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« Reply #5782 on: November 17, 2025, 09:05:49 AM »
1928 Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years

wasn't the Huskers, fisheaters called off the series after 1925 game in Lincoln

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #5783 on: November 17, 2025, 11:07:53 AM »


Probably ca. 1955 or so.   An interesting item is how the NE freeway (proposed) was headed towards Gainesville, GA, and then Greenville, SC.  SC actually  built a limited access highway to connect with this route, and then the GA governor who was from Livonia changed the route and it was built to the south, near Livonia, and then SC had to build new freeway that turned south to link with that.

The old freeway still exists in SC, basically heading to nowhere.


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« Reply #5784 on: November 17, 2025, 03:44:39 PM »
I recently learned that many of my ancestors came from Oglethorpe County, Georgia.  And maybe also from Tennessee.  Oglethorpe is close to Athens, Georgia.  

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« Reply #5785 on: November 17, 2025, 10:06:10 PM »
sorry for your luck ;)
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« Reply #5786 on: November 18, 2025, 07:21:41 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Day of Two Noons: US and Canada Adopt Standard Time Zones (1883)
Before the adoption of time zones, clocks in the US and Canada were set according to the position of the sun overhead, meaning that time varied according to location. For the rail industry, this presented a logistical nightmare, and so many railroads kept their own time, further complicating matters. Standardization solved everything. On "The Day of Two Noons," train stations reset their clocks according to newly adopted time standards.
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« Reply #5787 on: November 19, 2025, 07:25:56 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Operation Uranus Begins (1942)
In the summer of 1941, a wave of German forces swept into the Soviet Union and proceeded to conquer a vast amount of territory. Stopped at Stalingrad, the Germans became mired in one of the most significant battles of WWII and were ill-prepared for the deteriorating Soviet weather. The enormous Soviet counteroffensive, code-named Operation Uranus, overwhelmed them. Within days, their entire force at Stalingrad was encircled.
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« Reply #5788 on: November 19, 2025, 12:08:33 PM »
"It is better to have died a young boy than to fumble the football" - John Heisman

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« Reply #5789 on: November 19, 2025, 05:06:40 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

 Uranus  (1942)
no wise crack from Brutus and butthead?
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« Reply #5790 on: November 19, 2025, 05:51:49 PM »
he he, he said crack.

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« Reply #5791 on: Today at 07:35:27 AM »
1923 American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between "stop" and "go," an important development in automobile safety.Here in Cleveland he also had a hand in early gas masks

Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective 'smoke hood'[1] that he notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue, a type of three-way traffic light invented in 1923,[2] a hair-straightening cream, and other hair-care products.[3][4] Morgan created a successful company called "G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Company" based on his hair product inventions. He was involved in African Americans' civic and political advancement, especially in and around Cleveland, Ohio.
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« Reply #5792 on: Today at 09:54:35 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Microsoft Windows 1.0 Is Released (1985)
Though Microsoft announced its new operating system in the fall of 1983, it was not ready for release until two years later, and the long delay led critics to label the product "vaporware." Even after Windows 1.0 finally hit the market, it was not particularly popular. Still, Windows was more user-friendly than the spare MS-DOS upon which it was built, and it allowed users to multitask. Two years later, it was superseded by Windows 2.0.
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« Reply #5793 on: Today at 11:03:23 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Microsoft Windows 1.0 Is Released (1985)
Though Microsoft announced its new operating system in the fall of 1983, it was not ready for release until two years later, and the long delay led critics to label the product "vaporware." Even after Windows 1.0 finally hit the market, it was not particularly popular. Still, Windows was more user-friendly than the spare MS-DOS upon which it was built, and it allowed users to multitask. Two years later, it was superseded by Windows 2.0.

Windows wasn't worth it until 3.1.  I just used a dos shell up to that point

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« Reply #5794 on: Today at 11:43:01 AM »
yup, I was using AutoCad back then.
It took AutoDesk a few years to create a version that would run on Windows
even longer for the MAC version
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« Reply #5795 on: Today at 12:24:03 PM »
I still don't know how my dad survived all his years as an architect and never actually learned AutoCAD. He kept saying he would, but never did. I think he might be still doing side work as an architect now, at 83 years old, if he'd learned it. But eventually he just became too inefficient, I suspect. 

But as a young computer nerd, it always meant that we had a computer that was capable of running AutoCAD, which meant that I had something fun and powerful to play around on...

 

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