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islander
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Wow, a busy day in history. I still have a startac in a closet here somewhere - two batteries!
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:09am |
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1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:08am |
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1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:08am |
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1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:07am |
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1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:07am |
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1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:06am |
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1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:06am |
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1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:05am |
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1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and ChÅshÅ« seize power.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 3, 2014 - 6:04am |
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1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 2, 2014 - 6:09am |
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1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 6:06am |
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1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 6:05am |
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1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 6:05am |
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1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 6:04am |
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1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 31, 2013 - 6:04am |
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1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
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buzz
Location: up the boohai
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Dec 30, 2013 - 2:11pm |
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meower wrote:The Murder of Grigori Rasputin: http://www.damninteresting.com/retired/the-death-of-grigory-rasputin/In any case, the extended family was really sick of his meddling and dangerous influence. Therefore, some of them decided to take matters into their own hands. On the night of December 17th, 1916, the Great Duke Dmitri Romanov, Prince Felix Yussupov, Vladimir Purishkevich (a member of the Russian Parliament), and Dr. Lazaret invited Rasputin to the Yussupov palace under the pretence of meeting (and according to one historian, to heal) Felix's wife Irina. Upon arrival, Rasputin was taken to a dining room in the basement. He was told that Irina had some guests and Rasputin was to rest and drink tea until the guests left. Rasputin was offered pastries and wine which he initially refused. This somewhat threw the Prince into a panic. He told the other conspirators (who were waiting in another room off the stairs), "...that animal is not eating or drinking." When Felix returned, however, Rasputin had opened the wine and began to drink. After drinking a couple of glasses, he showed no signs of having been poisoned. After a while, he may have started feeling something because he asked for tea. Then stood, walked around the room, then asked Felix to play the guitar and sing. For two hours this "nightmare" continued. When Felix checked in with is co-conspirators next, he was pale. He said that Rasputin had eaten and drank the poisoned food and still nothing had happened. When he again returned to his guest, the only signs of the poison affecting him was that he was burping and had some excessive salivation. Nerves were beginning to give way. Felix decided to end it. He took a revolver and while Rasputin was looking at a fancy cross, shot him in the back. Rasputin gave a bestial cry and fell to the floor. Dimitry and the doctor allegedly went for the car and to destroy Rasputin's coat and boots (they were not destroyed). In the meantime, Felix wanted to see Rasputin again, so he went and took another look. The body was still warm with small drops of blood coming from the wound. He lifted the body by the shirt and shook it and dropped it again to the floor. He then noticed that the left eye started to open, then the right eye. Suddenly the Rasputin leapt from the floor with a "devil's look" in his eyes and a wild cry and attacked Felix. Felix struggled for a moment and broke free. Rasputin fell again to the floor. The prince ran, calling for the revolver again. When they returned, Rasputin was crawling up the stairs. He made it out and began to run through the snow near the fence crying, "Felix, Felix...I'll tell everything to the tsarina!" In a panic, Purishkevich missed twice with the revolver, then biting himself on the wrist to make himself concentrate, shot Rasputin in the back. Then again in the head. Rasputin fell, holding his head. Felix began to beat Rasputin with a rubber truncheon. Finally Purishkevich had him pulled off the body. They took the body back into the house and discovered that Rasputin was still alive. He wheezed with each breath and was able to look at them through one eye. Finally Dimitry and the doctor returned. The body was wrapped in a cloth and taken by car to the Niva river and dumped in. That, at least, is the version that Felix Yusupov gave in a book he wrote from exile in Paris in the 1920's. Historian's throw doubt on points of this version. - The reason the wine did not poison him was that it was a weak mixture.
- The poison in the pastries did not affect Rasputin because he NEVER ate meat or pastries or other sweets.
- It was not Purishkevich who shot Rasputin, but Great Prince Dimitry. Purishkevich and Yusupov covered for the Great Prince. Everyone believed it was Dimitry, but the fact could not be argued with the other two pleading guilty. Even then, Dimitry was exiled to Paris.
When the body was retrieved two days later from the river, it appeared as if the Rasputin had tried to claw is way out from the ice. He died from drowning after being unsuccessfully poisoned, shot three times and beaten. He was buried in secret to avoid desecration. Thus ended Grigory Yefrimovich Rasputin. i thought Raspy was retired and living in Ohio. seems he had some kind of secret life going on. who knew?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 30, 2013 - 2:10pm |
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cc_rider wrote: Bet you're kinda regrettin' that now, huh?
As if I had anything to do with it...
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