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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 19, 2020 23:15:59 GMT -5
There are no active volcanoes in Australia because it is entirely in the middle of a tectonic plate.
Home to nearly 150 volcanoes, none of them has erupted for about 4,000 to 5,000 years!
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Post by jimco22 on Jul 20, 2020 5:05:41 GMT -5
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Post by johnmori on Jul 20, 2020 5:09:40 GMT -5
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July 20, 1903
The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
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Post by BillG on Jul 20, 2020 7:14:26 GMT -5
Who knew??? On July 20, 1976, the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, becomes the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars.
 
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Post by soutxed on Jul 20, 2020 8:37:52 GMT -5
On this date in 2012 gunman, James Holmes, opened fire in a movie theater during the premier of the Dark Night Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 20, 2020 22:46:00 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 20, 2020 23:14:07 GMT -5
A junk food cheeseburger w/ l, t, & m, please.
The top reasons for saying, "God bless you" after a person sneezes.
The first symptom of the bubonic plague.
It causes the soul to escape the body through the nose.
Evil spirits use the sneeze as an opportunity to enter a person's body.
Some believe that our hearts stop when we sneeze.
We have been saying "Bless you for one thousand years.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 21, 2020 5:38:58 GMT -5
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July 21, 1969
Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Post by BillG on Jul 21, 2020 7:47:00 GMT -5
Who knew??? On July 21, 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
  
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Post by soutxed on Jul 21, 2020 8:40:51 GMT -5
In 1990, a benefit concert took place in Germany at the site of the fallen Berlin Wall; the concert, which drew some 200,000 people, was headlined by Roger Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd. (The concert ended with the collapse of a mock Berlin Wall made of styrofoam.) In 1998, astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, California, at age 74; actor Robert Young died in Westlake Village, California, at age 91.
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 21, 2020 22:50:23 GMT -5
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NATIONAL HOT DOG DAY – July 22, 2020
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 21, 2020 22:51:23 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 21, 2020 23:51:38 GMT -5
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 22, 2020 6:04:27 GMT -5
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July 22, 1893
Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Post by BillG on Jul 22, 2020 6:09:36 GMT -5
Who knew??? On July 22, 1926 the temperature reached a record 105°F (41°C) in Waterbury, Connecticut.
 
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