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12/22/2015
« on: December 22, 2015, 12:00:37 AM »
Happy Winter Solstice! Typically on Tuesdays, in between insults we'll occasionally discuss cigars. Join in 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: 12/22/2015
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2015, 02:14:00 AM »
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2015, 02:14:20 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2015, 02:20:35 AM »
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2015. There are nine days left in the year. This is the first full day of winter.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2015, 02:21:33 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Dec. 22, 1965, "Doctor Zhivago," David Lean's epic film adaptation of the Boris Pasternak novel starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, had its world premiere in New York.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2015, 02:21:56 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2015, 02:22:36 AM »
In 1775, Esek Hopkins was appointed the commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2015, 02:23:02 AM »
In 1894, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.)
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2015, 02:23:45 AM »
In 1910, a fire lasting more than 26 hours broke out at the Chicago Union Stock Yards; 21 firefighters were killed in the collapse of a burning building.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2015, 02:24:32 AM »
In 1937, the first, center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River was opened to traffic. (The second tube opened in 1945, the third in 1957.)
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2015, 02:25:06 AM »
In 1940, author Nathanael West, 37, and his wife, Eileen McKenney, 27, were killed in a car crash in El Centro, California, while en route to the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had died the day before.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2015, 02:25:31 AM »
In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected a German demand for surrender, writing "Nuts!" in his official reply.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2015, 02:26:03 AM »
In 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower in a private ceremony in New York.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2015, 02:26:25 AM »
In 1977, three dozen people were killed when a 250-foot-high grain elevator at the Continental Grain Company plant in Westwego, Louisiana, exploded.
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Re: 12/22/2015
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2015, 02:27:02 AM »
In 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu (chow-SHES'-koo), the last of Eastern Europe's hard-line Communist rulers, was toppled from power in a popular uprising. Playwright Samuel Beckett died in Paris at age 83.
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