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Post by soutxed on Dec 8, 2020 9:34:29 GMT -5
Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Post by soutxed on Dec 8, 2020 9:34:55 GMT -5
December 8, 1980, rock star and former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan.
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Post by soutxed on Dec 8, 2020 19:14:09 GMT -5
- A child born in 2020 that begins kindergarten in the fall of 2025 would attend college between the years of 2038 and 2042. If that child attended an average public in-state 4-year college and if the annual price increases for public colleges that have occurred over the last 30 years (+5.0% per year) continued into the future, the aggregate 4-year cost of the child’s college education (including tuition, fees, room & board) would be $231,779 or $57,945 per year (source: College Board).
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 8, 2020 22:59:36 GMT -5
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Each year around this time, friends and families begin mailing their holiday cards. Christmas Card Day on December 9th serves as a reminder to get your stamps, envelopes, and cards together so you can share your holiday cheer.
Sending a card during the holidays hasn’t always been a tradition. In Victorian England, sending Penny Post was inexpensive and frequent. It was also considered rude to ignore a written message. One particularly popular Victorian invented the holiday card out of necessity. Sir Henry Cole received frequent letters, and it left him little time for other responsibilities. In 1843, he asked his friend J.C. Horsley to illustrate a design he had in mind. Soon, Cole was off to the printer, and he mailed the first Christmas card in the Penny Post to friends, family, and many acquaintances.
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Post by MidnightSun on Dec 9, 2020 2:12:38 GMT -5
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from two miles away. The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 150 tons and measuring up to 90 feet long. Roughly the size of a small car, the blue whale's heart weighs about 1,300 pounds. You just might miss it, though, as its heart only beats eight to 10 times per minute.
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Post by johnmori on Dec 9, 2020 6:22:14 GMT -5
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December 9, 1968
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
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Post by BillG on Dec 9, 2020 7:19:03 GMT -5
Who knew??? On December 9th, 1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy.
 
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Post by soutxed on Dec 9, 2020 9:34:23 GMT -5
December 9, 1990, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa won Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide.
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 10, 2020 0:06:33 GMT -5
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Dewey Decimal System Day December 10th celebrates a system of classification and the man who invented it. On December 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) was born. The librarian invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification.
As the most widely used library classification system, the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) or Dewey Decimal System has been in use since 1876. That was the year when American Librarian Melvil Dewey developed and established it. Divided into ten main categories, the numerical system arranges mostly non-fiction publications.
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Post by MidnightSun on Dec 10, 2020 1:27:13 GMT -5
30,000 rubber ducks lost at sea in 1992 are still being discovered today. A cargo ship traveling from Hong Kong to the United States accidentally lost a shipping crate in the Pacific Ocean. These rubber ducks continue to pop up on shores from Australia to Alaska, they've enlightened our understanding of ocean currents. Some have made it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean while others have been found frozen in Arctic ice.
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Post by BillG on Dec 10, 2020 6:49:25 GMT -5
Who knew??? On December 10th, 1958 the first domestic passenger jet powered aircraft flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
 
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Post by johnmori on Dec 10, 2020 7:37:35 GMT -5
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December 10, 1768
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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Post by soutxed on Dec 10, 2020 9:36:06 GMT -5
December 10, 2013, South Africa held a memorial service for Nelson Mandela, during which U.S. President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state with a plea for the world to emulate “the last great liberator of the 20th century.”
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 10, 2020 23:21:21 GMT -5
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National App Day on December 11th encourages us to explore all the possibilities apps afford us.
The word “App” was listed as the word of the year in 2010 by the American Dialect Society.
Short for Software Application, apps quickly appeared when our mobile devices incorporated smart technologies. As the power of our phones increased with processing chips, internet connectivity, and touchscreens, so did the apps that became available.
Since that time, apps continue changing how we work, live, and play. They offer opportunities, too, by creating thousands of new companies, millions of new jobs, and billions of dollars in revenue.
Apps accelerated in growth with the advent of Apple’s iPhone in 2007. In 2008, Apple introduced OS 2.0, which included approximately 500 apps and allowed third-party app generation. Over 3 million apps on both the Apple and Android platforms offer a plethora of options for business, productivity, entertainment, organization, security, news, and so much more. And every, programmers introduce thousands more.
Not only do apps keep us connected and organized, but through customization, apps fit our busy and changing lifestyles.
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Post by MidnightSun on Dec 11, 2020 0:42:24 GMT -5
There's a Manhattan-specific ant. On Broadway medians between 63rd and 76th
streets, biologists discovered a new species of ant. They named it ManhattAnt, naturally.
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