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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 01:46 am |
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Goodness Ya'll have been colorful today haven't ya!
Interesting the colors that DC and BS got......
You know what else is interesting? I couldn't open Kris's link! Oh well.
I've been missing you Kris! Glad you're back!!!!!
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 10:43 am |
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GOOD MORNING
Something new for breakfast today just for Pappy
Brains and egg sandwich
You want gravy with that??
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YUCK!!!! (to Mr. Mike's suggestion)
1900 -- 1900 is not a leap year even though the number is divisible by 4. It is one of the dropped leap years of the Gregorian Calendar.
Kodak introduced their first Brownie.
It is reported that millions are starving in India.
United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
Premier presentation of opera Tosca in Rome - actors have received death threats and nameless letters.
The Hippodrome theatre opens in the Charing Cross Roads in London
Brigham H. Roberts is refused a seat in the House of Representatives because of his Polygamy
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
Dwight Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament
Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the United States.
The British Labour Party is formed.
A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
Fire at Buckingham Palace destroys part of the roof.
Queen Victoria makes rare appearance in London.
Women in Germany demand right to participate in university entrance exams
In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of heredity.
The Gold Standard Act is ratified placing United States currency on the gold standard.
New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Explosion of blasting powder in coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills 200
Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War). (macca’s editorial note: AKA “War of Northern Agression”)
Carrie Nation demolishes 25 saloons in Medicine Lodge (macca’s editorial note for Pappy: Oooh No!)
First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany
The first line of the Métro is inaugurated in Paris.
Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
Philippine-American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a larger American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.
Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
The Norwegian inventor Johann Vaaler demands a patent for his invention, the paperclip.
The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.
Panama's separation from Colombia.
U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan
Births: Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975); Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986); Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965);
Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980);
Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967); Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iraq (d. 1989); Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945); Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991); Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990); Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
Deaths: Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1834); Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1864); Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871); Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy and actress (b.1843); Umberto I, King of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844); Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844); Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 11:29 am |
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GOOD MORNIN'! ♥♥♥
As of midnight, Aug. 7: (I checked & recorded it, but never posted it  )
74,956
328 views on Aug. 7 (on target for Halloween!)
1901 -- January 1 - World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. (Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide[citation needed]).
January 1 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
January 10 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas
January 22 - After reigning for almost 64 years, longer than any other British monarch, Queen Victoria died at the age of 81. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as King Edward VII until 1910. His son, Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall.
February 20 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
February 25 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
March 17 - A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
April 25 - New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
May 27 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
June 12 - Cuba becomes US protectorate
July 4 - The 1,282 foot (390 meters) covered bridge crossing the St.John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
July 24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.
August 5 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11?ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
August 21 - The Cadillac Motor Company formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA
September 2 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 5 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
September 6 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies there eight days later.
September 14 - With the death of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as President of the United States.
September 26 - The 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, was exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick. (macca editorial: What??? Why???)
October 16 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
October 23 - Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.
October 24 - Michigan schoolteacher Annie Taylor goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
October 29 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 28 - The new state constitution of Alabama disenfranchises black voters via literacy tests and the grandfather clause.
December 3 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 - Marie Curie receives doctorate. The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal in Newfoundland, Canada; it is Morse code for the letter "S."
In the United Kingdom, Factory Act forbids child labor under 12
Two typhoid outbreaks in USA
Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons
In Germany, Eugen Hollander makes the first known facelift to a Polish noblewoman
Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive
Cleveland Indians founded
First prototype Harley-Davidson created
Okapi discovered (previously known only to local natives)
Independent Maya of Eastern Yucatán surrender to Mexico
American Standard Version Bible first published.
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association established in Chicago, Illinois.
Mordecai Ham, American evangelist enters ministry.
Pablo Picasso begins his Blue Period.
Sho Tai (Shang Tai), the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom in modern Okinawa, Japan, dies.
Births: Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963); Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973); Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988); Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988); Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960); Zeppo Marx, American comedian (d. 1979); Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994); Charles Goren, American bridge player (d. 1991); Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (d. 1989); Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961); Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000); Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1918); Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967); Barbara Cartland, English novelist (d. 2000) (macca editorial: also step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales); Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971); Ed Sullivan, American entertainer (d. 1974); William S. Paley, American business man (d. 1990);
Walt Disney, American animator and film producer (d. 1966); Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (d. 1978); Marlene Dietrich, actress (d. 1992)
Deaths: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813); Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833); Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
Nobel Prize
• Physics - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
• Chemistry - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
• Medicine - Emil Adolf von Behring
• Literature - Sully Prudhomme
• Peace - Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 11:49 am |
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Macca I thought I was reading a book for a minute there...I know why Bama stops at 3 lines......
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 11:53 am |
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AIN'T THIS A KICK IN THE HEAD??? It's about time!!!♥♥♥
George Harrison Finally Gets No. 1 Album In U.K.
Postal Worker's Strike Stifled Former Beatle's Album 35 Years Ago
LONDON -- Late former Beatle George Harrison has gotten a No. 1 album in Britain 35 years after the fact. Harrison released his debut solo album, "All Things Must Pass," in the spring of 1971. It hit No. 1 in the U.S., but it only made it as far as No. 4 in the U.K. At that time, British postal workers were on strike for nearly eight weeks.
Darren Haynes of The Official U.K. Charts Company told Britain's Sunday Express that in those days, record shops filled out diaries of their sales and mailed them in. Haynes said that because there was no mail at the time, official music chart magazine Record Retailer had no official album charts.
He said historians just left the last valid chart stand, which means Simon and Garfunkel stayed at the top with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" for an extra eight weeks.
Investigators at The Official U.K. Charts Company looked into it and have found "All Things Must Pass" should have been the No. 1 album for those eight weeks and had it corrected.
