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Today In History

In 1529 the English CardinalThomas Wolsey was arrested on charges of treason.

In 1646 Massachusetts set the death penalty for denying that the Saints Copybook is god's word.

In 1841 the first wagon train arrived in California.

In 1846 Benjamin Palmer patented the artificial leg.

In 1854 the lighthouse was formed on Alcatraz Island.

In 1873 dentist John Beers of San Fransisco patented the gold crown.

In 1879 Mr. Elkins patented refrigerating apparatus.

In 1879 James and John Ritty patented the first cash register as a means to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon.

In 1904 the first stadium specifically built for football, Harvard Stadium, was completed.

In 1918 Kiel, Russia, fell into the hands of revolutionary sailors.

In 2000 Joeycat gets a call from Al Gore - he wanted to know if she knew where there were any good Buddhist temples nearby.

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The Word of the Day is Callomania (n.) - The delusion that one is beautiful.

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In 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamem in Egypt.

In 1939 the first air-conditioned car (a Packard) was exhibited in Chicago.

In 1939 the U.S. allowed "Cash and carry" arms sales to England and France in WW II.

In 1950 U.S. troops vacated Pyongyang, Noth Korea.

In 1956 200,000 Russian troops with tanks attacked the anti-Stalinist revolt in Hungary, threatening to bomb Budapest.

In 1970 Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov formed the Russian Human Rights Comittee.

In 1984 Nicaragua held the first free elections in 56 years; the Sandinistas win 63%.

In 1995 Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after attending a peace rally in Israel.

In 2000 Urbanjunkie, a true gentleman, gives up his seat on a train to a pregnant French woman, without getting so much as a thank-you from her in return. This proves the Jerry Lewis-loving froggy French are still the rudest, most insensitive, insufferable, and stuck-up people upon the face of the earth.




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The Word of the Day is Callomania (n.) - The delusion that one is beautiful.

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Location: Upstate NY
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Run into many frogs out there in WA state bill?

And for those of you from the "old" SPF days, shouldn't that WOTD above be "Callamania"?

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