The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday.. The Unoffical MRE Recipe Booklet...Sunday Jan 29,2006

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[PAR35]

I think I spotted an easy one. Guess which one it will be. I do want to do some quick research to see how far off it is. I'll check back in tomorrow.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning to everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.((HUGS))

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on January 29:
1688 Emanuel Swedenborg Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1700 Daniel Bernoulli Basel Switzerland, mathematician (10 time French award)
1711 Giuseppe Bonno composer
1717 Jeffrey Amherst English Governor-General of America/field marshal

1737 Thomas Paine political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)

1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (Republican/Governor-VA)/General/cavalryman
1761 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin Switzerland, US minister of Finance (1801-14)
1810 Earnest E Kummer German mathematician
1821 Isaac Ferdinand Quinby Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 Franklin Gardner Major-General (Civil War-fought at Shiloh & Port Hudson)
1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 James Meech Warner Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 William McKinley Niles OH, (R) 25th President (1897-1901)
1850 Lawrence Hargrave inventor (box kite)
1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1874 John David Rockefeller Jr Cleveland OH, philanthropist
1878 Barney Oldfield Ohio, daredevil
1880 W C Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] Philadelphia PA, actor (My Little Chickadee, Bank Dick)
1901 Allen B DuMont inventor (perfected commercial practical cathode ray tube)
1912 Professor Irwin Corey Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1913 Victor Mature Louisville KY, actor (One Million BC, The Robe, Samson & Delilah)
1918 John Forsythe New Jersey, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
1923 Paddy Chayevsky [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital)
1929 William McMillan US, rapid pistol (Olympics-gold-1960)
1939 Germaine Greer Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunuch)
1942 Katharine Ross Hollywood CA, actress (Graduate)
1945 Tom Selleck Detroit MI, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1952 Tommy Ramone [Thomas Erdelyi], Budapest Hungary, rock drummer/bassist [Ramones-Rock & Roll High School)
1954 Oprah Winfrey Kosciusko MI, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1959 Paul McGann actor (Dr Who)

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Deaths which occurred on January 29:
1559 Sir Thomas Pope English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52
1696 Ivan V co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies
1820 George III king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81
1837 Aleksandr Pushkin poet/novelist/dramatist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
1956 H L Mencken US essayist/critic/satirist (Smart Set), dies in Baltimore MD at 75
1963 Robert Lee Frost US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1964 Alan Ladd actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs CA
1970 Basil H Liddell Hart English military historian, dies at 74
1977 Freddie Prinze comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22
1986 Leif Erickson actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74
1992 Willie Dixon blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man, Spoonful, Little Red Rooster....), dies at 76
1994 Nick Cravat midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81
2003 Frank Moss (b.1911), liberal Utah Democratic Senator

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
29-Jan-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Luis A. Moreno Lakenheath Treatment Facility Hostile - hostile fire - sniper fire
US Staff Sergeant Sean G. Landrus Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

29-Jan-2005 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Civilian Barbara Heald Baghdad (U.S. embassy compound) Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
US Lieutenant Commander Edward E. Jack USS Bonhomme Richard Non-hostile - unspecified cause
US Lieutenant Commander Keith Edward Taylor Baghdad (U.S. embassy compound) Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
US Sergeant Lindsey T. James Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack



Afghanistan
01/29/04 Gilman, Benjamin L. Sergeant 28 US U.S. Army 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Meriden Connecticut
01/29/04 Seitsinger, Danton K. Sergeant 29 US U.S. Army Reserve 486th Civil Affairs Battalion Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Oklahoma City Oklahoma
01/29/04 Scott, Justin A. Specialist 22 US U.S. Army 2nd Bat., 87th Infantry Reg., 10th Mountain Div. Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Bellevue Kentucky
01/29/04 Mowris, James D. Staff Sergeant 37 US U.S. Army Reserve 805th Military Police Company Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Aurora Missouri
01/29/04 Mancini, Curtis Sergeant 1st Class 43 US U.S. Army Reserve 486th Civil Affairs Battalion Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Fort Lauderdale Florida
01/29/04 Kinser, Adam G. Specialist 21 US U.S. Army Reserve 304th Psychological Operations Company Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Sacramento California
01/29/04 Cook, Robert J. Specialist 24 US U.S. Army 2nd Bat., 87th Infantry Reg., 10th Mountain Div. Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Sun Prairie Wisconsin
01/29/04 Clemens, Shawn M. Staff Sergeant 28 US U.S. Army 2nd Bat., 87th Infantry Reg., 10th Mountain Div. Non-Hostile - Ordnance explosion Ghazni (W of) Allegany New York



