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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

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Hot Dogs May Cause Genetic Mutations.

"Charm school" helps men perfect the pick-up.

Nasa officials are searching for the original videotapes from the first moon landing in 1969 in the hopes that they can use modern technology to produce sharper images of the event. How do you lose something like this? I guess with the hundreds of copies, it just got misplaced.

Online dating is planned for orangutans.

Seven dwarfs more famous than US judges: poll. Can you name them?

Descendants of extinct mammals like the giant woolly mammoth might one day walk the Earth again. It isn't exactly Jurassic Park, but Japanese researchers are looking at the possibility of using sperm from frozen animals to inseminate living relatives.

Sacked Beatles drummer Pete Best still on beat.

A detour that bypasses road work near this popular vacation spot sends motorists more than 50 miles out of their way, even though there's a five-minute alternative nearby.

Authorities followed their noses to nearly a ton of marijuana hidden in a Tucson stash house. Pima County sheriff's deputies were on a call about 6:30 a.m. Sunday when they smelled fresh marijuana coming from next door.

Police have been looking for a disgruntled McDonald's customer who ran into two other customers with her car after a dispute over who was next in line. Is it that hard to wait that extra 30 seconds and say, you go ahead. What would this hurt? Selfish bitch. That wasn't very nice of me was it. I should have said something like, you should do better next time. Selfish bitch.


PARTY-LOVING Princes William and Harry hugged drunkenly for the camera during a booze-fuelled night out with chums. If I were a Prince, I'd probably do the same thing. I would guess from the picture that they're not gay. Did I offend anyone? Oh well.


Today is Flooding of the Nile day in Egypt.

Today in History:

1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England with 102 pilgrims. Did you know... It is likely that the ship was broken up for scrap lumber in Rotherhithe in 1623, the year after Jones's death. The Mayflower Barn, just outside the Quaker village of Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, England, is said to be built from these timbers.
1755 - The deportation of the Acadians takes place, where thousands of them are sent to Europe or Louisiana, with a few escaping and remaining in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
1843 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed
1877 - Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1894 - Sante Jeronimo Caserio executed for the Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassination
1906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1914 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
1918 1st full length cartoon (The Sinking of the Lusitania)

1939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1960 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1961 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall

1965 - The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock.
1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.
1971 - President Richard Nixon ends convertibility of U.S. dollar into gold. Bahrain Independence Day
1974 - Yook Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.
1975 - Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.
1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1978 - Foundation of Mirapuri - The City of Peace and Future Man
1986 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
1995 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.


Happy Birthday:
1717 - Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810). Blind Jack earned that nickname because he was deaf. Not really.
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (d. 1821)
1845 Walter Crane England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1904 Bill Baird Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1912 - Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)
1933 - Bobby Helms, American pop singer (d. 1997)
1950 Princess Anne England (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II)
1960 Tommy Aldridge heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor

Deaths on this day:
1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)
1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)
1975 - Clay Shaw, John F. Kennedy assassination investigator (b. 1913)
1983 Anthony Costello actor, dies at 42


1 Comments:

At 8:36 AM, Blogger Crazy B said...

Fifty bucks says she looked them up.

 

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