And the country was split into two philosophical camps: Those who did NOTHING and those who didn't care.
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And in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean purple, and fell right off the edge of the world and joined Copernicus who also had some crazy ideas! The fools!
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You know, I always wondered why Jesus' arrival came as such a surprise to people. I mean, they had to have expected it knowing that they'd just run out of "BC" years. It'd be like, "oh, we're at 0. The Christ must be here."
Sheesh, when they give you a countdown, how hard could it be?
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It wasn't that they didn't expect the Messiah. They just didn't expect him to be a 33 year old carpenter!
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Well, that's just silly. He actually came back after his death in a dream. He appeared to William Spottiswood, who tried to carry the secret to his grave. But in a fit of guilty terror on his deathbed, Spottiswood confessed to the dream.
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Wasn't there a political movement called "New Freedom" around that time, which later became a brand name of... one of those products that are the reason remote controls were invented?
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pssst pooka. New Freedom were really adult incontinence products, till the French Revolution shut them down.
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Didn't King George write in his diary "Nothing important happened today" the day the American Revolution started? Maybe it was the French, and it was Louis. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
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Also, the Dutch bought Manhattan Island for $24 in beads. Now, hundreds of years later, those beads sold on e-bay for 4x what the island of Manhattan is worth.
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Yeah -- it's been a big deal around here. The city is having a big celebration to honor the first powered flight (since Wichita is supposed to be "Air Capitol", home to Cessna, Boeing, Raytheon(Beech), etc. etc.. "we make 'em, you fly 'em"
The Wright Brothers never got their bicycle to fly. It was all done with hollywood tricks, special effects, and mirrors. It was a test thing for that bogus trip to the moon.
Everyone knows that flight is impossible.
Everything in the air, short of angels, is a fake, a weather balloon, or an alien. Anyone who has ever supposedly flown anywhere was actually killed, and an imposter took their place at the other end.
I know because I've flown dozens of times, and I'm not me anymore.
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on this day in history 1775: Mick Jagger born
On this day in history 1981: Dan Quayle born
On this day in history 1950: Richard Nixon was taken aback by Picasso's use of patriotic imagery thru contrast of sharp edge and curve in his latest work. To which Picasso replied "Dick, it's just a square. Let it go."
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Nope, contrary to "history" as it is taught, the Wright Brothers did not fly at Kittyhawk. At best, Flyer One was a ground-effect machine, not an aircraft.
Their first recorded flight was in Dayton a couple of years later in a redesigned craft.
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1893 must have happenned because it was in this year a forgetful welshman named Geoff left his bath running and created the Atlantic Ocean.
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You mean like the Birthplace of Aviation? Which has been our motto for 10 years or so?
The city of Dayton, where the Wright Bros. did all of the research? Where they basically pionered the field of aeronautical engineering with their wing designs and developement of the wind tunnel? Where they invented wing warping? Where they learned to control flight? Read up on it some time and find out that the only reason they picked Kittyhawk was because it had a lot of wind and sand. The next year they were flying in Dayton.
msquared(who is sick and tired of NC getting all the credit for not doing anything.)
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Well Utah was first to have women's suffrage but you don't hear us complaining. Though I guess "beehive" is a matriarchal system. Really odd if you think about it. We do have a woman governor now.
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The problem is, is there another state claiming that they were first to have women's sufferage? If not you have nothing to complain about. You ask most people where flight was developed and they will say Kittyhawk, NC, and zero research was done there. They tested only, and did not go back after 1903. All of the work was done in Dayton and the surrounding area.
Mick Jagger sold his soul to the devil. A transcript from the agreement reads:
Devil: Lemme get this straight, I'm going to turn you, a scrawny Cockney kid who can't dance, sing or play an instrument into a legendary rock star? And you want to sing the Blues, bed women all over the world and then be knighted by the Queen of England?
MJ: Yep, mate, that about sums it up.
Devil: Okay, but I'm going to have to play lead guitar. Keith, yeah, that's always been a good name...
And so a legend was made.
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quote:On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.
So when anyone tips a glass today (I don't drink alcohol myself), remember you wouldn't have legal access to your beverage without Utah voters. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote:One year ago: Strom Thurmond, the oldest and longest-serving senator in history, celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. (It was at this gathering that Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, in toasting Thurmond, seemed to express nostalgia for Thurmond's segregationist past; the resulting firestorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position.)
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Utah wasn't the first state to grant women's sufferage. Utah wasn't a state or even populated ('cept by injuns and they don't count) when New Jersey granted women's sufferage.
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In January of 1843 the United States Air Force was created. Which sat around for quite a while, waiting for the birth of aviation (which never happened). So, they sit around plucking away at their computers, looking busy.
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