Posted on 08/27/2004 11:40:31 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 28:
0865 Rhazes [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarja al-Razi], Persian physician
1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
1774 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st American Catholic saint
1828 Leo Tolstoi Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)
1828 William Alexander Hammond Brig General (Union Army), died in 1900
1831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes 1st lady
1878 George Hoyt Whipple US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
1889 Charles Boyer France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
1905 Sam Levene actor (Demon, Gung Ho)
1908 Roger Tory Peterson NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
1916 C Wright Mills sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
1921 Nancy Kulp Penn, actress (Miss Hathaway Beverly Hillbillies)
1924 Peggy Ryan Long Beach Calif, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
1930 Ben Gazzara NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII)
1943 David Soul Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch, Here Comes the Bride)
1943 Lou Pinella Yankee manager (1969 AL rookie of the year)
1946 Bob Beamon US, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 Ron Guidry Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
1951 Wayne Osmond Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1957 Daniel Stern Stamford Ct, actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
1958 Scott Hamilton Toledo, figure skating champion (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 Leroy Chiao Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut
1968 Scarlet Annette Morgan Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
1969 Jason Priestley Vancouver BC, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
1971 Janet Evans US swimmer (Olympics-1992)
This thread prompted me to look for a book on Amazon..FYI..if your type "Flying Fortress" insearch there, you get related topics.."B-17" and "Passion of the Christ"..who knew?
hugs,duckie/sw
Photo courtesy of the massive alfa6 files.
Morning, PE!!
WOW great Flag-o-gram today!! Thank You.
Have a wonderful day with your family.
Oh I love it! Wonderful flag-o-gram PE. Thanks alfa6 for sharing.
That's the way a real hero talks and acts.
Did you know John Kerry was a hero also? It happened wheen he was on a super duper tippy top secret mission to Cambodia to drop off James Bond, when his swift boat collided with a B-52 on it's way to bomb Moscow (note: some reports say it was Ishpeming Mich.) and even though he was wounded (a 12in shell lodged in his forehead) he gallantly continued on with his suicidal mission (because heros do stuff like that all the time) dropping off James Bond,John Wayne and Joey Heatherton so they could do their super duper secret mission to save the world from alien invaders. Then leaping into the crippled B-53 and giving no thought for his own safety saved the crew of the crippled plane preforming emergency open heart surgery on the pilot and carrying them to his swiftboat. Once back on his swift boat and realizing it would be difficult to slip back across the border with a B-75 attached to his swift boat (although being a really bigtime hero kind of guy he knew if anyone could it was him) he flung the aircraft from his swift boat and snatching up his 92mm grenade launcher put 612 well placed rounds into the mangled B26 thus destroying it a preventing it's use by the enemy.
And that's the truth!
Good morning EGC.
I see you've had a laugh in your house.
Good moring Gail.
LOL. Hey, that's what the KEYWORDS are for, to give you a clue. ;-)
Good morning tomball.
Great picture!
What's a "KEYWORD?"...LOL..BTW..read my #22...
Good morning Mayor.
Aren't you glad you finished your roof? Good morning alfa6.
"Shoot'em Self Kerry", LOL. Thanks Chieftain for posting this sign.
Good morning Valin.
I am not sure of the that term "massive" :-)
I have just about wrapped up the WWI and WWII folders, next stop the Aircraft Folder. I don't think I will be able to get all of the Aircraft Folder on 1 CD.
Will have some more pics for you in a day or two
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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