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8/12/2015
« on: August 12, 2015, 12:00:18 AM »
Find any cigar deals on the various internet sites worth talking about? Join in this hump day discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2015, 12:03:43 AM »
Quote from: cigarbreath on August 11, 2015, 11:45:08 PM
No lucky 18 today.
Better luck for hump day.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 02:11:39 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2015, 02:14:43 AM »
Today is Wednesday, August 12, the 224th day of 2015. There are 141 days left in the year.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2015, 02:15:20 AM »
Highlight in History

On August 12, 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survived.)
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2015, 02:15:43 AM »
On this date

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2015, 02:16:19 AM »
In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2015, 02:16:40 AM »
In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2015, 02:17:05 AM »
In 1902, International Harvester Co. was formed by a merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Deering Harvester Co. and several other manufacturers.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2015, 02:17:46 AM »
In 1915, the novel "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, was first published in the United States, a day before it was released in England.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2015, 02:18:29 AM »
In 1939, the MGM movie musical "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland, had its world premiere at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, three days before opening in Hollywood.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2015, 02:19:08 AM »
In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2015, 02:19:33 AM »
In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2015, 02:20:03 AM »
In 1960, the first balloon communications satellite – the Echo 1 – was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2015, 02:20:30 AM »
In 1962, one day after launching Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union also sent up cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men landed safely August 15.

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