--


PIXIES "ONE MILLION THREAD END CALCULATOR
-Toast

<snip>

est. achievement date: 11/26/22 8:04 AM


I see we're still on track for 2022, even with some misnumbering. Excellent.

12140

[dadaist]

12141

UPN was/is Paramount's second attempt at a network. They were first to make an attempt in 1977, and launch the Paramount Television Service, PTS. A show called "Star Trek Phase II" would have been their flagship series, with most of the cast of the original, except for Leonard Nimoy, who was in the middle of a successful Broadway production and didn't want to leave.
Ironically, when UPN started in 1995, it was led by Star Trek: Voyager.

[dadaist]

12142

No less than four different probe missions will arrive at/around Mars in the next six months (if everything goes according to plan).
The ESA's Mars Express was launched on June 2, 2003, and has an estimated arrival date of December 25, 2003.
The Japanese Nozomi probe was launched in 1998, and should arrive in January 2004.
The US has two rovers en route: Spirit was launched on June 10th, with an estimated arrival of January 4, 2004, and Opportunity was launched on July 7th, with an estimated arrival of January 25, 2004.

[dadaist]

12143

This August 27th, at 2:46 AM Pacific (5:46 Eastern, 9:46 AM UTC) Mars will reach its closest approach to earth in over 50,000 years.

[skipthisone]

12144 - Cause I said

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,145~Gosh, skip, you sound soooo authoritative.

<----swoons at the thought.

[Rosebud42]

12,146

[MilkToast]

--12147--

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,147~Have I mentioned yet today how much I hate Cartoon Network?

[Nubian]

12,148

Thomas Jefferson
1801 --- 1st US president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

[Nubian]

12,149

Mary Kies
1809 --- 1st woman to be issued a US patent. She was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread to make bonnets

[Nubian]

12,150

Edward Smith
1831 --- 1st indicted bank robber in the US. He was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison.

[Nubian]

12,151

Mary Lyon
1837 --- founded 1st woman's college in US, Mt. Holyoke College.

[Nubian]

12,152

Queen Victoria
1837 --- 1st English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.

[Nubian]

12,153

William Henry Harrison
1841 --- 1st US president to die in office. At 32 days, he also had the shortest term in office.

[Nubian]

12,154

Tim Hyer
1841 --- 1st recognized boxing (fisticuffs) champion.

[Nubian]

12, 155

Elizabeth Blackwell
1849 --- 1st woman to receive medical degree in US. (from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.)

[Nubian]

12,156

Antoinette Brown Blackwell
1853 --- 1st American woman ordained a minister by a recognized denomination (Congregational.)

[Nubian]

12,157

Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet)
1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

[Nubian]

12,158

Jules Leotard
1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.

[Nubian]

12,159

William Carney
1863 --- 1st black to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor (on July 18,1863 at Fort Wagner, S.C.)

[Nubian]

12,160

Mary Walker
1865 --- 1st (and only) woman to receive the US Medal of Honor. She was a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1916, however, when the Army purged its files to cut down on what they thought were "unwarranted" issues. It wasn't re-instated until 1976.

[Nubian]

12, 161

David Glasgow Farragut
1866 --- 1st Admiral in US Navy.

[Nubian]

12,162

Frank, Simeon, and William
1866 --- Committed the first US train robbery. On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an eastbound train in Indiana wearing masks and toting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway.

[Nubian]

12,163

Sir John Alexander McDonald
1867 --- 1st Prime Minister of Canada.

[Nubian]

12,164

Lucy Hobbs Taylor
1867 --- 1st woman in the US to become a certified dentist.

[Nubian]

12,165

Ebenezer D. Bassett
1869 ---1st Black U.S. diplomat, minister-resident to Haiti.

[Nubian]

12,166

Arabella Mansfield
1869 --- 1st woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school.

[Nubian]

12,167

Jefferson Long
1870 --- 1st black elected to U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia.

[Nubian]

12,168

Hiram Revels
1870 --- 1st black US Senator. He completed the term of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy.

