[Radix]

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The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need by providing homes close to a loved one during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury. There are currently 31 houses located on the grounds of every major military medical center and several VA medical centers. These houses will play a critical role in caring for casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Donations will be used to help meet the cost of lodging for a family whose loved one was injured in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. There is a limit to the number of families who can stay in a Fisher House and program is committed to help provide lodging for families who must find commercial lodging, because the Fisher House is full.

You think you're hot?
Our military forces in Iraq sweat it out in 130 degree heat everyday!

Cool Our Troops is a non-profit effort to 'Cool' our troops in Iraq. They are raising funds to send personal misters to 50,000 military personnel serving in Iraq. The misters are portable, no batteries or electricity required, and rely on evaporation to cool surrounding temperatures by 20-30 degrees.

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[Radix]

Pancakes are up! Get em while they are hot.

[YaYa123]

Live coverage on all news channels, of President Bush being welcomed by Queen Elizabeth. Very impressive!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's




USO CANTEEN FREEPER STYLE MISSION STATEMENT
Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
CLICK HERE TO FIND LATEST THREAD.

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

The Pen IS Mightier than the Sword!

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, MR. RADIX! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOODMORNINGTROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

The psychiatrist's receptionist told her boss, "doctor, there's a man in the office who thinks he's invisible."

The psychiatrist replied, "tell him I can't see him."

[tomkow6]

 

Chicagoland Weather

November 19, 2003
Chicago, IL
Sunrise	6:45 AM (CST)
Sunset	4:27 PM (CST)
Hrs. of Daylight	9 Hrs., 42 Mins

Currently
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Fair

	Hi: 54

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5 Day Forecast

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High:	58
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Few Showers

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Showers

High:	58
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Few Snow Showers/Wind

High:	34
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[Fawnn]

That picture doesn't look like Calvin! (Gee! I'm sure you're embarrassed now.) ;)

Great start to what I'm sure will be another great thread! Thanks!

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on November 19:
1600 Charles I king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1752 George Rogers Clark frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
1831 James A Garfield 20th President (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1888 Jose Raul Capablanca Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
1899 Allen Tate US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems)
1905 Tommy Dorsey Mahanoy Plane PA, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1917 Indira Gandhi Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1919 Alan Young England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
1919 George Fenneman Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1921 Roy Campanella Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55)
1926 Jeane J Kirkpatrick US ambassador to UN (R)
1933 Larry King radio talk show host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show)
1935 John F Welch Jr Salem MA, CEO (GE)
1936 Dick Cavett Kearney NB, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1938 Ted Turner broadcasting mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's Cup
1939 Garrick Utley Chicago IL, newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend)
1941 Dan Haggerty Hollywood CA, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1942 Calvin Klein fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans)
1947 Bob Boone San Diego, catcher (Phillies, Angels)
1949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore) NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings)/sportscaster
1949 Mickey Lee Davis Jr Tennessee, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Quinlan Mill Valley Cal, actress (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
1956 Glynis O'Connor NYC, actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe)
1956 Scott Jacoby Chicago IL, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)
1957 Kathy Sanborn WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 Otis J Anderson NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP)
1957 Sharon Farrah WBL guard (NY Stars)
1960 "Lovely" Elizabeth Frankfurt KY, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling
1961 Meg Ryan Bethel CT, actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)
1962 Jodie Foster Bronx NYC, actress (Taxi Driver, Accused)
1969 Sarka Lukesov 1st playmate in Czechoslovkian Playboy (May, 1991)

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Deaths which occurred on November 19:
0498 Anastasius II, Pope (496-98 (Dante Inferno XI, 8-9), dies
1630 Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44
1703 Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1798 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1828 Franz Schubert Austrian composer, died
1887 Emma Lazarus US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38
1915 Joe Hill Labor leader, executed for murder
1971 Bill Stern sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
1983 Peter Coffield Illinois, actor (Kevin-W.E.B.), dies at 37
1985 Stepin Fetchit 1st black star, dies of pneumonia at 83
1988 Christine Onassis heiress, dies of heart failure at 37
1992 Dorothy Walker Bush, 91, the mother of President George H.W. Bush, dies
2000 Attorney Charles Ruff, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment trial, died in Washington, D.C., at age 61.

