ParaCalendar for Aug 10

[jochen stremmel]

>From yesterday's Paracultural Calendar's Walden (1854) to today's
anniversary of the Cable's completion (1866):

"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some
weeks nearer to the new, but perchance the first news that will leak
through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess
Adelaide has the whooping cough."

I need a drop of something to cut the phlegm.

2015-08-10 17:51 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

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> On this day in *1755*, under the orders of *Charles Lawrence*, the
> British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the
> Thirteen Colonies.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in the year *1866*, the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - one
> of mankind's greatest technological triumphs - is finally completed. Once
> he's announced this milestone to the American people, President *James
> Buchanan* proceeds to spend the rest of the day masturbating furiously
> while engaging in "morse-code-sex" with *Queen Victoria*.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1948*, the TV show *Candid Camera* makes its television
> debut after being on radio for a year as *Candid Microphone*. Hardly
> seems possible, does it?
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1977*, in Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee *David
> Berkowitz* – better known as the *Son of Sam* – is arrested for a series
> of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1981*, the severed head of six-year-old *Adam Walsh* is
> found by two fishermen in a Florida canal. The rest of Adam’s body was
> never recovered. Adam’s kidnapping and murder - possibly by serial killer *Otis
> Toole* - inspired the creation of the television series *America's Most
> Wanted*, which was hosted by Adam’s father, *John Walsh*, for over two
> decades.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1987*, the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks through
> the elusive *2,600 point* ceiling for the first time ever. Of course,
> what goes up must eventually come down, and if shit keeps hitting fan, we
> may well live to see 2,600 again. My advice for riding out the coming
> storm? Sink all your capital in ammunition, gas generators and
> out-of-the-way real estate.
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