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Good morning guys. 

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Natives IT guys must be moonlighting at yahoo since their history site didn't update again. 

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On this day in 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred. Evers was gunned down in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi, home on June 12, 1963, while his wife, Myrlie, and the couple's three small children were inside.

Medgar Wiley Evers was born July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After fighting for his country, he returned home to experience discrimination in the racially divided South, with its separate public facilities and services for blacks and whites. Evers graduated from Alcorn College in 1952 and began organizing local chapters of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In 1954, after being rejected for admission to then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School, he became part of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school. Later that year, Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He moved with his family to Jackson and worked to dismantle segregation, leading peaceful rallies, economic boycotts and voter registration drives around the state. In 1962, he helped James Meredith become the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, a watershed event in the civil rights movement. As a result of his work, Evers received numerous threats and several attempts were made on his life before he was murdered in 1963 at the age of 37.

Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and Ku Klux Klan member widely believed to be the killer, was prosecuted for murder in 1964. However, two all-white (and all-male) juries deadlocked and refused to convict him. A second trial held in the same year resulted in a hung jury. The matter was dropped when it appeared that a conviction would be impossible. Myrlie Evers, who later became the first woman to chair the NAACP, refused to give up, pressing authorities to re-open the case. In 1989, documents came to light showing that jurors in the case were illegally screened.

Prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter worked with Myrlie Evers to force another prosecution of Beckwith. After four years of legal maneuvering, they were finally successful. At the third trial they produced a riflescope from the murder weapon with Beckwith's fingerprints, as well as new witnesses who testified that Beckwith had bragged about committing the crime. Justice was finally achieved when Beckwith was convicted and given a life sentence by a racially diverse jury in 1994. He died in prison in 2001 at the age of 80.

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On this day in 1777, Georgia formally adopts a new state constitution and becomes the first U.S. state to abolish the inheritance practices of primogeniture and entail.

Primogeniture ensured that the eldest son in a family inherited the largest portion of his father's property upon the father's death. The practice of entail, guaranteeing that a landed estate remain in the hands of only one male heir, was frequently practiced in conjunction with primogeniture. (Virginia abolished entail in 1776, but permitted primogeniture to persist until 1785.)

Georgians restructured inheritance laws in Article LI of the state's constitution by abolishing entail in all forms and proclaiming that any person who died without a will would have his or her estate divided equally among their children; the widow shall have a child's share, or her dower at her option.

The British colonies in North America, and particularly the southern colonies, were known as a haven for younger sons of the British gentry. Most famously, Benjamin Franklin announced in his autobiography that he was the youngest Son of the youngest Son for 5 Generations back. Moving to the colonies was an attractive option for younger sons like Franklin because there younger sons could take their monetary inheritance and build up their own estates, whereas primogeniture and entail prevented them from inheriting similar estates in the mother country.

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On this day in 1878, Andre Citroen, later referred to as the Henry Ford of France for developing his country's first mass-produced automobiles, is born in Paris. Citroen revolutionized the European auto industry by making vehicles that were affordable to average citizens.

Before entering the auto business, Citroen studied engineering and later operated a gear manufacturing company. During World War I, he ran a munitions factory where he successfully implemented mass-production technology. Following the war, Citroen, who was inspired by the assembly-line innovations at Henry Ford's American auto plants, converted his munitions factory into a facility to make low-cost vehicles. At the time, only the wealthy in Europe had been able to afford automobiles. Citroen's first car, the Type A, debuted in 1919. The four-door, 10-horsepower vehicle featured an electric starter, lights and a spare tire and was capable of speeds of 40 mph. The Type A was a success, due in part to Citroen's talent as an innovative marketer. He allowed potential customers to take his vehicles for a test drive—then a new concept—and also let people buy on credit. He put the Citroen name in lights on the Eiffel Tower, launched skywriting ads to promote his products and masterminded attention-getting expeditions to Africa and Asia using Citroen vehicles.

