Posted on 06/24/2004 2:26:53 AM PDT by Neets
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Today In History
1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 - Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1859 - At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 - Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1985 - Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1997 - 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 - A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
2003 - In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of "La Mort de Belle" raised $81,705.
Sorry there were no racks.
Or where there?
It was announced on the Rush Limbaugh show that Al Gore is running a little late for a 12:30 speech at Georgetown University. Stay tuned....
Oh but there were...;-)
Hubby has a Planning Board meeting which he must attend for a client, so I will probably go to the grocery after my haircut. I think I will go sort my coupons, and check in with you guys later.
P.S. The freeper comments are priceless....a classic.
I really hate it for them that this is dragging out like this and is looking more and more like it's going to be more complicated than anticipated. All indications are still that mother and baby are fine, though, and for that we are grateful.
I probably won't be back until late tonight.
Prayers being said.
Many thanks for that link about the car chase and Big Momma. I'm sore from laughing so hard at the freeper comments!
Thanks for the update, kayak. Your dil must be very tired.
Am wondering about till's infection, the one she mentioned the other day....
We're about to get a weather change. Well, the nice sunny days were much appreciated!
Here's my story:
On the day after Thanksgiving, Fall, '00, we buried my father on a hill...a beautiful cemetary in Fauquier Co. Virginia.
As the brief service ended, my sister and I turned and looked over our shoulders...
There was a magnificent hawk flying nearby, down the hill away, and over the surrouding trees.
We were both struck dumb by this coincidence? and very, very moved. It was awesome!
I wrote here about it later, & illstillbe picked up on it.
I think this is the kind of thing you were getting at??
Yes, it was. When I saw that book, it was in a book store which has since gone out of business. I searched Google...found one article about the phenomenon going back to Celtic myths. I think I'll next check a nearby bookstore that specializes in religious books. I know it's out there somewhere. Bevlar wants to know too.
(When I die there'll be a lost Domino's Pizza delivery guy ramblin' thru the cemetary....;-))
Son says mother and baby are doing fine.
Not the maitre d' with the wine list???;^))
That Paul Johnson is a very good writer, and he makes some fair points on Clinton, including this one:
Clinton in fact did nothing. It was not so much masterly inactivity as mistressly inactivity.
LOL!
LOVE the red hair part!! Way to go, grandma Kay!!
The media is all a twitter..
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you get to see Lennie soon.
:o))
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