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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 21, 2024 20:49:46 GMT -5
The Olympic games were originally a religious festival. These days, the Olympics represent the ultimate achievement for many of the world’s top athletes. But when the prestigious games first started in Ancient Greece in 776 B.C., they were part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of Greek gods and goddesses. The athletes were all male citizens from every corner of the Greek world, according to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Post by BillG on Oct 22, 2024 5:44:37 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 22ND is "National Make A Dog’s Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Oct 22, 2024 7:49:40 GMT -5
October 22, 1962, US President John F. Kennedy makes a live television address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Post by johnmori on Oct 22, 2024 8:44:50 GMT -5
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October 22, 1976
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 22, 2024 13:20:23 GMT -5
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22 October
2010: WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange that functioned as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information,
released thousands of U.S. documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2008: Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar space probe, was launched and it later found water in the Moon's atmosphere.
1964: French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; however, he became the first person to decline the award.
1797: André-Jacques Garnerin, an inspector in the French army who encouraged the use of balloons for military purposes,
made a balloon ascent in order to give his first exhibition of parachuting, when he jumped from a height of about 3,200 feet (1,000 metres).
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 22, 2024 21:26:54 GMT -5
Humans move their eyes more 100,000 times a day. If your eyes tend to feel tired at the end of the day, it's because they do a ton of work. Humans generally move their eyes around three times a second, which is more than 100,000 times every single day.
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Post by BillG on Oct 23, 2024 5:36:48 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 23RD is "National Boston Cream Pie Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Oct 23, 2024 8:13:14 GMT -5
October 23, 2001, Apple releases game-changing music player. After launching iTunes earlier in the year, Apple releases its MP3 player, a sleek white box with a scroll wheel, monochrome LCD screen, and storage for 1,000 songs. A smash hit, iPod will seed Apple's growth in the new century, selling hundreds of millions of units across five models: Classic, Mini, Nano, Shuffle, and Touch.
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Post by johnmori on Oct 23, 2024 8:44:55 GMT -5
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October 23, 1970
Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 23, 2024 12:29:34 GMT -5
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23 October
1941: The Disney animated classic Dumbo had its world premiere.
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 23, 2024 23:45:03 GMT -5
One Brazilian island has so many venomous snakes that the government banned visitors. The government of Brazil has banned tourists from visiting Ilha de Queimada Grande, an island that has the highest concentration of venomous snakes in the world. By some estimates, there's one snake for every square meter. The island is crawling with thousands of golden lancehead vipers. And when these snakes strike, their venom can kill the victim in under an hour. So yes, you're better off vacationing elsewhere!
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 23, 2024 23:56:36 GMT -5
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National Food Day focuses on healthy and nutritious food and takes place annually on October 24th. One of the themes of the day aims to help people to “Eat Real.”
This theme is defined as "cutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods and fatty,
factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and sustainably raised protein."
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Post by soutxed on Oct 24, 2024 7:41:21 GMT -5
October 24, 1945, United Nations founded. The U.N. charter was ratified by the then 5 permanent members and 46 member states.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 24, 2024 10:49:47 GMT -5
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24 October
2003: Supersonic passenger service ended as British Airways flew its last Concorde flight; Air France had ceased similar operations in May.
1992: The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves to become the first team not based in the United States to win the World Series.
1940: The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
1861: The first transcontinental telegram was sent via the telegraph in the United States, effectively bringing to an end the Pony Express.
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Post by johnmori on Oct 24, 2024 11:47:13 GMT -5
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October 24, 1974
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1979
Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
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