http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
1523 Sermon of Constanz Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1676 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia
1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st published (New York City NY)
1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 Battle at Bear River WA US Army vs Indians
1864 Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid)
1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1900 American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence MA
1916 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1942 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi
1942 Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination)
1944 285 German bombers attack London
1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1949 Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel
1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 Most lopsided high-school basketball score-211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove" premieres
1967 Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians
1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (begins)
2003 Iraq responded to chief inspector Hans Blix's tough assessment of its disarmament, accusing him of misrepresenting its record of compliance, offering some new information and pledging continued cooperation.
2003 Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, signed an open letter calling on the peace camp, implicitly Germany, France and Russia, to rally to the U.S. standard against Iraq.
2004 Israel released more than 420 prisoners in a long-awaited swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah in exchange for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
New Zealand : Auckland Provincial Anniversary
Kansas : Admission Day/Kansas Day (1861)
National Puzzle Day
National Cornchip Day
US : Think Hawaii Day
National Be On-Purpose Month

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Religious Observances
old Roman Catholic : St Francis of Sales, bishop of Geneva, doctor

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Religious History
993 St. Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923, was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to sainthood.
1499 Birth of Katherine von Bora, the former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife in 1525 when he was 41 and she 26. During their 21-year marriage, Katie bore Martin 3 sons and 3 daughters. Her death in 1552 followed six years after her husband's in 1546.
1780 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'
1921 The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.
1967 Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.

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

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Thought for the day :
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
William Allen White

[w_over_w]

Well it's either "the world's first scheduled passenger service airline flight", or "the longest cable-stayed span in the United States, the longest concrete span of its type in the Western Hemisphere".

Hang on . . . let me flip a coin.

PING! Flap, flap, flap . . .

Thud . . . slap! Ummm heads . . . okay, I'll go with the passenger service airline flight.

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

[PAR35]

I said easy < Grin >

Greater Miami is the only metropolitan area in the United States whose borders encompass two national parks.

There are a lot of NPS locations out there.

Atlanta - Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie River, MLKing.

New York City - 8 listed.

Hyde Park, NY - Vanderbilt, FDR, Elenor Rosevelt

Charleston, SC - Pinckney, Sumter

District of Columbia/Baltimore metro area - too many to list.

San Francisco metro - 7 sites.

Even St. Augustine FL has a couple of sites.

The list is not exhaustive. Click here (actually, cut and paste since the link isn't clickable here) http://www.nps.gov/applications/parksearch/geosearch.cfm and search by state or zip code.

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Folks~

Blue Ridge Mountains, Georgia

Georgia Facts and Trivia

Okefenokee Swamp encompasses over 400,000 acres of canals; moss draped cypress trees, and lily pad prairies providing sanctuaries for hundreds of species of birds and wildlife including several endangered species.

Cumberland Island National Seashore contains the ruins of Dungeness, the once magnificent Carnegie estate. In addition, wild horses graze among wind swept dunes.

The late John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his future wife stopped in Kingsland on the way to their marriage on Cumberland Island.

Historic Saint Marys Georgia is the second oldest city in the nation.

The City of Savanna was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. It sailed from Georgia.

Ways Station was renamed Richmond Hill on May 1, 1941, taking the name of automaker Henry Ford's winter estate.

The pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach made a home on Blackbeard Island. The United States Congress designated the Blackbeard Island Wilderness Area in 1975 and it now has a total of 3,000 acres.

On January 19, 1861, Georgia joined the Confederacy.

The official state fish is the largemouth bass.

In Gainesville, the Chicken Capital of the World it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.

Georgia was named for King George II of England.