In 1934, Citroen launched the Traction Avant, the first mass-produced passenger car to feature front-wheel drive. The car proved enormously popular, and more than 750,000 were built during the 23-year production run. At the time of the Traction Avant's release, however, the Citroen company was on the verge of bankruptcy due to Andre Citroen's heavy investments in new concepts and technology, as well as his alleged gambling debts. In 1935, Citroen was taken over by its largest creditor, the Michelin Tire Company. Andre Citroen, who had been forced out of the business he founded, became ill and died on July 3, 1935.

Citroen remained part of Michelin until the 1970s, when it was sold to the French automaker Peugeot. Today, Peugeot Citroen is one of Europe's leading auto manufacturers.

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The estimated 7.5 to 8.0-magnitude quake struck at about 1 p.m. in the Calabria province. Within a minute, over 100 villages were leveled throughout the region. In several cases, communities were literally wiped away with no survivors or standing structures remaining. The quake also produced an uncommon number of fractures in the Earth's surface. In one case, a mile-long ravine--nearly 100 feet wide--was instantly created. According to one report, more than 100 goats fell into another crack in the earth. A witness also claimed that "two mountains on the opposite sides of a valley walked from their original position until they met in the middle of the plain, and there joining together, they intercepted the course of a river." New lakes appeared across the region.

Several hundred people from the town of Scilla survived the initial quake and fled to a nearby beach for shelter. Many then drowned when a second tremor at midnight prompted a tsunami. The tsunami also killed thousands of people in Reggio di Calabria and Messina, towns that sit opposite each other across the strait between Calabria and Sicily. The misery continued across southern Italy and Sicily for the remainder of the winter. With food supplies disrupted, the survivors were at risk of starvation. In addition, another quake on March 28 killed another 2,000 people. Including aftershocks and the indirect effects of the earthquakes, a total of 80,000 people died in the earthquake of 1783.

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On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to "pack" the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.

During the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide reelection in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an "assistant" with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called "court-packing" plan.

In April, however, before the bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices came over to the liberal side and by a narrow majority upheld as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. Roosevelt's reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.

