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Trump
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Today in History
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Dear buzz
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Intermittent stream
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Are you ready for some football?
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New Music
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How's the weather?
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George Carlin
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Roon support
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Climate Change
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The Grateful Dead
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My Mix
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Cosmic Traffic Report.
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MIXES
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 4, 2024 - 6:42am |
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1971 â During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. The incident served as the inspiration for Deep Purple's 1973 song Smoke on the Water.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am |
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1997 â In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 3, 2024 - 6:46am |
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1992 â A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 3, 2024 - 6:45am |
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1984 â Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000â600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am |
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1979 â Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 3, 2024 - 6:44am |
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1967 â At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 2, 2024 - 11:55am |
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1970 â The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 2, 2024 - 11:51am |
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1942 â World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 1, 2024 - 8:50am |
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2020 â The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 1, 2024 - 8:49am |
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2019 â The outbreak of coronavirus infection began in Wuhan.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 1, 2024 - 8:43am |
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1955 â American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Dec 1, 2024 - 8:42am |
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1952 â The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Nov 30, 2024 - 12:55pm |
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1999 â Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Nov 29, 2024 - 7:00pm |
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Today in history I sold the very first "EVERYBODY GO INSIDE - HERE COMES A HABOOB!" t-shirt. Many (many) years after designing it.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-...
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Nov 26, 2024 - 5:57am |
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2004 â The last PoÊ»ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
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the_jake
Location: Beside the Proboscis Gender:
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Nov 25, 2024 - 7:28pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote:
1977 â Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
Today, I heard on NPR that M Pox evolved from ceasing vaccination against small pox in 1980.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Posted:
Nov 25, 2024 - 6:06am |
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1947 â Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Nov 24, 2024 - 8:23am |
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1974 â Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Nov 24, 2024 - 8:21am |
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1971 â During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Gilead
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Nov 23, 2024 - 6:42am |
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2015 â Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
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