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Post by Kelvinho on Aug 17, 2007 20:14:50 GMT -5
About the nuclear bomb thing. Am i the only one that get's an intense empty feeling whenever i read about the A-bomb bombings at the end of WWII? It just makes me sad and horrified just thinking of the amount of death and destruction that bomb (which is now considered weak) caused.
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Post by Darth_Comrade on Aug 17, 2007 20:29:07 GMT -5
^ Just one of the countless historical disasters of humanity that many people nowadays haven't learnt to avoid- war.
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Post by Nutzkie on Aug 24, 2007 2:30:47 GMT -5
August 24th...
On this date in 79 A.D.:
Mount Vesuvius erupts and burries the coastal cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Aug 24, 2007 13:32:45 GMT -5
August 24th...On this date in 79 A.D.:Mount Vesuvius erupts and burries the coastal cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Oh yeah! You know that Mount V is about due for another one of those eruptions. Supposedly those kind of eruptions happen every 2000 years. All I know is that I wanna be alive to see it. Not so much in the area but I'd LOVE to see it happen.
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Post by Nutzkie on Aug 25, 2007 14:11:54 GMT -5
Oh yeah! You know that Mount V is about due for another one of those eruptions. Supposedly those kind of eruptions happen every 2000 years. All I know is that I wanna be alive to see it. Not so much in the area but I'd LOVE to see it happen. When it finally happens, (and it's a question of "when," not "if"), it'll be a bad day to be living in Naples.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Aug 25, 2007 14:24:33 GMT -5
Oh yeah! You know that Mount V is about due for another one of those eruptions. Supposedly those kind of eruptions happen every 2000 years. All I know is that I wanna be alive to see it. Not so much in the area but I'd LOVE to see it happen. When it finally happens, (and it's a question of "when," not "if"), it'll be a bad day to be living in Naples. Yeah, I know. It's going to definitely happen, I'd love to see it happen. August 25th: 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded. 1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage. 1814 - Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812. 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. 1916 - The United States National Park Service is created. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. 1942 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. 1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. 1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn 1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
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Post by Nutzkie on Aug 31, 2007 10:51:06 GMT -5
August 31st...
On this date in 1997:
Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in an early morning carr accident in Paris, France.
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Post by Nutzkie on Sept 3, 2007 0:29:47 GMT -5
September 2nd...On this date in 1945:The Second World War officially comes to an end, as representatives from the Imperial Government of Japan sign surrender documents while on board the battleship USS Missouri.
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Post by Loz on Sept 3, 2007 0:38:00 GMT -5
^ That isn't really true. The war ended in 89/90 when the Berlin Wall fell down.
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Post by Nutzkie on Sept 30, 2007 0:03:26 GMT -5
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Sept 30, 2007 8:39:39 GMT -5
1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1781 - American War of Independance: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes. 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside. 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate. 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". 1960 - The Flintstones made their debut on primetime. 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers. 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation. 1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders. 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo. 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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Post by TheToothWitch on Sept 30, 2007 8:54:26 GMT -5
Oh and may we never forget. 6 months later, when my family and I was in Egypt, we still said that we were from Netherlands. Didn't dare to say we were danish.
I still blame Jyllandsposten.
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Post by YFWE on Oct 3, 2007 8:37:38 GMT -5
Oct. 3... 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. (Brutus was SUCH a punk... good cook, though.) 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day. 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government. 1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. (Hate when that happens...) 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War (Only posted this because I thought of Captain Jack Sparrow) 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain. (uhh.. w00t?) 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS. (Most important thing on here) 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC (Ignore my above statement) 1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. (Drink apple juice, cause OJ will kill you. )
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Post by Nutzkie on Oct 3, 2007 22:10:57 GMT -5
October 4th...On this date in 1957:The Soviet Union launches Sputnik One: The world's first artificial satellite.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 4, 2007 7:45:06 GMT -5
October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining. 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. 1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. 1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. (It took 1500 years for the English language Bible to come about?!) 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. (BOOYAH! I LOVE THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR). 1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe 1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. 1940 - Meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. 1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. 1950 - Snoopy's first appearance. (I love you, great dog) 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. (Cue half of America hiding under their desks for fear of nuclear war ) 1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York. (Why did it take so long? You guys have been around since like... ever and yet it takes almost 200 years to visit the US?) 1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker indicted for fraud. 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
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Post by ninjanaco on Oct 4, 2007 16:42:53 GMT -5
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. (It took 1500 years for the English language Bible to come about?!) Well, for most of the time since the fall of the Roman Empire, most educated people in Europe were expected to know Latin, and thus they'd use the Vulgate. [Clerks cartoon]ABL liking something of Pope? How can that be?[/Clerks cartoon] Indeed. In fact, the Texans at the Alamo flew a Mexican flag with "1824" inscribed on it (I think) Probably due to the long, long-standing anti-Catholicism prevalent in the US and its British colonial predecessor. Had the Pope tried to visit the US during that time, a lot of people would suspect he was invading the US or something. Also, today in 1994 Yeltsin had tanks shell his own legislature. Just wondering ... do you get your facts from wikipedia? 'Cause I'm guessing you do. (Though I could be wrong on that.)
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 4, 2007 16:55:26 GMT -5
Why do you care?
Also today is Saint Francis of Assisi feast day, who is the patron saint of animals, birds, and the environment.
Aren't birds and animals the same freaking thing?
He's my favorite, because I have a great deal of love for animals and the environment. Not birds though, anything that could poke my eyes out is not cool.
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Post by ninjanaco on Oct 4, 2007 17:40:06 GMT -5
Just curious, that's all.
Yes, today is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
As for the birds and animals thing, I guess it's sort of like how Mary under the title of Immaculate Conception is the patroness of the US, but as the Lady of Guadaloupe is patroness of all the Americas. (Or something like that. I dunno.)
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 4, 2007 17:49:10 GMT -5
Of course I use Wikipedia. Most everywhere else is like just one specific place. Not where I can get a whole world's of events. I find it much easier to use. Sure everyone can change it but it's a necessary evil. Like technology.
Yeah, my grandmother couldn't accurately explain it either. I got a remark about how she hasn't seen any birds in our backyard.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 5, 2007 6:52:03 GMT -5
October 5
869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople. 1143 - The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom. 1665 - The University of Kiel is founded. 1789 - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. 1793 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. 1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die. 1869 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer. (Canada had a Hurricane?) 1886 - City of Johannesburg, South Africa founded following the discovery of gold there. 1895 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. 1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. (I do love the Wright bros) 1910 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic. 1914 - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill. 1921 - Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. 1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios. 1947 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. 1969 - British Sketch Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, is broadcast for the first time. 1970 - PBS became a television network.
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