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Post by soutxed on Dec 29, 2020 8:54:56 GMT -5
December 29, 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state.
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 29, 2020 22:51:13 GMT -5
Who Knew??? National Bicarbonate of Soda Day or Baking Soda day recognizes a staple of the home kitchen on December 30th.
Just a spoonful of sodium bicarbonate doesn’t have the same ring to it. But this extraordinary, naturally occurring substance provides health benefits while cleaning the house.
We add baking soda to recipes as a leavening agent to make our baked goods rise. Baking soda reacts with other acidic ingredients to make that happen. Many of us have combined baking soda and vinegar and seen the chemical reaction. When carbon dioxide is released, our baked goods rise.
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Post by BillG on Dec 30, 2020 6:37:37 GMT -5
Who knew??? On December 30th, 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed. Vladimir Lenin was the original leader from 1922-1924.
 
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Post by johnmori on Dec 30, 2020 6:59:21 GMT -5
Who knew???
December 30, 1886
Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
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Post by soutxed on Dec 30, 2020 9:12:51 GMT -5
On this date in 2006 Saddam Hussein executed. The deposed president of Iraq was hanged after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity. Hussein was the fifth president of Iraq and came to power after a coup in 1968.
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 30, 2020 23:26:05 GMT -5
Who Knew???
 National Champagne Day recognizes the wine that puts the pop in every New Year’s Eve celebration.
Genuine champagne only comes from France’s Champagne region. French law protects where and how it is made. With some exceptions, only Champagne made according to set specifications and within the French region may label their wines using the term “Champagne.” Other foods and beverages fall under this type of protection in France and other parts of the world.
Champagne, France, is located northeast of Paris and provides ideal temperature and soil to produce the grapes required for Champagne. French law allows only eight varieties of grapes for the production of Champagne in the Champagne region. Primarily, the three grapes used to create Champagne are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier.
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Post by MidnightSun on Dec 31, 2020 0:05:15 GMT -5
Will have a glass of champagne w/each of you!There was a secret Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. In 1988, a bar owner visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, made a surreptitious addition to the honorees, slipping a photo of his dad wearing a baseball uniform into one of the glass cases. It remained there for six years before anyone detected that it did not belong there.
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Post by johnmori on Dec 31, 2020 5:53:32 GMT -5
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December 31, 1983
The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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Post by BillG on Dec 31, 2020 8:04:28 GMT -5
Who knew??? December 31st is "Hogmanay". Hogmanay is a Scottish word meaning “the last day of the year.” It’s celebrated in Scotland on New Year’s Eve, when Scots host house parties and exchange gifts. The celebrations are often followed by parties on both New Year’s Day and January 2, which is a bank holiday in Scotland. While the origins of Hogmanay are hard to pinpoint, its roots are thought to lie in Norse and Gaelic traditions.
 
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Post by soutxed on Dec 31, 2020 9:45:00 GMT -5
Dec. 31, 2019, the health commission in the central Chinese city of Wuhan announced that experts were investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness and that most of the victims had visited a seafood market in the city; the statement said 27 people had become ill with a strain of viral pneumonia and that seven were in serious condition.
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Post by sandipaws on Dec 31, 2020 23:38:28 GMT -5
Who Knew???
For all those who celebrated more than they should have, National Bloody Mary Day serves up one of the world’s most popular hangover cures on January 1st.
It would seem the Bloody Mary is the product of several hard day’s nights, lackluster cocktails, and seemingly tasteless liquor.
When the Russian Revolution pressed fleeing men into Paris and to Harry’s Bar at The Ritz Hotel, bartender Ferdinand “Pete” Petiot mixed up a cocktail that eventually made its way to post-prohibition America.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jan 1, 2021 1:07:31 GMT -5
Roosters have built-in earplugs. A rooster's call can reach 140 decibels or louder. How does the rooster itself keeps from going deaf when that noise is coming right out of its beak? The farm fowl have built-in earplugs. Researchers found that when a rooster opens its beak to crow, its external auditory canals close off, preventing sound from coming in and serving as earplugs.
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Post by johnmori on Jan 1, 2021 5:47:09 GMT -5
Who knew???
January 1, 1902
The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
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Post by BillG on Jan 1, 2021 9:10:27 GMT -5
Who knew??? On January 1st, 1962 the United States Navy SEALs were created (U. S. Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams).
 
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Post by soutxed on Jan 1, 2021 9:33:04 GMT -5
Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”
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