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Posted on 5/17/25 at 4:07 am to Armymann50
Posted on 5/17/25 at 4:07 am to Armymann50
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Posted on 5/17/25 at 5:25 am to Rockbrc
Morning all from Fort Lauderdale
Several dead in Kentucky from tornado
Several dead in Kentucky from tornado
Posted on 5/17/25 at 10:02 am to kywildcatfanone
Sad.
Posted on 5/17/25 at 10:41 am to Lexag
GOOD MORNING MY PEOPLE.
Posted on 5/17/25 at 10:47 am to Radio One
Good morning.
Posted on 5/17/25 at 2:34 pm to Lexag
Afternoon All 
Posted on 5/18/25 at 5:39 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: May 18
0526 St. John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1643 Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king's will.
1652 A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced.
1802 Britain declares war on France.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France.
1917 The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I.
1942 New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.
1951 The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city.
1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1980 After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours.
2001 101-year-old Harold Stilson becomes oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one when he aces the 108-yard, par-3, 16th hole at Deerfield CC, FL
2014 Swiss voters reject a $25 per hour minimum wage
2021 India records the highest recorded daily COVID-19 death toll to date in the world with 4,529 deaths
2022 Amid a nationwide US baby formula shortage, President Joe Biden invokes the Defense Production Act, requiring suppliers to fulfil orders to baby formula manufacturers first
Born on May 18
1836 Wilhelm Steinitz, chess champion.
1868 Nicholas II, the last Russian czar.
JOTD
I’m from Alabama and I don’t appreciate all the jokes Reddit makes about my home state. I told my dad, my uncle, and my grandpa about it.
When he found out he was madder than hell.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 6:42 am to Armymann50
Morning all from home!
Posted on 5/18/25 at 11:27 pm to kywildcatfanone
Home Sweet Home
Posted on 5/19/25 at 4:08 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: May 19
1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, is beheaded on Tower Green.
1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.
1588 The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal.
1780 Near total darkness descends on New England at noon. No explanation is found.
1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 microphones planted in the American embassy in Moscow.
1967 U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for the first time.
1995 Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
2018 American actress Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry at a ceremony in Windsor Castle, making her a member of the British royal family
2019 US billionaire Robert F. Smith announces he will pay off college loans of nearly 400 students of the graduating class of Morehouse College, Atlanta
2021 New York City begins re-opening after 423 days (March 2020) with the COVID-19 death toll at 33,000
2021 The EU agrees to open its borders to vaccinated travelers from safe countries
2022 Mercedes confirms the sale of world's most expensive car - a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe for €135 million ($142 million)
2161 Syzygy: Eight of nine planets are forecast to align on the same side of the Sun
Born on May 19
1890 Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen That Thanh), Vietnamese nationalist and political leader.
1895 Johns Hopkins, merchant and philanthropist.
1925 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), African-American activist.
JOTD
A United States Marine was deployed to Afghanistan.
A United States Marine was deployed to Afghanistan.
While he was there he received a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend.
In the letter she explained that she had slept with two guys while he had been gone and she wanted to break up with him. To add injury to the insult, she said she wanted back the picture of herself that she had given him.
So the Marine did what any squared-away Marine would do. He went around to his buddies and collected all the unwanted photos of women he could find. In all, he got more than 25 pictures of various women (some with clothes and some without).
He then mailed them to his now-former girlfriend with the following note: "I don't remember which one you are. Please remove your picture and send the rest back."
GMT
Posted on 5/19/25 at 4:13 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 5/19/25 at 5:28 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 5/19/25 at 5:34 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning may we all rock and roll today.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 6:35 am to Radio One
Goooood morning!
Posted on 5/19/25 at 10:52 am to Armymann50
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1568 Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her.
The danger of being a lightweight fighting heavyweights. Mary was a devout, and I do mean devout, Catholic in a region that had embraced the Protestant faith.
Mary never met a conspiracy she wouldn't join, an unpopular stance she wouldn't endorse, or an opportunity to mess with people far more powerful than her.
To make matters worse her principal opponent was Elizabeth the Great. A monarch that out matched every royal in Europe and by sheer stint of willpower stabilized England when it was in danger of slipping into yet another disastrous civil war.
Add to that Elizabeth would kill you in a heartbeat if she thought you were a danger to her rule. Not paranoid ruthless like Stalin, but a very pragmatic ruthless. She would give you just enough rope to hang yourself... and than make damn sure you were left hanging.
Lizzy, for a variety of reasons, partly political and partly an unwillingness to remove Mary due to their family connection (cousins, though the two never met personally) treated Mary very well during the imprisonment in England. But Mary just couldn't step away power or restoring the Catholic faith to dominance. Even her strident defenders can't deny her constant attempts to meddle in Scottish politics and her clandestine correspondence with France.
Of course Elizabeth knew all about the letters to France. She used them to smoke out some rebellious nobles and then, tired of Mary's actions, sentenced her to death. I suspect she might have still let Mary live but frankly Mary was expensive as hell to maintain in the splendor she demanded.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 11:03 am to Arksulli
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The danger of being a lightweight fighting heavyweights.
To make matters worse her principal opponent was Elizabeth the Great.
Posted on 5/20/25 at 3:52 am to paperwasp
Today in History: May 20
0325 The Ecumenical council is inaugurated by Emperor Constantine in Nicea.
1303 A peace treaty is signed between England and France.
1774 Parliament passes the Coercive Acts to punish the colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior. The acts close the port of Boston.
1861 North Carolina becomes the last state to secede from the Union.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act, providing 250 million acres of free land to settlers in the West.
1874 Levi Strauss begins marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1902 The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ends.
1951 During the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Captain James Jabara becomes the first jet air ace in history.
1961 A white mob attacks civil rights activists in Montgomery, Alabama.
1970 100,000 people march in New York, supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam.
1994 Sushmita Sen from India is crowned the 43rd Miss Universe at 18 years old
2015 David Letterman hosts the "Late Show with David Letterman" for the last time, ending 33 years in late night television
2020 WHO reports most new cases in a single day - 106,000 worldwide of COVID-19
2021 Israel and Hamas agree to a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza after nearly two weeks of fighting, amid international diplomatic efforts
Born on May 20
1768 Dolley Madison, first lady of President James Madison.
1818 William George Fargo, one of the founders of Wells, Fargo & Co.
1908 Jimmy Stewart, actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes to Washington).
JOTD
I went for a job interview today and the manager said, “We’re looking for someone who is responsible.”
“Well, I’m your man.” I replied, “In my last job, whenever anything went wrong, they said I was responsible.”
Posted on 5/20/25 at 4:16 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 5/20/25 at 5:17 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 5/20/25 at 6:52 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning let’s rant baby!
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