Stone Mountain near Atlanta is one of the largest single masses of exposed granite in the world.

Georgia is the nations number one producer of the three Ps--peanuts, pecans, and peaches.

At the Hawkinsville Civitan Club's Annual Shoot the Bull Barbecue Championship, people from all over Georgia and surrounding states flock to this small south Georgia town to enter their tasty barbecue concoctions in this famous cook-off. The funds raised from this event benefit the Civitan International Research Center and its work toward a cure for Down's syndrome and other developmental disabilities.

Each year Georgia serves as a host to the International Poultry Trade Show, the largest poultry convention in the world.

The oldest portable steam engine in the United States is on display at Historic Railroad Shops in Savannah.

Known as the sweetest onion in the world, the Vidalia onion can only be grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River.

Georgia's population in 1776 was around 40,000.

Cordele claims to be the watermelon capital of the world.

The annual Masters Golf Tournament is played at the Augusta National in Augusta every first week of April.

Georgia is often called the Empire State of the South and is also known as the Peach State and Cracker State.

In 1828 Auraria, near the city of Dahlongea, was the site of the first Gold Rush in America.

Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name "Coca-Cola" was suggested by Dr. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. He penned the name Coca-Cola in the flowing script that is famous today. Coca-Cola was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta by Willis Venable.

Berry College in Rome has the world's largest college campus.

The Little White House in Warm Springs was the recuperative home of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1942 Jekyll Island was a private resort sold to the state by the owners, a group of millionaires.

Providence Canyon State Park, near Lumpkin, is known as the Little Grand Canyon of Georgia.

The Cherokee rose is the official state flower, the live oak the official tree; and the brown thrasher the official bird.

United States Highway 27 runs the length of Georgia and is known as Martha Berry Highway, named after a pioneer educator.

Marshall Forest in Rome is the only natural forest within a city limits in the United States.

The popular theme park - Six Flags Over Georgia, was actually named for six flags that flew over Georgia. England, Spain, Liberty, Georgia, Confederate States of America, and the United States.

The locomotive engine popularly known as The General is housed in the Big Shanty Museum in Kennesaw. It was stolen in the Andrews Railroad Raid in 1862 and later depicted in The Great Locomotive Chase, a popular movie.

The name of the famous south Georgia swamp, the Okefenokee, is derived from an Indian word meaning the trembling earth.

Brasstown Bald Mountain is the highest point in Georgia. It has an elevation of 4,784 feet.

The Cyclorama is a three dimensional panorama that depicts the famous Battle of Atlanta, and is located in Grant Park in Atlanta.

Thomasville is known as the City of Roses.

Chickamuga National Park is the site of the bloodiest battle in American history.

Plains is the home of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President.

The figures of Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee make up the world's largest sculpture. It is located on the face of Stone Mountain. Additionally Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, is also carved at the same place.

Savannah was the landing site for General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia.

The world's largest Infantry training center is located at Fort Benning.

The largest Farmer's Market of its kind is located in Forest Park.

Ralph Bunch, United States diplomat, was the first Georgian to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Callaway Gardens is a world famous family resort, known for its azaleas.

Wesleyan College in Macon was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.

Madison is known for its beautiful antebellum homes spared during Sherman's fiery march to the sea.

Chehaw in Albany is a well known wild animal park.

Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon is the largest archeological development east of the Mississippi River.

Athens is the location of the first university chartered and supported by state funds.

[alfa6]

Quick bump and run for the Monday Freeper Foxhole

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

Oh no, Monday again??

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

[Soaring Feather]

Merning, PE!

Right nice Flag-o-Gram this morning.

What has Bittygirl been up to this past weekend??

[Soaring Feather]

Morning Grace WoverW.


Lovely picture of the mountains. Interesting facts regarding Georgia.

My uncle used to Golf on Jekyll Island.

[Professional Engineer]

She has been putting her own shoes on.

Last night she told me, "I've had enough desert, but I would like some of your broccoli, dad."

[Soaring Feather]

Does she put her shoes on the wrong feet?? All my kids were camels. LOL


Green things, she prefers green things. Well good.

