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FearlessF

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« Reply #6566 on: July 05, 2026, 09:59:46 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Modern, Skimpy Bikini Debuted at Paris Pool Fashion Show (1946)
Although women have worn bikini-like two-piece garments for centuries—mosaics from the 4th century depict women in such garb—the modern bikini was only introduced in 1946. Anticipating that his revealing swimwear design would have an explosive effect on fashion, French engineer Louis Réard named his skimpy suit after the Bikini atoll in the central Pacific, where US nuclear testing had just begun. However, he struggled to find a model to debut his G-string bikini.




Micheline Bernardini modeling the first modern bikini
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« Reply #6567 on: July 05, 2026, 08:22:45 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 05, 2026, 09:31:44 AM
I thought it a bit odd that the battle was celebrated

real bird reenactment
Not much into reanactment but IMHO that would be a waste of time. The battle was too mobile,chaotic, strung out and expansive to focus in all the places.Much better walking the battle field tour

My cousin's husband is a CW reenactor and the unit he is involveld with were extras in "Gettysburg".Not sure they got a cent,but not like a big role either but they have bragging rights
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« Reply #6568 on: July 05, 2026, 08:46:49 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 05, 2026, 09:59:46 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:




Micheline Bernardini modeling the first modern bikini
Damn that's revealing today - a scandalous femme fatale back then. And she has the shape to pull it off
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« Reply #6569 on: July 05, 2026, 09:27:38 PM »
probably the scorn of many bible thumpers back in that day
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« Reply #6570 on: Today at 07:55:39 AM »
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Jan Hus Is Burned at the Stake (1415)
A Bohemian religious reformer, Hus was excommunicated in 1411 after taking a stand in the power struggle among the three figures claiming to be pope of the Catholic Church. He continued to preach, but his criticism led to a case of heresy against him, and he was invited to the Council of Constance to explain his views. Though promised safe conduct to the council, he was arrested, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake.
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« Reply #6571 on: Today at 10:01:07 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on Today at 07:55:39 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Jan Hus Is Burned at the Stake (1415)
A Bohemian religious reformer, Hus was excommunicated in 1411 after taking a stand in the power struggle among the three figures claiming to be pope of the Catholic Church. He continued to preach, but his criticism led to a case of heresy against him, and he was invited to the Council of Constance to explain his views. Though promised safe conduct to the council, he was arrested, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake.

most people don't know who Jan Hus was, but he is one of my favorite figures from church history. One of his big "heresies" was that the mass should be in the vernacular so they people could understand. It took the Catholic church another 550 years with Vatican II to accept that idea. 
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« Reply #6572 on: Today at 12:24:17 PM »
I went to this show back in 1980. Nobody knew who the third band was. They turned out OK.

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« Reply #6573 on: Today at 12:41:42 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on Today at 07:55:39 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Jan Hus Is Burned at the Stake (1415)
A Bohemian religious reformer, Hus was excommunicated in 1411 after taking a stand in the power struggle among the three figures claiming to be pope of the Catholic Church. He continued to preach, but his criticism led to a case of heresy against him, and he was invited to the Council of Constance to explain his views. Though promised safe conduct to the council, he was arrested, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake.

"Tried for heresy" is a generous way of putting that.  While not quite a transcript, we have pretty detailed records of the proceeding.  Kept by his opponents, so it's not as if they've been whitewashed.  The fix was in, he was "guilty" before he ever arrived.  They had no intention of doing anything but executing him.  

It's a pretty harrowing, and sad, account.  
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« Reply #6574 on: Today at 01:51:18 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on Today at 12:24:17 PM
I went to this show back in 1980. Nobody knew who the third band was. They turned out OK.


you were too young to be hanging with that crowd
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« Reply #6575 on: Today at 02:37:25 PM »
I went to my first concert when I was 10. UFO at the International Amphitheatre (RIP) in Chicago.
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« Reply #6576 on: Today at 03:06:26 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on Today at 12:24:17 PM
I went to this show back in 1980. Nobody knew who the third band was. They turned out OK.
Um,no the Amboy Dukes started out of MoTown in '68 well established and WAY ahead of the Scorpions or Def Leppard. They heard of Teddy




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-SsrzeYvs

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« Reply #6577 on: Today at 03:08:01 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on Today at 03:06:26 PM
Um,no the Amboy Dukes started out of MoTown in '68 well established and WAY ahead of the Scorpions or Def Leppard. They heard of Teddy
WUT?
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« Reply #6578 on: Today at 03:37:40 PM »
Thought you were talking about the Motor City Madman - my bad
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« Reply #6579 on: Today at 04:09:56 PM »
Ted went to the Catholic HS near my childhood home. 
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