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uncle phil · 07-07-2009, 01:58 AM

Also on July 7, 1959, Jessica Hahn was born...

Jessica Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-08-2009, 01:47 AM

On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.

uncle phil · 07-08-2009, 01:54 AM

Also on July 8, 1951, Anjelica Huston was born...

Anjelica Huston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-09-2009, 01:48 AM

On July 9th, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.

uncle phil · 07-09-2009, 02:41 AM

Also on July 9, 1964, Courtney Love was born...

Courtney Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-10-2009, 01:37 AM

On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.

uncle phil · 07-10-2009, 01:56 AM

Also on July 10, 1980, Jessica Simpson was born...

Jessica Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

uncle phil · 07-11-2009, 03:54 AM

On July 11, 1956, Sela Ward was born...

Sela Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

uncle phil · 07-12-2009, 02:40 AM

On July 12, 1951, Cheryl Ladd was born...

Cheryl Ladd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-12-2009, 05:18 AM

Also on July 12th, 1974- John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.

uncle phil · 07-13-2009, 01:56 AM

On July 13, 1946, Cheech Marin was born...

Cheech Marin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-13-2009, 02:31 AM

Also on July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.

uncle phil · 07-14-2009, 02:33 AM

On July 14, 1912, Woody Guthrie was born...

Woody Guthrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jetée · 07-14-2009, 03:32 AM

This Day in History...

A famous American saying goes, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Tom Carvel set up the first permanent ice-cream stand in 1934, when the truck from which he had been selling the frozen treat had a flat tire near a pottery store in New York. He sold his ice cream from that spot — off the back of his truck — for two years, until he finally bought the store in 1936 and turned it into an ice-cream parlor. That same year, he developed a formula for soft serve ice cream. In 1947, Carvel set up his first franchise, and, soon after, he ran a series of franchising seminars, nicknamed "Sundae School." Carvel was born on this date in 1906.

Tully Mars · 07-14-2009, 03:36 AM

Also on July 14th, 1789- During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.

Happy Bastille Day!

Jetée · 07-14-2009, 03:44 AM

You mean to say, that for the past 12 years, I've been celebrating Bastille Day a day too late?

It isn't on the 15th? I'm flabbergasted.

Tully Mars · 07-14-2009, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetée

You mean to say, that for the past 12 years, I've been celebrating Bastille Day a day too late?

It isn't on the 15th? I'm flabbergasted.

From Wiki-

Bastille Day

Tully Mars · 07-15-2009, 01:50 AM

On July 15th, 1916- William Boeing founded Pacific Aero Products, the forerunner of the Boeing Co., in Seattle.

uncle phil · 07-15-2009, 01:55 AM

Also on July 15, 1963, Brigitte Nielsen was born...

Brigitte Nielsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

uncle phil · 07-16-2009, 02:10 AM

On July 16, 1963, Phoebe Cates was born...

Phoebe Cates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

uncle phil · 07-17-2009, 01:57 AM

On July 17, 1952, Phoebe Snow was born...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Snow_(musician)

Tully Mars · 07-17-2009, 04:12 AM

Also on July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.

uncle phil · 07-18-2009, 01:35 AM

On July 18, 1941, Martha Reeves was born...

Martha Reeves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-18-2009, 01:44 AM

Also on July 18th, 1984- A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.

I was just down the street, returning from TJ and a night of partying before. Had no idea what all the commotion was until the next day when a guy on my ship told me about it.

uncle phil · 07-19-2009, 03:39 AM

On July 19, 1860, Lizzie Borden was born...

Lizzie Borden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-19-2009, 04:16 AM

Also on July 19th, 1969- Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

Tully Mars · 07-20-2009, 01:43 AM

On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.

uncle phil · 07-20-2009, 02:51 AM

Also on June 20, 1957, Donna Dixon was born...

Donna Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-21-2009, 01:42 AM

On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)

uncle phil · 07-21-2009, 02:32 AM

Also on July 21, 1938, Janet Reno was born...

Janet Reno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jetée · 07-21-2009, 06:55 AM

This Day in History...

What American high school student hasn't at one time found The Old Man and the Sea on his English class syllabus? In an effort to understand the meaning behind the story, most of these same high school students read the annotated notes, which were usually longer than the book itself. Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1953, and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 — the latter, for the body of his work, but especially for his novella about a fisherman who struggles to bring in a giant marlin. Hemingway, who was born on this date in 1899, said of the meaning behind the tale, "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks, no better and no worse... What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know."

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway

Tully Mars · 07-22-2009, 01:49 AM

On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.

uncle phil · 07-22-2009, 01:58 AM

Also on July 22, 1963, Emily Saliers was born...

Emily Saliers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jetée · 07-22-2009, 06:26 AM

This Day in History...

They're alike as two peas in a pod. Gregor Mendel wouldn't have said that. Born on this date in 1822, Mendel was a monk who liked to spend his spare time experimenting with garden peas and other plants. He planted and grew some 30,000 different pea plants, analyzing their height, size, color and pod shape. He cross-pollinated them and noted the results. By observing and analyzing, he determined that hereditary factors and genes are responsible for many of the characteristics of the different kinds of peas. Though he expected to prove that a plant was a merging of both parent plants — in other words, a tall plant and a short plant would produce a medium-sized one — he, in fact, determined that sometimes the physical characteristics of one of the plants were dominant, while those of the other parent plant were recessive.

Tully Mars · 07-23-2009, 01:44 AM

On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I

uncle phil · 07-23-2009, 01:58 AM

Also on July 23, 1971, Alison Krauss was born...

Alison Krauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tully Mars · 07-24-2009, 01:11 AM

On July 24, 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a discussion at a U.S. exhibition with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was dubbed the ''kitchen debate.''

uncle phil · 07-24-2009, 01:38 AM

Also on July 24, 1951, Lynda Carter was born...

