FReeper Canteen ~ Alexander The Great: Conquest of Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt ~ January 6, 2004

Alexander The Great of Macedon ^ | January 6, 2004 | LaDivaLoca

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning!
Looks like a nice day on the Coast of Oregon today.
We've had a long spell of rain everday.
Looks like a lull for now.

[metesky]

As much as I love these military history threads, it has become quite obvious that they are written by someone to whom English is a second language and they are sometimes repetitive and hard to follow.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I'll be back in a few hours.
It's only 5:15 AM in Oregon.
Going back to sleep for awhile.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good morning troops! Good morning Canteen!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Here is a pyramid not found in Egypt.

[Valin]

On This Day In Hostory


Birthdates which occurred on January 06:
1367 Richard II Bordeaux, France, king of England (1377-99)
1412 Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr
1602 Karl Rabenhaupt German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader
1683 François de La Croix composer
1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier Annonay France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist/brother of Joseph-Michel/co-inventor of calorimeter, hydraulic ram, and process for producing vellum)
1799 Jedediah Strong Smith US fur trader/explorer
1807 Joseph Holt Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1811 Charles Sumner leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
1822 Heinrich Schliemann German polyglot/archeologist (Troy)
1827 John Calvin Brown Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1832 Gustave Doré Strasbourg France, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner)
1864 Ban Johnson Norwalk CT, baseball founder (American League)
1878 Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1880 Tom Mix Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin)
1882 Samuel Rayburn Tennessee, (Representative-D-TX), speaker of the House (1940-57)
1883 Khalil Gibran Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1909 Johannes H Moesman Dutch surrealist painter (Rumor)
1912 Jacques Cesar Ellul writer
1913 Loretta Young Salt Lake City UT, actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger)
1913 Edward Gierek party leader (Polish CP)
1914 Danny Thomas Deerfield MI, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1920 Early Wynn Hartford AL, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
1920 Reverand Sun Myung Moon evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies)
1924 Earl Scruggs NC, bluegrass musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top)
1930 Vic Tayback Brooklyn NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
1936 Julio María Sanguinetti Cairolo President of Uruguay (1985-90, 95- )
1937 Lou Holtz US, football coach
1948 Guy Spencer Gardner Alta Vista VA, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS-27, STS-35)
1949 Robert Englund Glendale CA, actor (V, Nightmare on Elm Street)
1951 Kim Wilson rocker (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1957 Nancy Lopez Knight Torrance CA, pro golfer (1988 Mazda, 1981 Dinah Shore)
1989 Baby lion-tailed macaques at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)

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Deaths which occurred on January 06:
1088 Berengarius of Tours French theologist, dies
1275 Raymundus of Peñafort Spanish church law scholar, dies
1448 Christopher III king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1693 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
1742 Johann Georg Reinhardt composer, dies
1785 Haym Salomon dies in Philadelphia PA at 44, helped finance the revolution
1799 Maria G Agnesi Italian mathematician (x²y=a²(a-y)), dies at 80
1884 Gregor Mendel Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1919 Theodore Roosevelt 26th President (1901-09), dies at his home in Oyster Bay NY at 60
1978 John D MacArthur US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
1985 Robert H W Welch Jr US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85
1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 Rudolph Nureyev Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 Morty the Moose (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
1994 Tip O'Neill speaker of the house, dies of cancer
1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1995 Joe Slovo Latvian/South African attorney/Secretary-General (SACR), dies at 68

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 MULLEN RICHARD D.---CHICAGO IL.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1971 MILLER CARLTON P. JR.---MELROSE MA.
1973 LINDAHL JOHN C.---LINDSBOURG KS.

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

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On this day...
1066 King Harald of England crowned
1099 Henry V crowned German king
1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1493: The first mass in the “New World” is celebrated in the Roman Catholic church on Isabella Island in Haiti
1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christians
1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1663 Great earthquake in New England
1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1690 Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania
1861 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N & S
1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
1873 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120cm
1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1896 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua
1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1937 The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain
1941 FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY
1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar
1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1967 Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon
1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
1980 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
1987 100th US Congress convenes
1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame

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

Iraq : Army Day
New Mexico : Admission Day (1912)
Uruguay : Children's Day
US : National Law Enforcement Training Week (Day 3)
US : Pun Week (Day 3)
Fungal Infection Awareness Month.

