05-16-2005, 01:55 AM
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Loungin' Around
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: West Coast
Posts: 30,587
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May 16th
1620 ~ Death of William Adams, English Navigator and Japanese Samurai. In James Clavell's Shogun, John Blackthorne is loosely based on Adams.
1770 ~ 14-year old Marie Antoinette married 15-year old Louis-Auguste who later became king of France.
1866 ~ Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Louis "Studs" Terkel, Author.
1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, American pianist.
1929 ~ In Hollywood, California the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1955 ~ Birthday of Olga Korbut, gymnast.
1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Singer & Super Bowl Half Time Flasher.
1969 ~ Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
2002 ~ Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opened in theaters.
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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
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