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 JOHNSTONE JAMES M.---FORT MILL SC.
1966 WHITED JAMES L.---OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1967 CLOWER CLAUDE D.---BEAUMONT TX
[03/15/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 96]
1967 CROXDALE JACK L. II---LAKE CHARLES LA.
1967 DE HERRERA BENJAMIN D.---COLORADO SPRINGS CO.
1967 ESTES WALTER O.---WILLIAMSTOWN MI.
[09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV]
1967 FORD DAVID E.---WILSON CT
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 IANDOLI DONALD---PATTERSON NJ.
1967 KLINCK HARRISON HOYT---LOS ANGELES CA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85]
1967 LIGON VERNON P.---FRANKFORT KY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, DECEASED]
1967 STIER THEODORE G.---PASADENA CA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 TEAGUE JAMES E.---HARRISBURG AR.
[09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV]
1967 VISSOTZKY RAYMOND WALTON---STOUGHTON MA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0461 St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0498 Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1521 Battle at Milan: Emperor Charles V's Spanish/German/papal troops beat France & occupy Milan
1530 Augsburg Emperor Karel I demands Edict of Worms
1644 1st Protestant ministry society in New England
1794 Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1861 Julia Ward Howe writes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 National Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1885 Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dying Detective" (BG)
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures
1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation in Monaco
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1968 Army coup seizes power in Mali
1969 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1971 Fort Wilderness opens
1977 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
1985 President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifying for the 1990 world soccer cup finals. It was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1990 Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1991 Eduard Shevardnadze was reappointed Soviet foreign minister after resigning in December 1990 with a warning of an impending coup.
1993 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1994 First National Lottery draw in England
1996 The United States vetoed U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's bid for a second term.
1997 Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to septuplets in Des Moines, Iowa, the first time seven babies had been born and survived.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Mali : Liberation Day
Monaco : Monegasque National Day
Puerto Rico : Discovery Day (1493)
United Arab Emirates : Pilgrimage
US : Equal Opportunity Day
US : National Children's Book Week Begins (Monday)
US : Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
US : Have A Bad Day Day.
Brazilian Flag Day.
World Toilet Day.
International Drum Month.

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Religious Observances
Moslem-United Arab Emirates : Pilgrimage
Old RC, Ang : Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary/widow

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Religious History
1742 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fulness.'
1862 Birth of William (Billy) Sunday, American revivalist. Orphaned during the Civil War, Sunday became a major league baseball player 1883_91, then turned to evangelism in 1893, speaking to an estimated total audience of 100 million before his death in 1935.
1885 Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including "It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him," Wonderful Grace of Jesus" and "Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace."
1910 Swedish Pentecostal missionaries Daniel Berg, 26, and Adolf Vingren, 31, arrived in Brazil. In 1918 they established the first Pentecostal church, from which grew Brazil's largest Protestant body, the Assemblies of God.
1961 The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip."

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Question of the day...
If you expect the unexpected, wouldn't the unexpected be expected?

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Murphys law of the day...(Waddell's Law of Equipment Failure)
A component's degree of reliability is directly proportional to its ease of accessibility

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Incredibly amazing fact #71...
Emus cannot walk backwards.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS North Dakota (BB-29)

Delaware class battleship
displacement. 20,000 t.
length. 518'9"
beam. 85'3"
draft. 26'11"
speed. 21 k.
complement. 933
armament. 10 12", 14 5", 4 3-pdrs., 2 21" tt.

North Dakota (BB-29) was laid down 16 December 1907 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 10 November 1908; sponsored by Miss Mary Benton; and commissioned at Boston 11 April 1910, Comdr. Charles P. Plunkett in command.

In her first years North Dakota operated with the Atlantic Fleet in maneuvers along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. She sailed 2 November 1910 for her first Atlantic crossing, visiting England and France prior to winter-spring maneuvers in the Caribbean. In the summers of 1912 and 1913 she carried Naval Academy midshipmen for training in New England waters, and on 1 January 1913 she joined the honor escort for Natal as the Brazilian ship entered New York harbor with the body of the late Whitelaw Reid, United States Ambassador to Brazil.

As Mexican political disturbances strained relations with the United States, North Dakota sailed for Vera Cruz, where she arrived 26 April 1914, five days after American sailors had occupied the city. She cruised the coast of Mexico to protest Americans and their interests until a more stable government took office, and returned to Norfolk 16 October. An even more intensive program of training was taken up by the Atlantic Fleet as war threatened, and North Dakota was in Chesapeake Bay for gunnery drills when the United States entered World War I.

Throughout the war, North Dakota operated in the York River, Va., and out of New York training gunners and engineers for the expanding fleet. Then, on 13 November 1919, she stood out of Norfolk to carry home the remains of the late Italian Ambassador to the United States. While in the Mediterranean she sailed at Athens, Constantinople, Valencia, and Gibraltar before returning to the Caribbean for the annual spring maneuvers. In the summer of 1921, she took part in the Army-Navy bombing tests off the Virginia Capes in which the German warships Frankfurt and Ostfriesland were sunk to demonstrate the potentialities of airpower. She interrupted fleet operations during the next two summers to again cruise with midshipmen, contributing to the future strength of the Navy by educating its officers-to-be. The cruise of 1923 took her to Scandinavia, Scotland, and Spain.

North Dakota decommissioned at Norfolk 22 November 1923. Her name was struck from the Navy List 7 January 1931, and she was sold for scrapping 16 March 1931.

Big Guns in Action!

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Radix! Thank you for all your hard work and effort on behalf of our Troops and their families. I know everyone enjoys and looks forward to Pancakes On Wednesday. You've really made an impact. I just thought you should know. *HUGS*

[JustPiper]

From One "Golden" Girl to Another...Happy Birthday my Friend -smiles-