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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 18, 2020 1:32:10 GMT -5
At least one of the colors of the Olympic flag appears on all the national flags. Fresh aristocrat Baron de Coubertin designed the Olympic flag in the early 1900s, and he was very intentional with his creation. At least one of the colors on the Olympic flag appears on the flags of every nation that competed in the games at the time (but only if you count the white background of the flag itself). Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Nov 18, 2020 7:23:51 GMT -5
Who knew??? On November 18th, 1963, push button phones are used for the first time. Bell Systems started replacing rotary dial phones by push button phone in the United States.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 18, 2020 9:29:00 GMT -5
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November 18, 2013 NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
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Post by soutxed on Nov 18, 2020 9:33:04 GMT -5
On Nov. 18, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.
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Post by sandipaws on Nov 18, 2020 23:41:20 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 19, 2020 1:03:49 GMT -5
The tea bag was an accidental invention. In 1908, New York tea merchant Thomas Sullivan sent samples of tea leaves to some of his customers in small silken bags. Many of the recipients assumed that the bags were supposed to be used in the same way as the metal infusers. So, they put the entire bag into the teapot, rather than emptying out its contents. After such positive feedback from the happy accident, Sullivan designed intentional teabags for commercial production. In the 1920s, his sachets made of gauze—and later, paper—included the string with the tag hanging over the side so the bag could be easily removed. Who knew?
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Post by johnmori on Nov 19, 2020 6:56:07 GMT -5
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November 19, 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
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Post by BillG on Nov 19, 2020 7:20:17 GMT -5
Who knew??? On November 19, 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, beginning: "Four score and seven years ago..."
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Post by soutxed on Nov 19, 2020 8:29:35 GMT -5
November 19, 1969 Second Moon Landing. The second spacecraft to land on the Moon, Apollo 12 was the 6th manned flight of NASA’s Apollo program. Crew members Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean became the 3rd and 4th humans to step on the surface of the Moon.
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Post by sandipaws on Nov 19, 2020 8:58:17 GMT -5
Hello MidnightSun, johnmori, BillG & soutxed,
Thanks for the excellent posts today!
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Post by sandipaws on Nov 19, 2020 23:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 20, 2020 1:15:48 GMT -5
According to entomologists’ estimates, there are over 10 quintillion insects (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) at any given time on earth. Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Nov 20, 2020 6:23:45 GMT -5
Who knew??? On November 20th, 1924 in Warsaw Poland, Benoit B. Mandelbrot was born. A French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". Fractal Geometry Pioneer Benoît Mandelbrot
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Post by soutxed on Nov 20, 2020 8:33:28 GMT -5
On Nov. 20, 2000, lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 20, 2020 8:48:22 GMT -5
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November 20, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
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