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| Lewington | Jul 1 2015, 05:01 PM Post #151 |
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Happy Dominion Day! |
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| Simon Darkshade | Jul 2 2015, 03:27 AM Post #152 |
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Happy Dominion Day! |
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| Myles | Jul 2 2015, 01:38 PM Post #153 |
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Happy Dominion Day!
I just read that yesterday. |
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| Petar | Jul 7 2015, 11:29 AM Post #154 |
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7/7 bombings (10 years) |
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| Petar | Jul 11 2015, 01:19 PM Post #155 |
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Srebrenica (20 years) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jul 12 2015, 07:28 PM Post #156 |
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Post Tenebras Lux
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I still find it hard to imagine that was 20 years ago. |
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| Petar | Jul 12 2015, 09:19 PM Post #157 |
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Well, human nature doesn't change, especially in the black hole of Europe known as the Balkans. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jul 15 2015, 09:43 PM Post #158 |
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Surrender of Napoleon (1815) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jul 16 2015, 11:57 PM Post #159 |
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NYqovAarA |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jul 26 2015, 04:46 PM Post #160 |
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"1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee." |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jul 30 2015, 06:48 PM Post #161 |
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Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (July 30, 1945) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Aug 2 2015, 04:31 PM Post #162 |
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 1990 (25 years) |
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| Petar | Aug 2 2015, 05:03 PM Post #163 |
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The unexpected death of Warren G. Harding (90 years) |
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| Petar | Aug 5 2015, 09:35 PM Post #164 |
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Operation Storm (20 years) A more detailed post coming on later. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Aug 6 2015, 01:11 PM Post #165 |
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| Simon Darkshade | Aug 6 2015, 01:26 PM Post #166 |
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What a healthy, bouncing Little Boy! |
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| Petar | Aug 7 2015, 01:39 AM Post #167 |
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I don't think I see him bouncing, Simon.
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| Basil Fawlty | Aug 9 2015, 06:02 PM Post #168 |
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As a cultural note for Petar, it appears both Little Boy and Fat Man were named after characters in the Humphrey Bogart movie The Maltese Falcon. |
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| Petar | Aug 9 2015, 09:10 PM Post #169 |
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Interesting. I do suppose that those two bombs weren't the stuff the dreams were made of.
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| Petar | Aug 9 2015, 09:15 PM Post #170 |
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Also, August 15 - the Battle of Sinj and the first round of the Alka (300 years) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Aug 14 2015, 10:37 PM Post #171 |
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Victory over Japan Day (70 years) |
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| Petar | Aug 17 2015, 08:16 PM Post #172 |
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Log Revolution (25 years) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Sep 2 2015, 01:58 PM Post #173 |
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| Matthew | Sep 7 2015, 04:31 PM Post #174 |
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As of Wednesday, HM will be the longest reigning monarch in our history. God save the Queen! |
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| Simon Darkshade | Sep 8 2015, 01:59 PM Post #175 |
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Most certainly. God Save the Queen! |
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| Lewington | Sep 9 2015, 12:08 PM Post #176 |
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Today is the royal day. God Save the Queen!
Edited by Lewington, Sep 9 2015, 12:53 PM.
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| Matthew | Sep 9 2015, 02:08 PM Post #177 |
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http://www.steynonline.com/7159/the-survivor |
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| Matthew | Sep 10 2015, 09:44 PM Post #178 |
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Funny, today Canada entered the second war. And here we are refighting it. |
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| Matthew | Sep 11 2015, 02:34 PM Post #179 |
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14 years on now. |
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| John | Sep 11 2015, 02:56 PM Post #180 |
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Indeed. I am deliberately avoiding television today. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 1 2015, 01:34 AM Post #181 |
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October 1 1801 – With the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France in return for the Tuscany area of Italy It has come up once or twice. ![]() 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav National Army forces invaded the area surrounding Dubrovnik, Croatia, beginning a seven-month siege of the city. |
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| Petar | Oct 1 2015, 09:16 PM Post #182 |
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Nasty stuff. |
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| Petar | Oct 6 2015, 09:37 PM Post #183 |
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The worst car in the history of automotive industries has entered into mass production 35 years ago. Happy birthday, Yugo! ![]()
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 6 2015, 09:59 PM Post #184 |
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It actually sort of sounds like a good modernish car name. You-go. |
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| Matthew | Oct 21 2015, 04:08 PM Post #185 |
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Happy Trafalgar day! |
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| Simon Darkshade | Oct 21 2015, 09:45 PM Post #186 |
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The Immortal Memory. |
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| Lewington | Oct 24 2015, 09:26 PM Post #187 |
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The seventieth anniversary of the United Nations. Simply noting the fact that China, Saudi Arabia, and Cuba sit on the Human Rights Council is all that I feel the need to say about the current state of the United Nations. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 24 2015, 09:31 PM Post #188 |
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Not everyone subscribes to your narrow, Western-centric, xenophobic-exclusivist definition of "rights," "council," and "human."
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| Matthew | Oct 25 2015, 02:04 AM Post #189 |
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No, but they are lesser for not doing so. |
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| Matthew | Oct 25 2015, 12:36 PM Post #190 |
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Happy St Crispin's day everybody, and all that means. |
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| Matthew | Oct 25 2015, 03:03 PM Post #191 |
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Balaclava too. |
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| Lewington | Oct 26 2015, 12:03 PM Post #192 |
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Death of Alfred the Great, 1,116 years. |
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| Lewington | Dec 6 2015, 04:14 PM Post #193 |
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The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, 150 years. |
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| Petar | Dec 7 2015, 09:44 AM Post #194 |
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"A measure passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America." |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jan 28 2016, 04:44 PM Post #195 |
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January 28, 1986 - the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (30 years) "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'" |
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| Basil Fawlty | Feb 15 2016, 09:05 PM Post #196 |
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The battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor (1898) and the first Teddy bear goes on sale (1903). Should call February 15 Teddy Day. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Feb 22 2016, 07:59 PM Post #197 |
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Battle of Verdun, 1916 (100 years) I'm a day late. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Mar 5 2016, 06:10 AM Post #198 |
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| Simon Darkshade | Mar 5 2016, 07:01 AM Post #199 |
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There are many beautiful aircraft out there, but the Spitfire tops the poll in my view. |
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| Petar | Mar 8 2016, 08:45 PM Post #200 |
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The Spitty is truly a sight to behold. A beautiful machine. |
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