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Today in History

RJJ

RJJ

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Today in History 2-23-45 the Marines raised the American Flag over Iwo Jima!

and

For you lone star boys and gals the siege of the Alamo began in 1836.

That's America in ten seconds! :D
 
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FM,

"And the US Navy is allowing women to serve on Submarines "

Hey, I heard that in 2012 they are going to let women inside Submarines. :lol:

Uncle Bob
 
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RJJ said:
Gene: I seem to recall a book on all the crap they put in use as kids called the Monkey business! :roll: http://www.rense.com/general54/Cancer-c ... cinesR.htm
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I seem to recall a sci-fi story along those lines. In fact I was just talking about it a few days ago. The plot is that aliens, who look like angels have introduced an airborne virus that affects only male humans. It causes them to react with rage but not indiscriminately. They only kill the female humans. In the last scene of the book a lone female, hiding in the woods over hears two angles talking to one another; "It'll only be a few years to wait. Once they kill all the females, there will be no new humans to replace those that die of old age and the planet will be ours."

"Paranoia runs deep. . into your mind it will creep. . . "
 
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You're freaking me out Gene. I just erased all that sixties stuff from my brain, and now you bring Buffalo Springfield back to haunt me. :lol:
 
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There were so many different voices in mine that the Fire Marshal had to evacuate...
 
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Texasbo

They had to evacuate even with two ears separated by at least one half the overall diagonal dimension?
 
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TexasboThey had to evacuate even with two ears separated by at least one half the overall diagonal dimension?
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Even with the hole providing a third, the occupant load was far exceeded.
 
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Today in history---in 1913,

the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect.

GPE
 
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Text of the amendment. Pretty broad and ambiguous.

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. "
 
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Builder Bob - You should let them read your mind. If that doesn't freek them out, nothing will.
 
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RJJ:

It didn't take much, I can hardly remember the sixties. It's like Woodstock.....if you can remember it, you weren't there!
 
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I freak myself out most of the time. I don't even like riding in a car I'm driving.
 
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HD: It's like having ADD. They give you the drug to make everything clear. :roll: Without them it is just a blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! :lol:

Woodstock! I think JD still live there! :D
 
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And TODAY in history, this guy named Wilson took a big hole in the ground and confiscated it for the federal government - thus creating the Grand Canyon National Park.
 
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Pres Wilson also ask the congress to arm merchant ships! Was a busy day for the president!

1993: Bomb rock the trade center in NY! How fast we forget! :roll:

That's The America in ten seconds! :mrgreen:
 
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Also; in the category of "near misses" here's what DIDN'T happen:

On February 26, 1942, a few months after his return from Copenhagen, Heisenberg delivered a lecture at the House of German Research in which he had the following to say about element 94—plutonium:

"As soon as such a machine [reactor] is on operation, the question of how to obtain explosive material, according to an idea of von Weizsacker, takes a new turn. In the transmutation of the uranium in the machine, a new substance comes into existence, element 94, which very probably—just like 235 92U [uranium 235—the fissionable isotope]—is an explosive of equally unimaginable force. This substance is much easier to obtain from uranium than 235 92U, however, since it can be separated from uranium by chemical means."

None of this did he tell Bohr. We can only conjecture what might have happened in the German program if Heisenberg had been able to make a functioning nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium.

Whew!
 
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