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1 posted on 04/05/2010 3:14:42 AM PDT by Daffynition
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I’m gobsmacked!

English folklore suggests that sharing a hot cross bun would ensure friendship throughout the coming year.

ALSO IN 1821...

George IV was crowned king. One of his first acts was to increase his mistress’s allowance to [pounds sterling]10,000 a year ([pounds sterling]818,000 in modern money)

Scientist Michael Faraday faraday /far·a·day/ (F ) (far´ah-da) the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons or one equivalent weight of ions, equal to 9.649 × 104coulombs.
far·a·day
n. invented the first electric motor out of magnets, wire and a cup of mercury

John Constable painted The Hay Wain and exhibited it at the Royal Academy. It failed to find a buyer

German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first string symphony - aged 12

The Bronte sisters moved to Haworth parsonage in the Pennine moors. Charlotte, who would later write Jane Eyre, was five

Napoleon died in exile in Saint Helena of suspected arsenic poisoning

The Romantic poet John Keats died of tuberculosis aged 26, in Rome


2 posted on 04/05/2010 3:16:52 AM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: Daffynition

Great article.

I think the US President at the time, if memory is correct, was the one who now graces our $20 bills, Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory”.


5 posted on 04/05/2010 3:19:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Red_Devil 232

For your further edification and astonishment!


8 posted on 04/05/2010 3:24:18 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Daffynition

I can’t believe nobody’s said it yet: “dwarf bread!”


17 posted on 04/05/2010 4:59:57 AM PDT by Grut
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To: Daffynition

I have an apple in the bottom of my fridge that kinda looks like that bun...........


18 posted on 04/05/2010 5:01:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Daffynition; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Lloyd Braun wants a taste, and he’s not crazy. < /seinfeld >


21 posted on 04/05/2010 7:29:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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27 posted on 04/06/2010 4:20:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Daffynition

Any appraiser worth his salt would know to value this type of bun at “one a penny, two a penny.”


35 posted on 04/06/2010 7:07:55 PM PDT by marsh2
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