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FearlessF · « **Reply #1316 on:** November 21, 2022, 08:33:17 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Opens (1964)
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City. From the time of its completion until 1981, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world, with a span of 4,260 feet (1,298 m). Designed by engineer Othmar Ammann, a noted authority on bridges, it furnished a critical link in the regional highway system and is widely known today as the starting point for the New York City Marathon.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1317 on:** November 21, 2022, 08:43:22 AM »

Known affectionately as the “Mouth of the South, he created a TV and sports empire that dramatically altered the media landscape.

Robert Edward “Ted” Turner was born in Cincinnati in 1938. When he was nine, his family moved to Savannah. Turner took over his father’s billboard company after his father’s suicide and began expanding the business. He moved to Atlanta and bought a small UHF station that played cartoons and old movies. Then, needing programming, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves, broadcasting their games, and not just locally. Using satellites, he beamed the Braves across the country. The “superstation” was born.

Turner launched CNN in 1980, the first 24-hour all-news network, followed by a host of other cable operations. He matched his business enterprise with a flamboyant personality that kept him in the news, particularly winning the America’s Cup in 1977 and his $1 billion gift to the United Nations, the single largest donation by a private individual in history.

The man who singlehandedly reshaped the communications universe in the 20th century was born on November 19, 1938, Today in Georgia History.

His daughter had a condo in our building. Supposedly it's up for sale, or nearly so, but isn't on the market yet. We toured it.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1318 on:** November 21, 2022, 11:15:24 AM »

Interestingly, the equation E=mc² does not appear in Einstein’s fourth paper, which was titled Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content? That’s because Einstein used V to mean the speed of light in a vacuum and L to mean the energy lost by a body in the form of radiation.
So, in his paper, E=mc² was not originally written as a formula but as a sentence in German that said (translated into English):

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… if a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/V².

FearlessF · « **Reply #1319 on:** November 21, 2022, 12:37:29 PM »

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/the-day-the-music-died/vi-AA14lb1L?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=cfd252275c6e417aa58d27b183d47e86

On October 24th, 1971, American singer-songwriter Don McLean released iconic song “American Pie”. Throughout the song, McLean repeatedly refers back to “the day the music died”. That day refers to February 3rd, 1959, when 3 great young rock n’ roll artists died in an airplane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #1320 on:** November 21, 2022, 12:45:27 PM »

Damn alot of talent on such a little plane

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1321 on:** November 21, 2022, 02:32:58 PM »

FearlessF · « **Reply #1322 on:** November 21, 2022, 02:40:02 PM »

not a lot of NFL games played there except for the Manning Bros

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1323 on:** November 21, 2022, 02:40:43 PM »

Some clipboards kept clean ...

MrNubbz · « **Reply #1324 on:** November 21, 2022, 02:49:34 PM »

Zeier was drafted by Belichick in Cleveland where he had a cup of coffee before the franchise moved

FearlessF · « **Reply #1325 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:24:20 AM »

"The Pythagoreans, as they are called, devoted themselves to mathematics; they were the first to advance this study, and having been brought up in it they thought its principles were the principles of all things." - Aristotle

FearlessF · « **Reply #1326 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:33:08 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

President John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963)
The assassination of John F. Kennedy while he was riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas, was a seminal event in American history. The US government's subsequent investigation—dubbed the "Warren Commission"—concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the culprit, but the assassination is still widely debated, and many people doubt that Oswald acted alone. Oswald's murder just two days later, while in police custody, further fueled conspiracy theories. Who was the "Babushka Lady"?

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1327 on:** November 22, 2022, 08:39:33 AM »

The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed or filmed the events that occurred in Dallas's Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка – babushka – literally means "grandmother" or "old woman" in Russian).
The Babushka Lady was seen to be holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination.^[1]^[2] She was observed standing on the grass between Elm and Main streets, standing amongst onlookers in front of the Dallas County Building, and is visible in the Zapruder film as well as in the films of Orville Nix,^[3] Marie Muchmore, and Mark Bell^[4] (44 minutes and 47 seconds into the Bell film: even though the shooting had already taken place and most of her surrounding witnesses took cover, she can be seen still standing with the camera at her face). After the shooting, she crossed Elm Street and joined the crowd that went up the grassy knoll. She is last seen in photographs walking east on Elm Street. Neither she, nor the film she may have taken, have ever been positively identified. Her first appearance on film chronologically is on the sidewalk in front of the Dallas County Building - visible in an image as being on JFK's right. She would have crossed Houston Street and onto Dealey Plaza in order to be visible in the Dealey Plaza images. This may imply that the images show two different women of similar appearance however it is plausible that once the motorcade passed by she was able to cross the street to catch a second motorcade drive past on Dealey Plaza where she would be on JFK's left.

Beverly Oliver's claim[edit]
In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver told conspiracy researcher Gary Shaw at a church revival meeting in Joshua, Texas, that she was the Babushka Lady.^[5] Oliver stated that she filmed the assassination with a Super 8 film Yashica and that she turned the undeveloped film over to two men who identified themselves to her as FBI agents.^[5] According to Oliver, she obtained no receipt from the men, who told her that they would return the film to her within ten days. She did not follow up with an inquiry.^[5] She reiterated her claims in the 1988 documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy.^[5] According to Vincent Bugliosi, Oliver "has never proved to most people's satisfaction that she was in Dealey Plaza that day."^[5] Confronted with the fact that the Yashica Super-8 camera was not made until 1969, she stated that she received the "experimental" camera from a friend and was not even sure the manufacturer's name was on it.^[5]
Beverly Oliver's claims were the basis for a scene in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, in which a character named "Beverly" meets Jim Garrison in a Dallas nightclub.^[6] Played by Lolita Davidovich, she is depicted in the director's cut as wearing a headscarf at Dealey Plaza and speaking of having given the film she shot to two men claiming to be FBI agents.

FearlessF · « **Reply #1328 on:** November 22, 2022, 09:12:50 PM »

https://youtu.be/eB9am3HGQs0

FearlessF · « **Reply #1329 on:** November 23, 2022, 07:40:31 AM »

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

First episode of Doctor Who Debuts on BBC (1963)
This long-running British science-fiction program about a time-traveling adventurer known only as "the Doctor" has, over the years, gained an international cult following that spans generations. The original series ran for 26 seasons, going off the air at the end of 1989. A modestly successful Doctor Who TV movie in 1996 was followed in 2005 by the revival of the series. Over the years, 12 different actors have played "the Doctor,"

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