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Date Posted：2022-05-03 09:27:30Copy HTML May 3, 1942 FDR signs Executive Order 9066 which orders the internment of 112,000 Japanese/Americans to 10 camps. Mostly from the West Coast of the U.S. & thought to be sympathetic to Japanese interests. Live respected, die regretted
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-12 11:35:26Copy HTML The "Fitz" was a freighter designed to carry iron ore which is a heavy load. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-12 11:44:07Copy HTML Not a holiday over here; the main commemoration today, the closest Sunday to 11 November, although smaller ceremonies are held today. It started out as "Armistice Day" after the end of WWI. In 1954 Congress passed the bill to change it to "Veteran's Day" to honor all military. The bill was signed into law by President Eisenhower. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-15 06:52:01Copy HTML Early 19th century
Poor people sold their urine to tan leather. That is the origin of the term "piss poor."
Poor people collected their urine in a "piss pot" to later be sold to tanneries. People too poor to own such a pot did "not have a pot to piss in." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-15 06:58:13Copy HTML Victorian England
The cheapest form of accommodation was a series of ropes where you hung your arms over & fell asleep. For the night it cost a penny & was a favorite way for drunken sailors to sleep it off after spending all their money in pubs. That is the origin of the term "hangover." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-15 08:02:57Copy HTML Early 19th century
Poor people sold their urine to tan leather. That is the origin of the term "piss poor."
Poor people collected their urine in a "piss pot" to later be sold to tanneries. People too poor to own such a pot did "not have a pot to piss in." How long has the word piss been common in the US Tom? |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-15 08:22:17Copy HTML Early 19th century
Poor people sold their urine to tan leather. That is the origin of the term "piss poor."
Poor people collected their urine in a "piss pot" to later be sold to tanneries. People too poor to own such a pot did "not have a pot to piss in." How long has the word piss been common in the US Tom? Very common in my crowd for as long as I can remember, Art. Not so much as meaning "drunk" like the Brits, more so in being angry..........."You piss me off." Women have to "Pee" men "Take a piss" when urinating. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-15 09:06:51Copy HTML Early 19th century
Poor people sold their urine to tan leather. That is the origin of the term "piss poor."
Poor people collected their urine in a "piss pot" to later be sold to tanneries. People too poor to own such a pot did "not have a pot to piss in." How long has the word piss been common in the US Tom? Very common in my crowd for as long as I can remember, Art. Not so much as meaning "drunk" like the Brits, more so in being angry..........."You piss me off." Women have to "Pee" men "Take a piss" when urinating. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-16 01:58:57Copy HTML 1874
The Philadelphia Zoo opens. It is the oldest zoo in the U.S. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-16 05:02:41Copy HTML 1953
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first all-aluminum office building completed. Called the Alcoa Building at first, now the Regional Enterprise Tower. Has 31 floors of apartments & offices. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 08:37:53Copy HTML 1874
The Philadelphia Zoo opens. It is the oldest zoo in the U.S. London Zoo opened in 1828 as a scientific site, the public were admitted in 1847. I like zoos. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 09:29:26Copy HTML The last zoo I visited was Chester zoo, about five years ago and it was a great day out. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 10:28:10Copy HTML As usual there is some controversy as to who was first. NYC had a claim to that honor but was dismissed as not being a real zoo but more of a menagerie. Buffalo has a wonderful zoo that I have visited hundreds of times in my sunny slopes of yesteryear days. My last visit to a zoo was about twenty years ago in Boise, Idaho. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 12:24:42Copy HTML Most impressive inmate? The Rhino, something prehistorically majestic about them and if they didn't exist, you couldn't make one up |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 12:32:11Copy HTML 1835
Nathanial Hawthorne published "Young Goodman Brown." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 02:31:06Copy HTML 2016
Canada legalized medical assistance for the terminally ill (MAID) & have expanded it in 2021 to include those with incurable but non-fatal conditions under a condition called Track 2. Many of these are poor people suffering from lack of social supports & loneliness, & mental illness. Society has an obligation to help them & not nudge them to an early death via assisted suicide.
Source column by Andrew Phillips, Toronto Star |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 02:47:49Copy HTML Most impressive inmate? The Rhino, something prehistorically majestic about them and if they didn't exist, you couldn't make one up I remember the Indian rhino at Chester Zoo, as you say, a prehistoric looking thing. I could watch gibbons for hours. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2024-11-17 04:18:28Copy HTML November 16, 2024
Deer Season opener NY State. A ritual of manhood for members of the older generations. Today................not so much. |
