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5/6/2018
« on: May 06, 2018, 12:01:28 AM »

No, the site isn't closed. It's just that our regulars don't post all that much on the weekends. But don't be shy. If you know of any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about, go ahead and post it. Even if it isn't about cigars, go ahead, you've got nothing to lose. In fact,  you practically will have the entire site all to yourself. But be warned that if you are somehow able to get our attention, we're a spirited lot.

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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2018, 07:59:00 AM »

Good still the weekend morning.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2018, 08:01:03 AM »

Guess everyone is recovering from Cinco de Mayo, 4s be with you, Derby Day, CFest weekend.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2018, 08:10:33 AM »

1994
English Channel tunnel opens


In a ceremony presided over by England’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age.
The channel tunnel, or “Chunnel,” connects Folkstone, England, with Sangatte, France, 31 miles away. The Chunnel cut travel time between England and France to a swift 35 minutes and eventually between London and Paristo two-and-a-half hours.
As the world’s longest undersea tunnel, the Chunnel runs under water for 23 miles, with an average depth of 150 feet below the seabed. Each day, about 30,000 people, 6,000 cars and 3,500 trucks journey through the Chunnel on passenger, shuttle and freight trains.
Millions of tons of earth were moved to build the two rail tunnels–one for northbound and one for southbound traffic–and one service tunnel. Fifteen thousandpeople were employed at the peak of construction. Ten people were killed during construction.
Napoleon’s engineer, Albert Mathieu, planned the first tunnel under the English Channel in 1802, envisioning an underground passage with ventilation chimneys that would stretch above the waves. In 1880, the first real attempt was made by Colonel Beaumont, who bore a tunnel more than a mile long before abandoning the project. Other efforts followed in the 20th century, but none on the scale of the tunnels begun in June 1988.
The Chunnel’s $16 billion cost was roughly twice the original estimate, and completion was a year behind schedule. One year into service, Eurotunnel announced a huge loss, one of the biggest in United Kingdom corporate history at the time. A scheme in which banks agreed to swap billions of pounds worth of loans for shares saved the tunnel from going under and it showed its first net profit in 1999.
Freight traffic was suspended for six months after a fire broke out on a lorry in the tunnel in November 1996. Nobody was seriously hurt in the incident.
In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

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William Franklin warns Dartmouth of repercussions from Lexington and Concord
In a candid report to William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth and the British secretary of state for the colonies, on this day in 1775, Benjamin Franklin’s illegitimate son, New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin, writes that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminishes the chances of reconciliation between...

1991
Harry Gant is oldest NASCAR winner — again
On this day in 1991, 51-year-old race car driver Harry Gant racks up his 12th National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Winston Cup career victory in the Winston 500 in Talladega, Alabama. In doing so, Gant bettered his own record as the oldest man ever to win a...

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Grant and Lee continue fighting in the Wilderness
On this day in 1864, in the opening battle in the biggest campaign of the Civil War, Union and Confederate troops continue their desperate struggle in the Wilderness forest in Virginia. General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, had joined George Meade’s Army of the Potomac to encounter...

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1992
Gorbachev reviews the Cold War
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The theft of Duchess of Devonshire stirs interest
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Hindenburg explodes in New Jersey
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The Hindenburg disaster
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1954
First four-minute mile
In Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister, who was running for the Amateur Athletic Association against his alma mater, Oxford University, won the mile race with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.For years, so many athletes...

Hollywood
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Final episode of Friends airs on NBC
At 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times on this day in 2004, that familiar theme song (“I’ll Be There For You” by the Rembrandts) announces the beginning of the end, as an estimated 51.1 million people tune in for the final original episode of NBC’s long-running comedy series Friends. Created and...

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John Steinbeck wins a Pulitzer for The Grapes of Wrath
On this day in 1940, John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they lose their family farm and move to California in search of a better life. They encounter only more difficulties and a...

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Hangman George Maledon dies
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FDR creates the WPA
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Roger Bannister breaks four-minutes mile
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Students launch nationwide protest
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South Vietnamese defenders hold on to An Loc
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All American forces in the Philippines surrender unconditionally
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Having trouble with the normal news source again.... hope this will do for a start.
If you want any of the complete stories from the teaser lines provided, here's your link.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2018, 08:49:20 AM »

As it is redhead week, I was wondering Dean, why has the rich redhead seemingly fallen out of the primary rotation?
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2018, 08:55:07 AM »

Births On This Day – May 6

1961 George Clooney
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1953 Tony Blair
Scottish/English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1915 Orson Welles
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1856 Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist

1758 Maximilien de Robespierre
French lawyer, politician

Deaths On This Day – May 6

1992 Marlene Dietrich
German/American actress, singer

1952 Maria Montessori
Italian physician, educator

1919 L. Frank Baum
American author

1862 Henry David Thoreau
American writer, philosopher

1859 Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer, explorer
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2018, 09:57:52 AM »

good morning Dave.
I had a boring day yesterday and I'm going to have another today.
Nat Sherman 1930 and coffee here.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2018, 01:38:47 PM »

Now this is good!
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2018, 03:10:28 PM »

Good Day Dean and Oy.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2018, 04:28:36 PM »

good morning Dave.
I had a boring day yesterday and I'm going to have another today.
Nat Sherman 1930 and coffee here.
Speaking of boring days, still on page 1.....sheesh.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2018, 05:05:28 PM »

601 Warhead III on the patio, SCDave mentioned them yesterday and reminded me how good they are
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2018, 05:59:26 PM »

601 Warhead III on the patio, SCDave mentioned them yesterday and reminded me how good they are
Warhead is excellent...so is the Tanqueray & tonic
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2018, 06:34:27 PM »

Off to the airport.
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2018, 06:34:42 PM »

Nice barn doors there fishy!
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Re: 5/6/2018
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2018, 06:39:49 PM »

Nice barn doors there fishy!
Haha, thanks. Where are you off to? Thanks for coming up to the house and bringing great cigars as always
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