[The Mayor]

January 30, 2006

The Lost Library

Read:
Isaiah 40:6-8

The grass withers, . . . but the word of our God stands forever. —Isaiah 40:8

Bible In One Year: Exodus 23-24; Matthew 20:1-16

My favorite sections of the local library are history and the periodicals. What about you? Imagine if one Saturday morning you showed up at the library, only to find your favorite books reduced to a pile of ashes.

Centuries ago, that is what happened when thousands of books at the Library of Alexandria caught fire. Alexandria was the place to do research in the ancient world. Then on a fateful day in 47 BC, Julius Caesar set fire to his ships in the Alexandrian harbor to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The fire soon spread to the docks and the naval arsenal, ultimately destroying 400,000 of the library's precious scrolls.

Such a tragedy shows just how perishable written materials can be. This makes the preservation of our Bible such a marvel. The Word of God has survived book-burnings, riots, revolutions, persecutions, and catastrophes. Yet scholars tell us that the manuscripts have been accurately preserved through millennia of copying.

God inspired the writing of Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16) and has promised to preserve it through the centuries (Isaiah 40:8). Next time you open your Bible, take a moment to reflect on how precious it is, and thank God for keeping it safe for you. —Dennis Fisher

Thank You, Lord, for Your precious Word,
And for its message I have heard;
No other book do I revere,
No other counsel hold so dear. —Hess

Bestsellers come and go, but the Word of God abides forever.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Can I Really Trust The Bible?

[Professional Engineer]

Yes, she does the wrong feet. She also loves to try any shoes. Too big, too small, it doesn't matter. She does get frustrated with the too small ones. ;-(

She is always up for broccoli.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on January 30:
1616 William Sancroft Archbishop (Canterbury)
1797 Edwin Vose Sumner Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1816 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1822 John Basil Turchin [Ivan Turchinoff], Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1829 Alfred Cummings Georgia, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1841 Alfred Townsend George Civil War journalist, died in 1914

1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Hyde Park NY, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945)

1885 John Henry Towers aviator/naval hero
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jhtowers.htm
1892 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel composer
1894 Boris III tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1902 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner England, art historian (The Buildings of England)
1909 Saul David Alinsky Chicago IL, radical writer (John L Lewis)
1912 Barbara Tuchman US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August)
1914 David Wayne Traverse City MI, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib)
1914 John Ireland Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral)
1915 John D Profumo England, politician (C)
1920 George Skibine Russian/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
1922 Dick Martin Detroit MI, actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy)
1925 Dorothy Malone Chicago IL, actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place)
1927 Olof Palme Stockholm, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) assassinated
1931 Gene Hackman California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
1933 Louis Rukeyser financial whiz (Wall Street Week, Channel 13)
1935 Richard Brautigan Tacoma WA, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing...)
1937 Boris Spassky USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
1937 Vanessa Redgrave London, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express)
1939 Eleanor Smeal femanazi/president (NOW)
1941 Dick Cheney (Representative-R-WY/George Bush's secretary of defense 1989-93/Vice President 2001- )
1942 Marty Balin Cincinnati OH, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles)
1951 Phil Collins England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1955 Judith Tarr US, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)
1973 Holly Noelle Roehl Miss Indiana-USA (1996)

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Deaths which occurred on January 30:
1649 Charles I King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
1730 Peter II Alekseyevitch emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1838 Osceola chief of Seminole Indians, dies in jail
http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/osceola.htm
1890 Karl Merz composer, dies at 53
1948 Mahatma Gandhi India spiritual and political leader, assassinated by Hindu extremists in New Delhi, at age 78
1948 Orville Wright US aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1951 Ferdinand Porsche German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1958 Earnest H Heinkel German airplane builder (WWII), dies at 70
1969 Allan Welsh Dulles US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80
http://taco.com/roots/fuller.html
1980 Professor Longhair king of New Orleans music, dies at 61
1982 Stanley Holloway comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
1991 John McIntire actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
1998 Ricky Sanderson stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
30-Jan-2005 12 | US: 2 | UK: 10 | Other: 0
UK Acting Lance Corporal Steven Jones Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Corporal David Edward Williams Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Sergeant Robert Michael O Connor Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Flight Sergeant Mark Gibson Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Chief Technician Richard Antony Brown Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Master Engineer Gary Nicholson Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Flight Lieutenant Andrew Paul Smith Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Flight Lieutenant David Kevin Stead Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Squadron Leader Patrick Brian Marshall Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
UK Flight Lieutenant Paul Martin Pardoel Baghdad (30 km NW of) Hostile - transport plane crash
US Lance Corporal Nazario Serrano Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class James H. Miller IV Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack



