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7/30/2015
« on: July 30, 2015, 12:00:17 AM »

What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this discussion 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: 7/30/2015
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2015, 12:17:00 AM »

What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this discussion 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!
Not much.  No.  OK.  I won't.  Thanks, glad to be aboard.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2015, 03:38:26 AM »

Good morning guys.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2015, 03:39:36 AM »

Today is Thursday, July 30, the 211th day of 2015. There are 154 days left in the year.

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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2015, 03:40:14 AM »

Highlight in History

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2015, 03:40:38 AM »

On this date

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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2015, 03:41:07 AM »

In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland, was founded.

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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2015, 03:41:42 AM »

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Virginia, by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2015, 03:42:32 AM »

In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is remembered for his poem "Trees.")
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2015, 03:42:58 AM »

In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2015, 03:44:06 AM »

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" - WAVES for short.
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2015, 03:44:45 AM »

In 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.

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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2015, 03:45:16 AM »

In 1953, the Small Business Administration was founded.

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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2015, 03:45:58 AM »

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making "In God We Trust" the national motto, replacing "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of many, one").
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Re: 7/30/2015
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2015, 03:46:29 AM »

In 1963, the Soviet Union announced it had granted political asylum to Harold "Kim" Philby, the "third man" of a British spy ring.
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