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BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
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Got my Goat
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Acoustic Guitar
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Gardeners Photos
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The Human Condition
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Jan 29, 2014 - 5:54am |
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1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am |
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1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am |
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1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 29, 2014 - 5:53am |
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1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
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Proclivities
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Jan 28, 2014 - 7:45am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
It was odd that it was one day short of exactly 19 years from the Apollo 1 tragedy. In '86, a co-worker told me they had just heard about it on their radio while driving in.
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Jan 28, 2014 - 7:44am |
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Antigone wrote:I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying. ![](graphics/smiles/icon_sad.gif) we were in Science class, watching it on TV.
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Antigone
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Jan 28, 2014 - 7:38am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
I was working in the bookstore in Northern Virginia. A customer came in and told us. I accused them of lying.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:06am |
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1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:05am |
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1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:04am |
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1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:03am |
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1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:03am |
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1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:02am |
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1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 28, 2014 - 6:02am |
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1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
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Proclivities
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Jan 27, 2014 - 1:02pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
That's a frequent point of contention at UNC Chapel Hill and William & Mary.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 27, 2014 - 1:00pm |
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1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 27, 2014 - 1:00pm |
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1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 27, 2014 - 12:59pm |
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1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 27, 2014 - 12:59pm |
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1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
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Red_Dragon
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Jan 27, 2014 - 12:58pm |
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1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
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