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Religious Observances
Christian : Epiphany (12th Night of Christmas) (England) 3 Kings/Adoration of Magi
Greek Orthodox : Greek Cross Day (Tarpon Springs FL)
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Guarinus (St Guerin)
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St John de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Charles of Sezze, Italian monk
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Rafaela Maria Porras y Ayllon
Roman Catholic : Memorial of Bl Andre Bessette, religious (opt)
Moslem : Night of Remembrance (feast); Sha'ban 14, 1416 AH

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Religious History
548 This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the Western Church.)
1494 The first mass in America was celebrated in the Roman Catholic church on Isabella Island in Haiti. This was the first church established in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus.
1538 German Reformer Martin Luther wrote in an Epiphany sermon: 'Though Mary had been conceived in sin, the Holy Spirit takes her flesh and blood and purifies them; and thence He creates the body of the Son of God...Thus He assumed a genuine body from His mother Mary, but this body was cleansed from sin by the Holy Spirit.'
1850 Future renowned English Baptist preacher, Charles H. Spurgeon was converted to a living faith at age 16, in a Methodist chapel.
1924 In England, the first worship service heard over over radio was aired by the BBC. The service was conducted by H. R. L. Sheppard at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, in London.

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

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Thought for the day :
"The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think."

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Question of the day...
Do files get embarrassed when they get unzipped?

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Murphys Law of the day...(Kitman's Law)
On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel.

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Astounding Fact #39,001...
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.

[zeugma]

Good morning. Where did you get the source material for the Alexander the Great article?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Ways To Annoy Osama Bin Laden

Point out the lice in his beard to make him feel self-conscious.

Pause for a moment, listen carefully, and say, "Doesn't that sound a lot like a B-52?"

Ask him if he's looking forward to replacing Hitler as Satan's favorite chew toy in the lowest inferno of Hell.

Tell him all about your great vacation to Saudi Arabia, where you went absolutely everywhere and did everything, just stomped all over the place.

Tell him how much less you paid for your Kalashnikov rifle.

Order him ten Domino's pizzas with extra ham topping.

Correct him when he ends a sentence with a preposition.

Ask whether the Taliban gets cable, because you haven't seen "Sex and the City" for weeks.

Yank the end of his turban really hard to make him spin around like a top.

Switch all the CD's in the jewel boxes in his CD collection, so that when he reaches for Michael Bolton, he'll actually get the Mohammed Rafi.

Leave business cards for the Israeli Mossad in his Rolodex.

Give him a Hot Chicks of Palestine calendar.

Ask him if Paradise is different for each person, and whether in your own paradise you'll get to "kick his butt every day for eternity".

Refer to him as "Osama-osama-fee-fi-fo-fama bin Laden".

Ask whether suicide bombers have to pay union dues.

Tell him it's lovely what he's done with his cave, but that it'd look much nicer covered with huge, smoking craters.

Claim you once saw him at a Hooter's in Muncie wearing a yarmulke.

Ask him if he wouldn't mind if you opened the door and shined your laser pointer on his forehead for a few minutes.

Tell him that this is the worst pyjama party you've ever attended.

Ask for some pork rinds and a good brew to wash them down.

Complement him on all his poppies outside, but mention that a few day lilies would be a nice accent.

Ask whether the Taliban is hoping to be bombed ahead into the Stone Age, or perhaps the Iron Age if enough shell casings survive.

Explain that America is a land of freedom and opportunity, filled with people of every race, religion, and background, including millions of women strong enough to knock the crap out of him.

Ask him if he's pursuing the Lesser Jihad, the Greater Jihad, or the "Completely Whacked Out of his Freaking Gourd" Jihad.

Swirl your drink thoughtfully and mention, "Just think, in a few weeks you might fit in this glass!"

Check to see if Saddam is on his speed-dial list.

Warn him that you're "in a New York state of mind."

Mention that his wives look quite fetching in their burkas, and ask whether they've ever thought of modeling.

Give him a "noogie" or a "wedgie". If there's actually still a flush toilet left in Afghanistan, give him a "swirlie".*

Play a game of Monopoly with him. Make him play the thimble. See if he charges interest. Claim that his properties are your "holy lands" and blow up his hotels.

Offer to take him "clubbing" in Tel Aviv with your friends Saul and Ivan.

When you leave, wave and say, "Shalom!"

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you both for your dedication to the flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen, a place where we offer a "touch of home" for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. Looks like you and Otto are ready for anything. For the next couple days we are under a wind watch. Winds to 50 mph and gusts to 75 mph. I don't like the wind!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Bless This House

Bless this house O Lord we pray;
Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall,
Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove
ever open to joy and love.


Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there,
with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within,
keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be
Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we
May dwell O Lord with thee.

(Click on praying hands above, or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Kathy(HUGS)How's it going?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, SH. Thanks for today's warmup exercise. I've had a few days when my ISP seemed this slow. ((HUGS)) to you and LadyHawk and wishes that work slows a little for you.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E! ((HUGS)) Hope your weather is treating you well. We are very cold and under wind warnings. Wind to day with gusts to 75 mph. I don't like it when it blows like this. The potential for damage is high.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Girls!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Soaring Feather]