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[CigarBanter]

What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Join in this cigar talk with the rest of us and learn something along the way.  Be warned, you will catch hell if you post something everyone doesn't agree with.  And heaven forbid if you should make a grammatical error, you'll be berated with GFYs!  So don't have thin skin and welcome aboard!

[IrascibleOldFool]

Good morning everyone!

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

Today is Sunday, September 14, the 257th day of 2014. There are 108 days left in the year.

[LSUFAN]

Today's Highlight in History:

On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key was inspired to begin writing the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" after witnessing how an American flag flying over the Maryland fort had withstood a night of British bombardment during the War of 1812; the poem later became the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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On this date:

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In 1861, the first naval engagement of the Civil War took place as the USS Colorado attacked and sank the Confederate private schooner Judah off Pensacola, Florida.

[Travellin Dave]

Morning Chip.

[LSUFAN]

In 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.

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In 1914, actor Clayton Moore, TV's "Lone Ranger," was born in Chicago.

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In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice (nees), France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of the sports car she was riding in.

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In 1944, the Great Atlantic Hurricane passed close to North Carolina and Virginia before heading up the northeastern U.S. coast; nearly 400 people died, most at sea.

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In 1954, the Soviet Union detonated a 40-kiloton atomic test weapon.

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In 1964, Pope Paul VI opened the third session of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, also known as "Vatican II." (The session closed two months later.) The submarine adventure series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" premiered on ABC-TV.

[LSUFAN]

In 1975, Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.