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8/23/2015
« on: August 23, 2015, 12:00:22 AM »
Happy Sunday 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: 8/23/2015
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2015, 01:52:54 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2015, 02:16:41 AM »
Today is Sunday, August 23, the 235th day of 2015. There are 130 days left in the year.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2015, 02:17:06 AM »
Highlight in History

On August 23, 1775, Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of "open and avowed rebellion."
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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2015, 02:17:34 AM »
On this date

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2015, 02:17:57 AM »
In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2015, 02:23:01 AM »
In 1858, "Ten Nights in a Bar-room," a play by Timothy Shay Arthur about the perils of alcohol, opened in New York.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2015, 02:23:27 AM »
In 1913, Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, was unveiled in the harbor of the Danish capital.
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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2015, 02:24:01 AM »
In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I.
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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2015, 02:24:33 AM »
In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2015, 02:24:59 AM »
In 1927, amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2015, 02:25:37 AM »
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in Moscow.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2015, 02:26:04 AM »
In 1944, Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.

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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2015, 02:26:30 AM »
In 1960, Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein (HAM'-ur-STYN') II, 65, died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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Re: 8/23/2015
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2015, 02:26:59 AM »
In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as "Stockholm Syndrome."

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