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« Reply #4844 on: May 13, 2025, 07:00:08 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 13, 2025, 06:54:31 PM
I'm sure he believes children
Not if they saw God...

...or even if they saw Mommy kissing Santa Clause. :57:
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« Reply #4845 on: May 14, 2025, 07:38:52 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Rockefeller Foundation Established (1913)
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private philanthropic organization established by John D. Rockefeller to promote "the well-being of mankind throughout the world." Its first grant was issued to the American Red Cross, and over the years, it has donated more than $14 billion in grants to fund medical research, education, agriculture, and work in a number of other fields. Before and during WWII, it worked to bring scholars and artists persecuted by the Nazis to the US.
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« Reply #4846 on: May 15, 2025, 08:39:06 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US Department of Agriculture Is Created (1862)
US President Abraham Lincoln created the Department of Agriculture, which he referred to as the "people's department," at a time when most Americans were farmers. It played a key role in the survival of many during the Depression, and today it continues to ensure that those in need receive food. It also aids farmers, inspects meat and dairy products, oversees food stamp and school lunch programs, and administers national forests.
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« Reply #4847 on: May 15, 2025, 09:14:11 AM »
On this Date in History
1841 First emigrant wagon train to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

1862 Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret. British bastages

1862 Major General Benjamin Butler issues General Order No. 28 (New Orleans) that Confederate women abusing Union soldiers be treated as whores

1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended

1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game

1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)

1934 US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for John Dillinger, dead or alive

1941 New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak, with the only RBI, in a 13-1 loss to visiting Chicago White Sox

1945 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia

1951 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078

1958 USSR launches Sputnik III

1972 Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0

1981 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto - (I was there 😎)

2019 Baseball pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays, his record setting 14th MLB team, earns no decision in 4-3 loss to the Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco

2022 MLB Pirates win 1-0 over Cincinnati Reds, despite getting no hits, in Pittsburgh

2023 Martha Stewart is Sports Illustrated oldest-ever cover model at 81, appearing as part of its swimsuit issue





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« Reply #4848 on: May 15, 2025, 11:12:07 AM »
1952, the "downtown connector" in ATL.  It ended at this point, the curve bypassing downtown wasn't finished until 1964.  This "freeway" completely lacked acceleration lanes.  I guess it was built for a time like this with almost no traffic.

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« Reply #4849 on: May 15, 2025, 11:51:28 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on May 15, 2025, 11:12:07 AM
1952, the "downtown connector" in ATL.  It ended at this point, the curve bypassing downtown wasn't finished until 1964.  This "freeway" completely lacked acceleration lanes.  I guess it was built for a time like this with almost no traffic.



Makes me wonder how they got that shot in an era before drones.  No telling how much it was zoomed, but at a glance it doesn't seem like there'd be anything high there for a photographer to take the pic.  Looks like the road would be underneath.  But I don't know anything about photography even in the modern era, let alone 1952.  
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« Reply #4850 on: May 15, 2025, 11:53:19 AM »
Probably on top of a bridge.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4851 on: May 15, 2025, 11:59:10 AM »
Yeah, the photo would have been taken off the North Avernue Bridge.  This is from recent times:




There are proposals extant to cap parts of this freeway with a park, which would be awesome I think, but the funding part is onerous.  Maybe a piece of it will happen.  This is a couple miles south of us.


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« Reply #4852 on: May 15, 2025, 12:20:35 PM »
They want to "cap" a major part of I35 through downtown Austin in similar fashion.  Sounds great in theory, until there's a wreck inside the tunnel and absolutely nowhere to go.

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« Reply #4853 on: May 15, 2025, 12:53:27 PM »
I hate tunnels.
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« Reply #4854 on: May 15, 2025, 01:59:41 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 15, 2025, 12:20:35 PM
They want to "cap" a major part of I35 through downtown Austin in similar fashion.  Sounds great in theory, until there's a wreck inside the tunnel and absolutely nowhere to go.
There is nowhere to go as it is,  the freeway is below ground and has walls abutting the emergency lane.  This is the only N/S freeway in the city.  It combines a ten lane and a 12 lane freeway into one, which doesn't work well, I don't know why.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4855 on: May 16, 2025, 08:03:33 AM »
In Richard Kelly's book, “The Andy Griffith Show,” Andy Griffith had the following to say about actor Howard McNear (Floyd):
"Howard, first of all, was a leading man in the San Diego theatre years ago. He never was in New York in his life. He developed this comic character, I believe, on The Jack Benny Show. Howard was a nervous man and he became that man, Floyd.
“Then Howard had a stroke and was bad off for a long time. He was out of our show for about a year and three-quarters. We did a lot of soft shows, that is, those that were not hard on comedy -- stories about the boy or the aunt. But we needed comedy scenes to break up things.
“We were working on a script one day, and Aaron [Ruben] said, `Boy do I wish we had Howard.' And one of us said, `Why don't we see if we can get him.' So right then we called up Howard's house and we got his wife, Helen. `Oh,' she said, `it would be a godsend.'
“Well, we wrote him a little scene. He was paralyzed all down his left side and so we couldn't show him walking. We had him sitting or we built a stand that supported him. He could then stand behind the barber chair and use one hand. Most of the time, however, we had him sitting. His mind was not affected at all. He was with us about two years after that before he died. Finally poor Howard died. I'm sorry because there was never anyone like him. Kind, kind man."



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« Reply #4856 on: May 16, 2025, 08:05:34 AM »
1568 Defeated at the Battle of Langside, Mary Queen of Scots flees to England in the hope Elizabeth I will help her regain her throne who instead detains her at Carlisle Castle

1771 Battle of Alamance: A pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" is fought in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina

1860 -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate

1868 US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote

1876 Pharmacist Charles E. Hires presents "Hires Root Beer" at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1881 World's first electric tram enters service in Lichterfelde near Berlin (ahead of the curve evidently)

1902 Two deaf-mutes face each other for the first time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants; the Reds win 5-3

1914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City

1927 NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home

1927 US Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax(Ruh-Roh - Revenuers)

1938 38 die in a fire at Terminal Hotel Atlanta, Georgia

1939 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10) 😎

1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa

1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone

1957 NY Yankee players including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Hank Bauer are involved in a brawl at the Copacabana nightclub while watching Sammy Davis Jr. perform, leads to Billy Martin trade

1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury

1965 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers

1965 The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand (uh-oh)

1972 Philadelphia Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski hits home run into the Liberty Bell monument at Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium, an estimated 500-foot shot

1984 MLB Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer off Fernando Valenzuela, in 7-2 win against Dodgers, in Los Angeles

2017 10-year-old girl granted special 20 week abortion request in Rohtak, India in land-mark case (WTF)

2019 British people get drunk more than any other nation, 51 times a year according to the Global Drug Survey, with English-speaking countries drinking the most

2022 Sweden formally announces it will seek to join NATO after 200 years of neutrality, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

2024 Scientists announce the discovery of a long-lost branch of the Nile, now dried up, that once ran near many of Egypt's pyramids, name it Ahramat (Pyramid)
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #4857 on: May 16, 2025, 08:12:34 AM »
1868 US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote

Technically incorrect.
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