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Good Morning and welcome to the Roundtable for Monday November 17th. The weekend is over. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, fix it up just how you like it and get ready to face a brand new week!


A delicious cup of coffee with frothed milk, and below is a Coffee Plantation. The paradise in your cup really comes from paradise!





Events In History On November 17th


473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor
Leo I.

850 - First known discovery of coffee berries. Goat herder Kaldi of Ethiopia notices goats are friskier after eating red berries of a local shrub. Experiments with the berries himself and begins to feel happier.

1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.

1511 - Spain and England ally against France.

1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.

1777 - Articles of Confederation was submitted to the states for ratification.

1800 - The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.

1811 - José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.

1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).

1827 - The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.

1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.

1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.

1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.

1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

1911 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.

1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.

1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union.

1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps.

1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.

1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.

1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.

1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.

1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."

1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.

1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".

1973 - The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).

1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.

1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).

1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.

1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).

2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.

2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.

2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).


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I am not a Crook. Click on it!



Music for Monday. Click!

This Round Table is for my nephew Seth,
He left us way too soon.

Goodmorning, Greger. I love your opener. I wish my cup of coffee looked/tasted that good.
Old Dick and fun music. Nice.
Thank you!

I am so sorry about your nephew.
I hope you and your family find peace and healing soon.

My best to you
Olyve

I never knew that Richard Nixon (*your edited slur* is against the guidelines btw;) was here in Florida when he made that famous statement, not 20 miles from where I sit. I just makes me all goodebumps to think.......

Thank you. Olyve, my nephew is an example of what happens when young men don't use drugs wisely.

oh good grief...

and can get them too easily without restrictions without counciling.

I am sorry.

Au contraire, mon frere - Tricky Dick is okay because he's no longer in office.

If that's not the case it should be okay simply because when I was young I believed that was his actual name.


Having had my fun, I will join Olyve in extending my sympathy for your loss. I have a nephew on a similar road; I hope he finds his turning soon.

Oh - and I missed this completely -

1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.

So I wish an excellent good morning to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Morning All...


Another great Homosexual of History!

I wasn't around yesterday, but saw that Dostoevsky was mentioned... Regarding his death sentence being commuted, I learned in my CompLit Dostoevsky class in college that the Czar had the guards wait until he was in front of the firing squad to tell him that his sentence was to be commuted- to teach him a lesson. Well, apparently the lesson learned lead to some of the greatest works of literture, IMHO.

For my buddy agnostic, I offer the following:
The Grand Inquistor from The Brothers K

Kisses & Salams,
F&N

Great intro, Greger!Loved the ukelele music!

The fires closest to me are worsening, but still not close enough to threaten my home. Heavy smoke is still visible to the west. The number of burned-down homes just keeps growing. One spot of good news concerning the fires- a man was caught setting a fire in the Malibu area. A witness saw the suspect light some brush and leave. The witness was able to stomp out the fire, and call the police with a description. The police was able to catch the culprit...I hope they lock him up for good!

Why on the name of all that's holy would a person do such a thing? Escapes me.

This time around the fires are not close to my house (a few weeks ago they were) so I'm as safe as I can be from the fires.

The fires did get very close to where my brother lives with his wife and 18 month old twins but it didn't get any closer than 2 miles.