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08-24-2008, 07:14 AM
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If you want to know the story of a giant woman in a petite package, look up Hanna.
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08-25-2008, 06:15 AM
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August 25th
1835 ~ The New York Sun printed The Great Moon Hoax.
1867 ~ Death of Michael Faraday, Scientist.
1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first man to swim the English Channel.
1894 ~ Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.
1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.
1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.
1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor & Composer.
1944 ~ Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1982 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.
1991 ~ Linus Torvalds sent the email announcing his project to create the Linux operating system.
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08-26-2008, 02:43 PM
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08-27-2008, 06:33 AM
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August 27th
1776 ~ British forces under General William Howe defeated the Americans under General George Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
1813 ~ Napoleon defeated the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 ~ Krakatoa erupted; approximately 36,000 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra drowned.
1896 ~ Anglo-Zanzibar War. With a duration of only 45 minutes, it holds the record of being the shortest war in recorded history.
1908 ~ Birthday of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president.
1939 ~ First jet aircraft flight; a Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz.
1945 ~ American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1947 ~ Birthday of Harry Reems, Porn Star.
1962 ~ The Mariner 2 space probe launched to Venus.
1967 ~ Death of Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles.
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08-27-2008, 07:22 AM
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Ah, the Anglo-Zanzibar War. Bang!! OK , we give up.
Bloody marvellous.
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08-27-2008, 10:14 AM
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They must've had a better exit strategy than the U.S. 
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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac
Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."
An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus
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08-27-2008, 05:00 PM
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No, they stayed there for the next zillion years, a bit like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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08-28-2008, 12:08 PM
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August 28th
430 ~ Death of Augustine of Hippo, Philosopher, Theologian.
1749 ~ Birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosopher, Scientist.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Author. His “The Law of Love and the Law of Violence” influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
1845 ~ First issue of Scientific American magazine published.
1850 ~ Richard Wagner's opera “Lohengrin” premiered, from which comes the Bridal Chorus, traditionally played at Western weddings, and commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride".
1897 ~ Birthday of Charles Boyer, Actor.
1963 ~ During a civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech.
1988 ~ Ramstein airshow disaster: 75 people were killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 ~ Iraq declared Kuwait to be a province of Iraq.
1996 ~ Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales were divorced.
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August 30th
1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Author (Frankenstein).
1862 ~ Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va..
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.
1918 ~ Birthday of Baseball hall-of-famer Ted Williams.
1940 ~ Death of J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Prof. Thomson identified the electron as a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. In one of the greatest ironies of modern physics his son, G.P. Thomson later received the prize for proving that the electron was also, in fact, a wave.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1963 ~ Death of Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy.
1987 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2006 ~ Death of Glenn Ford, Canadian-born actor.
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August 31st
1879 ~ Birthday of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. This woman knew how to live!
1888 ~ Mary Ann Nichols murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
1918 ~ Birthday of Alan Jay Lerner, American composer ( Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady).
1935 ~ Birthday of Frank Robinson, Baseball Player, Manager.
1945 ~ Birthday of Itzhak Perlman, Violinist.
1945 ~ Birthday of Van Morrison, Irish musician (“Brown-Eyed Girl", "Moondance" and "Domino").
1962 ~ Trinidad and Tobago became independent.
1980 ~ Solidarity labor union formed in Poland.
1997 ~ Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris.
1998 ~ North Korea reportedly launched its first satellite.
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September 2nd
31 B.C. ~ Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. This date is often used for the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1666 ~ The Great Fire of London started in Pudding Lane at the house of Thomas Farrinor near London Bridge. Samuel Pepys, a neighbor, was woken by the fire at around 1 AM. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1752 ~ The UK adopted the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1898 ~ The Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1945 ~ The official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bringing World War II to an end.
1948 ~ Birthday of Christa McAuliffe, schoolteacher & astronaut.
1964 ~ Death of Alvin York, Hero. He was the most decorated American soldier of World War I.
1969 ~ Death of Ho Chi Minh, Vietmamese Revolutionary, President & Prime Minister.
1973 ~ Death of J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer.
1991 ~ The U.S. recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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