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miamizsun
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Red_Dragon wrote:1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio
and 9 volt battery sales sky-rocketed
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Oct 18, 2013 - 6:39am |
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1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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Oct 16, 2013 - 6:50am |
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black321 wrote: And just another reason why Teddy was the Man!!
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black321
Location: An earth without maps Gender:
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Oct 16, 2013 - 6:47am |
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On this day (-2)...former President Teddy Roosevelt was out on the stump trying to regain the highest office in the land. He was trying to unseat Taft, his handpicked successor. Since the Republicans decided to stick with the incumbent, Taft; Teddy had to form his own party - the Progressive. But the press renamed the Progressive's - The Bull Moose Party after Teddy had said he felt as fit as a bull moose. Anyway, this day found Teddy in Milwaukee on his way to deliver a speech. Quietly, through the crowd, moved a certain John Schrank, a New York bartender. He reached between two people trying to shake the candidate's hand, and fired a bullet straight into Teddy's chest. The force of the shot knocked Teddy back against a parked car as the crowd wrestled Schrank to the ground. His aides ran to Roosevelt and urged him to go to the hospital. He pointed out there was no blood around the bullet hole in his lapel and damn-it he had come to give a speech. He walked to the podium and pulled his speech from his inside jacket pocket. Only then did he notice that the bullet had gone through all 100 pages of the double folded speech. What he didn't know was that the bullet had gone four inches into his chest. And the reason there had been no blood was that the speech had compacted around the wound. But Teddy meant to give a speech and a speech he gave - for over 50 minutes. Then, as the crowd cheered, he bowed and finally agreed to go to the hospital, where he was treated for shock and extreme blood loss.
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ricguy
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Oct 14, 2013 - 1:35pm |
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well everyone time for Today in History ! first this.... Padres 10... Indians ...nothing..... a complete shut out massacre.
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Oct 14, 2013 - 9:04am |
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Winnie the pooh made his debute on this day in 1926.
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Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
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Oct 14, 2013 - 8:58am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1908: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers and win the World Series
105 years
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Oct 14, 2013 - 6:31am |
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1908: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers and win the World Series
105 years
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2cats
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Sep 17, 2013 - 3:26pm |
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meower wrote:September 17th 1849: Tubman escapes On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. Tubman was born into slavery but eventually escaped to Philadelphia, using the North Star to guide her. She soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family from slavery. She became a major figure in the Underground Railroad, helping to rescue hundreds of slaves. Tubman was a notable member of the abolitionist movement, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War. After the war she campaigned for female suffrage alongside Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Tubman died in 1913 aged 93. Like, thanks.
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2cats
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Sep 17, 2013 - 3:26pm |
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meower wrote:September 17th 1849: Tubman escapes On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. Tubman was born into slavery but eventually escaped to Philadelphia, using the North Star to guide her. She soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family from slavery. She became a major figure in the Underground Railroad, helping to rescue hundreds of slaves. Tubman was a notable member of the abolitionist movement, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War. After the war she campaigned for female suffrage alongside Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Tubman died in 1913 aged 93. Like, thanks.
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Sep 17, 2013 - 2:16pm |
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September 17th 1849: Tubman escapes On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. Tubman was born into slavery but eventually escaped to Philadelphia, using the North Star to guide her. She soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family from slavery. She became a major figure in the Underground Railroad, helping to rescue hundreds of slaves. Tubman was a notable member of the abolitionist movement, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War. After the war she campaigned for female suffrage alongside Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Tubman died in 1913 aged 93.
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aflanigan
Location: At Sea Gender:
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Sep 17, 2013 - 10:24am |
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On the 17th day of September, 226 years ago, the Framers signed their names to the U.S. Constitution.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 16, 2013 - 6:22am |
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1400: Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales; the last Welshman to hold the title.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 6, 2013 - 6:09am |
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1522: The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Megellan's expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
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Proclivities
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Sep 5, 2013 - 8:37am |
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 5, 2013 - 5:57am |
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1977: Voyager I is launched
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 5, 2013 - 5:54am |
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1882: The first Labor Day parade in the country is held in New York City
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Sep 5, 2013 - 5:53am |
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1836: Sam Houston is elected first President of the Republic of Texas
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aflanigan
Location: At Sea Gender:
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Sep 4, 2013 - 12:36pm |
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black321 wrote: spoiler
I know, what a killjoy, right? The cool thing is, sometimes reality is even weirder than legend/myth. Mark Twain said, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." Think about how unusual it was that this free black woman, born in New Haven, CT prior to the civil war, had the gumption to go work for a man who lived in the deep South, where slavery existed. I don't think I would have had the guts to do that if I were an African-American. She ends up being captured, not by bounty hunters seeking to pass her off as a fugitive slave, but by a Mexican General.
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