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  1. scotrace

    Today in History

    133 years ago, May 8, 1886. A patent medicine called "Coca Cola" is offered for the first time, and nine servings were sold. Compare to this very day: 1.9 billion servings will be drunk up worldwide before you go to bed. 1912: Paramount Pictures is founded. May 8, 1933, Mahatma Gandhi begins...
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    Today in History

    In a move that did much to establish the image of the Brutal Hun of WWI, A German U-20 sank the passenger ship The Lusitania May 7, 1915. 1,198 people died. On the way to a rapid Japanese post-war recovery, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering was founded with 20 employees May 7, 1946. It...
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    Today in History

    May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg was destroyed by fire in attempting to dock. The live broadcast became legendary. May 6, 1889: The Eiffel Tower was opened to the public.
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    Today in History

    Today in 1931, the Empire State Building was dedicated, and flew into the hungry maw of the also freshy dedicated Great Depression. It bled money. In 1999, the body of mountain climber George Mallory was discovered on Mount Everest. He'd lain where he fell 75 years earlier. The 1940 summer...
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    The Fragmentation Of History

    I live close enough to Kentucky to make Bardstown an easy long weekend trip, which my parents did when I was a kid. The house where "My Old Kentucky Home" was composed was a big attraction, and I wonder if it still is. Like Lizzie said, Stephen Foster was pretty dusty ages ago. It's hard to...
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    Today in History

    Donner, party of six? The last of the Donner Party emerged from their ordeal on this day in 1847, raggedy but sated. I've crossed the Donner Pass in good weather and it's easy to see how they'd be hopelessly lost in bad. The first person to lose his head to the guillotine, Nocolaus J...
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    The Fragmentation Of History

    You know, when this Kate Smith thing blew up, such as it has, I remember thinking that most of the people reading the story would have to look up who Kate Smith was, even though they'd likely heard her sing God Bless America a dozen or more times. And now we have to clutch our pearls and cover...
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    Notre Dame Cathedral

    "Jesus in the Flames" is sure to be the title of a book about the fire. I saw an estimate of about £8 Billion to get it back up to scratch.
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    Today in History

    April 14, 1865, Ford's Theater. President Lincoln is shot.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Us." Obvious plot devices, absolute telegraphing of the whole point in the first 5 minutes, weak characters. I don't get the hype. "Get Out" was a much, much better movie, though "Us" had some really amazing performances. The faults with it are all directorial choices.
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    Today in History

    And April 11, 1945, US troops liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Fifteen years later, April 11, 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, major architect of the Holocaust, began in Jerusalem.
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    Dick Cole, Last of the Doolittle Raiders, Has Died at 103

    https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/04/09/a-legend-passes-dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-103/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Socialflow+MIL&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1rry_lLT3YZsZRJt05H8yX86b6WYPRiDJ4QrMNtbTURQm2WhfBBexBhkg So the final silver...
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    Comment by 'scotrace' in article 'A Tour of the National Museum of the United States Air Force'

    With sadness, I must relate that the last surviving Doolittle Raider, Dick Cole, has died at 103. The last of the cups at the museum will be turned upside down...
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    Surely a lot. Ohio is a good state to be from but live somewhere else. :)
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    It has been surprising. We have a lot of subscribers in FL, NY, CA, and TX. Outside the US, they're in the UK, Australia, and, oddly, Scandinavia. Ohio has a sickening number of underreported murders in small towns. We figure at the rate of publishing every other week, we're good for another...
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    Help with an approximate time-frame for this French 3pc suit

    Your source is right, to my eye. And it'd be hard to narrow it down much further. The labeling "feels" 1920's, as does the waist pinch. Looks to be very well made. Nice find.
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    That's it. The State of Perfect Balance. It leaves the romanticism of the murderers to others and respectfully focuses on the victim and their families. It got a writeup in Vulture.com last week. (Still have to present the ugly facts, we've found)
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    My wife and I are producing a bi-weekly true crime podcast (22k subscribers and growing fast), and it has been the research into many of them that has turned me off the death penalty. The state gets it wrong surprisingly often and even one innocent person killed by the state is too many to...
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    Signed Books

    I have a copy of "Crowded Hours," signed by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the author.
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    Bob Dong advice

    Well, that's it, one too many peepee jokes. "Boys will be boys" doesn't fly anymore.

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