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« Reply #6076 on: February 10, 2026, 01:25:50 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on February 10, 2026, 01:21:54 PM
Slight gap in our age makes all the difference.
Partly, but I enjoy plenty of bands that are contemporary with Sabbath.  I just don't like them in particular.  
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« Reply #6077 on: February 10, 2026, 01:33:53 PM »
Never cared for Sabbath, but I like quite a bit of Ozzy's solo stuff.  
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« Reply #6078 on: February 10, 2026, 01:40:03 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 10, 2026, 09:25:07 AM
February 10, 2021 - Joe Kelly, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska, submitted his resignation in February 2021 after the Department of Justice and President Joe Biden asked for the resignation of all U.S. attorneys as they began the process of replacing appointees with those of the new administration.

Kelly was appointed U.S. attorney for Nebraska by President Trump and served for more than three years.

This isn't weird history. This happens every time there is a change in administration. It is understood amongst US Attorneys that they are political appointees and it is expected that they will not remain USAs if the other party wins the White House.
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« Reply #6079 on: February 10, 2026, 01:52:33 PM »
agreed, but I didn't want to create a normal history thread
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« Reply #6080 on: February 11, 2026, 09:41:22 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Tewodros II Crowned Emperor of Ethiopia (1855)
Often called Ethiopia's first modern ruler, Tewodros was a bold and clever warrior who came to the throne through the conquest of other chiefs, reunifying the various Ethiopian kingdoms into one empire. He attempted to modernize the country, abolish feudalism and slavery, and focus loyalty around the government rather than the church but failed to achieve this during his reign. His later years were marked with instability and cruelty.
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« Reply #6081 on: February 11, 2026, 09:57:49 AM »
Proof the Universe has a weird sense of humor?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o6HEctpElfE?feature=share
Oops shoud have fact checked 1st but still believable if you see the way they drive around here it's believable

The story that the only two cars in Ohio collided in 1895 is widely circulated but is considered a modern myth or urban legend, not a documented historical fact. While often cited as a humorous anecdote, there are no verified newspaper archives or official reports confirming such an incident.

The Story's Origin: The anecdote gained popularity through a Mobil Oil advertisement in the 1960s.
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« Reply #6082 on: February 11, 2026, 11:12:34 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on January 26, 2022, 06:38:16 PM
I always found it odd that a coworker, who was born in Cuba, and whose birth name was Guillermo, went by "Bill". I had no clue how you got from one to the other. 

I had never known that Guillermo is the Spanish version of Guillaume, which is the French version of William. Hence Guillermo was called Bill.
In my academic days before I finally settled into being a CPA, I studied a number of dead language as part of my masters and phd programs.  One of the most fascinating part is the migration of sound and letter (symbols) as languages moved across areas.  yeshua gets changed to Joshua hebrew to english, but go hebrew to greek to english, yeshua to iasous to Jesus. johanna, becames ivan in russian, john in english, juan in spanish.  If you take your time you can trace so many words and names as the transmit either directly to a new language or as the go through a number of languages before they get to the one you are studying. 
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« Reply #6083 on: February 11, 2026, 11:27:23 AM »
A good friend of mine's dad is named Guillermo.  We all call him Willy.

Evan is another variation of John, from the Welsh I think.  That's my brother's name.


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« Reply #6084 on: February 12, 2026, 04:53:51 PM »
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« Reply #6085 on: February 12, 2026, 05:01:36 PM »
Quote from: Riffraft on February 11, 2026, 11:12:34 AM
In my academic days before I finally settled into being a CPA, I studied a number of dead language as part of my masters and phd programs.  One of the most fascinating part is the migration of sound and letter (symbols) as languages moved across areas.  yeshua gets changed to Joshua hebrew to english, but go hebrew to greek to english, yeshua to iasous to Jesus. johanna, becames ivan in russian, john in english, juan in spanish.  If you take your time you can trace so many words and names as the transmit either directly to a new language or as the go through a number of languages before they get to the one you are studying.
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« Reply #6086 on: February 12, 2026, 06:12:13 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Battle of the Herrings (1429)
The meatless days of Lent were approaching when Sir John Fastolf set off from Paris with hundreds of wagons laden with weapons and barrels of herring to resupply the English troops that had been laying siege to the French town of Orléans for months. Engaged by thousands of French troops attempting to sever his supply route, Fastolf made a defensive formation with his wagons, lending the battle its name.
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« Reply #6087 on: February 12, 2026, 06:13:29 PM »


The U.S. Army’s 1st & only ever bicycle division, the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps in 1897.
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« Reply #6088 on: February 12, 2026, 09:56:59 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 12, 2026, 05:01:36 PM
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Jehovah is an artifical construct.  The tetragammon you he vav he is pointed like Adonis in the Hebrew scriptures and a Hebrew reader would read it as adonai. It then was transliterated as jehovah in the latin even though the vowel points were incorrect for the name.  It is generally acknowledged that it should be ttansliterated as yehweh but jehovah has stuck
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« Reply #6089 on: February 13, 2026, 09:21:55 AM »
In the final days before he left Japan in 1947, Lt. j.g. Jack Mallory sat in the press gallery at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Thirty feet away, former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sat in a row of defeated generals awaiting judgment for their war crimes.

Tojo's eyes drifted across the courtroom until they landed on the young American dental officer. Tojo smiled and pointed to his upper teeth before bowing toward Mallory in gratitude.

Mallory had built those dentures months earlier. Tojo had no idea what else Mallory had done to them.

For roughly three months in 1946 and 1947, the man who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor walked around Sugamo Prison with the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" drilled into his false teeth in Morse code. It was the work of a 22-year-old Navy dental prosthetics officer who saw a once-in-a-lifetime chance for some payback.


https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2026/02/10/navy-dentist-engraved-remember-pearl-harbor-hideki-tojos-dentures.html
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