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Post by BillG on Nov 22, 2021 7:28:07 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 22nd is "National Cranberry Relish Day".
 
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Post by johnmori on Nov 22, 2021 9:13:27 GMT -5
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November 22, 1963
U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
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Post by soutxed on Nov 22, 2021 9:32:49 GMT -5
November 22, 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 23, 2021 2:48:01 GMT -5
San Francisco is Mostly Water. The 232 square miles that make up this Bay Area city are 80 percent water, 20 percent land.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 23, 2021 7:29:15 GMT -5
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November 23, 1992
The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Post by soutxed on Nov 23, 2021 9:04:08 GMT -5
November 23, 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)
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Post by BillG on Nov 23, 2021 9:46:18 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 23rd is "National Cashew Day".
 
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Post by sandipaws on Nov 23, 2021 10:33:25 GMT -5
Who Knew???  Note from sandipaws:
I make Cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner.
The recipe is simple, quick & easy to make: fresh cranberries, sugar & orange juice.
www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9111/cranberry-sauce/
There are other recipes that have more ingredients, but I haven't tried any of them yet.
Homemade sauce is a little different from the canned cranberry sauce, but I still enjoy both. |
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 24, 2021 2:04:04 GMT -5
Shakespeare Popularized the Name Jessica. Jessica, one of the most popular names in America for the better part of the 1980s and 1990s, was actually coined by William Shakespeare. The first instance of the common spelling of this name comes from The Merchant of Venice, written by the bard in the late 1500s.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 24, 2021 6:07:38 GMT -5
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November 24, 1971
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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Post by BillG on Nov 24, 2021 8:52:57 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 24th is "National Sardines Day".
 
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Post by sandipaws on Nov 24, 2021 10:25:55 GMT -5
Who Knew??? The name jukebox is thought to originate from places called ‘juke houses’ or ‘jook joints.’ In the early 1900s, people congregated in these establishments to drink and listen to music. In 1889, Louis Glass and his partner William S. Arnold invented the first coin-operated player in San Francisco. They were both managers of the Pacific Phonograph Co. Formally known as the nickel-in-the-slot machine, the player included a coin operation feature on an Edison phonograph. However, it played a limited selection of songs without any amplification.
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Post by soutxed on Nov 24, 2021 10:35:27 GMT -5
Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television.
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 25, 2021 0:57:05 GMT -5
There is a Hot Pink Lake in Australia. Western Australia's Lake Hillier has a naturally-occurring pink hue. While scientists aren't entirely sure why this is, it likely has to do with the carotenoid pigments produced by microalgae in the water.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 25, 2021 8:14:23 GMT -5
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November 25, 1947
New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
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