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kingozzy

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Re: Today....
« Reply #180 on: May 20, 2014, 09:45:53 am »
Yesterday my grandfather passed away, he was a great man, he loved his family and appreciated hard work and I think I have learned that from him

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« Reply #181 on: June 01, 2014, 08:14:02 am »
Yesterday my grandfather passed away, he was a great man, he loved his family and appreciated hard work and I think I have learned that from him

I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
My husband lost his grandfather recently as well.

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« Reply #182 on: June 01, 2014, 08:18:11 am »
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year.

1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

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« Reply #183 on: June 08, 2014, 09:06:53 am »
June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year.

1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.

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« Reply #184 on: June 10, 2014, 02:15:29 pm »
June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.

1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

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« Reply #185 on: June 12, 2014, 11:15:13 am »
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of the year.

1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.

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Re: Today....
« Reply #186 on: June 12, 2014, 12:21:14 pm »
you should be on jeopardy :thumbsup:

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« Reply #187 on: June 13, 2014, 08:08:45 am »
you should be on jeopardy :thumbsup:

Haha, I don't ACTUALLY know most of these facts off the top of my head.
I search for them both on the Paid to Click on FusionCash, and on other websites like Wikipedia.

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« Reply #188 on: June 13, 2014, 08:11:46 am »
June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1946 – First transcontinental round-trip flight in one-day, California-Maryland.
1966 – The US Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation.
The adopted text: "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you."
1986   – Birth of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen (twin American actresses) and Kat Dennings (American actress).

P.S.
Happy Friday the 13th!
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« Reply #189 on: June 15, 2014, 09:55:35 am »
June 15 is the 166th day of the year (167th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of the year.

1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1924   – Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile.
2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

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Happy Father's Day!!!

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« Reply #190 on: June 23, 2014, 05:54:49 pm »
June 23rd....

Donald McBride (old actor who played a cranky straight man in dozens of old comedies-probably best known for exclaiming "Jumping butterballs!" in the Marx Bros. 'Room Service')  was born in 1893
Ted Shackelford was born in 1946
Selma Blair was born in 1972
Joel Edgerton was born in 1974
Emmanuelle Vaugier was born in 1976

Nigel Stock (played Watson to Peter Cushing's Holmes) died in 1986
Maureen O'Sullivan died in 1998
Aaron Spelling died in 2006
Ed McMahon died in 2009
Peter Falk died in 2011
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« Reply #191 on: July 01, 2014, 06:39:47 am »
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of the year.
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in a leap year.

1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.

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« Reply #192 on: July 01, 2014, 06:42:42 am »
today I was surprise with the mail and got a lot of pictures of my latest great granddaughter and she is gorgeous.

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Re: Today....
« Reply #193 on: July 03, 2014, 11:02:43 am »
July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.

1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.

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« Reply #194 on: July 03, 2014, 11:25:33 am »
Thanks interesting.

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