[Nubian]

12,169

Lucy Walker
1871 --- 1st woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

[Nubian]

12,170

Victoria Woodhall
1872 --- 1st woman to run for President of the US.

[Nubian]

12,171

Herbert Hoover
1874 --- 1st US President born west of the Mississippi.

[Nubian]

12,172

Mary Baker Eddy
1879 --- 1st and only American woman to found a lasting American-based religion- The Church of Christ (Scientist).

[Nubian]

12,173

Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
1879 --- 1st female lawyer to plead a case before the US Supreme Court.

[Nubian]

12,174

Mary Mahoney
1879 --- 1st black woman to study and work as a professionally trained nurse.

[Nubian]

12,175

Moses Fleetwood Walker
1884 --- 1st black baseball player in the major leagues.

[Nubian]

12,176

Grover Cleveland
1886 --- 1st President married inside the White House.

[Nubian]

12,177

Wilhelm Steinitz
1886 --- world's 1st chess champion.

[Nubian]

12,178

Susanna M. Salter
1887 --- 1st woman US mayor. (Argonia, KS). She won by a two-thirds majority but didn't even know she was in the running until she went into the voting booth. Her name was submitted by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died at the age of 101 in 1961.

[Nubian]

12,179

Oscar Straus
1887 --- 1st Jewish ambassador from US. (Ambassador to Turkey.)

[Nubian]

12,180

Norman Coleman
1889 --- 1st US Secretary of Agriculture.

[Nubian]

12,181

Louise Blanchard Bethune
1890 --- 1st woman elected to full membership in the American Institute of Architects.

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William Kemmler
1890 --- 1st criminal to be executed by electrocution (in Auburn Prison, Auburn, N.Y., Aug. 6)

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Louis Henry Sullivan
1891 --- architect of 10 story Wainwright Building, the 1st skyscraper.

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Grover Cleveland
1892 --- 1st (and only) US President to win election to nonconsecutive terms. He defeated Benjamin Harrison.

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Myra Bradwell, (nee Colby)
1892 --- 1st female lawyer in US. She qualified for Illinois bar in 1869, but was prevented, due to gender, from being admitted to practice until 1892.

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Annie Moore
1892 --- 1st immigrant to pass through Ellis Island. She was 15 years old and from County Cork, Ireland.

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Queen Isabella of Spain
1893 --- 1st woman to appear on a US postage stamp.

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Frankie Nelson
1896 --- winner of the 1st women's bicycling marathon, which took place on January 6-11, 1896 at Madison Square Garden in New York. She traveled 418 miles.

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John J. McDermott
1897 --- winner of the he 1st annual Boston Marathon - the first of its type in the US.

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Originally posted by dicksbro
12, 190 based on the reply counter :D

Thanks for correcting the sequence.

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12,195 ... whew and we're back in sync. I wonder how many times I've posted away without checking the response counter. Made me feel good Nubian! Thanks. :D

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need to find a posting topic... hmmm....

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well I'm coming up with el zippo, nothing, nada, the big 0... oh well...

time to go find something else to do :D

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12,147~Have I mentioned yet today how much I hate Cartoon Network?

And what's wrong with Cartoon Network?

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And what's wrong with Cartoon Network?

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I was waiting for that reply :D

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here is one odd ball fact that I have checked into and found that it is apparently true...

Some turtles can actually breathe through their butt!!!!

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12,233~Almost bedtime.

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A little trivia about the great state of Iowa - ;)

# Ripley's Believe It or Not has dubbed Burlington's Snake Alley the most crooked street in the world

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# Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry.

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# The state's smallest city park is situated in the middle of the road in Hiteman.

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# Scranton is home to Iowa's oldest water tower still in service.

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# Dubuque is the state's oldest city.

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# Crystal Lake is home to a statue of the world's largest bullhead fish.

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# Rathbun Dam and Reservoir is the largest body of water in the state

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# Spirit Lake is the largest glacier-made lake in the state.