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• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Thu, Jan 15 2015 11:42 AM

  SweetiePie:

  Thanks Sir Paul !

  January 15

  1432 - Afonso V "The African" ~ King of Portugal

  1622 - Moliere ~ French Playwright

  1716 - Philip Livingstone ~ Signer of The Declaration of Independence

  1870 - Pierre duPont ~ American businessman

  1908 - Edward Teller ~ Father of the H-Bomb

  1909 - Gene Bugatti ~ German born Auto designer

  1929 - Marty King, Jr ~ Preacher

  1945 - Vince Foster ~ ????

  ~ Bye the Bye ~

  588BC ~ Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon (where else ?) lays siege to Jerusalem

  1535 ~ Henry VIII ~ House of Tudor ~ declares himself head of the Church in England

  1759 ~ British Museum opens in London

  1762 ~ Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC....still open

  1797 ~ 1st Top Hat is worn in London

  1889 ~ Coca-Cola is incorporated

  1947 ~ The body of Elizabeth Short is found in a neighborhood field in LA. She was cut entirely in half at the belly-button and left naked as a jaybird...never solved...the scene & autopsy photos are vivid

  ~ see ya ~

  A lot has happened since last 15 January.  :)

   

  SweetiePie:

  Jan 15

  Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta...85 years ago

  In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Wesminster Abbey. 455 years ago

  ...and sadly, in 1947, the remains ( body cut completely in half, left nude in a vacant lot in L.A.) of 22 year old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the "Black Dahlia" were found; her slaying remains unsolved.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Jan 16 2015 9:41 AM

  hpurey:

  A lot has happened since last 15 January.  :)

  '-}}    I heard

  January 16

  1245 - Edmund Crouchback (ackward) son of Henry III of England

  1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter ~ Norwegian Poet

  1815 - Henry Haleck "old brains" ~ US Civil War Major General and a pr!ck

  1901 - Fulgencio Batista ~ a Cuban

  1911 - Dizzy Dean

  1935 - AJ Foyt

  1948 - John Carpenter

  ~ By the Bye ~

  27BC ~ The Title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian

  1547 ~ Ivan IV the terrible crowns himself tsar of Moscow

  1765 ~ Charles Messier catalogs M-41

  1793 ~ King Louis XVI is sentenced to death

  ~ Peace ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Jan 17 2015 7:46 AM

  January 17

                         ~ 1706 - Benjamin Franklin ~ "The Most Amazing American" ~

   

• rollone 777 Posts

  Mon, Jan 19 2015 1:30 PM

  SweetiePie:

  January 17

                         ~ 1706 - Benjamin Franklin ~ "The Most Amazing American" ~

   

  ill agree with that...dude was off the chain, and i think he liked his grass too!

• rollone 777 Posts

  Mon, Jan 19 2015 1:40 PM

  btw SweetiePie, ty for taking the time to do this. i find history very fascinating, and it makes me look like a history genius at work when i spew this knowledge henceforth to the dregs.. er... co-workers who work around me. heck, i think it got me my latest raise!

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Jan 19 2015 9:23 PM

  rollone:

  ill agree with that...dude was off the chain, and i think he liked his grass too!

  Yep ... Ben was known to run around his apartment naked ... and scared the heck out of his chamber maid on several occasions with his limp tool dangling thru the pubes ...

  but the grass ... that would have been George Washington ... Hemp grew better in VA than PA!  lol.

• rollone 777 Posts

  Tue, Jan 20 2015 5:45 PM

  DaddysKat:

  rollone:

  ill agree with that...dude was off the chain, and i think he liked his grass too!

  Yep ... Ben was known to run around his apartment naked ... and scared the heck out of his chamber maid on several occasions with his limp tool dangling thru the pubes ...

  but the grass ... that would have been George Washington ... Hemp grew better in VA than PA!  lol.

  i bet they shared a puff whilst conversing on the topics of Utopian society and dresses that were way way too long

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Jan 20 2015 6:24 PM

  rollone:

  i bet they shared a puff whilst conversing on the topics of Utopian society and dresses that were way way too long

  Unfortunately, RollOne, there is no evidence of any of the American "Founding Fathers" to have used Hemp for anything other than rope and paper production.  The THC content of the Hemp plant at the time was extremely low.  So I think if they did smoke, they would have preferred tobacco over hemp.

   

• opyeuclid 6,710 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 6:46 AM

  Today makes 6 years here in WGT land for me .

  OPY

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 8:53 AM

  opyeuclid:

  Today makes 6 years here in WGT land for me .

  OPY

  WOW !!! The one and only OPY !! Way to go !   and thanks for being you :-}

  January 21

                                ~ 1940 - Jack Nicklaus ~

  1338 - King Charles V (Charles the Wise) of France

  1659 - Adriaen van der Werff ~ Dutch painter

  1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson ~ Confederate Major General ~ mistakenly shot and killed by his own men

  1855 - John Browning ~ Weapons Mfg ~ had a turn with golf clubs in the 1970's

  1905 - Christian Dior ~ French fashion biggie

  1905 - Karl Wallenda ~ German acrobat with huge stones

  1924 - Benny Hill - England ~ ;-}}}}

  1951 - Eric Holder ~ racist - lier - Constitution hater - belongs in Leavenworth

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1324 ~ Zen Buddihist debate - ya you betcha '-}

  1793 ~ Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine in Paris

  1979 ~ GOLD!!! hits $850 per ounce SELL!! SELL!! SELL!!

  1994 ~ Lorena Bobbitt is found insane for lopping off her husband's schlonger :-}}

  ~ Happy Day ~