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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 1, 2023 13:07:10 GMT
Happy anniversary to Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, selected as the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on this date in 1789. Fortunately for Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister, he didn't have to sell his soul to Marjorie Taylor Greene to get the position.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 11, 2023 15:01:02 GMT
Happy anniversary to Napoleon, who abdicated his throne and was forced into exile on Elba on this date in 1814. Apparently the rest of Europe would have agreed with my ban on French.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 22, 2023 19:59:41 GMT
Happy anniversary to my home state of Ohio making seduction illegal on this date in 1886. Good thing Sextrovert wasn't born until almost a century later.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Apr 28, 2023 19:47:00 GMT
Happy anniversary to Benito Mussolini, executed on this date in 1945. The condemned was given a last meal of pineapple upside-down cake, or as it was referred to in his case, pineapple cake.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 7, 2023 14:41:31 GMT
Happy anniversary to Alfred Nobel, who exploded onto the scene on this date in 1867 when he received a patent in England for dynamite.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 11, 2023 23:36:30 GMT
Happy anniversary to the tubeless tire, introduced by the B.F. Goodrich Company on this date in 1947. Years later, this achievement would inspire researchers to create Viagra in pursuit of a tireless tube.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 14, 2023 14:13:31 GMT
Happy anniversary to the Warsaw Pact, formed on this date in 1955. In 1991, it was curtains for this agreement.
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Post by donavan on May 14, 2023 14:33:12 GMT
Would that be the Iron Curtain coming down?
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 14, 2023 14:35:37 GMT
The Soviets tried to use the Iron Curtain to look like a world power, but it was all just window dressing.
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Post by donavan on May 14, 2023 14:42:34 GMT
Good for getting creases out of their clothes though.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 14, 2023 14:45:50 GMT
I didn't think they were fans of the press.
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Post by donavan on May 14, 2023 14:52:11 GMT
They are not fans of your Press-ident
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 14, 2023 14:54:11 GMT
You're Putin me on.
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Post by donavan on May 14, 2023 14:55:58 GMT
No need to get bolshy.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 14, 2023 15:01:06 GMT
Sorry.
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