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by AustrianPainter
Sun May 19, 2024 6:11 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 19 1961) Venera 1 Space Probe
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Today In History (May 19 1961) Venera 1 Space Probe

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1961: Russia’s Venera 1 space probe to Venus becomes the first man-made object to travel to the vicinity of another planet.
by AustrianPainter
Sat May 18, 2024 6:09 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 18 1944)
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Today In History (May 18 1944)

TODAY IN HISTORY 106346-750x763.jpg 1944: German troops are forced to withdraw from their defense of Monte Cassino, Italy, by Allied troops including a division of Moroccans. That night the Moroccans — 12,000 of them — left their camp and swarmed over the mountain villages around Monte Cassino. The...
by AustrianPainter
Fri May 17, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 17 1902)
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Today In History (May 17 1902)

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1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer more than 2,100 years old — the first computer known to humankind.
by AustrianPainter
Thu May 16, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 16 1888) Nikola Tesla
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Today In History (May 16 1888) Nikola Tesla

TODAY IN HISTORY nikola-tesla.jpg 1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing his alternating current inventions which will, for the first time in human history, allow efficient generation and use of electric power over long distances. He showed his character when he once tore up a contract wi...
by AustrianPainter
Wed May 15, 2024 6:41 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 15 1972)
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Today In History (May 15 1972)

TODAY IN HISTORY wallace.jpg 1972: In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President of the United States. Once a proponent of racial segregation, after being shot Wallace descends into pious, simpering multiracialism...
by AustrianPainter
Tue May 14, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 14 1607) Jamestown
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Today In History (May 14 1607) Jamestown

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1607: Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
by AustrianPainter
Mon May 13, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 13 2013) Kermit Gosnell
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Today In History (May 13 2013) Kermit Gosnell

TODAY IN HISTORY kermitgosnell-750x444.jpg 2013: Mulatto physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering fully viable infants born alive and other charges after a raid of his so-called “Women’s Medical Society.” His employee, Steven Massof, a failed medical student masqueradin...
by AustrianPainter
Sun May 12, 2024 8:49 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 12 1593, 1926)
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Today In History (May 12 1593, 1926)

TODAY IN HISTORY Thomas-Kyd-750x469.jpg 1593: London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured for allegedly holding, and privately writing down, “vile heretical conceits denying the eternal deity of Jesus Christ.” _______________________________________________________________________________...
by AustrianPainter
Sat May 11, 2024 8:48 am
Forum: Humor
Topic: Marital bliss
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Views: 83

Re: Marital bliss

Love it........ :lol:
by AustrianPainter
Sat May 11, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: Today In History
Topic: Today In History (May 11 1421)
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Today In History (May 11 1421)

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1421: Jews are expelled from Austria after years of popular outrage against them, under an “eternal ban” ordered by Albert II, also known as Albert the Magnanimous.