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Rich already met his goal of 50 shirts but flying to and staying in Torino, Italy isn't cheap.  So please consider supporting him anyway.  Your tee shirt will likely arrive with some quality cigars.   

Short Story:
Follow the link below to support a local athlete, Rich Riopel, at the (IAU) 24 Hour World Championship in Torino, Italy on April 11-12, 2015 by making a donation and/or getting a tee shirt from:

http://booster.com/runrichrun 

Long Story:
Follow this link ==> http://cigarbanter.com/forum/index.php/topic,267.0.html

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Good morning guys.

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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2015. There are 331 days left in the year.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy.

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On this date:

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In 1783, Spain formally recognized American independence.

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In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.

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In 1924, the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington, D.C., at age 67.

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In 1930, the chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigned for health reasons. (He died just over a month later.)

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In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. transport ship Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Greenland, sank after being hit by a German torpedo; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived.

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In 1959, rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. An American Airlines Lockheed Electra crashed into New York's East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

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In 1966, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.

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In 1969, "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt and his family were aboard an Eastern Airlines flight that was hijacked to Cuba. (Fellow passengers who recognized Funt thought the whole thing was a stunt for his TV show; in an article written for The Associated Press, Funt said the whole episode "looked like a bad movie.")

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In 1972, the XI Olympic Winter Games opened in Sapporo, Japan.

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In 1989, Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay for more than three decades, was overthrown in a military coup.