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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2015, 03:28:48 AM »

In 1981, singer Harry Chapin was killed when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer on New York's Long Island Expressway.

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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2015, 03:29:36 AM »

In 1995, William Barloon and David Daliberti, two Americans imprisoned in Iraq for crossing the border from Kuwait four months earlier, were released.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2015, 03:30:16 AM »

In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean nea
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2015, 03:30:48 AM »

Ten years ago: A suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker near a Shiite (SHEE'-eyet) mosque in Musayyib, Iraq, killing nearly 100 people. More than a week after the London terror bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the long-awaited sixth book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, officially went on sale.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2015, 03:32:00 AM »

Five years ago: Retired intelligence analyst Kendall Myers, the 73-year-old great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for quietly spying for Cuba for nearly a third of a century from inside the State Department; his wife, Gwendolyn, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years. American sprinters who'd been stripped of their 2000 Olympics relay medals because teammate Marion Jones was doping won an appeal to have them restored.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2015, 03:32:36 AM »

One year ago: The U.S. and the European Union imposed new economic sanctions on Russia; in his announcement, President Barack Obama said, "What we are expecting is that the Russian leadership will see once again that its actions in Ukraine have consequences." Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, 70, died in Zurich.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2015, 03:33:17 AM »

Thought for Today: "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (1899-1986).
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2015, 03:34:44 AM »

Good morning Dave.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2015, 03:49:20 AM »

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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2015, 05:28:56 AM »

Morning LSU & Golf.  Happy Day Off LSU!
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2015, 05:38:27 AM »

Morning LSU & Golf.  Happy Day Off LSU!
Good morning Native and thanks. 
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2015, 05:47:16 AM »

Thought for Today: "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (1899-1986).
Where does Caitlyn Jenner fit in this scenario?
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2015, 05:47:54 AM »

Morning LSU & Golf.  Happy Day Off LSU!
Good morning Native and thanks.
SIL dropping by today? ;)
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2015, 05:48:25 AM »

Thought for Today: "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (1899-1986).
Where does Caitlyn Jenner fit in this scenario?
He/she only worries about fitting in a dress these days. Morning, Dave.
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Re: 7/16/2015
« Reply #29 on: July 16, 2015, 05:54:33 AM »

Time to head to work. :(. BBL
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