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Post by seguin on Apr 1, 2008 17:46:11 GMT -5
2008 Drove 750 miles (round trip) to Kansas State University to the Vet hospital last sunday. They called me this morning and said that they have to operate this afternoon. I hope they can help her... I hope so too, Mike. Best of luck with your little dog, Mike! It´s tough to have a sick pet. I know, because I´ve been in that situation myself...
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 1, 2008 18:17:13 GMT -5
Our prayers are with your little Dottie...
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 1, 2008 19:42:14 GMT -5
She is out of surgery and the doctor said everything went well. I hope to have her home by friday or saturday ;D
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 1, 2008 21:21:20 GMT -5
Glad to hear the news Mike and I bet that brought a good feeling to you! ;D 1700 : April Fools tradition popularized On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as "poisson d'avril" (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person. Historians have also linked April Fools' Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There's also speculation that April Fools' Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather. April Fools' Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with "hunting the gowk," in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people's derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or "kick me" signs on them. In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a "Left-Handed Whopper," scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich. ;D
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 3, 2008 20:29:32 GMT -5
200: THE RANGERS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 4, 2008 14:42:54 GMT -5
1968 : Dr. King is assassinated 1949 : NATO established 1776 : Washington begins march to New York 1996 : Jaguar introduces convertible 1865 : President Lincoln in Richmond 1933 : Dirigible crash kills 73 1939 : Jack Benny pleads guilty 1963 : Bye Bye Birdie opens 1969 : Smothers Brothers cancelled 1843 : Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born 1841 : Harrison dies of pneumonia 1865 : Lincoln dreams about a presidential assassination 1982 : Gretzky finishes season with 212 points 1812 : Madison embargoes Brits 1918 : Germans and Allies step up operations near Somme 1884 : Yamamoto Isoroku, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor......PUNK 2007 : Come on guest your browsing as you read this so why not register and join in! ;D
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 7, 2008 13:15:58 GMT -5
1994 : Civil war erupts in Rwanda 1963 : Tito is made president for life 1776 : U.S. Navy captures first British warship 1922 : Haugdahl races at Daytona 1968 : Grand Prix legend dies 1862 : Battle of Shiloh concludes 1954 : Eisenhower gives famous "domino theory" speech 1990 : Twin ferry accidents on opposite ends of world 1891 : P.T. Barnum dies 1927 : First telecast of sound and image 1961 : Marian Jordan dies 1770 : William Wordsworth is born 1805 : Lewis and Clark depart Fort Mandan 1961 : JFK lobbies Congress to help save historic sites in Egypt 1873 : John McGraw, second all-time winningest baseball manager, is born 1975 : North Vietnamese forces begin preparations for final offensive 1934 : Congress tires to aid farmers 1918 : Winston Churchill urges talks with Russia 1939 : Italy invades Albania 1945 : Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk by Allied forces 2007 : Hillary & Obamma
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Post by RebAl on Apr 9, 2008 12:51:48 GMT -5
today on of America's most famous armies marched into the history books at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Army of Northern Virginia, Fabulous army, Strange army of ragged individualists, The hunters,the riders,the walkers,the savage pastorals, The unmachined,the men come out of the ground, As the roots of the cow-pea,the roots of the jessamine, The lazy scorners,the rebels against the wheel, The rebels against the combustion engine, Of the half born age of engines and metal hands, The fighters who fought for themselves the old clan fashion, Army of planters sons of rusty poor whites, Where one man came to war with a haircloth trunk, Full of fine shirts,and a body servant to mend them, And another with a rifle used at King's Mountain, And nothing else but his pants and suncracked face, Aristo-democracy armed with a forlorn hope, Where a scholar turned the leaves of an Arabic grammar, Bold dirty stories old bawdy world, Where one of Lee's sons worked a gun with the Rockbridge Battery, And two were cavalry generals.
Praying Army, Full of revivals,as full of salty jests, Who debated on God and Darwin and Victor Hugo, Decided that evolution might do for Yankees, But that Lee never came from anything with a tail, And called yourselves "Lee's miserables faintins", When the book came out that tickled your sense of romance, Army of improvisators of peanut coffee, Who baked your bread on a ramrod stuck through the dough, Swore and laughed and despaired and sang Lorena, Who wept for the mocking bird on Hallies grave, Touched by women and your traditional idea of them, The old book feud,half queen,half servant idea, False and expiring.
Starving Army, Who after your best was spent and your spring lay dead, Yet held the intolerable lines at Petersburg, With deadly courage. You are a legend now, And the legend has made your fame and has dimmed that fame, The victor strikes and the beaten man goes down, The beaten cause turns into the magic cause, The victor has his victory for his pains, So-with you and the legend has made a stainless host, Out of the dusty columns of footsore men.
Author Unknown
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Post by neferetus on Apr 9, 2008 15:49:15 GMT -5
Good one, Alex.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 9, 2008 15:50:02 GMT -5
1939 : Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial
1940 : Germany invades Norway
1959 : First astronauts introduced
1778 : Jeremiah Wadsworth named commissary general
1905 : Aerial car ferry opens in Minnesota
1986 : French government rejects Renault privatization
1987 : George Shultz condemns Soviet spying
1947 : Tornado reduces Oklahoma town to rubble
1962 : West Side Story wins Academy Award
1972 : Jane Fonda wins Oscar
1976 : Singer-songwriter Phil Ochs dies
1859 : Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot's license
1881 : Billy the Kid convicted of murder
1962 : Kennedy throws first pitch at new D.C. stadium
1978 : Gervin beats Thompson in NBA scoring title duel
1969 : "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty
1909 : Congress passes Payne-Aldrich Act
1918 : Battle of the Lys begins
1940 : Germany invades Norway and Denmark
1942 : U.S. surrenders in Bataan 2007 : No problems at all getting on and posting at Greg`s other forum! ;D It is really easy to navigate! ;D
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 9, 2008 15:57:55 GMT -5
2008: NHL Playoffs Begin tonight!
