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11/10/2015
« on: November 10, 2015, 12:00:26 AM »
It's Tuesday again! 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: 11/10/2015
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2015, 12:17:29 AM »
Quote from: Threebean on November 09, 2015, 11:24:08 PM
Time to say adios, mofos.  Come on, now, don't let this be the last post of the day. Still plenty of time for a GFY, ya slackers.
How about as a first post?  GFY anyway!
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2015, 02:10:44 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2015, 02:12:13 AM »
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2015. There are 51 days left in the year.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2015, 02:13:18 AM »
Today's Highlights in History:

On Nov. 10, 1975, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the world body repealed the resolution in Dec. 1991). The ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crew members.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2015, 02:13:43 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2015, 02:14:09 AM »
In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2015, 02:15:22 AM »
In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2015, 02:15:45 AM »
In 1919, the American Legion opened its first national convention in Minneapolis.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2015, 02:16:11 AM »
In 1925, actor Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen (pahn-trhy-DY'-fehn), Wales.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2015, 02:17:03 AM »
In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on her CBS radio program. Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2015, 02:17:49 AM »
In 1942, Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2015, 02:18:19 AM »
In 1951, customer-dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey, called Alameda, California, Mayor Frank Osborne without operator assistance.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2015, 02:19:01 AM »
In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.
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Re: 11/10/2015
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2015, 02:19:25 AM »
In 1969, the children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS).
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