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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. Canadian internment camps
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-15 12:57:53Copy HTML June 16, 1875
Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey born. "The Dancing Marquess" is still one of GB's most controversial aristocrats. He died in 1905 & during his brief life managed to piss away a fortune on himself. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-15 07:41:18Copy HTML One of the Anglesey's stately homes was Beaudesert in Staffordshire less than 20 miles from where I live. The family moved out in 1920 and the estate was sold in the 1930s. With no buyer for the house it was partially demolished. A few ruins remain today. As it was - As it is -
Can you imagine how much wood or coal would have to be used just to heat a place that size. I lost count of the number of smoke stacks and chimneys it has. No wonder why Britain ran out of wood by the start of the 1900's. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-15 11:23:35Copy HTML April 15, 2025
Income Tax Day in the USA. Last day to file without penalty. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-15 12:10:51Copy HTML April 15, 1912
RMS Titanic sinks, 1,496 die or was it 1,517, or maybe 1,503? Depending on which government committee findings you believe. Nobody went to jail for the disaster. Quartermaster Robert Hichens was vilified as a coward because he was at the wheel when the ship hit the iceberg & was in command of a lifeboat when he refused to save survivors in the water. Claiming he worried the lifeboat would be sucked down with Titanic. He career with White Star was ruined, he fell into depression, attempted suicide twice, & was arrested for attempted murder. He died at age 58 in 1940. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-15 12:29:11Copy HTML Captain Edward Smith was born a few miles from where I live as was the 4th Eng Officer. Also a First Class passenger lived nearby, all three were killed. The passenger was on his way to the USA with his wife (who survived) to visit her parents in Mamaroneck, New York. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-16 01:25:38Copy HTML April 19, 1995
Tim McVeigh blows up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people including 19 children.
June 11, 2001
McVeigh executed via lethal injection. He made no final statement but left a poem in defiance. Invictus, by William Ernest Henley. "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-16 06:52:23Copy HTML 1892
The Thermos was invented by Sir Jame Dewar to store laboratory chemicals, not coffee. In 1904 the founders domesticated it & the Thermos was released to the public. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-16 09:12:53Copy HTML 1921
Explorers led by Charles Howard Bury, locate mysterious footprints in the snows of the Himalayas. Sherpa guides call them "metoh-kangmi" which meant "Man Bear of the Snow." This was misinterpreted to "Filthy Snowman" & the legend of the "Abominable Snowman" was born. In 2017 DNA analysis found they were bear footprints. Imagine that. |
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MarkUK
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-17 07:34:44Copy HTML And yet the legend of the Abominable Snowman persists spawning countless TV shows and investigations on a par with the Loch Ness Monster. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-17 11:56:39Copy HTML We have our Sasquatch in the northwest, but I think he's been sighted as far south as Missouri. They say the Mothman still roams West Virginia. That's a little too close for comfort for me.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 09:14:51Copy HTML 17th Century
London, at town squares & markets, merchants went scurrying quickly about selling wares. Many were unscrupulous in conducting their business in a hustle/bustle manner. This gave rise to the term "hustler" to describe someone who is always trying to make $. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 01:23:18Copy HTML June, 1933
First Drive-In Movie location in USA. Dubbed "The Park-In Theater, in Camden, New Jersey, the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead. By the 1950's more than 4,000 of these were in operation across the country. Today there are only 400 left, a relic of the past that refuses to just fade away. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 05:25:02Copy HTML We have (or had) them over here too. Always struck me as a ludicrous way of watching a film. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 06:04:24Copy HTML April 18th, 2005
Good Friday, the day Jesus the man was crucified & died for our sins, rose from the dead as the Christ, went to heaven to sit with God the Father, & hasn't been seen since. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 06:12:42Copy HTML 3500 B.C.
The first wheels were used as potter's wheels & not for transportation. It wasn't until 300 years later they were used on chariots. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-18 07:15:27Copy HTML April 18th, 2005
Good Friday, the day Jesus the man was crucified & died for our sins, rose from the dead as the Christ, went to heaven to sit with God the Father, & hasn't been seen since. I don’t know Tom, thousands have claimed he’s dropped by for tea and chocky bickies |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 07:30:23Copy HTML Medieval Europe
Witches were thought to transform themselves into black cats. That is why if a black cat crosses your path means bad luck. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 07:34:38Copy HTML April 18th, 2005
Good Friday, the day Jesus the man was crucified & died for our sins, rose from the dead as the Christ, went to heaven to sit with God the Father, & hasn't been seen since. I don’t know Tom, thousands have claimed he’s dropped by for tea and chocky bickies Well Major, I don't know what chocky bickies are. But if they are good enough for Jesus, they are good enough for me. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 08:00:24Copy HTML Victorian Times
Women had to refuse proposals of marriage multiple times so as to appear modest. |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 08:21:25Copy HTML It happens a lot in Victorian literature, they usually swoon at least once too. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 08:34:01Copy HTML 18th Century
There was a popular children's story about a poor girl with one shoe. She acted as a good child & did everything to please, & then she got her second shoe as a reward. Hence the phrase: "Goody Two Shoes." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 11:01:14Copy HTML This Month In History
1775-Revolutionary War in America began
1789-George Washington inaugurated
1800-The U.S. Library of Congress established
1828-Noah Webster copyrighted dictionary
1912-Titanic sinks
1959-America's first astronauts annouced by NASA |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 06:49:38Copy HTML 1800's
The poor had dirt floors in their homes. Hence the term "Dirt Poor."
The rich had slate floors in their home. They became slippery when wet so thresh was spread about to prevent slipping. At the front door there was a piece of wood on the floor to keep the thresh inside. Hence the term "Threshold."
The homes had thatched rooves with no wood under it. Animals such as cats, dogs, & others, slept on the roof to keep warm. When it rained hard sometimes, they would slide off. Hence the term "Raining cats & dogs."
In the bedroom of the thatched roof, vermin & bugs would fall on the bed creating a mess. To remedy that large poster beds with sheets stretched over them would provide protection. Hence the creation of "canopy beds." |
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Re：ON THIS DATE Date Posted：2025-04-19 08:31:12Copy HTML I always assumed that canopy beds were to keep the warmth in on cold winter nights. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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