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Birthdays today
1942 - Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World), born in Buffalo, New York
1942 - Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1942 - Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)
1943 - Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
1943 - Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
1943 - Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1943 - Larry Tamblyn, rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water)
1943 - Michael Mann, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends), born in Chicago, Illinois
1943 - Nolan Bushnell, founder (Atari)/creator (Pong)
1943 - Sven Johnson, rocker (Tangerine Dream
1944 - Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1944 - Cory Wells, rocker
1944 - J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
1946 - Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
1947 - Claude King, singer
1947 - David Ladd, actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline), born in Los Angeles, California
1947 - Mary Louise Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30)
1947 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
1948 - Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], (Stuntman, Shy People), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1948 - Christopher Guest, actor (SNL, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap), born in NYC, New York
1948 - David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1948 - Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
1948 - Nigel Tufnel, rocker (Spinal Tap)
1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
1949 - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
1949 - Maidarjabyn Ganzorig, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup)
1949 - Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band)
1950 - Ann Sexton, US vocalist (You're Gone too Long)
1951 - Elizabeth Swados, composer/playwright (1972 TONY), born in Buffalo, New York
1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1953 - John Beilein, American basketball coach
1954 - Roseanne Katan, Jamacia, playmate (Sep, 1978)
1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
1955 - Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
1955 - Mike Heath, baseball player
1956 - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
1956 - Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
1957 - Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)
1959 - Glenn Dubis, Lincoln Neb, US 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1984, 88, 96)
1959 - Jennifer Granholm American Politician
LPGA Golfer Jane GeddesLPGA Golfer Jane Geddes (1960)
1960 - Jane Geddes, American LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open), born in Huntington New York
1960 - William John Readings, literary theorist
1960 - Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Tim Meadows, American actor and comedian
1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow], American actress (Single White Female, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 - Tommy Skeoch, rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1963 - Steven Shainberg, American film director
1964 - Jim Pugh, Burbank CA, tennis star
1964 - Alexia, Cypriot singer
1964 - Duff McKagan [Michael Andrew], American bassist (Guns N' Roses), born in Seattle, Washington
1965 - Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1965 - James David McGovern, Teaneck NJ, PGA golfer (1993 Shell Houston Open)
1965 - Tarik Benhabiles, Algeria, tennis star
1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
1966 - Jose Maria Olazabal, golfer
1966 - Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
1967 - Chris Parnell, American actor
1968 - Chris Barron, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968 - Regina Rajchitova, Czech, tennis star
1968 - Roberto Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Will Furrer, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, St Louis Rams)
1968 - Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
1968 - Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor
1969 - Bobby Brown, Roxbury Ma, US singer-songwriter ("My Prerogative")
1969 - Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 - Darren Lehmann, cricketer (SA & Vic LHB Australian ODI 1996)
1970 - Forey Duckett, NFL/WLAF cornerback/safety (Saints, Scot Claymores)
1971 - Dianne Norman, Sault Ste Marie Ontario, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1971 - Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
1971 - Peter "Chip" Cipollone, Ardmore Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Sara Evans, American singer
1972 - Chris Bailey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996)
1972 - Tony Johnson, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
1972 - Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian
1973 - Diego Serrano, Quito Ecuador, actor (Tomas Rivera-Another World)
1973 - Israel Raybon, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance CA, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1973 - Richard Matvichuk, Ft Saskatchewan C, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1973 - Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer
1974 - Adrienne Johnson, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1975 - Jan l'Ami, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1975 - Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
1976 - Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1995 Puerto Rico)
1976 - Tony Jaa, Thai actor
1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
1976 - John Aloisi, Australian footballer
1976 - Brian Moorman, American football player
1977 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor
1977 - Adam Everett, American baseball player
1977 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player
1978 - Kristina Cherina, Miss Croatia Universe (1997)
1978 - Shawn Reaves, American actor
1978 - Brian Russell, American football player
1980 - Jo Swinson, British politician
1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
1980 - Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty
1981 - Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player
1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
1982 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 - Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
1982 - Tomas Kopecky, Ice hockey player
1982 - Kevin Everett, American football player
1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
1984 - Nate Salley, American football player
Football Star Cristiano RonaldoFootball Star Cristiano Ronaldo (1985)
1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Funchal Portgual, Portuguese footballer
1985 - Laurence Maroney, American football player
1985 - Crystal Hunt, American actress
1985 - Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
1986 - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer
1986 - Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
1989 - Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
1992 - Neymar [da Silva Santos Júnior], Mogi das Cruzes, Brazilian footballer (FC Barcelona, Brazil)

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Hotel Correspondence
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Attached is some correspondence which actually occurred between a London
hotel's staff and one of its guests.  The London hotel involved
submitted this to the Sunday Times.


WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THOSE "FREE" SOAPS WHEN TRAVELLING

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Dear Maid,
Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in my bathroom
since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial.  Please remove the six
unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine chest and another
three in the shower soap dish.  They are in my way. Thank you,
S. Berman
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Dear Room 635,
I am not your regular maid.  She will be back tomorrow, Thursday, from
her day off.  I took the 3 hotel soaps out of the shower soap dish as
you requested.  The 6 bars on your shelf I took out of your way and put
on top of your Kleenex dispenser in case you should change your mind.
This leaves only the 3 bars I left today which my instructions from the
management is to leave 3 soaps daily.
I hope this is satisfactory.
Kathy, Relief Maid

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Dear Maid -- I hope you are my regular maid.
Apparently Kathy did not tell you about my note to her concerning the
little bars of soap.  When I got back to my room this evening I found
you had added 3 little Camays to the shelf under my medicine cabinet. I
am going to be here in the hotel for two weeks and have brought my own
bath-size Dial so I won't need those 6 little Camays which are on the
shelf.  They are in my way when shaving, brushing teeth, etc. Please
remove them.
S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,
My day off was last Wed. so the relief maid left 3 hotel soaps which we
are instructed by the management.  I took the 6 soaps which were in your
way on the shelf and put them in the soap dish where your Dial was.  I
put the Dial in the medicine cabinet for your convenience.
I didn't remove the 3 complimentary soaps which are always placed inside
the medicine cabinet for all new check-ins and which you did not object
to when you checked in last Monday.  Please let me
know if I can of further assistance. Your regular maid,
Dotty

