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10/18/2014
« on: October 18, 2014, 12:00:05 AM »
Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something about cigars 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 proceed if you have thin skin.  Then light a cigar, pop open your favorite pumpkin beer and welcome aboard!

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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2014, 04:11:35 AM »
Damn, first post of the day. Sheesh.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2014, 04:18:58 AM »
Today is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2014. There are 74 days left in the year.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2014, 04:19:47 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 18, 1767, the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, was set as astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2014, 04:20:48 AM »
On this date:

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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2014, 04:21:21 AM »
In 1685, King Louis XIV signed the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes that had established legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2014, 04:22:13 AM »
In 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2014, 04:22:33 AM »
In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened (it could only handle one call at a time).
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2014, 04:22:51 AM »
In 1922, the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp.) was founded.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2014, 04:23:32 AM »
In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2014, 04:23:51 AM »
In 1944, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2014, 04:24:29 AM »
1954, Texas Instruments unveiled the Regency TR-1, the first commerically produced transistor radio.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2014, 04:24:45 AM »
In 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2014, 04:25:11 AM »
In 1969, the federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates (SY'-kluh-maytz) because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats.
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Re: 10/18/2014
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2014, 04:25:50 AM »
In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, overriding President Richard Nixon's veto.
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