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Today on 5-01-1931, Herbert Hoover dedicated the Empire State Building. Soon after,a giant Primate engages in shenanigans atop a neighboring building........ sort-of.....

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On 15th April 1989, 96 football fans went to a game and never came home. Their murder became one of the biggest cover-ups this country has ever seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_dis

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4-21-2020   Watson becomes the first AI system to win a presidential primary. When asked about Watson's victory, IBM's director of research Dr. Alessandro Curioni was surprisingly somber. "Our goal ha

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The date also has some significance for the history of vehicles

1807 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.

1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.


1934 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.

1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

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7-23-1936    Not content to spend yet another summer in Davenport Iowa, arm wrestling with his grandfather, Pop McMasters lies about his age and joins the Navy.

7-23-1936    Not content to spend yet another summer in Davenport Iowa, arm wrestling with his grandson, Great Great Grandpop McMasters lies about his age and moves to Wisconsin.

 

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Ahem... :smileywink:

The new born baby, His Royal Highness Prince X of Cambridge, got out from the hospital.

Daddy carefully put him on the back seat of the car (with safety scoop).
Daddy jumped behind the wheel, mother sitting beside daddy.
Waving and smiling to the crowd off they drove to their home in the palace.

:smileyhappy:

 

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

7-24-2019
   Religious scholars are thrown into a frenzy when archeologists uncover conclusive evidence that "an eye for an eye" was not an ancient code of justice, but rather one of the rules of trade for a children's game similar to modern day "marbles".

OMG Maddy!  LOL!

 

 

 

Peace!

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7-25-1994    Famous event planner Julian Calendar is late for his own funeral when the hearse bearing his body is carjacked by members of the "Crips" gang, who mistakenly thought they'd joined the "Crypts".

7-25-2014    Ex US congressman and failed NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner reveals that, in his admissions of an ever growing number of lewd exchanges with women online (originally one, then three, then no more than 6-10), he omitted one important adjective... "dozen".

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7-28-1845    Elizabeth Barret Browning describes a grand total of seven ways that she loves "Thee", which is consistent with our ability to visualize a maximum of five to eight things at one time. Further analysis of the poem reveals that the "ways" aren't actually methods, but measurements and qualifications, leading researchers to conclude that Browning had no idea what she was talking about.

7-28-1975   Paul Simon claims there "must be fifty ways to leave your lover" but describes only four. One of them... "make a new plan, Stan", is as indefinite as anything Browning described, leading researchers to conclude that Simon had no idea what he was talking about.

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Dillon Levenque wrote:

"Paul Simon claims"? Nay. Paul Simon made no claims. He was merely repeating what he'd heard. He told what 'she' had said.

She was, it seems, nefarious.

He don't know nuffin' 'bout imagining a nefarous woman.

Here's the beginning of my list of ways to either leave your lover or get him to leave you...

1) Move and leave three forwarding addresses, none of them correct.

2) Move in with another lover, and leave the correct forwarding address.

3) Call the pizza place and order pizzas in his name until he goes bankrupt, then assume the lease on the apartment.

4) Borrow his cell phone and make calls you are sure will bring the NSA to his doorstep. The metadata won't show that it's not his voice.

5) Call an escort service and hire a hottie to visit during your dinner hour. Feign indignation when she arrives and tell him to "get the hell out, you rascal!"

6) Tell him you are pregnant.

7) Tell him you are a lesbian.

8) If neither 5 nor 6 is sufficient, tell him you are lesbian, and pregnant.

9) Borrow an infant for the afternoon and claim s/he is yours, that you are a lesbian, and pregnant.

10) Keep eating the edges off his hamburgers until he can't stand it anymore.

11) Ask him to paint your toenails while your fingernails dry.

12) Tell him you're tired of shaving and have joined the circus as the bearded lady.

13) Blacken three teeth with a Sharpie, tell him you've joined the circus as a carnie... and smile big.

14) Become BFFs with his mother and incorrectly learn all her recipies.

15) Buy a duplicate of the TV remote control so you needn't wrench it out of his hands to switch the TV back to "Ellen".

I could go on...

 

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7-31-2019    String Theorist Leonard Susskind, while fleshing out details of his contribution to the theory of "Holographic Projection", discovers a quirky bit of mathematics suggesting that the holographic information encoding Elvis Presley, rather than simply being stored on a 2D membrane at his death, is actually being replayed ad-infinitum.

7-31-2021    After concluding its investigation of US Transportation Security Administration misconduct, the Justice Department recommends listing the TSA as a terrorist organization. Within days, the Justice Department vanishes without a trace. NSA officials decline to comment.

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