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8/20/2015
« on: August 20, 2015, 12:00:20 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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TRO

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2015, 12:06:05 AM »
Thanks for the welcome aboard.
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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2015, 12:29:26 AM »
Quote from: TRO on August 20, 2015, 12:06:05 AM
Thanks for the welcome aboard.
Welcome aboard here too.
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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2015, 02:38:02 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2015, 02:57:35 AM »
Today is Thursday, August 20, the 232nd day of 2015. There are 133 days left in the year.

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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2015, 02:58:29 AM »
Highlights in History

On August 20, 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Coyoacan, Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a Spanish Communist agent working at the behest of Josef Stalin. (Trotsky died the next day.)
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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2015, 02:59:41 AM »
On this date
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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2015, 03:00:25 AM »
In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2015, 03:00:54 AM »
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.

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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2015, 03:01:37 AM »
In 1882, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" had its premiere in Moscow.

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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2015, 03:02:06 AM »
In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres.

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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2015, 03:02:30 AM »
In 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
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LSUFAN

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2015, 03:02:55 AM »
In 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2015, 03:03:57 AM »
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
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Re: 8/20/2015
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2015, 03:04:21 AM »
In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive.
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