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 17, 2008 16:18:00 GMT -5
1970 : Apollo 13 returns to Earth 1790 : Benjamin Franklin dies 1783 : Colbert launches raid on Fort Carlos, Arkansas 1911 : Carter applies for self-starter patent 1964 : Ford introduces Mustang 1864 : Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, begins 1961 : The Bay of Pigs invasion begins 1815 : Volcanic eruption kills 80,000 1924 : MGM formed 1937 : Daffy Duck debuts 1971 : "Joy to the World" hits Billboard's top spot 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders 1976 : Mike Schmidt hits four consecutive homers 1972 : First antiwar protest of the year is conducted 1975 : Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge 1975 : Connally acquitted in milk bribery case 1917 : Second Battle of Gaza 1942 : General Henri Giraud makes his great escape 1945 : Americans seize 1,100 tons of uranium 2007 : Werewolf TV series! ;D
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Post by neferetus on Apr 18, 2008 8:05:38 GMT -5
It begins!
Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ----------------------------------------------------
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street Wanders and watches, with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers, Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church, By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry chamber overhead, And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade,-- By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread, The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, "All is well!" A moment only he feels the spell Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river widens to meet the bay,-- A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse's side, Now he gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle girth; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep, Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides; And under the alders that skirt its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. He heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the farmer's dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, black and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadow brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read How the British Regulars fired and fled,--- How the farmers gave them ball for ball, >From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,--- A cry of defiance, and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 18, 2008 16:08:18 GMT -5
Thanks Neff ;D 1906 : The Great San Francisco Earthquake 1521 : Luther defiant at Diet of Worms 1942 : Doolittle leads air raid on Tokyo 1983 : Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut 1906 : Sun sets on Sunset 1864 : Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas 1989 : Chinese students protest against government 1974 : The Red Brigade terrorizes Italy 1929 : First "Our Gang" film with sound debuts 1932 : MGM signs Faulkner 1956 : Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier 1961 : JFK denies U.S. military intervention in Cuba 1969 : Nixon says prospects for peace in Vietnam are better 1806 : U.S. boycotts British goods 1915 : Germans shoot down French pilot Roland Garros 1945 : Ernie Pyle killed at Okinawa 2007 : Christopher Gist muster roll! ;D
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 20, 2008 0:10:36 GMT -5
A little late April 19 in American History..... April 19, 1775 The American Revolution begins At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment's hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from England to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against the Patriot arsenal at Concord and capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. The Boston Patriots had been preparing for such a military action by the British for some time, and upon learning of the British plan, Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes were ordered to set out to rouse the militiamen and warn Adams and Hancock. When the British troops arrived at Lexington, Adams, Hancock, and Revere had already fled to Philadelphia, and a group of militiamen were waiting. The Patriots were routed within minutes, but warfare had begun, leading to calls to arms across the Massachusetts countryside. When the British troops reached Concord at about 7 a.m., they found themselves encircled by hundreds of armed Patriots. They managed to destroy the military supplies the Americans had collected but were soon advanced against by a gang of minutemen, who inflicted numerous casualties. Lieutenant Colonel Frances Smith, the overall commander of the British force, ordered his men to return to Boston without directly engaging the Americans. As the British retraced their 16-mile journey, their lines were constantly beset by Patriot marksmen firing at them Indian-style from behind trees, rocks, and stone walls. At Lexington, Captain Parker's militia had its revenge, killing several British soldiers as the Red Coats hastily marched through his town. By the time the British finally reached the safety of Boston, nearly 300 British soldiers had been killed, wounded, or were missing in action. The Patriots suffered fewer than 100 casualties. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution, a conflict that would escalate from a colonial uprising into a world war that, seven years later, would give birth to the independent United States of America. ;D
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 20, 2008 11:56:14 GMT -5
1769 Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium. 1912 The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6. 1912 Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, died. 1971 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation. 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including the shooters) and 1 teacher were killed; 23 others were wounded. 2008 Bromy think he is wheel chair bound
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 20, 2008 14:04:30 GMT -5
2008: The NHL Playoffs roar on!
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 21, 2008 16:37:56 GMT -5
753 BC: Rome founded 1836 : The Battle of San Jacinto 1918 : Red Baron killed in action 1989 : Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square 1777 : British attack Danbury, Connecticut 1863 : Steight's Raid begins 1930 : Prisoners left to burn in Ohio fire 1895 : First projected movie in the U.S. 1955 : Last broadcast of Bob Hope's radio show 1956 : Elvis Presley's first No. 1 hit 1838 : Naturalist John Muir is born 1865 : Lincoln's funeral train leaves D.C. 1980 : Rosie Ruiz fakes Boston Marathon win 1965 : Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam 1945 : Red Army overruns German High Command as it approaches the capital 2007 : San Jacinto Day today
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Post by neferetus on Apr 21, 2008 21:49:41 GMT -5
1989 : Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square The dream of freedom is snuffed out by Commie Pinko bastards while the world looks on.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 21, 2008 22:32:01 GMT -5
1989 : Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square The dream of freedom is snuffed out by Commie Pinko bastards while the world looks on. Neff your spot on there and remember the famous video/pic of that student standing defiantly in the road and blocking the tank`s transgression? TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded
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