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FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005
Posted on 06/30/2005 7:03:48 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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~ Flashback Friday ~ Year: 1985 |
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Welcome to Flashback Friday! Each Friday we will take a journey back in time. We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories. This week we're jumping back to 1985. |
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1985 Questions! We Want To Know
1. Were you in school? 2. Were you in the military? 3. What kind of music were you listening to? 4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985? |
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Events that occurred in 1985
- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.
-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia. -March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union. -March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil. June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda. December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union
December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union
December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist |
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Entertainment/Sports Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship. World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air. June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer. November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows. The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. |
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Hit Music From 1985 Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls* USA For Africa - We Are The World Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover New Edition - Cool It Now Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok Sade - Smooth Operator Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine Madonna - Dress You Up Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA The Time - Jungle Love* |
* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma! |
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To: All
Good night!
361
posted on
06/30/2005 10:10:47 PM PDT
by
MozartLover
( Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.)
To: TASMANIANRED; GodBlessUSA; Alkhin; mylife
362
posted on
06/30/2005 10:10:59 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: All
Since we are remembering the men and women of our armed forces, I thought that I would mention my dissertation topic. I am writing about USS
Frank E. Evans (DD-754). On the morning of 3 June 1969 the Royal Australian Navy carrier HMAS
Melbourne collided with
Frank E. Evans. The forward section sank in five minutes taking 74 sailors with it. Just prior to this SEATO exercise, USS
Frank E. Evans had been providing NGS fire for US and ARVN troops. The photo below shows the aft section of USS
Frank E. Evans tied alongside USS
Everett F. Larson.
363
posted on
06/30/2005 10:11:51 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: FlingWingFlyer; laurenmarlowe; mylife
I was going to ask Lauren if she caught tonight's sunset...it was pretty nice here in Sierra Vista, but not the same as what you saw.
364
posted on
06/30/2005 10:11:57 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Rounded one out and didn't know it..
365
posted on
06/30/2005 10:13:57 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: Radix
Oh my gosh, Radix, I am ROTFLMBO!!!! Thanks for sharing another page of your diary.
366
posted on
06/30/2005 10:15:15 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: MozartLover
I hope you are west of me and it is coming this way.
367
posted on
06/30/2005 10:15:25 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: HiJinx
It was really great here. The smoke is in the air from the Carefree fire I guess. Made a beautiful red sunset.
368
posted on
06/30/2005 10:18:36 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: FeeinTennessee
Thanks, FeeinTennessee's Dad, for your service to America.
369
posted on
06/30/2005 10:19:14 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: MoJo2001
I just graduated high school June 7, 1985, I turned 19 in July and got my first true job. In late August I started college. I remember hanging over a friend's house and he had a remote controlled BetaMax VCR, even though the control was hard wired into it, I was fascinated by it and he taped all of Live Aid onto his Beta tapes. I still hang out with my grade school buddy and we still do the same things now that we did then. B-)
370
posted on
06/30/2005 10:27:07 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: EsmeraldaA
I have now...I like your smile, and I like your lab.
I can't taste the coffee, so I won't pass judgement on it just yet.
The HTML tag to put something in the middle of the page is the word center with the left and right brackets around it.
On FR, the paragraph tag will generally also close the center tag, but not always. This slash - / - in front of a tag closes it; i.e., < /center > without the spaces.
371
posted on
06/30/2005 10:27:11 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
To: FlingWingFlyer; Brad's Gramma
Tends to happen that way.
Curious, Grammie...did you get to see the same sunset we did?
372
posted on
06/30/2005 10:29:08 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
To: MoJo2001
Thank you for the post.
However, better check your "1985 Fact Sheet" I don't have any idea where you got your information for the 1985 Fact Sheet, but is is grossly in error.
The demise of the Soviet Union came in 1991 -- not 1985. You are off by SIX years.
Have a good 4th. /s/dkp
373
posted on
06/30/2005 10:38:31 PM PDT
by
dk/coro
To: HiJinx
Thank you and thank you.
My coffee is excellent! (I like it strong).
And I know about the HTML tag thing, but I guess There is something
that I'm missing....I just don't know what!
My computer froze!
374
posted on
06/30/2005 10:39:35 PM PDT
by
EsmeraldaA
(Our prayers for all US troops.)
To: dk/coro
I realized that afterwards, but I was in a hurry and the online Encyclopedia that was used made a correction at the very next page. Which MoJo didn't have time to checkout!
Thanks for visiting!
375
posted on
06/30/2005 10:40:36 PM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(Support Our Troops-->It's The Least Any Of Us Can Do...www.proudpatriots.org)
To: MS.BEHAVIN
Remote control??? Hmmmmm.....now all you need is a chaise and some bon bons.
376
posted on
06/30/2005 10:41:05 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All
Yeah it wasn't the concert was cool I think this upcoming sequel to Live Aid is going sucks personally
I probably check out Pink Floyd reunion that is
Well report off World Tribune new Iranian prez is claim he want world wide Islamic revolution mainly in the US yeah righttt DUDE sure dude SUREEE
HA HA there is report off Tass news wire Vlad warning US over smack chat their new business deal with China saying stay out of our business Kate reset
WHATEVER VLAD give back the Super Bowl ring you KGB thief
377
posted on
06/30/2005 10:41:29 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: MoJo2001
Hey, demised is demised, right?
378
posted on
06/30/2005 10:41:39 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Semper Fi ~)
To: Army Air Corps
You know what I not sure if Danny Boy has that pad in Texas anymore I think he still does I think he prefer the hustle and bustle of NY so you don't have worry about him spent full time there
379
posted on
06/30/2005 10:43:51 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Kathy in Alaska; Fawnn; HiJinx; Radix; Spotsy; Diva Betsy Ross; ...
Prayer For Absent Family Members O God, whose fatherly care reaches to the uttermost parts of the earth: We humbly beseech you graciously to behold and bless those whom we love, now absent from us. Defend them from all dangers of soul and body, and grant that both they and we, drawing nearer to you, may be bound together by your love in the communion of your Holy Spirit; AMEN
380
posted on
06/30/2005 10:44:09 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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