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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 3, 2024 21:52:46 GMT -5
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1952: The first British atomic weapons test, called Hurricane, was successfully conducted aboard the frigate HMS Plym.
1960: The Andy Griffith Show debuted on American television and was an immediate success.
1961: The Dick Van Dyke Show, a pioneer of the sitcom genre, began airing on CBS.
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 3, 2024 22:56:32 GMT -5
If you were to write out every number (one, two, three, etc.), you wouldn’t use the letter "b" until you reached one billion. You'll have to trust me on this one: If you spelled out every number, you'd get all the way to one billion before you'd need the second letter in the alphabet.
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 3, 2024 23:35:15 GMT -5
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Each year on the first Friday in October, World Smile Day devotes a day to smiles and spreading random acts of kindness.
If someone smiles at you, you’re bound to smile back.
A smile often expresses a feeling, encouragement to someone, or serves as a greeting.
If you don’t smile enough, #WorldSmileDay is the perfect day to start.
7 Benefits of Smiling:
Improves mood, Lowers blood pressure, Relieves stress
Betters relationships,Boosts the immune system, Relieves pain & Increases life expectancy
Who wouldn’t want all those benefits? All it takes is smiling. And the more often, the better!
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Post by BillG on Oct 4, 2024 6:04:36 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 4TH is "National Manufacturing Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Oct 4, 2024 7:55:19 GMT -5
October 4, 1957, Launch of Soviet's Sputnik sparks space race.
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Post by johnmori on Oct 4, 2024 10:12:44 GMT -5
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October 4, 1883
First run of the Orient Express.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 4, 2024 12:19:14 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 4 October 1535: The first complete Bible in English was published abroad, most likely in Antwerp, in 1535, the work of Miles Coverdale. Myles Coverdale (1488-1569), an Augustinian friar from Yorkshire educated at Cambridge, 'faithfully and truly translated it out of Douche [German] and Latin into English'. 1582: The Gregorian calendar was introduced, and over the following centuries numerous countries adopted it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar1970: American singer Janis Joplin, who was known for her fierce and uninhibited musical style, died of an accidental overdose of heroin. |
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 4, 2024 21:11:38 GMT -5
Casu Marzu cheese is purposely infested with maggots. If you ever come across maggot-infested food (yuck!), the best course of action is usually to throw the item into the trash as quickly as possible. However, those who make Casu Marzu cheese welcome the fly larva. With a name that literally translates to “rotten cheese,” the Sardinian delicacy starts as Pecorino Sardo.
But, instead of being soaked in brine, it’s left out so that Piophila casei cheese flies can lay their eggs inside of it. The larva eventually hatches from the eggs and eats the cheese, which produces enzymes that lead to fermentation and decomposition in what will become the Casu Marzu. I Love Cheese describes it by saying that it’s a “highly pungent, super soft cheese that oozes tears (‘lagrima’), and fittingly so, as it tends to burn on the tongue.”
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Post by BillG on Oct 5, 2024 5:52:17 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 5TH is "International Off-Road Day"!
 
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Post by johnmori on Oct 5, 2024 10:08:49 GMT -5
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October 5, 1970
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 5, 2024 20:32:26 GMT -5
Queen Elizabeth II invented a new breed of dog. It’s a well-known fact that Queen Elizabeth II is a fan of dogs, particularly one breed: corgis. She got her first corgi when she was seven years old after meeting those that belonged to the children of the Marquess of Bath. She’s also credited with the introduction of the “dorgi,” a corgi-dachshund cross.
Over her lifetime, the royal has had more than 30 pet corgis, all of whom were descendants of a dog named Susan, who the then-princess received as a gift for her 18th birthday in 1944. Sadly, Willow, the Queen’s last corgi, passed away in 2018 and the aging monarch did not get any new dogs because she didn’t want to leave any behind when she passed away.
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 5, 2024 21:20:46 GMT -5
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Wrapping up the original 13 colonies, National Rhode Island Day on October 5 recognizes the last colony to join the Union.
The Ocean State joined the union on May 4, 1776. Persecuted for his beliefs in Massachusetts, Roger Williams established the Rhode Island colony in 1636 at Providence seeking religious and political freedom.
While the colony was the first to renounce British rule, Rhode Island was the only state absent from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
Rhode Island delayed signing the Constitution, preferring the addition of a bill of rights.
It wasn't until the Constitution was ratified by nine previous states and the threat of taxation on her exports that Rhode Island finally ratified the document and became the 13th state.
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Post by soutxed on Oct 6, 2024 7:29:48 GMT -5
October 6, 1927 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928).
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Post by johnmori on Oct 6, 2024 7:45:55 GMT -5
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October 6, 1979
Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 6, 2024 13:34:51 GMT -5
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6 October 2000
Near Sakaiminato, Japan, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck, the most powerful earthquake since the devastating Kōbe earthquake of 1995, but damage and casualties were relatively low because the epicentre was in a sparsely inhabited area.
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