Lynda Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jetée · 07-24-2009, 07:02 AM

This Day in History...

* Detroit: La Ville d'Etroit, or "city of the strait," was founded by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a French fur trader (1701)

* Brigham Young: seeking a safe haven, the Mormon leader and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, in what is now Utah (1847)

* kitchen debate: US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev debated the merits of capitalism vs. communism in a replica of an American kitchen, set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959)

* Watergate: the US Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over incriminating subpoenaed White House recordings (1974)

* Lance Armstrong: American cyclist won his record-breaking seventh consecutive Tour de France (2005)

uncle phil · 07-25-2009, 02:37 AM

On July 25, 1954, Walter Payton was born...

Walter Payton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

07-07-2009, 01:58 AM	#1201 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 7, 1959, Jessica Hahn was born... Jessica Hahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-08-2009, 01:47 AM	#1202 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-08-2009, 01:54 AM	#1203 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 8, 1951, Anjelica Huston was born... Anjelica Huston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-09-2009, 01:48 AM	#1204 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 9th, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-09-2009, 02:41 AM	#1205 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 9, 1964, Courtney Love was born... Courtney Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-10-2009, 01:37 AM	#1206 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-10-2009, 01:56 AM	#1207 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 10, 1980, Jessica Simpson was born... Jessica Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-11-2009, 03:54 AM	#1208 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 11, 1956, Sela Ward was born... Sela Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-12-2009, 02:40 AM	#1209 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 12, 1951, Cheryl Ladd was born... Cheryl Ladd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-12-2009, 05:18 AM	#1210 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 12th, 1974- John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-13-2009, 01:56 AM	#1211 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 13, 1946, Cheech Marin was born... Cheech Marin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-13-2009, 02:31 AM	#1212 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-14-2009, 02:33 AM	#1213 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 14, 1912, Woody Guthrie was born... Woody Guthrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-14-2009, 03:32 AM	#1214 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	July 14 This Day in History... A famous American saying goes, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Tom Carvel set up the first permanent ice-cream stand in 1934, when the truck from which he had been selling the frozen treat had a flat tire near a pottery store in New York. He sold his ice cream from that spot — off the back of his truck — for two years, until he finally bought the store in 1936 and turned it into an ice-cream parlor. That same year, he developed a formula for soft serve ice cream. In 1947, Carvel set up his first franchise, and, soon after, he ran a series of franchising seminars, nicknamed "Sundae School." Carvel was born on this date in 1906. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-14-2009, 03:36 AM	#1215 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 14th, 1789- During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. Happy Bastille Day! __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-14-2009, 03:44 AM	#1216 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	You mean to say, that for the past 12 years, I've been celebrating Bastille Day a day too late? It isn't on the 15th? I'm flabbergasted. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-15-2009, 01:50 AM	#1218 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 15th, 1916- William Boeing founded Pacific Aero Products, the forerunner of the Boeing Co., in Seattle. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-15-2009, 01:55 AM	#1219 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 15, 1963, Brigitte Nielsen was born... Brigitte Nielsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-16-2009, 02:10 AM	#1220 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 16, 1963, Phoebe Cates was born... Phoebe Cates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-17-2009, 01:57 AM	#1221 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 17, 1952, Phoebe Snow was born... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Snow_(musician) __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-17-2009, 04:12 AM	#1222 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-18-2009, 01:35 AM	#1223 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 18, 1941, Martha Reeves was born... Martha Reeves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-18-2009, 01:44 AM	#1224 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 18th, 1984- A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. I was just down the street, returning from TJ and a night of partying before. Had no idea what all the commotion was until the next day when a guy on my ship told me about it. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-19-2009, 03:39 AM	#1225 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On July 19, 1860, Lizzie Borden was born... Lizzie Borden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-19-2009, 04:16 AM	#1226 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Also on July 19th, 1969- Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-20-2009, 01:43 AM	#1227 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-20-2009, 02:51 AM	#1228 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on June 20, 1957, Donna Dixon was born... Donna Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-21-2009, 01:42 AM	#1229 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-21-2009, 02:32 AM	#1230 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 21, 1938, Janet Reno was born... Janet Reno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-21-2009, 06:55 AM	#1231 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	July 21 This Day in History... What American high school student hasn't at one time found The Old Man and the Sea on his English class syllabus? In an effort to understand the meaning behind the story, most of these same high school students read the annotated notes, which were usually longer than the book itself. Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1953, and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 — the latter, for the body of his work, but especially for his novella about a fisherman who struggles to bring in a giant marlin. Hemingway, who was born on this date in 1899, said of the meaning behind the tale, "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks, no better and no worse... What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know." "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-22-2009, 01:49 AM	#1232 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-22-2009, 01:58 AM	#1233 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 22, 1963, Emily Saliers was born... Emily Saliers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-22-2009, 06:26 AM	#1234 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	July 22 This Day in History... They're alike as two peas in a pod. Gregor Mendel wouldn't have said that. Born on this date in 1822, Mendel was a monk who liked to spend his spare time experimenting with garden peas and other plants. He planted and grew some 30,000 different pea plants, analyzing their height, size, color and pod shape. He cross-pollinated them and noted the results. By observing and analyzing, he determined that hereditary factors and genes are responsible for many of the characteristics of the different kinds of peas. Though he expected to prove that a plant was a merging of both parent plants — in other words, a tall plant and a short plant would produce a medium-sized one — he, in fact, determined that sometimes the physical characteristics of one of the plants were dominant, while those of the other parent plant were recessive. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

07-23-2009, 01:44 AM	#1235 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-23-2009, 01:58 AM	#1236 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Also on July 23, 1971, Alison Krauss was born... Alison Krauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.