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Topic: OT - Weird History

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4102 on: November 15, 2024, 08:20:29 AM »
There are many examples of the early deputies of the surveyor general getting off course. Makes it interesting for us when we have to retrace them.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4103 on: November 15, 2024, 11:37:51 AM »

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4104 on: November 16, 2024, 09:19:47 AM »


USS ABSD-6 repairing USS South Dakota (BB-57) in Guam. Repairs are done in ABSD-6 dry dock after an accidental explosion on 6 May 1945, while rearming from USS Wrangell (AE-12).

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« Reply #4105 on: November 16, 2024, 09:30:26 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Hoxne Hoard Found in Britain (1992)
In 1992, a tenant farmer in the village of Hoxne, England, lost a hammer and asked a friend for help finding it with a metal detector. While searching the field, the friend discovered silver utensils, gold jewelry, and numerous gold and silver coins. Archaeologists notified of the find excavated the site the next day and found what has become known as the Hoxne Hoard—the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain.
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« Reply #4106 on: November 16, 2024, 09:35:09 AM »
Saw a special on PBS about that glad some poor dirt farmer found it
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« Reply #4107 on: November 16, 2024, 09:37:16 AM »
I might have to check the backyard

and the front yard
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« Reply #4108 on: November 16, 2024, 09:41:29 AM »
Have to wonder why it was left there in the 1st place. perhaps the roman centurian who buried it had the others that helped reasigned or murdered.Then something happened to him. Not in Rome's DNA to leave that behind
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« Reply #4109 on: November 16, 2024, 09:53:28 AM »
werewolves
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« Reply #4110 on: November 16, 2024, 09:54:32 AM »


Chief John Smith (likely born between 1822 and 1826, though allegedly as early as 1784; died February 6, 1922) was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian who lived in the area of Cass Lake, Minnesota. In 1920, two years before his death, he appeared as the main feature in a motion picture exhibition that toured the US, featuring aged Native Americans.At the ripe age of 137, White Wolf a.k.a. Chief John Smith is considered the oldest Native American to have ever lived, 1785–1922.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune obituary says Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce (variously known as Kay-bah-nung-we-way, Sloughing Flesh, Wrinkled Meat or plain old — well, really old — John Smith) was reputed to be 137 years old when he died. Whatever his precise age, his well-lined face indicates a man who led a long and full life.
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« Reply #4111 on: November 16, 2024, 11:19:37 AM »
That's what you should look like in the later yrs,dammit
This Day in History
1907 Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1907 Burgess MeredithAmerican actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose, 12-7 to Frankford Yellow Jackets at Dunn Field; ends 31-game undefeated streak; NFL and major-league football record
1926 New York Rangers ice hockey club first game; beat Montreal Maroons, 1-0 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1957 Boson Celtics' center Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds as Boston beats Philadelphia Warriors, 111-89 at Boston Gardens

1959 American golfer Corey Pavin, born in Oxnard, California

1961 United Kingdom limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 SF Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 73 points in 127-111 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden
1964 Dwight Gooden American baseball pitcher, born in Tampa, Florida
1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed by a jury after 9 years in jail
1966 Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1967 Lisa Bonet, American actress, born in San Francisco, California
1973 US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
1974 NBA Milwaukee Bucks lose their team record 11th straight game, fallimg 92-89 to vhe visiting Cleveland Cavaliers
1976 Rick Barry (San Francisco), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1977 Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
1978 Eric Crouch, American football quarterback (Heisman Trophy 2001, U of Nebraska), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1985 President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
2018 Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago
2021 Men's roller derby team settles dispute with MLB baseball team, allowing both to use Cleveland Guardians name
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4112 on: November 17, 2024, 11:33:56 AM »

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4113 on: November 20, 2024, 07:17:16 AM »
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” Lincoln began. While the southern enslavers who were making war on the United States had stood firm on the Constitution’s protection of property—including their enslaved Black neighbors—Lincoln dated the nation from the Declaration of Independence.
 
The men who wrote the Declaration considered the “truths” they listed to be “self-evident”: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But Lincoln had no such confidence. By his time, the idea that all men were created equal was a “proposition,” and Americans of his day were “engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
Standing near where so many men had died four months before, Lincoln honored “those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.”

He noted that those “brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated” the ground “far above our poor power to add or detract.”

“It is for us the living,” Lincoln said, “to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” He urged the men and women in the audience to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion” and to vow that “these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”



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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4114 on: November 20, 2024, 07:22:35 AM »
A lot of political and legal people nowadays think the US Constitution is more akin to a can of 
Play-doh than a binding legal document.
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« Reply #4115 on: November 20, 2024, 07:25:18 AM »
Those folks may be akin to "Sports Media Experts" in their opinions.  I personally view quite a few parts of the Constitution as being a bit vague, if not unclear, to me at all.

Reality is the Constitution is whatever SCOTUS says it is, at the time extant.

It doesn't even clearly confer the authority to interpret it to the Supreme Court.

 

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