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Author: | bfnjz52 [ Dec Sun 16, 2007 1:39 pm ] |
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1553 - Having discovered the pulmonary circulation of blood, Michael Servetus celebrated by being burned for heresy in Switzerland. They didn’t have Disney back then. 1612 - The Polish army invaded Russia so that they could surrender to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks. 1659 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrated the joys of religious freedom by executing two Quakers for their religious beliefs. 1806 - Napoleon entered Berlin as Emperor. 1809 - President Madison decided we’d just go ahead and take West Florida. 1858 - Teddy Roosevelt was born in New York City. He had to fight a bear to get out of the womb. This was back when it was fashionable for some women to have bear vaginas. 1870 - The Prussians took fort Metz from the French. 1873 - Glidden invented barbed wire, or at least received the patent. Others, including Cher, claim to have invented it first. 1891 - D.B. Downing patented the mailbox. “What, it’s just a box, isn’t it?” “No, you put letters in it.” 1904 - Mayer George McClellan opened the New York City subway system. He was immediately mugged. 1917 - 20,000 women marched for voting rights in New York. I bet they weren't topless. 1922 - Luigi Facta’s government yielded to Mussolini and his Fascists, who were not a dance troupe after all. 1927 - Fox released the first sound news film. 1939 - John Cleese, ubur comic, was born. 1962 - Kruschev offered to trade his Cuba missile bases for America’s Turkey missile bases. 1994 - The U.S. announced that it had more than one million citizens in jail. |
Author: | bfnjz52 [ Dec Sun 16, 2007 1:40 pm ] |
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OK.....so it's a slow day. Raining and cold here and I have nothing else to do. ![]() |
Author: | bbnova [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 8:11 am ] |
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![]() I was busy putting a heater core in my son's car... ![]() |
Author: | RICK MILLER [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 9:01 am ] |
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Gee that sounds like fun ![]() What kind of car? |
Author: | bbnova [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 10:01 am ] |
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Buick Skylark. There's just enough room to get your arm where it needs to go.. ![]() |
Author: | jacobgiles [ Dec Mon 17, 2007 7:06 pm ] |
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thats funny cause i was putting a heater core in my little brothers s10 yesterday too. |
Author: | bbnova [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 8:56 am ] |
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I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under... ![]() How bad was it Jacob??? |
Author: | Keith Seymore [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 10:54 am ] |
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bbnova wrote: I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under...
![]() Well....at least it wasn't your neighbor's snow blower.... ![]() |
Author: | bbnova [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 10:56 am ] |
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That was earlier that day...... ![]() |
Author: | jacobgiles [ Dec Tue 18, 2007 6:06 pm ] |
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bbnova wrote: I'm sure there was a little more room than that piece of **** I was under...
![]() How bad was it Jacob??? not bad, about 2 hours. |
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