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El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula? Can you imagine how big the envelopes would have to be just to write down your return address? Whew! That's a mouthful.
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09-04-2009, 09:23 PM
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Tsiolkovskiy ande James only 10 years apart in birth. Vandal versus Visionary.
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09-05-2009, 05:31 AM
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Each an example of the opposing ends of the societal bell curve distribution?
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09-05-2009, 08:07 PM
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September 6th
1620 ~ The Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower[/URL] from Plymouth, England, to settle in North America.
1766 ~ Birthday of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist. He was one of the earlier proponents of the atomic theory.
1847 ~ Henry Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1928 ~ Birthday of Robert Pirsig, Author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).
1941 ~ The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, was extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1965 ~ India invaded West Pakistan.
1986 ~ Birthday of Raven Riley, Porn Actress.
1995 ~ Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,131 consecutive baseball games.
1996 ~ Eddie Murray became the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
2005 ~ The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the U.S. to approve same-sex marriages.
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September 7th
1776 ~ World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a bomb to the hull of the British flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
1907 ~ RMS Lusitania set sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1908 ~ Birthday of Dr. Michael DeBakey, Heart Surgeon and inventor of the MASH.
1912 ~ Birthday of David Packard, Electrical Engineer.
1940 ~ The Blitz – Under orders from Adolf Hitler, the Luftwaffe began to bomb London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
1977 ~ The U.S. agreed to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1986 ~ Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1992 ~ Ciskei soldiers kill 24 at political rally.
1994 ~ Death of James Clavell, Author (Shogun) & Screenwriter (To Sir, with Love; The Great Escape).
1997 ~ Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire.
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September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).
1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug.
1967 ~ Birthday of Anna Malle, Porn Star.
1976 ~ Death of Mao Zedong, chief architect of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
1987 ~ Extradition to Belgium of twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster.
1993 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) officially recognized Israel as a legitimate state.
2001 ~ The leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
2003 ~ Death of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist, "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb".
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September 11th
1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.
1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, walked off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 ~ Death of Lorne Greene, Canadian actor.
2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed.
2002 ~ Death of Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Famer.
2007 ~ Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the "Father of All Bombs".
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September 12th
490 B.C. ~ The Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
1683 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated in the Battle of Vienna.
1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.
1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.
1913 ~ Birthday of Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete.
1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1959 ~ First episode of Bonanza. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.
1992 ~ Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, was captured.
2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great.
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1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
1899 ~ Death of Henry Bliss, the first man in the U.S. to be killed in an automobile accident.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
1982 ~ Lindy Chamberlain's "dingo baby trial" opened in Australia.
1979 ~ Birthday of Catalina Cruz, Porn Actress.
1993 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on a peace deal.
2006 ~ Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others at Dawson College in Montreal.
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September 15th
1254 ~ Birthday of Marco Polo, Italian explorer.
1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1929 ~ Birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969.
1950 ~ The U.N. staged its fist offensive operation in the Korean War; an amphibious assault at Inchon.
1963 ~ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children in Birmingham, Alabama.
1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.
1977 ~ Death of Maria Callas, Opera Diva.
1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.[/QUOTE]
2008 ~ Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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