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« Reply #2310 on: August 11, 2023, 05:16:42 PM »
Former WBC heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who had three classic fights with Muhammad Ali, breaking Ali’s jaw in winning their first contest, then losing twice, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois #OnThisDay in 1943.

He starred in high school gridiron, basketball and track. He attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) on a gridiron scholarship but was hampered by a shoulder injury in his first two seasons and enlisted in the Marines. Norton started boxing while he was in the Marines, compiling an amateur record of 24-2 and winning the All-Marine Heavyweight title three times.


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« Reply #2311 on: August 11, 2023, 06:29:39 PM »
Inside an airplane in 1930.

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« Reply #2312 on: August 11, 2023, 09:02:52 PM »
The M26 Pershing assembly line at the General Motors Grand Blanc tank plant in Michigan, 1945

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« Reply #2313 on: August 12, 2023, 08:52:31 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Cleopatra Commits Suicide (30 BCE)
After likely arranging for her brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV—to whom she was married, according to custom—to be killed, Cleopatra gained sole rule of Egypt. She later left for Rome with Julius Caesar but returned to Egypt after his assassination, luring Caesar's heir, Mark Antony, into marriage. Octavian, whose sister Antony had previously married, declared war on Cleopatra and Antony and defeated their joint forces at the Battle of Actium.
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« Reply #2314 on: August 12, 2023, 09:29:28 AM »
Stuka zeroing in it's forward firing MG's

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Dude in shorts unloading his MG
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« Reply #2315 on: August 13, 2023, 08:35:05 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Michael Servetus Arrested as a Heretic (1553)
Servetus, a Spanish physician who was the first to accurately describe cardiopulmonary circulation, is perhaps best remembered for his theological writings, which ultimately led to his execution. His religious views, particularly his denial of the Trinity, alienated Roman Catholics and Protestants alike and led to his arrest and imprisonment in 1553. He escaped but was soon rearrested, convicted of heresy, and burned at the stake.
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« Reply #2316 on: August 13, 2023, 09:17:41 AM »
https://youtu.be/MM6yoQTXWEk?t=959

I time stamped it listen to that Number 18


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« Reply #2317 on: August 14, 2023, 06:59:23 AM »
The U.S. Secret Service was originally created on July 5, 1865, during the Civil War to fight counterfeiting, which was a huge problem. By the end of the war, between 1/3 and 1/2 of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
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« Reply #2318 on: August 14, 2023, 07:03:02 AM »
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US Social Security Act Becomes Law (1935)
During the Great Depression, millions of people dissatisfied with the government response to the poor economy supported a plan to demand a $200 monthly pension for everyone over the age of 60. President Franklin D. Roosevelt responded by establishing a committee on economic security, which recommended legislative action to the US Congress. The resulting act established a national old-age pension system financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees.
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« Reply #2319 on: August 14, 2023, 07:43:36 AM »
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« Reply #2320 on: August 14, 2023, 08:30:18 AM »
Thought I've read that some arsenics smell/taste sweet
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« Reply #2321 on: August 14, 2023, 08:36:44 AM »
The things that taste sweet are rather strange of generally have no common structural features.  
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« Reply #2322 on: August 14, 2023, 11:24:37 AM »


This is about 2 miles south of me and about 159 years ago, almost exactly.  
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