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« Reply #6146 on: February 26, 2026, 12:55:36 PM »
Great Docu on how DG Yuengling & Son Brewery bounced back from the front step of bankruptcy using common sense, quality and keeping it in the family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ihEzQaQ0RU
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« Reply #6147 on: February 26, 2026, 06:40:07 PM »
I enjoyed a few pints of their suds last night with a Reuben in Branson 
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« Reply #6148 on: February 27, 2026, 12:03:51 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VH1cwfleTro?feature=share

The thing that I love is that Raul Castro made a statement that said: "If Lorenzo had the guts to leave with one of my MIGs, maybe he has the guts to come back and get his family."  Well... HE DID!!!!
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« Reply #6149 on: February 27, 2026, 08:03:33 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Ireland Legalizes Divorce (1997)
The culture of Ireland has long been strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, to which most of the country belongs. Thus, until 1997, the Republic of Ireland had no legal provision for divorce—and though many couples were living apart, they were not free to remarry other people. Once the divorce legislation was passed, the number of separated couples in Ireland did increase but not dramatically.
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« Reply #6150 on: February 28, 2026, 09:09:51 AM »
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NATO's First Military Action (1994)
Founded in 1949 by the US, Canada, and 10 European countries as a security pact against the Soviet bloc, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did not actually perform any military operations for its first 45 years in existence. With the fall of the Soviet Union, however, its focus shifted to regional peacekeeping—and thus, in 1994, NATO forces took action in the Bosnian War. After the September 11 attacks, NATO invoked Article 5 of its charter for the first time in history.
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« Reply #6151 on: February 28, 2026, 01:52:37 PM »
1646 Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church - heathen

1704 Frenchman Elias Neau opens a school for blacks in NYC

1704 Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 40, kidnapping 100

1827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered

1849 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from the east coast

1915 French forces attempt to drive the Germans back into the Champagne region during World War I, gaining a few hundred yards at the cost of 50,000 casualties

1917 AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I

1956 American engineer Wright Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

1959 Chicago Cardinals trade running back Ollie Matson to the LA Rams for an unprecedented 9 players

1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal

1975 A major London tube train crash at Moorgate station kills 43 people and injures a further 74.

1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws

1983 Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs on CBS, a two-hour special directed by series star Alan Alda titled "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"; a record 125 million viewers watch in the US

1991 Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait

1993 Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid

2025 Extraordinary meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House is curtailed after an argument in front of reporters


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« Reply #6152 on: March 01, 2026, 10:59:35 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Peace Corps Established (1961)
In his inaugural address, US President John F. Kennedy famously tasked Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Months later, he gave them the opportunity. Kennedy created the Peace Corps to promote diplomacy and counter foreign stereotypes of Americans by sending skilled volunteers to serve abroad, and since 1961, more than 200,000 people have served in nearly 140 countries.
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« Reply #6153 on: March 01, 2026, 01:54:52 PM »
1642 Georgeana (York) in Maine becomes the first incorporated American city 

1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are interrogated, the first legal examinations and arrests of the "afflicted" after accusations that they were practitioners of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony

1803 Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union

1864 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes the first African American woman to receive a medical degree

1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)

1869 US postage stamps featuring scenes are issued for the first time, depicting a post horse and rider, a locomotive, a shield, an eagle, and a ship, the Adriatic

1872 Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park


1890 First US edition of Sherlock Holmes' first story "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle is published

1910 Wall of snow collapse in Cascade Mountain Range buries three passenger trains, killing 96, near Steven's Pass, Washington; 23 people survive the worst avalanche in US history

1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane


1932 The "Lindbergh kidnapping", 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh kidnapped from home in East Amwell, New Jersey, found dead 12 May


1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95

1962 Kresge Corporation openes the first Kmart store in Garden City, Michigan


1969 After 88 weeks, the Beatles' album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" drops off the charts

1973 Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release Pink Floyd's 8th studio album "The Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for most of the next 14 years

1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1



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« Reply #6154 on: March 02, 2026, 08:30:14 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Tilden Wins Popular Vote, Loses US Presidential Election (1877)
One of the most disputed presidential elections in American history was decided by a single electoral vote, which was likely awarded in an informal deal behind closed doors. Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tilden not only won the popular vote in the 1876 election, but secured 184 electoral votes to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes's 165—until a bitter, months-long political battle ended with Hayes being awarded 20 contested votes.
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« Reply #6155 on: March 02, 2026, 12:24:37 PM »
1977 Concessions at Wiggly Field.

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« Reply #6156 on: March 02, 2026, 04:45:56 PM »
I remember 1977 - my old man didn't have the money for that list

I was working parttime at 15 and I couldn't afford it either
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« Reply #6157 on: Today at 12:01:48 AM »
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« Reply #6158 on: Today at 07:40:35 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Significant Oil Reservoirs Discovered in Saudi Arabia (1938)
Prior to 1938, Saudi Arabia was not considered an oil-rich nation. Today, the oil industry dominates its economy, making up 90 percent of all Saudi exports. Oil was first discovered there in the mid-1930s by the US-owned Arabian Standard Oil Company, which became the Arabian American Oil Company. However, it was not until 1938 that a commercially viable oil field was found, yielding one of the largest supplies in the world.
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« Reply #6159 on: Today at 07:44:09 AM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY:

Charles Ponzi (1882)
Possibly the most famous con man in history, Ponzi is now synonymous with a particular type of ruinous investment scheme. By promising impossibly high returns on a "get rich quick" scheme, Ponzi attracted enough new investors to use their money to pay off old investors, which made his outfit appear successful and solvent. It was not. After a series of trials, he was deported from the US, but in at least one case in 1922, he was found not guilty.
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