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10/18/2015
« on: October 18, 2015, 12:06:09 AM »
What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this 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: 10/18/2015
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2015, 01:56:14 AM »
Good morning guys. 
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2015, 01:58:05 AM »
Today is Sunday, October 18, the 291st day of 2015. There are 74 days left in the year.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2015, 01:58:49 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2015, 02:00:02 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On October 18, 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: 10/18/2015
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2015, 02:00:54 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2015, 02:01:50 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: 10/18/2015
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2015, 02:02:35 AM »
In 1767, the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between colonial Pennsylvania and Maryland, was set as astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2015, 02:03:31 AM »
In 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2015, 02:08:41 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: 10/18/2015
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2015, 02:09:07 AM »
In 1922, the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later the British Broadcasting Corp.) was founded.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2015, 02:09:39 AM »
In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2015, 02:10:02 AM »
In 1944, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2015, 02:11:39 AM »
In 1954, Texas Instruments unveiled the Regency TR-1, the first commerically produced transistor radio.
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Re: 10/18/2015
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2015, 02:12:05 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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