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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #90 on: August 30, 2015, 02:22:54 PM »
In 1986, Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American officials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York. (Both men were later released.)
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #91 on: August 30, 2015, 02:23:14 PM »
In 1989, a federal jury in New York found "hotel queen" Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion, but acquitted her of extortion. (Helmsley ended up serving 18 months behind bars, a month at a halfway house and two months under house arrest.)

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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #92 on: August 30, 2015, 02:23:41 PM »
In 1991, Azerbaijan declared its independence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.



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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #93 on: August 30, 2015, 02:24:06 PM »
Ten years ago:

A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floods were covering 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #94 on: August 30, 2015, 02:24:29 PM »
Five years ago:

Vice President Joe Biden flew into Baghdad, where he sought to reassure Iraq that America was not abandoning it as the U.S. military stepped back. An enormous drill began preliminary work on carving a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine. Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a suspected drug lord known as "the Barbie," was arrested in Mexico State. Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty in Washington to charges of lying to Congress about whether he'd used steroids or human growth hormone. (Clemens went on trial in July 2011; however, the case abruptly ended in a mistrial. He was acquitted in a retrial.)
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #95 on: August 30, 2015, 02:24:53 PM »
One year ago:

The U.S. military said fighter aircraft and unmanned drones had struck Islamic State militants near Iraq's Mosul Dam. Under cover of darkness, 40 Filipino peacekeepers escaped their besieged outpost in the Golan Heights after a seven-hour gunbattle with Syrian rebels. The St. Louis Rams cut Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #96 on: August 30, 2015, 02:26:12 PM »
Actor Bill Daily is 88. Actress Elizabeth Ashley is 76. Actor Ben Jones is 74. Cartoonist R. Crumb is 72. Olympic gold medal skier Jean-Claude Killy is 72. Actress Peggy Lipton is 69. Comedian Lewis Black is 67. Actor Timothy Bottoms is 64. Actor David Paymer is 61. Jazz musician Gerald Albright is 58. Actor Michael Chiklis is 52. Music producer Robert Clivilles is 51. Actress Michael Michele is 49. Country musician Geoff Firebaugh is 47. Country singer Sherrie Austin is 44. Rock singer-musician Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) is 44. Actress Cameron Diaz is 43. Rock musician Leon Caffrey (Space) is 42. TV personality Lisa Ling is 42. Rock singer-musician Aaron Barrett (Reel Big Fish) is 41. Actor Michael Gladis is 38. Rock musician Matt Taul (Tantric; Days of the New) is 37. Tennis player Andy Roddick is 33. Rock musician Ryan Ross is 29. Actor Cameron Finley is 28.


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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #97 on: August 30, 2015, 02:26:44 PM »
Thought for Today:

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." - Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (1912-2010).
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #98 on: August 30, 2015, 02:31:29 PM »
Got my history update, now the day can be complete.  Thanks Chip.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #99 on: August 30, 2015, 02:48:08 PM »
Quote from: Travellin Dave on August 30, 2015, 02:31:29 PM
Got my history update, now the day can be complete.  Thanks Chip.
Yep we are duly educated for the day now. 
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #100 on: August 30, 2015, 04:07:29 PM »
Quote from: Texas Redfish on August 30, 2015, 02:48:08 PM
Quote from: Travellin Dave on August 30, 2015, 02:31:29 PM
Got my history update, now the day can be complete.  Thanks Chip.
Yep we are duly educated for the day now.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #101 on: August 30, 2015, 04:28:20 PM »
LP Undercrown fired up
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #102 on: August 30, 2015, 04:30:35 PM »
95 degrees and sunny, No fall in the air here now.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #103 on: August 30, 2015, 04:43:25 PM »
Quote from: Texas Redfish on August 30, 2015, 04:30:35 PM
95 degrees and sunny, No fall in the air here now.
Back to our "normal" end of August weather - hot but nothing like your Texas weather.  Great day for the 1st Annual Cincinnati Cigar Festival.  Had a great time with Duke, Craig, Glen and myself.  Great band, great cigars and great BS.
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Re: 8/30/2015
« Reply #104 on: August 30, 2015, 04:45:28 PM »
Quote from: cigarbreath on August 30, 2015, 04:43:25 PM
Quote from: Texas Redfish on August 30, 2015, 04:30:35 PM
95 degrees and sunny, No fall in the air here now.
Back to our "normal" end of August weather - hot but nothing like your Texas weather.  Great day for the 1st Annual Cincinnati Cigar Festival.  Had a great time with Duke, Craig, Glen and myself.  Great band, great cigars and great BS.
Afternoon cB sounds like a great afternoon event you had.  Hell we are actually cooler than our late Aughus norms of low 100's but still hot as hell.
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