Afghanistan
01/30/03 O'Steen, Mark Chief Warrant Officer 3 43 US U.S. Army 160th Special Ops Aviation Reg. (Night Stalkers) Non-Hostile - Accident - helicopter 7 mi. E. Bagram Air Base Ozark Alabama
01/30/03 Frampton, Gregory Michael Sergeant 37 US U.S. Army 160th Special Ops Aviation Reg. (Night Stalkers) Non-Hostile - Accident - helicopter 7 mi. E. Bagram Air Base Fresno California
01/30/03 Kisling Jr., Daniel Leon Staff Sergeant 31 US U.S. Army 160th Special Ops Aviation Reg. (Night Stalkers) Non-Hostile - Accident - helicopter 7 mi. E. Bagram Air Base Neosho Missouri
01/30/03 Gibbons, Thomas J. Chief Warrant Officer 2 31 US U.S. Army 160th Special Ops Aviation Reg. (Night Stalkers) Non-Hostile - Accident - helicopter 7 mi. E. Bagram Air Base Calvert County Maryland




http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
0435 Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati," in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.)
1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1487 Bell chimes invented
1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,
1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes
1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death
http://www.zdiamond.net/articles/Henri_Desire_Landru
1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1933 "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio
1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939 Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews
1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal
1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns
1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
http://www.wallenda.com/
1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966 -19ºF Corinth MS (state record)
1966 -27ºF New Market AL (state record)
1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs
1972 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on Catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
http://www.google.com/Top/Society/Crime/Trials/Steinberg,_Joel/?il=1
1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor (It's always the last place you look)
1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1998 In Washington the creation of The National First Ladies’ Library
1999 The UN Security Council agreed to establish panels to assess Iraqi disarmament and adherence to other UN resolutions
2001 In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicted Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, of murder in the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A 2nd Libyan, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted.
2002 Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai visited the World Trade Center site and placed a wreath of yellow roses by a memorial wall as he surveyed the ruins of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack
2003 Richard Reid, the British citizen and al-Qaida follower who'd tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston





2005 Iraqis vote in the first ever FREE elections.

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

World : International Clergy Appreciation Week Begins
England : Women Peerage Day (1958)
Kentucky, Virgin Islands : Franklin D Roosevelt Day
National Inane Answering Message Day
US : Backwards Day(yad sdrawkcab : SU)
National Hot Tea Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Charles
Eastern Orthodox : Holiday of 3 Hierachs (Basil, Gregory & Chrysostom)
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Bathilde
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Martina, virgin/martyr
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Hippolytus of Rome (Orthodox)
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Felix IV, Roman Catholic pope (526-30)
Moslem : 'Id al-Fitr; end of Ramadan fast (Shawwal 1, 1418 AH)

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Religious History

1750 In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission." The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism.
1788 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended.'
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit.'
1867 The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.

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

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Thought for the day :
"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
Dick Cheney

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Morning Glory Ms Feather!

My uncle used to Golf on Jekyll Island.

I'm going to Atlanta in September for a conference . . . you've tweaked my curiosity.

[SAMWolf]

Good reading. :-)

The early MRE's were a big improvment over the C-Rats. They started changeing them later and got into more "PC" food and took away most of the good stuff. The worst one was the dried hamburger/pork patty, that was inedible no matter whjat you did to it.

[Soaring Feather]

When my uncle retired, he and my aunt would go South to Georgia, they lived up North. We had another uncle living in Georgia, so it was a family get together. My Nothern aunt and uncle would rent a cottage on Jekyll Island for golfing. They loved it there. I have many pictures of them on the Island. They both golfed.