Paracultural Calendar for Aug 8

[Mark Thibodeau]

ROTFLMAO!

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When they raised the Hunley, it had a bumper
> sticker on it...."Re-Elect Strom!"
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> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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> On Aug 9, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> <http://manhattman.com/wp-content/uploads/Abbey-Road-Album-Cover-Beatles.jpg>
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> On this day in *1955*, a conference is held in Geneva to discuss
> potential "peaceful uses" for the atomic bomb. My own personal favorite
> suggestion? Use a few thousand to carve the moon into a continent-sized
> bust of *Ludwig von Beethoven!*
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> On this day in *1969*, at a street crossing in London, photographer *Iain
> Macmillan* takes the photo that becomes the cover of the *Beatles* album *Abbey
> Road*, one of the most famous album covers in recording history. Check
> out *this link
> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205310/Pictured-The-Beatles-album-cover-started-decades-long-conspiracy-theory.html>* for
> information about all the super-secret messages contained in this image
> (and other Beatles images).
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> On this day in *1973*, South Korean activist and politician *Kim Dae-jung*
>  is *kidnapped <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dae-jung>* by agents of
> that nation's quasi-fascist ruling regime. Nick-named "the Asian Mandela",
> he would be set free and eventually become South Korea's eighth President,
> winning a *Nobel Peace Prize* in the process.
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> On this day in *1974*, while *Tricky Dick Nixon* was being flown back to
> the neo-fascist cradle-forge of Orange County with his forked tail tucked
> between his waxy, sallow legs, newly sworn-in *President Gerald Ford* goes
> on television and declares: "My fellow Americans, our long national
> nightmare is over.
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> On this day in *1989*, Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a *"secret"
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-28>* 5-day military mission.
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> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Foto_308_web.jpg>
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> On this day in *1991*, the Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest
> construction ever built, collapses. It takes a long damn time for the
> freaking thing to fall all the way down.
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> On this day in *2000*, the Confederate submarine *H.L. Hunley* is raised
> to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its
> discovery by undersea explorer *E. Lee Spence* and 5 years after being
> filmed by a dive team funded by novelist *Clive Cussler*.
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> <http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/480/cache/civil-war-submarine-revealed-hunley-side_48007_600x450.jpg>
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