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Welcome to the Round Table for Nov. 15, 2009










1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland

1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
Nice job, gents!

1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak

(always reminds me of
happy little trees)

1864 Sherman burns Atlanta
It's looking a bit better than he is nowadays

1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)




1881 Franklin P Adams Chicago IL, columnist (Information Please)
Also a radio actor and a member of the Algonquin Round Table in the 20s and 30s

Quote

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary . - FPA

1887 Georgia O'Keeffe Sun Prairie WI, painter (Cow's Skull)

1887 Marianne Moore St Louis, poet
(Pulitzer-1951-Collected Poems)

1891 Erwin Rommel German field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1891 W Averell Harriman US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)

1919 Joseph Albert Wapner La, judge (People's Court)
1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva

1929 Edward Asner Kansas City KS, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) He's not in the clip; well, it's about him..


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1932 Petula Clark England, singer (Downtown, My Love)
The first song I really remember;
maybe that's why I love city lights








1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews




1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check





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1946 Janet Lennon Culver City CA, singer (Lennon Sisters) and star of a series of books for girls, like this one: Janet Lennon at Camp Calamity. I don't remember what it was about, but I remember the bathing suit.

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1959 Clutter family of rural Garden City,Kansas.
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Their murder on this day by two men
eventually inspired Truman Capote to
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1968 James Brady Brooklyn NY, columnist (NY Post)

1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War



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1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran,
thereby opening a #13 can of worms.


1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly
specials on Iran hostage See? Toldja.

1988 PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence

1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album.
Flash: and the hair was a weave.


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Ever heard the saying “Don't put anything in email you don't want to read in the paper tomorrow?" Here's the origin of the line:

1804 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Corruption always begins the day, but morning prayer never fails to set my mind in a right frame.'

Henry, Henry, way too much information...

Don't write anything in a journal you don't want people snickering at long after you're dead. Shredders are cheap, people!

Love bagels, could never get the point of lox nor learn to like the stuff. But thanks for the buffet. It was yummy with just the cream cheese!

Love the fact that everything in the U.S. was "discovered" by Europeans!

And when Sherman was done with Atlanta, he set about exterminating the indigenous population of the rest of the country. Not sure there is a final count of how many Sioux, Arapahoe, Commanche, Cherokee, etc., were put to death on his orders. The man should be ripped from his grave and . . .

worst toy display ever



what the hell were they thinking?

Nice collection today, Mellow. And thanks again everyone for the games yesterday -- I wasted a lot of time and perfected the art of avoiding writing my research paper. But I've slapped myself silly and will NOT fall for that today!

OOPS - gotta ago!

EmmaG

What a wonderful opener, Mellow!! Informative and entertaining...and I love the little comments along the way!

Someone (don't remember who) my parents listened to on the radio in the 1950's would regularly refer to the Algonquin Round Table and quote its members. Perhaps that's when my penchant for sarcastic wit was conceived.

I'm with you, Schlack. That's just wrong.

It's a CVS pharmacy -- you can tell by the sign for the "Extra Care" card in the lower picture.

Wow, Mellow.
Just fabulous. The formatting is amazing.

That's my home town up there. A nice to wave to from a distance (oh the traffic is hell).
LOL, I recognize the platter of food too. Seen that quite a few times but no I've not tried lox and don't plan to.
I love the music too.

Naomi, re your comments concerning my brother from yesterday, thank you. Me too. Maybe now he'll get the help he needs.

Hi all.
It's still warm here. I can't believe it. We've not had one single freeze yet. The bugs are about to carry us away.

See y'all later!
Olyve

I love lox and cream cheese on bagels. Had my first taste in 1968 when I visted a friend on Long Island. She had decided to "educate" me about dfifferent foods. I also had a kiwi then - the first time I'd tasted kiwi.

In the early 70's I was in New York, again, for the annual Toy Fair. Went out to eat in a Jewish restaurant and ordered lox, cream cheese and a bagel. The waiter, who apparently sensed I was from the Midwest (could it have been my accent), asked if I knew what was in the "bagel burger" that I had ordered. I probably surprised him when I told him I knew and really liked them.

This country's food tastes have become quite sophisticated when I think of what bland food we ate just 35 years ago.