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Yes, less than a dozen letters to the FCC would raise a wave of bullshit on the show/station/network.
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12-2-1942 – “…the Italian Navigator has just landed in the New World”.
Actually it was Enrico Fermi in a tent on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field. 12-2-1957 - the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, reached criticality. |
Dec 6, 1912
The bust of Nefertiti was found by Ludwig Borchardt. Akhenaten found Nefertiti's bust (:ggw:) much, much earlier. :jig: |
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Dec 12, 1985
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December 24th 1968.
Apollo 8 Earthrise. Attachment 65932 Quote:
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Nice to see you back, Mr. C. |
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December 24th 1968.
Apollo 8's Christmas Eve Message There's a speck of dust in my eye. This version is without music... |
Definitely too dusty here.
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January 7, 1948
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Mantell's plane crashed about three - four miles from my house. Of course, my house wasn't here yet. For the record, I am not a little green man. Promise.:D |
Sounded to me like some mornings you were a little green, man. :haha:
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January 15
1919 - Boston's Great Molasses Flood kills 21, and injures 150. 2001 - Wikipedia made it's online debut. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!!! 2009 - Miracle On The Hudson |
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It was one of those 'I remember where I was when...' moments for me. I was looking after horses at the time and had just done a final check for the evening. On getting into the car the 2100 news was on the radio and carried the first report of the accident. My first thought was that it was going to be a repeat of the Air Florida Flight 90 accident in the Potomac on January 13th 1982. Thankfully it wasn't to be. |
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January 16, 2003
Attachment 66127 Space Shuttle Columbia, the first shuttle in space, lifts off on it's 28th, and final, mission. Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry 16 days later. |
20 January,
Birthdays: DeForest Kelley, 1920 / Buzz Aldrin, 1930 / Tom Baker, 1934
A space-time threefer. |
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My generation's first "where were you when"?
I was in elementary school, and some kids came back from the advanced students class (my genius was not yet recognized), saying they saw the shuttle blow up and you could see little bodies falling. I'm glad the latter bit was imagination/embellishing, but little elementary school me did look for them during the endless replays on the news. |
50 years ago today, O.J. Simpson is the first pick in the NFL draft and goes to the Bills.
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What worries me is that I remember an event like the Challenger disaster as if it were yesterday and it's called 'history'.
We pass this way but once and it's going too fast for my liking. |
Weep not, for it can go faster.
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Mine was when Reagan forgot to duck. |
JFK.
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Bruce, I'm always interested to hear the Where I Was stories.
I was w/my best friend John's mother when the Challenger 'sploded. No, not like that, I was in science class, she was my science teacher. They went around gathering the students up and cramming as many of us into a classroom as would fit, then turned on the tv. No preamble or nuthin'. We all learned about it together, teachers and students. Where were you when JFK was shot? |
On certain space shuttle flights (the "scientific" ones) the reentry orbit came right over my house.
On clear nights, they were impressive. Columbia came over in cloud cover, but we could hear the distinctive double sonic booms. If it had been clear, I think we would have seen the beginning of the break-up. What always amazed me was that by the time I got back in bed after viewing them, they were already on the ground in Florida 3000 miles away. The ones that didn't blow up, that is. For JFK, I was a senior in college working on my dirt bike. |
For JFK, I was being brought home from the hospital, having been born a few days earlier.
~ I do not directly remember this, or anything else from that day ~ |
I was walking across campus from a drafting class when two guys started shouting out of a second floor window of the main building at us that JFK had been murdered in Dallas. I don't think they really knew he was dead yet, just that he'd been shot, so thinking about it over the weekend I thought there's was a strange choice of words.
It was a pretty grim weekend in Boston, I decided not to go home and the dorm was like a morgue, so I spent a lot of time at the apartment of some working girls on Beacon hill. The shuttle I was listening to on the radio at work. It was my first week back at Boeing after I quit in '67. |
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February 3, 1961
Attachment 66287 ^Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass^ Operation Looking Glass begins. A plane capable of taking control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of SAC headquarters destruction is kept in the air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for the next 37 years. |
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Oh goody, for AEAO I nominate Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper. |
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Someone had to stop the impurifying of our precious bodily fluids.
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February 7, 2013
The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. :right: |
Hey, at least they did the right thing eventually.
Says the guy from Virginia who is trying to forgive people's past if they are doing a good job now. Like the Governor, and Attorney General. |
It depends on what they did in the past, spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone.
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March 3, 1991
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
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March 6, 1836
Attachment 66659 ****************************************** Attachment 66663 1975 - The Zapruder Film is shown to the American public. |
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13th March 1969
Apollo 9 safely splashes down in the Atlantic after a ten day mission to test the Lunar Module in free flight in low earth orbit. Crew were James McDivitt (Commander), David Scott (Command Module Pilot) and Russell L. Schweickart (Lunar Module Pilot). Attachment 66730 David Scott performs a standup EVA from Command Module Gumdrop, seen from docked Lunar Module Spider. Several books commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 are due to be published over the next three or four months. I haven't yet decided which one to send to the Flat Earth Society. Link |
Not only is the Earth not flat, it's wrinkly.
Needs to be ironed, frankly. |
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April 11th 1970 - Launch of Apollo 13
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Well, there are long lead in times in the film business and finance does have to be arranged, you know. Link |
April 10th 1606, King James chartered the Virginia Company of London, to create Jamestown, the first British Colony... the start of the British Empire.
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I haven't had time to go through the whole episode but a quick scan leads me to believe that it was shown at about 35 min in. I know that this is very much in FWIW territory, but this plate features in my modest collection. Attachment 67274 |
Is there significance to the 6025Y?
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I've just had a look at the dozen or so plates I have and most seem to have registrations in a non-standard format. I'm no expert in these matters but they do seem to be of an 'individual' nature and which presumably mean something to the owners. I have a pair of plates from Montana which read 'I NEWTON'. Photographic evidence is available. :) Incidentally, I have mostly collected plates with wildlife designs, particularly Maine and Minnesota, or horse designs from Virginia and Kentucky. I have a particularly fine plate from Pennsylvania depicting a River Otter. Are you familiar with that one? |
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April 12, 1981
The Space Shuttle Comunbia, is launched on mission STS-1. Attachment 67282 Columbia was the second shuttle constructed, but the first to launch on a mission. It was also the only shuttle to launch with a painted external fuel tank. Subsequent external fuel tanks went without to save weight. Quote:
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A couple months ago I sent a dozen PA plates I had hanging around to a guy in Ontario who built a new garage and wanted to decorate it. Just a sampling... |
I have the River Otter plate as shown second from left in the top row and likewise in the third row.
It's currently for sale at $79.95 on a site I have purchased from in the past. I can't remember how much I paid, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near that. :eek: It's a long time since I have bought a plate but I have to say that the 'Flagship Niagara' design does appeal to me. En route to eBay. :) |
I have the black plate on two of my vehicles and a regular vanity plate on the third. I saw they have an Autism Awareness plate now too.
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