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Dear Mr. Berman,
The assistant manager, Mr. Kensedder, informed me this A.M. that you
called him last evening and said you were unhappy with your maid
service.  I have assigned a new girl to your room.  I hope you will
accept my apologies for any past inconvenience.  If you have any
future complaints please contact me so I can give it my personal
attention. Call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM.  Thank you.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper

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Dear Miss Carmen,
It is impossible to contact you by phone since I leave the hotel for
business at 745 AM and don't get back before 530 or 6PM.  That's the
reason I called Mr. Kensedder last night.  You were already off duty.
I only asked Mr. Kensedder if he could do anything about those little
bars of soap.  The new maid you assigned me must have thought I was a
new check-in today, since she left another 3 bars of hotel soap in my
medicine cabinet along with her regular delivery of 3 bars on the
bath-room shelf.  In just 5 days here I have accumulated 24 little bars
of soap.  Why are you doing this to me?
S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,
Your maid, Kathy, has been instructed to stop delivering soap to your
room and remove the extra soaps.  If I can be of further assistance,
please call extension 1108 between 8AM and 5PM.  Thank you,
Elaine Carmen,
Housekeeper

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Dear Mr. Kensedder,
My bath-size Dial is missing.  Every bar of soap was taken from my room
including my own bath-size Dial.  I came in late last night and had to
call the bellhop to bring me 4 little Cashmere Bouquets.
S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,
I have informed our housekeeper, Elaine Carmen, of your soap problem. I
cannot understand why there was no soap in your room since our maids are
instructed to leave 3 bars of soap each time they service a room. The
situation will be rectified immediately.  Please accept my apologies for
the inconvenience.
Martin L. Kensedder
Assistant Manager

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,
Who the hell left 54 little bars of Camay in my room?  I came in last
night and found 54 little bars of soap.  I don't want 54 little bars
of Camay.  I want my one damn bar of bath-size Dial.  Do you realize I
have 54 bars of soap in here.  All I want is my bath size Dial.
Please give me back my bath-size Dial.
S. Berman

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Dear Mr. Berman,
You complained of too much soap in your room so I had them removed. Then
you complained to Mr. Kensedder that all your soap was missing so I
personally returned them.  The 24 Camays which had been taken and the 3
Camays you are supposed to receive daily (sic).  I don't know anything
about the 4 Cashmere Bouquets.  Obviously your maid, Kathy, did not know
I had returned your soaps so she also brought 24 Camays plus the 3 daily
Camays.  I don't know where you got the idea this hotel issues bath-size
Dial.  I was able to locate some bath-size Ivory which I left in your
room.
Elaine Carmen
Housekeeper

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Dear Mrs. Carmen,
Just a short note to bring you up-to-date on my latest soap inventory.
As of today I possess:

- On shelf under medicine cabinet - 18 Camay in 4 stacks of 4 and 1
stack of 2.
- On Kleenex dispenser - 11 Camay in 2 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 3.
- On bedroom dresser - 1 stack of 3 Cashmere Bouquet, 1 stack of 4
hotel-size Ivory, and 8 Camay in 2 stacks of 4. - Inside medicine
cabinet - 14 Camay in 3 stacks of 4 and 1 stack of 2.
- In shower soap dish - 6 Camay, very moist.
- On northeast corner of tub - 1 Cashmere Bouquet, slightly used. - On
northwest corner of tub - 6 Camays in 2 stacks of 3.

Please ask Kathy when she services my room to make sure the stacks are
neatly piled and dusted.  Also, please advise her that stacks of more
than 4 have a tendency to tip.  May I suggest that my bedroom window
sill is not in use and will make an excellent spot for future soap
deliveries. One more item, I have purchased another bar of bath-sized
Dial which I am keeping in the hotel vault in order to avoid further
misunderstandings.

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Natives IT guys must be moonlighting at yahoo since their history site didn't update again.

Impossible, lazy bastiges too lazy to moonlight.

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Damn, oldest birthday today is not that much older than I am, you trying to make us feel old Chip?

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Morning LSU, HappyDay Off.

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No Jam Today what we going to bitch about?

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OBIF for me!