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Business as Usual - R_P - Dec 6, 2024 - 3:16pm
 
Download Failed - Cartographer - Dec 6, 2024 - 3:03pm
 
Main Mix Playlist - buddy - Dec 6, 2024 - 2:58pm
 
Geomorphology - geoff_morphini - Dec 6, 2024 - 2:45pm
 
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum - buddy - Dec 6, 2024 - 2:44pm
 
Trump - kcar - Dec 6, 2024 - 1:19pm
 
December 2024 Photo Theme - Lighting - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Dec 6, 2024 - 1:09pm
 
What makes you smile? - Isabeau - Dec 6, 2024 - 12:29pm
 
Musky Mythology - R_P - Dec 6, 2024 - 11:31am
 
Ukraine - R_P - Dec 6, 2024 - 10:34am
 
Live Music - oldviolin - Dec 6, 2024 - 10:29am
 
NY Times Strands - maryte - Dec 6, 2024 - 10:09am
 
NYTimes Connections - geoff_morphini - Dec 6, 2024 - 9:54am
 
Name My Band - Isabeau - Dec 6, 2024 - 9:27am
 
Wordle - daily game - geoff_morphini - Dec 6, 2024 - 9:20am
 
♥ ♥ ♥ Vote For Pie ♥ ♥ ♥ - miamizsun - Dec 6, 2024 - 7:56am
 
If not RP, what are you listening to right now? - miamizsun - Dec 6, 2024 - 7:50am
 
2 questions. - GeneP59 - Dec 6, 2024 - 6:15am
 
Today in History - Red_Dragon - Dec 6, 2024 - 6:12am
 
Radio Paradise Comments - GeneP59 - Dec 6, 2024 - 6:05am
 
260,000 Posts in one thread? - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 9:00pm
 
What the hell OV? - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 8:56pm
 
RP Staff Okay in Eureka???? - Red_Dragon - Dec 5, 2024 - 4:36pm
 
Outstanding Covers - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 3:31pm
 
What Makes You Laugh? - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 2:58pm
 
Radio Paradise NFL Pick'em Group - islander - Dec 5, 2024 - 2:34pm
 
Republican Party - R_P - Dec 5, 2024 - 10:13am
 
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •  - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 9:24am
 
Song of the Day - oldviolin - Dec 5, 2024 - 9:19am
 
Webcomics? ... Webcomics! Webcomics! - Proclivities - Dec 5, 2024 - 6:33am
 
Israel - R_P - Dec 4, 2024 - 10:16pm
 
Thorium Power - Red_Dragon - Dec 4, 2024 - 8:13pm
 
TV shows you watch - Steely_D - Dec 4, 2024 - 8:03pm
 
Artificial Intelligence - Red_Dragon - Dec 4, 2024 - 11:30am
 
Listener ‘Support’ - pjshutterbug - Dec 4, 2024 - 11:08am
 
USA! USA! USA! - R_P - Dec 4, 2024 - 10:50am
 
Dear buzz - Coaxial - Dec 4, 2024 - 5:14am
 
Intermittent stream - pewaukeepaul - Dec 3, 2024 - 6:27pm
 
Coffee - Proclivities - Dec 3, 2024 - 1:42pm
 
Bug Reports & Feature Requests - eyke - Dec 3, 2024 - 9:02am
 
Are you ready for some football? - oldviolin - Dec 3, 2024 - 8:40am
 
Dialing 1-800-Manbird - oldviolin - Dec 2, 2024 - 6:11pm
 
Internet Hoaxes - miamizsun - Dec 2, 2024 - 3:25pm
 
Dance with me - Isabeau - Dec 2, 2024 - 2:29pm
 
Living in America - Red_Dragon - Dec 2, 2024 - 12:07pm
 
Baseball, anyone? - ScottFromWyoming - Dec 2, 2024 - 11:18am
 
Economix - black321 - Dec 2, 2024 - 9:03am
 
RightWingNutZ - Steely_D - Dec 2, 2024 - 8:46am
 
Radio Paradise for Android Automotive - foof2010 - Dec 2, 2024 - 7:15am
 
Ways to Listen to RP on WiiM Plus - pegasusbay - Dec 1, 2024 - 4:08pm
 
Country Up The Bumpkin - oldviolin - Dec 1, 2024 - 3:47pm
 
Bad Poetry - oldviolin - Dec 1, 2024 - 10:28am
 
Great Old Songs You Rarely Hear Anymore - kurtster - Dec 1, 2024 - 5:23am
 
Pictures you have taken of your feet. *snort* - Isabeau - Dec 1, 2024 - 4:12am
 
November 2024 Photo Theme - Monochrome - Isabeau - Dec 1, 2024 - 4:03am
 
Music Remixes? - buddy - Nov 30, 2024 - 5:39pm
 
Favorite Quotes - Manbird - Nov 30, 2024 - 2:28pm
 
Happy Thanksgiving! - Manbird - Nov 30, 2024 - 2:08pm
 
MQA Stream Coming to BLUOS - ayang90 - Nov 30, 2024 - 11:36am
 
Lyrics that are stuck in your head today... - oldviolin - Nov 30, 2024 - 9:37am
 
The Obituary Page - GeneP59 - Nov 30, 2024 - 8:52am
 
New Music - R_P - Nov 29, 2024 - 10:18pm
 
Sailing By - Isabeau - Nov 29, 2024 - 2:09pm
 
-PUNS- FRUIT - oldviolin - Nov 29, 2024 - 9:30am
 
Things You Thought Today - Isabeau - Nov 29, 2024 - 7:09am
 
How's the weather? - GeneP59 - Nov 28, 2024 - 6:09pm
 
George Carlin - R_P - Nov 28, 2024 - 12:47pm
 
Roon support - ayang90 - Nov 28, 2024 - 8:44am
 
BEAT - Adrien Belew, Tony Levin, Danny Carey, Steve Vai - Steely_D - Nov 28, 2024 - 8:25am
 
Climate Change - R_P - Nov 27, 2024 - 10:40pm
 
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Posted: Dec 6, 2024 - 6:12am

2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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Posted: Dec 4, 2024 - 6:42am

1971 – During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. The incident served as the inspiration for Deep Purple's 1973 song Smoke on the Water.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am

1997 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:45am

1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am

1979 – Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Posted: Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am

1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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Posted: Dec 2, 2024 - 11:55am

1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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Posted: Dec 2, 2024 - 11:51am

1942 – World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:50am

2020 – The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:49am

2019 – The outbreak of coronavirus infection began in Wuhan.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:43am

1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
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Posted: Dec 1, 2024 - 8:42am

1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
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Posted: Nov 30, 2024 - 12:55pm

1999 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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Posted: Nov 29, 2024 - 7:00pm

Today in history I sold the very first "EVERYBODY GO INSIDE - HERE COMES A HABOOB!" t-shirt. Many (many) years after designing it.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-...



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Posted: Nov 26, 2024 - 5:57am

2004 – The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
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Posted: Nov 25, 2024 - 7:28pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.



Today, I heard on NPR that M Pox evolved from ceasing vaccination against small pox in 1980.   
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Posted: Nov 25, 2024 - 6:06am

1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
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Posted: Nov 24, 2024 - 8:23am

1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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Posted: Nov 24, 2024 - 8:21am

1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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