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Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:18 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:18 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning guys.
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Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:05 pm to Lexag
Morning All 
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:10 pm to OK Roughneck
Well, OU lost by a lot, and the sun still came up. Good
morning.
morning.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:16 pm to Ad47aw
Yup, they will get things right. It's been around 25 years since we've dipped so we were due. We have talent just need better guys in the trenches and make a few coaching adjustments.
Posted on 10/21/24 at 4:44 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History: October 21
1096
Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders.
1529
The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther.
1837
Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida.
1940
Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1950
North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung.
1961
Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400.
1967
The "March on the Pentagon," protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
1983
The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.
1994
North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections.
2020
FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information and are trying to influence outcome of US election
2020
Spain becomes the first European country to record more than 1 million COVID-19 cases with the death toll at 34,366
2021
Syria's government says it has executed 24 people for starting devastating wildfires in 2020 that killed three
Today in History: Born on October 21
1952
Patti Davis, actress, author; daughter of former US Pres. Ronald Reagan.
1956
Carrie Fisher, actress, author, screenwriter; best known as Prince Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and he bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
1969
Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain; presently (2013) First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander, he is heir apparent to the Bahrain kingdom.
JOTD
Two young boys walked into a drug store, picked out a box of tampons, and proceeded to the checkout counter
The man at the counter asked the older boy, "Son, how old are you?"
"Eight" the boy replied.
The man continued, "Do you know what these are used for?"
The boy replied, "Not exactly, but they aren't for me. They're for him... He's my brother. He's four. We saw on TV that if you use these, you will be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can't do either"
Posted on 10/21/24 at 4:51 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 10/21/24 at 5:56 am to kywildcatfanone
Good morning
Posted on 10/21/24 at 6:39 am to Armymann50
Posted on 10/21/24 at 6:47 am to Armymann50
Posted on 10/21/24 at 6:59 am to Armymann50
Posted on 10/21/24 at 8:35 am to kywildcatfanone
Morning boys.
Posted on 10/21/24 at 9:03 am to Armymann50
Morning
Posted on 10/21/24 at 9:04 am to Armymann50
quote:
1096
Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders.
We tend to have an overly glamorized idea of the Crusades and how successful they were. The truth is that most of them were complete busts (especially once the Muslims figured out how to fight the Knights) and some were utter disasters.
The Fourth Crusade, as an example, did manage to sack two cities. Unfortunately the first was the Catholic city of Zara which the Crusaders besieged and then sacked in order to pay off Venice. The second was Constantinople, a Christian city that was formally allied with the Crusaders and providing them with logistic support and safe lodging. They then divvied up the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) amongst themselves. The Orthodox Greeks did manage to run them off but it was a mortal blow to the ERE.
So when the greatly weakened ERE collapsed Europe discovered that whoopsy, it had been Constantinople that had been guarding Europe from the Muslim Caliphate and its successor the Turks. Oopsy doodly do.
Many Crusades weren't targeted at reconquering the Holy Land at all. A whole series of them were devoted to converting the pagans of the Baltic regions to Catholicism by the sword. Never mind that most of the residents of the area were already Christian, just Orthodox Christians. Another was aimed at killing heretics in France.
Perhaps not the shining moment of European civilization.
Posted on 10/22/24 at 4:26 am to Arksulli
Morning all
Posted on 10/22/24 at 4:44 am to Arksulli
Today in History: October 22
0741
Charles Martel of Gaul dies at Quiezy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman.
1824
The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending David "Davy" Crockett's state political career.
1836
Sam Houston sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1918
The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of coffins during the "Spanish Inflenza" epidemic.
1938
Chester Carlson invents the photocopier. He tries to sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and others, but they see no use for a gadget that makes nothing but copies.
1962
U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade on further shipment of military equipment to Cuba. Following a confrontation that threatens nuclear war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reports that Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled.
1972
Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ends.
1981
The US Federal Labor Relations authority decertified the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) from representing federal air traffic controllers, as a result of a PATCO strike in August that was broken by the Reagan Administration.
1999
Maurice Papon, formerly an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity for his role in deporting more than 1,600 Jews to concentration camps.
2005
Tropical Storm Alpha forms, making 2005 the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2019
UK parliament approves Brexit deal to leave the EU but rejects legislation to fast-track it to meet October 31 deadline
2021
Australian city of Melbourne "world's most locked down city" exits its sixth lockdown after a total of 260 days
Today in History: Born on October 22
1811
Franz Liszt, piano virtuoso.
1920
Timothy Leary, American psychologist who experimented with psychedelic drugs.
1938
Christopher Lloyd, actor; (Back to the Future Film series; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; won three Emmys, two of them for his role as Jim Ignatoski in Taxi TV series).
1952
Jeff Goldblum, actor (Jurassic Park; Independence Day).
JOTD
I overheard my neighbor say she had a shitty day, so I anonymously sent her a meat lover’s pizza
She’s a vegan and I hate her fricking guts
A man is buying a banana, an apple and two eggs. The cashier says: “you must be single”
The man replied: “Wow how did you know that ?”
Cashier: “ Because you’re fricking ugly”
Posted on 10/22/24 at 5:43 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 10/22/24 at 8:21 am to Armymann50
lol. Good morning!
Posted on 10/22/24 at 11:58 am to Armymann50
quote:
Timothy Leary,
Worked for the CIA.
Posted on 10/22/24 at 3:50 pm to Armymann50
quote:
JOTD (banana)
Posted on 10/23/24 at 4:22 am to paperwasp
Today in History: October 23
4004 BC
According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.
42 BC
Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
1641
Rebellion in Ireland. Catholics, under Phelim O'Neil, rise against the Protestants and massacred men, women and children to the number of 40,000 (some say 100,000).
1783
Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War.
1861
President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases.
1954
In Paris, an agreement is signed providing for West German sovereignty and permitting West Germany to rearm and enter NATO and the Western European Union.
1973
A U.N. sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Syria.
1983
A truck filled with explosives, driven by a Moslem terrorist, crashes into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The bomb kills 237 Marines and injures 80. Almost simultaneously, a similar incident occurs at French military headquarters, where 58 die and 15 are injured.
2002
Chechen terrorists take 700 theater-goers hostage at the House of Culture theater in Moscow.
2012
The world's oldest teletext service, BBC's Ceefax, ceases operation.
2021 Capture of Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga 'Otoniel', in Colombia's Uraba region, announced live on TV
2023
'Superfog' conditions near New Orleans cause a motorway pile-up involving 158 vehicles, causing seven deaths
Today in History: Born on October 23
1869
John Heisman, American college football coach for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
1925
Johnny Carson, American television personality who hosted the Tonight Show.
1954
Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American film director; won Academy Award for Best Director in 2005 (Brokeback Mountain) and 2012 (Life of Pi).
JOTD
My wife and I are a perfect match.
For instance, I have a 9 inch penis, and she doesn't know which end of a ruler to hold up.
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