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« Reply #5852 on: December 03, 2025, 08:32:45 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 02, 2025, 11:50:28 AM
She probably did.

Carrie Fisher destroyed her voice with cigarettes and drugs, as well.  It was really tough listening to her in the Star Wars sequels.
I remember when the SW sequels came out, she was in her late 50’s or early 60’s. Somebody was posting about how we didn’t need to shame her for aging and all sorts of PC shit but then somebody countered with other actresses similar in age and the difference was stunning. Not saying that all of them will age like Jennifer Aniston but some of them looked great well into their 50’s and 60’s. 

The media strangely underreported it but I think she pretty much died From a drug overdose.  
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« Reply #5853 on: December 03, 2025, 10:42:46 PM »
The founder of Nebraska Furniture Mart, Rose Blumkin, was born on this day 132 years ago.

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« Reply #5854 on: December 04, 2025, 09:02:05 AM »
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« Reply #5855 on: December 04, 2025, 09:31:35 AM »
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« Reply #5856 on: December 05, 2025, 11:02:52 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Christopher Columbus Becomes the First European on Hispaniola (1492)
Soon after landing on the island now known as Hispaniola—home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti—Columbus returned to Spain with news of the New World, leaving behind a group of colonists. On his second expedition, he discovered that the colony had been destroyed, and he established another one. The new colony soon fell into a state of disorder, which he tried to quell with strict discipline. The colonists appear to have disliked Columbus's tyrannical leadership.
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« Reply #5857 on: December 05, 2025, 08:11:52 PM »
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« Reply #5858 on: December 05, 2025, 09:31:05 PM »
On this day, December 5, 1972, Johnny Rodgers became the first Husker to win the Heisman Trophy.
Rodgers recorded 1,978 all-purpose yards and 17 touchdowns which contributed to the team making it to the Orange Bowl.
In 1970 and 1971, Johnny Rodgers also led the team to win two national titles for the first time in the school's history.


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« Reply #5859 on: December 06, 2025, 07:46:43 AM »
Albert Einstein visited the Hopi people near the Grand Canyon in 1931, where he was honored with a feathered headdress and a peace pipe at Hopi House. The gesture recognized his pacifist ideals and is preserved in a well-known photograph.

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« Reply #5860 on: December 06, 2025, 07:49:51 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US Federal Judge Rules James Joyce's Ulysses Not Obscene (1933)
For more than a decade after its debut, James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, was banned in the US. A literary magazine had attempted to publish it in serial form, but the series was cut short after the publishers ran a rather suggestive passage and were convicted of obscenity. When the implicit ban on the book was finally challenged in 1933, Judge John M. Woolsey praised the work for its literary merits and ruled that it was not obscene.
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« Reply #5861 on: December 07, 2025, 09:17:34 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Recording Industry Association of American Sues Napster (1999)
Shortly after Napster was founded in 1999, the popular file-sharing service was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The trial gave Napster so much publicity that usage of the service increased, despite RIAA's claim that Napster users were breaking the law by downloading copyrighted music for free. Though it was forced by an injunction to shut down its network in July 2001, Napster did not fold.
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« Reply #5862 on: December 07, 2025, 10:15:07 AM »
1941 The Imperial Japanese Navy, with 353 planes, attacks the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

The attack came before Hirohito's Declaration of War which inflamed an already heinous situation
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« Reply #5863 on: December 07, 2025, 10:26:25 AM »
sneak attack
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« Reply #5864 on: December 07, 2025, 11:00:16 AM »
On this date ( Dec.7th.1965 ) 60 years ago, the last B-47 departs from The Lincoln Air Force Base with Colonel Clifford Moore saluting. For a brief history of the Lincoln Air Force Base, check out this link : https://www.lincolnafb.org/history.php

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« Reply #5865 on: December 07, 2025, 05:29:11 PM »
December 7, 1873 - Author Willa Cather was born in Virginia on Dec. 7, 1873.

In 1883, Cather’s family moved to Webster County, Nebraska and settled in Red Cloud in 1884. Cather attended school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she wrote short stories and studied the classics.

In 1903, Cather produced a collection of poems, and her first novel was serialized in a magazine in 1912. Cather died in 1947 at the age of 73.
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