1902 --
January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 11 - Police physically abuse universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
February 15 - Berlin underground opened.
February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
March 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it 1903 if at all
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroys the town of Saint-Pierre, and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States
June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States; lasts 5 months.
June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York.
June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
July 10 - Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA, kills 112 miners.
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
November 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
December 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°1
Births: Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968); Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1986); Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967); Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (d. 1974); Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984); John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968); Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978); Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971); Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971); David O. Selznick, Hollywood film producer (d. 1965); Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976); Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984); Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983); George Murphy, American dancer, actor, and US Senator from California (d. 1992); Meyer Lansky, Russian-born mobster (d. 1983); Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971); Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (d. 1976); John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (d. 1988); Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975); Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984); Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (d. 2003); Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985); Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (d. 2001)
Deaths: Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836); Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815)
Nobel prizes
• Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
• Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
• Medicine - Ronald Ross
• Literature - Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
• Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 12:09 pm |
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StewartM wrote:
Macca I thought I was reading a book for a minute there...I know why Bama stops at 3 lines......
Oh, Mr. Mike! I'm celebrating the 1900's!! It's hard to edit, when there are so many interesting things! I figure with so much info, and such a variety, there's something for everyone! You can just skim thru and see if something catches your eye!!!♥♥♥
1903 --
January 19 - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
February 11 - The Oxnard Strike of 1903 represents the first time in U.S. history that a labor union was formed from members of different races.
February 15 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.
February 23 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity"
March 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
March 22 - the US side of the Niagara Falls runs short of water
March 31 - Possible first powered heavier-than-air flight, Richard Pearse, New Zealand (some date it to 1902)
July 1-19 - First Tour de France – Maurice Garin wins
July 23 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
August 4 - Pope Pius X is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
August 10 - The Paris Metro train fire takes place.
September 11 - The first stock car event was held at the Milwaukee Mile.
November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 23 - Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
December 17 - Orville Wright flies aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in first documented successful controlled powered heavier-than-air flight.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.
Lincoln-Lee Legion established to promote temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledgeds by children.
Births: Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978); Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977); Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986); Lawrence Welk, American television musician (d. 1992); Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979); Clare Boothe Luce, American publisher and writer (d. 1987); Eliot Ness, American treasury agent (d. 1957); Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (d. 1998); Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977); Bob Hope, English-born comedian (d. 2003); Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941); Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003); John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934); George Orwell, English author (d. 1950); Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer; Claudette Colbert, French actress (d. 1996); Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (d. 1989); Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian and actor, Three Stooges member (d. 1952); Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976); Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966); Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)
Deaths: Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818); Judge Roy Bean, American pioneer; Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848); James McNeill Whistler, American painter (b. 1834)
Nobel prizes
• Physics - Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
• Chemistry - Svante August Arrhenius
• Medicine - Niels Ryberg Finsen
• Literature - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
• Peace - William Randal Cremer
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 12:29 pm |
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Mornin' all.
Interestin' stuff, Macca.
Pappy had "All Things Must Pass" on 8 track, till 8 tracks passed.
Pappy an' brains don't go together, Mr Mike. How 'bout just a egg sammich?
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FatPappy wrote: Pappy an' brains don't go together
This is just the part the CC would use ......
They would leave out the rest of the statement...
"Pappy an' brains don't go together, Mr Mike. How 'bout just a egg sammich?"
I have to skip the brains too Pappy....I have enough brains to know not to eat them...
Cracker want some brains????
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 01:50 pm |
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Congrats Macca on your 1900th post!!!!!!!!
Woo hoo! You are catchin' up to the Crackah!
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 01:58 pm |
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Typalking codes made me double post. Sorry.
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 01:58 pm |
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Good Morning Everyone!
No brains for me Mr. Mike.... Don't have 'em and SURE don't wanna eat 'em!!!
Gosh it takes me a long time to type these codes in.... Is there a secret you folks in the Mac club wanna let me in on??
Now I'm trying new fonts.... can you see them?
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I guess I've just gotten used to typing it all in.... Now I just figure it's easier to type in color/size, etc. ♥♥♥
1904 -- Subject of alcohol and heart attacks first investigated.
January 7 - The distress signal CQD is established only to be replaced two years later by SOS.
February 7 - The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
March 8 – The first tunnel beneath the Hudson River completed
April 8 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 5 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
May 18 - in Paris, 12 nations sign the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade
May 21 - Fundation of FIFA
June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
July 23 - In St. Louis, Missouri, Charles E. Menches invents the ice cream cone during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
October 27 - The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens (IRT); the system is now the largest in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.
November 8 - Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker in the U.S. presidential election
November 24 - The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).
December 27 - The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premiered in London
December 30 - East Boston Tunnel opens
December 31 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
Births: Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997); Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987); Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986); George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983); S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979); Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934); Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980); Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957); Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944); Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991); B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990); Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000); Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967); Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997); Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989); Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943); Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981); Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984); Peter Lorre, Austria-Hungarian-born film actor (d. 1964); Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977); Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984); Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965); Joseph Valachi, gangster (d. 1971); Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996); Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963); George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
Deaths: Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
Nobel prizes
• Physics - The Lord Rayleigh
• Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay
• Physiology or Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
• Literature - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
• Peace - Institut De Droit International
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 05:37 pm |
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Ok Macca... I gotta fess up.... I'm doing the "bama scan" on those long "Lacka type" posts of yours! tee hee!
I am however, glad that they changed the international distress signal from CQD to SOS! Wonder what CQD stood for???
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Posted: Aug 8th, 2006 05:49 pm |
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Cracker Jax wrote: I am however, glad that they changed the international distress signal from CQD to SOS! Wonder what CQD stood for???
COME QUICK DUMMY
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