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Magnolia
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Sep 14, 2005 - 02:38 PM |
 
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Today is Wednesday, September 14th, the 257th day of 2005. There are 108 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On September 14th, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote his poem “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
On this date:
In 1901, President McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car.
In 1940, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
In 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna Two became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
In 1965, the situation comedy “My Mother the Car” premiered on NBC TV.
In 1975, Pope Paul the Sixth declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.
In 1982, Lebanon’s president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
In 1985, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon released the Reverend Benjamin Weir after holding him captive for 16 months.
In 1985, the situation comedy “The Golden Girls” premiered on NBC.
Ten years ago: NATO called a temporary halt to its aerial pounding of Serb rebels while a U-S envoy tried to clinch an agreement on withdrawing the Serbs’ big guns from around Sarajevo.
Five years ago: President Clinton said he was “quite troubled” by the way the Energy and Justice departments had handled the Wen Ho Lee case, and he expressed his regrets. Government scientists narrowly rejected a proposal to ease the ban on gay male blood donors, citing uncertainty over whether the move would increase the AIDS risk to the nation’s blood supply.
One year ago: Guerrillas bombed a Baghdad shopping street full of police recruits and fired on a police van north of the capital, killing a total of at least 59 people. President Bush told veterans in Las Vegas he was proud of his time in the Texas Air National Guard as he sought to deflect questions about his Vietnam-era service.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Zoe Caldwell is 72. Actor Harve Presnell is 72. Feminist author Kate Millett is 71. Actor Walter Koenig is 69. Actor Nicol Williamson is 67. Singer-actress Joey Heatherton is 61. Actor Sam Neill is 58. Singer Jon “Bowser” Bauman is 58. Singer Barry Cowsill is 51. Rock musician Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) is 50. Country singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman is 49. Actress Mary Crosby is 46. Singer Morten Harket (a-ha) is 46. Country singer John Berry is 46. Actress Faith Ford is 41. Actor Dan Cortese is 37. Rock musician Craig Montoya (Tri Polar) is 35. Actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley is 34. Rapper Nas is 32. Actor Adam Lamberg is 21.
Thought for Today: “America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation.” — King Baudouin the First of Belgium (1930-1993).
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Yeah, I know. Not all that interesting. |
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bellabella
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Sep 14, 2005 - 02:47 PM |
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Not that interesting but this is horrible!!
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| In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car. |
What a terrible way to die! |
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MaomingMaster
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Sep 14, 2005 - 02:57 PM |
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A lot better than being eaten alive by ants. |
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bellabella
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Sep 14, 2005 - 02:58 PM |
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That's true - who was eaten alive by ants???? That's areally horrible image, i feel a bit icky now. |
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Magnolia
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:02 PM |
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would even be worse to be eaten alive by red ants. or fire ants. |
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bellabella
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:04 PM |
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Would be even worse to be buried alive |
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MaomingMaster
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:15 PM |
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Anyone ever read 'Papillon'?
About that French prison island in central America. Some of the inmates grab hold of a guard, beat him up and tie him to a tree. Then they make a small incision in his stomach and leave him to the ants.
I saw a bee the other day in the park being eaten by ants. It was still alive and writhing around in agony so I trod on it. Then I said to the ants 'now **** off'. |
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Anniboodk
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:25 PM |
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I saw a bee the other day in the park being eaten by ants. It was still alive and writhing around in agony so I trod on it. Then I said to the ants 'now **** off'. |
They should really give you the Mother Teresa Humanitarian award, MMM! |
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findus
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:33 PM |
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| bellabella wrote: |
Not that interesting but this is horrible!!
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| In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car. |
What a terrible way to die! |
I wish some of the poncy feckers around here in sports car, barly being able to shift gears or drive, would wear scarves. |
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DeeLphiC
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:40 PM |
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ha a death involving wheel sports car france is not too bad for an artist like I.D., at least, better than killed by her b/f out of god damn't LOoooooooooove
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itv1980
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Sep 14, 2005 - 03:59 PM |
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Anyway any way un natural cause isn't a pretty way to go, but if I go please in my armor and on the dance floor  |
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Magnolia
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Sep 14, 2005 - 04:03 PM |
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| MaomingMaster wrote: |
I saw a bee the other day in the park being eaten by ants. It was still alive and writhing around in agony so I trod on it. Then I said to the ants 'now **** off'. |
They should really give you the Mother Teresa Humanitarian award, MMM! |
And remind us not to let him wear shoes in the house, what, with all those bee and ant guts on them. ew! ew! ew! |
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itv1980
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Sep 14, 2005 - 05:23 PM |
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yuk but why didn't you let the ants work a little more, its just natural causes |
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itv1980
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Sep 14, 2005 - 05:24 PM |
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And those ants ruthlessly bothered by cultivating their lunch, hum pitty to them |
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MaomingMaster
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Sep 14, 2005 - 05:31 PM |
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Magnolia
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Sep 14, 2005 - 05:34 PM |
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now those would be interesting. |
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DeeLphiC
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Sep 14, 2005 - 06:00 PM |
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yeah it is happening here
VERY interesting |
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