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« Reply #1624 on: March 24, 2023, 10:48:08 AM »
The contiguous United States occupies an area of 3,119,884.69 square miles (8,080,464.3 km2). Of this area, 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2) is actual land, composing 83.65 percent of the country's total land area, and is slightly smaller than the area of Australia.
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« Reply #1625 on: March 25, 2023, 08:33:07 AM »
Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced-labor prison camps in the USSR, from the Russian acronym for the Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a department of the Soviet secret police. It was first established under Lenin during the early Bolshevik years and ultimately included 476 camp complexes. The system reached its peak after 1928 under Stalin, who used it to maintain the Soviet state by keeping its populace in a state of terror.
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« Reply #1626 on: March 25, 2023, 09:35:51 AM »
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« Reply #1627 on: March 25, 2023, 09:44:03 AM »
A Masters from Georgia. Not a degree in Athens –- a golf tournament in Augusta. And it was a hit off the first tee.
After golfer Bobby Jones retired, he and businessman Clifford Roberts developed a national landmark. Jones brought credibility, while Roberts had business savvy. Jones and noted golf course architect Alister Mackenzie designed the course on an abandoned 365-acre nursery called Fruitlands. It had been a plantation once.
Roberts and Jones wanted a major tournament at Augusta National, but when? Summer? Impossibly hot! But spring? Unbeatably beautiful! The flowers were in bloom and no other major tournament competed. They decided to stage an annual event hosted by Jones, who would come out of retirement once a year to play at what was first called the Augusta National Golf Club Invitation Tournament. Horton Smith won the first year. It officially became the Masters in 1939; the green jacket ceremony began in 1949.
One of the world’s iconic sporting events began on March 22, 1934,


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« Reply #1628 on: March 26, 2023, 04:26:47 PM »
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« Reply #1629 on: March 27, 2023, 05:11:23 AM »


A thing which surprised me when I read about it was who Ptolemy was ...
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« Reply #1630 on: March 27, 2023, 11:55:56 AM »


The little known side of transatlantic voyages.
Boiler men working deep in the Titanic.
48 survived of 167.
The ship had 29 boilers in total being fed coal 24 hours a day.


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« Reply #1631 on: March 27, 2023, 12:48:29 PM »
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« Reply #1632 on: March 28, 2023, 07:25:27 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Three Mile Island Accident (1979)
Both mechanical failure and human error contributed to the 1979 failure of a nuclear reactor cooling system at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, which led to overheating, partial melting of the reactor's uranium core, and the release of radioactive gases. Though it caused no immediate deaths or injuries, the incident increased public fears about the safety of nuclear power.
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« Reply #1633 on: March 28, 2023, 08:11:21 AM »
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« Reply #1634 on: March 28, 2023, 08:24:45 AM »
been through there a few times, just 20 minutes south of the University of Iowa

nice golf course and casino along the Iowa river
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« Reply #1636 on: March 28, 2023, 09:11:51 AM »
similar to stone soup
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« Reply #1637 on: March 28, 2023, 09:46:57 AM »


First bottling plant (opened in 1899, photo is later).
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