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Posted on 12/21/22 at 4:33 am
Posted on 12/21/22 at 4:33 am
Today in History: December 21
1620 The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock.
1862 The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action.
1866 Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny to cut wood.
1910 Over 2.5 million plague victims are reported in the An-Hul province of China.
1928 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Boulder Dam bill.
1944 German troops surround the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in Belgium.
1945 General George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 after being injured in a car accident.
1986 500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai's People's Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
2004 A suicide bomber attacks the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it is the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War.
2020 Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley
2020 US President-elect Joe Biden receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV
Born on December 21
1940 Frank Zappa, bandleader, composer, guitarist, satirist, filmmaker and advocate of creative freedom.
1954 Chris Evert (Chris Evert-Lloyd), No. 1 women's pro tennis player in the world for 260 weeks in the 1970s; she reached 34 Grand Slam singles finals, a record unmatched by any other pro, female or male.
1966 Kiefer Sutherland, British-born Canadian actor, producer, director; best known as Jack Bauer on the 24 TV series, a role that garnered him several awards including an Emmy and Golden Globe.
JOTD
So there is an elephant stuck in some quicksand
He yells for a help and a mouse comes to try and pull him out. The mouse pulls as hard as he can but the elephant won’t budge. The mouse then runs home to grab his corvette and goes back to pull the elephant out. Later that day, the mouse was stuck in some quicksand. He yells for help and the elephant is nearby. The elephant walks over the quicksand, drops his dick down over the mouse, and the mouse runs up it and is safe. Moral of the story: if you have a big dick, you don’t need a corvette.
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Posted on 12/21/22 at 5:17 am to Armymann50
Wrong board?
Posted on 12/21/22 at 5:29 am to kywildcatfanone
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Wrong board?
first on this board i like to be first.
Posted on 12/21/22 at 7:51 am to Armymann50
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The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock
Recently listened to a podcast about this.
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After a tortuous 66-day voyage from England, the Pilgrims reached the mainland of America 402 years ago on November 11. But they didn’t land at Plymouth Rock, as the popular myth alleges.
They first anchored in Provincetown Harbor. The Pilgrims — or separatists, as they called themselves — were headed to the Colony of Virginia to begin their new settlement, but ended up in Provincetown when they encountered dangerous shoals trying to make it around Cape Cod.
For the next five weeks as the Mayflower remained anchored in Provincetown, the Pilgrims explored Cape Cod.
After a skirmish with natives, the Pilgrims set off in a small boat, only to be blown off course and ending up in Plymouth. They decided that was a safer place to settle, and the Mayflower anchored in Plymouth Harbor on December 18, 1620.
Despite the myth, the Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings. The first documented claim that Plymouth Rock was the landing place of the Pilgrims was made by Elder Thomas Faunce in 1741 — 121 years after the Pilgrims arrived.
Journalist Bill Bryson noted, "The one thing the Pilgrims certainly did not do was step ashore on Plymouth Rock," arguing that the boulder would have made an impractical landing spot.
Posted on 12/21/22 at 12:11 pm to paperwasp
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