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10/31/2014
« on: October 30, 2014, 11:59:37 PM »
Happy Halloween!  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: 10/31/2014
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2014, 02:13:25 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2014, 02:18:39 AM »
3 H. Upmann 1844 Reserve Churchill
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 2 Latitude Zero
         10/34.99
 1 La Aroma de Cuba
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2014, 02:24:47 AM »
Today is Friday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2014. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2014, 02:25:47 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 31, 1864, Nevada became the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation. (In order to achieve statehood, Nevada had sent its draft constitution to Washington, where it was misplaced; in order to get the proclamation signed before Election Day, James Nye, the territorial governor, sent another copy by telegraph at a cost of $3,416.77 for 16,543 words; allowing for inflation, today that would be about $50,000.)
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2014, 02:26:22 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2014, 02:26:50 AM »
In 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2014, 02:27:26 AM »
In 1795, English poet John Keats was born in London.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2014, 02:27:50 AM »
In 1887, Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was born in Zhejiang Province.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2014, 02:28:13 AM »
In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2014, 02:30:08 AM »
4 Man O' War Torpedo

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 3 H. Upmann 1844 Reserve Churchill
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 2 Latitude Zero
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 1 La Aroma de Cuba
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2014, 02:30:42 AM »

In 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. Work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2014, 02:31:22 AM »
In 1959, a U.S. Marine reservist showed up at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to declare he was renouncing his American citizenship so he could live in the Soviet Union. His name: Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2014, 02:31:51 AM »
In 1961, the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb as part of the Soviet Union's "de-Stalinization" drive.
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Re: 10/31/2014
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2014, 02:32:22 AM »

In 1964, Theodore C. Freeman, 34, became the first member of NASA's astronaut corps to die when his T-38 jet crashed while approaching Ellington Air Force Base in Houston.
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