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[Travellin Dave]

Jammin with some nice Hairy Dogs!

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Jammin with some nice Hairy Dogs!

Hair off the Dog's azz.

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Jammin with some nice Hairy Dogs!

Hair off the Dog's azz.

$34.99 on the Jam.  $29.99 on cigar.com.  Sheesh!

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

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4 Perdomo Lot 23 Robusto (5.0"x50)
         10/34.50
 3 Nica Libre Silver 25th Anniversary Torpedo (6.0"x56)
          5/24.50
 2 Diesel Hair of the Dog
         10/34.99
 1 Tatuaje Havana VI
          5/24.99

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On this day in history ..
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1822 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 - Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Tha‹s," premieres in Paris
1896 - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 - AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in

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1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
1907 - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg
1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 - WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1929 - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
1931 - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1937 - All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 - No‰l Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 - NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances

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1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R‚union (world record)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 - KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 - Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1969 - "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 - Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in NYC
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 - New English Bible published
1970 - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 - "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland

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1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 - South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1986 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 - NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 - Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Okla 77-67
1995 - Miss House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-slavery ends
1995 - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
1995 - World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 - Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
1997 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 - NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 - Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1997 - Toshiba Senior Golf Classic

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Famous birthdays for this day ..

1585 - Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1634 - Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
1651 - Zaccaria Tevo, composer
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1745 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1774 - Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1806 - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1821 - Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 - William Henry Monk, composer
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
1836 - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1868 - Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]
1873 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 - Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
1878 - Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
1884 - Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)
1885 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 - Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)
1892 - C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1892 - Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
1893 - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)

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1901 - Walter E Sch„fer, German playwright
1902 - Lucie Rie, potter
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1903 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 - Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1906 - Francisco Ayala, writer
1906 - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 - Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1912 - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 - Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 - Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 - John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1922 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 - George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 - Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1927 - Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1927 - Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1928 - Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 - Ramon Barce, composer
1929 - Edwin London, composer

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1930 - Minoru Miky, composer
1931 - Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1937 - Constanca Capdeville, composer
1937 - David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 - Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1940 - Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 - Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
1945 - B”rries von M�nchhausen, writer, dies
1946 - Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1948 - Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 - Michael Bruce, rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
1949 - Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
1949 - Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
1949 - Victor Garber, Montr‚al Qu‚bec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1951 - Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 - Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 - Ritchie Teeter, rocker
1954 - Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 - Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1956 - Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleve Browns)
1957 - Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1959 - Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 - Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1961 - Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 - Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)
1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 - Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 - Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 - Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)

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1966 - Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Phila Eagles)
1967 - Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 - John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 - Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)
1969 - Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Tammi Terrell, rocker (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
1971 - Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1971 - Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1973 - Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 - Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 - Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1976 - Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli

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Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.