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« Reply #1652 on: March 29, 2023, 11:25:17 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on March 29, 2023, 09:50:27 AM
Good they can Build a roof in Cleveland for us. BROWNS owner Jimmy Hasbeen has been rattling sabers he wants one.They have passed I don't know 3-4 sin taxes since '94 - EFF them. The slime ball in a sea of puss owner just last year gave a 230 million guaranteed contract to a QB with no less than 25 sexual misconduct/harrassment charges against him. And Jimmy Hasbeen should seriously be doing time for fraud
He actually just said the other day at the Owners Meeting that he is in favor of renovating First Energy rather than building a new stadium. 
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« Reply #1653 on: March 29, 2023, 02:48:57 PM »
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« Reply #1654 on: March 30, 2023, 08:03:07 AM »

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US President Ronald Reagan Is Shot (1981)
Just 69 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington, DC, along with three others. The would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., was motivated by an obsession with actress Jodie Foster and the film Taxi Driver. Reagan soon recovered, and Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to a psychiatric facility. While Reagan was hospitalized, Secretary of State Alexander Haig made a controversial statement about presidential succession

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« Reply #1655 on: April 01, 2023, 09:30:54 AM »
Today in history: April 1

In 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
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« Reply #1656 on: April 01, 2023, 09:36:28 AM »
My step son has a photo of him and Wozniak, it's pretty cool.
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« Reply #1657 on: April 02, 2023, 08:12:16 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

First Congresswoman in US History Takes Her Seat (1917)
Sometimes referred to as the "Lady of the House," Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress. Just days into her term, she drew the ire of the press by voting, along with 56 others, against the resolution to enter WWI. In 1940, Rankin was again elected to Congress and once again voted against entering a world war, though this time she was the only Congress member to do so.
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« Reply #1658 on: April 03, 2023, 08:33:25 AM »


The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague with the largest vertical letter file in the world, 1937. Those people in lifting desks were at the controls of 3000 drawers of information.
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« Reply #1659 on: April 03, 2023, 11:30:33 AM »
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« Reply #1660 on: April 03, 2023, 03:10:12 PM »


Harvester of thirty-three horses. USA, 1902.
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« Reply #1661 on: April 03, 2023, 03:18:47 PM »
30 just wasn't quite as efficient

apparently
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« Reply #1662 on: April 03, 2023, 03:32:34 PM »
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« Reply #1663 on: April 05, 2023, 09:06:50 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Battle of the Ice (1242)
The Teutonic Knights attacked the Republic of Novgorod in 1242 as part of their Northern Crusades, which were directed against pagans and Eastern Orthodox Christians rather than Muslims in the Holy Land. Waged on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus, which now sits on the border of Estonia and Russia, the Battle of the Ice proved disastrous for the knights. Though some historians consider the battle a major turning point in the Northern Crusades, others believe it was only a minor skirmish.
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« Reply #1664 on: April 06, 2023, 01:00:27 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Opening of the First Modern Olympic Games (1896)
In 1894, after efforts by Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin to revive the ancient Greek Olympics, the newly established International Olympic Committee appointed the Greek capital of Athens as the host city for the first modern international Olympic Games. Held between April 6 and 15, 1896, the games drew athletes from 14 countries for several athletic events, including the first modern marathon.
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« Reply #1665 on: April 07, 2023, 10:05:08 AM »


The Convair XC-99 began life as an experimental transport aircraft and is perhaps one of the most unique designs of a larger plane by using the pusher formation. Designed in the late 1940s as a variant of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, the XC-99 held the record as the largest piston-driven propeller plane constructed in the United States. [color=var(--blue-link)]https://planehistoria.com/cold-war/convair-xc-99/[/url][/font][/size][/color]
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