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« Reply #5670 on: October 03, 2025, 09:55:47 AM »
I’m not sure “transmits” is the right word here, but it was my understanding the states would not ratify the constitution at all without the bill of rights. 

1789 George Washington transmits the proposed constitutional amendments, known as the United States Bill of Rights, to the states for ratification

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« Reply #5671 on: October 03, 2025, 10:32:45 AM »
I’m not sure “transmits” is the right word here, but it was my understanding the states would not ratify the constitution at all without the bill of rights.

1789 George Washington transmits the proposed constitutional amendments, known as the United States Bill of Rights, to the states for ratification
Constitution was ratified in 1789 before the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.  A number of states insisted on a Bill of Rights but went ahead and ratified the constitution with the promise of a Bill of Rights

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« Reply #5672 on: October 03, 2025, 10:41:24 AM »
Correct.  Some argued the BoR was irrelevant and redundant and didn't want to appear to spell out certain rights and imply others were not rights.  They did cover that with language in the 8th and 10th.

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people". 

There of course was a ton of discussion about the "rights of man" during the period (depending on one's race or sex of course).  At that time, the "plantation economy" had not taken over the South, the cotton gin didn't exist, and slavery often was "manservants" etc. as opposed to field workers, to the extent it matters, but slavery could have been eliminated then at far lower cost.


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« Reply #5673 on: October 03, 2025, 12:22:44 PM »
1789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

1872 Bloomingdale's department store opens in New York

1908 Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev, and other Russian exiles in Vienna

1913 US federal income tax at 1% is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson - BASTARD

1920 American Pro Football Association (later the NFL) plays its first full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles 14-0 in the first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton

1945 Elvis Presley performs publicly for the first time at the age of 10, singing "Old Shep" in a youth talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show in Tupelo, Mississippi; the contest is broadcast over WELO Radio, and he wins fifth prize: $5.00 in fair ride tickets

1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres

1955 "The Mickey Mouse Club" television series premieres

1964 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 8-3 to clinch the Bronx Bombers' 5th consecutive AL pennant and 29th in the club's history(been losing big games ever since)

1974 39-year-old Frank Robinson becomes MLB's first African American manager when he signs as player-manager for the Cleveland Indians and agrees to a one-year contract estimated at $180,000

1989 Oakland Raiders promote 42-year-old Art Shell as the first African American to be an NFL head coach in modern times, taking over from Mike Shanahan

1990 Kansas City third baseman George Brett becomes the first in MLB history to win a batting title in three different decades, in 1976, 1980, and 1990

1990 Reunification of East Germany and West Germany; the West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate at the stroke of midnight

1993 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium, losing 4-0 to the Chicago White Sox(i was there)

1994 Gary Larson announces he is retiring from creating "The Far Side" cartoon - DAMN

1995 Former NFL running back, broadcaster, and actor O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California

2014 Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King performs his last live show at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois

2018 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011, according to a study in the "Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care"(thinning the herd)

2018 The most expensive whisky ever sold at auction is the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 for $1.1 million in Edinburgh, Scotland(doubt it would win a taste testing contest)

2021 MLB Cleveland wins its last game under the Indians name, defeating the Texas Rangers 6-0(at lkeast something went right)

2024 World's longest treasure hunt, based on 11 puzzles originally set by Max Valentin, comes to an end in France after 31 years with the discovery of a golden owl statuette



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« Reply #5674 on: October 04, 2025, 09:11:18 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Gutzon Borglum Begins Sculpting Mount Rushmore (1927)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, a massive carving of four US presidents' heads, each about 60 ft (18 m) high, on the side of a South Dakota mountain, took 400 workers 14 years to complete. Its designer, sculptor Gutzon Borglum—who had previously worked on a Confederate memorial on Georgia's Stone Mountain—died before Rushmore was completed, and his unfinished Hall of Records behind the heads is off-limits to the public.
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« Reply #5675 on: October 05, 2025, 07:36:04 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
First Episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus Airs on BBC (1969)
A highly influential British sketch comedy show, Monty Python's Flying Circus ran until 1974 and subsequently spawned four movies and several live shows. With scenes such as "The Dead Parrot Sketch" and "The Spanish Inquisition," the innovative, disjointed, non-traditional show became a cult favorite noted for its surreal, sarcastic, innuendo-laden humor. Interspersed throughout the show were Terry Gilliam's iconic animations, including a giant, crushing foot
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« Reply #5676 on: October 05, 2025, 09:22:32 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Gutzon Borglum Begins Sculpting Mount Rushmore (1927)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, a massive carving of four US presidents' heads, each about 60 ft (18 m) high, on the side of a South Dakota mountain, took 400 workers 14 years to complete. Its designer, sculptor Gutzon Borglum—who had previously worked on a Confederate memorial on Georgia's Stone Mountain—died before Rushmore was completed, and his unfinished Hall of Records behind the heads is off-limits to the public.

