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1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 20, 2014 - 7:38am |
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1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon later that day (Eastern Time Zone).
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R_P
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The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England | History | SmithsonianBertolini's restaurant was cheap, but charming: perfect for the creatures who roamed 19th-century London after the sun went down. On Tuesday nights, in Bertolini's backroom, respected judges and doctors, esteemed lawyers, admired politicians and award-winning poets and writers drank heavily, smoked cigars and secretly discussed what they thought they knew of the British colonies, more specifically polygamy, bestiality, phallic worship, female circumcision, ritual murder, savage fetishes and island cannibalism. The gentlemen would trade in exotic pornography and tales of flogging and prostitution. If, by chance, a pious, God-fearing bloke were to accidentally stumble into the Fleet Street backroom on a Tuesday night, the tips of his Victorian moustache would've certainly stood on end. Before the debate between science and creationism, there was the debate between monogenism and polygenism. Monogenists believed that all of humanity shared a common ancestry while polygenists were convinced that different races of man had different origins. There was a palpable tension in Victorian England between the creation of a democratic scientific methodology and the elitist attitudes that reinforced Anglo-Saxon superiority. During Britain's "Imperial Century" these convenient human classifications were perfectly inline with colonialist sensibilities—of course, no race could match the enlightenment of the English Gentleman. The conflict captured the imagination of Victorian England and, by 1863, drove a wedge between the polygenist and monogenist members of the then 20-year-old Ethnological Society of London. Determined to continue advocating their polygenist ideologies, Captain Richard Francis Burton and Dr. James Hunt, both members of the Ethnological Society of London, broke away and established The Anthropological Society of London. The new splinter society supported the pseudoscientific practices of phrenology, the measuring of skull size with craniometers and, of course, polygenism. Recent scholarship has even suggested that its members were covert propagandists, acting on behalf of the Confederate States of America to convince Londoners that enslaved Africans were biologically incapable of any development beyond their menial work as slaves.(...)
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 19, 2014 - 6:33am |
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64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
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R_P
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Jul 18, 2014 - 7:47am |
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 18, 2014 - 6:08am |
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2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 18, 2014 - 6:07am |
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1976 – Nadia ComÄneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 18, 2014 - 6:07am |
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1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 18, 2014 - 6:07am |
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1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 18, 2014 - 6:06am |
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1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
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R_P
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Jul 17, 2014 - 10:46am |
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Lady Day departs into that good night - The Globe and MailJuly 17, 1959
Billie Holiday was in a bad way when admitted to Metropolitan Hospital in East Harlem in late May, 1959: exhausted, puffy, her breathing laboured, her liver shot from decades of alcohol and drug abuse. And the famous voice, the one that had indelibly stamped God Bless the Child, Strange Fruit and You’ve Changed, was more croak than satiny purr. Adding insult to bodily injury, police had discovered heroin at her apartment, resulting in the former Eleanora Fagan’s arrest in hospital for narcotics possession. At the New York hospital, a police officer took up residence outside her room, and there he stayed until a few hours before cirrhosis of the liver and pulmonary edema took Lady Day into that good night. She was 44, with just 70 cents in her bank account.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 17, 2014 - 6:13am |
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1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 17, 2014 - 6:12am |
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1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
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Proclivities
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Jul 16, 2014 - 8:59am |
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RichardPrins wrote:Hell hath no fury... Interesting article, but I believe it's in the wrong thread; there appears to be no mention of today's date - as was the case with the "Drug Of Folly" article. Though the letter reproduced in the article is dated July 22.
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R_P
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Jul 16, 2014 - 8:49am |
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Hell hath no fury...
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ScottN
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Jul 16, 2014 - 8:03am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. You don't have to dig deeply for points of Oklahoma pride.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 16, 2014 - 6:11am |
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2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 16, 2014 - 6:11am |
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1994 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jul 16, 2014 - 6:10am |
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1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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