He also did Stone Mountain. 

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« Reply #5677 on: October 06, 2025, 07:27:35 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Is Assassinated (1981)
As president, Sadat led Egypt in a 1973 war with Israel that bolstered his popularity throughout the Arab world, even though the war was a military loss. However, after he negotiated a peace treaty with Israel in the Camp David Accords—an initiative for which he shared a Nobel Peace Prize—his popularity in the Arab world plummeted. During an annual military parade, he was ambushed and killed by extremists.
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« Reply #5678 on: October 06, 2025, 10:42:03 PM »
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« Reply #5679 on: October 07, 2025, 07:56:32 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Most Lopsided College Football Game in US History (1916)
In 1916, Tennessee's tiny Cumberland University canceled its football program, disbanding its team. Nevertheless, Georgia Tech's football coach, John Heisman, threatened the school with a $3,000 fine—a large sum of money at the time—if its team failed to show up to their scheduled game. Cumberland was forced to recruit new players to face Georgia Tech, and the trouncing they received is said to have been revenge for a baseball game in which Cumberland allegedly cheated.
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« Reply #5680 on: October 08, 2025, 08:04:38 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Weatherman's Days of Rage Begin (1969)
The Days of Rage were a series of violent anti-war protests in Chicago that coincided with the trial of the Chicago Eight, a group of protesters charged with conspiring to incite a riot. The Days of Rage were organized by Weatherman—later known as the Weather Underground—a radical faction of Students for a Democratic Society. Despite efforts to promote the event, the protesters were outnumbered by police, and many were arrested.
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« Reply #5681 on: October 08, 2025, 02:43:58 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1871 The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation

1898 First Canadian intercollegiate football game: McGill defeats Queen's 3-2

1917 Leon Trotsky is named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control

1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks a German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans

1927 1st Laurel and Hardy Film"The Second Hundred Years" silent short film is released, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

1942 Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show

1945 The microwave oven is patented by US inventor Percy Spencer

1950 Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for the first time and beat the Steelers 30-17(thought i'd note that)

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles

1978 Yankees win third consecutive AL Championship, all against Kansas City

1995 Dolphins' Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record

2004 Martha Stewart begins a 5-month incarceration at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, for insider trading and obstruction of justice(Yet Pelosi,Bush & Cheney walk free)

2019 FBI confirms Samuel Little is America's most prolific serial killer after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders

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« Reply #5682 on: October 08, 2025, 03:35:18 PM »
2004 Martha Stewart begins a 5-month incarceration at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, for insider trading and obstruction of justice(Yet Pelosi,Bush & Cheney walk free)
Not for insider trading, although she most likely did engage in it. She went to prison for lying to the FBI. She claimed that sale of all (I think, or nearly all) of her stock in the company, the day before an FDA announcement that crippled the company's value was the result of a plan with her broker that if the stock fell below a certain amount, they would sell it. But there was no written record of such an agreement, and another witness testified that it was made up after the government started to investigate. She was good friends with a board member who also sold much of his stock at the same time, as did several other board members. The timing of those sales, just before the FDA announcement, had all the indicia of insider trading, i.e., dumping their stock because they knew something about it--that the FDA was about to crush the stock's value--that the public did not.

She later invoked the 5th amendment (or promised to) when questioned about her role. Unfortunately for her, she had already told the FBI a story that was dismantled in court, so she was convicted of lying to the FBI and obstructing their investigation. A classic tale about why you should check with your lawyer before responding to a government investigator's questions. If I remember correctly, the court threw out the insider trading claim against her for a lack of evidence.

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« Reply #5683 on: October 09, 2025, 10:31:01 AM »
Siberian Sarcophagus: The Mysterious Discovery in a Coal Mine
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BJ9YiSyoyqs?feature=share
caveat just found this:
The story of a perfectly preserved "Princess Tisulsky" in a pinkish-blue liquid discovered in a Siberian coal mine is an internet hoax. It is not a real archaeological finding. There was no mysterious liquid, and the story contains multiple scientifically impossible claims
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