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luke
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congratulations eefan!  |
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faceless
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| eefanincan wrote: | | Dec. 21, 2007 - eefanincan wins a Christmas prize at work. Momentous occasion as she NEVER wins anything. |
nice one - anything good? Or is it just the fact you won anything at all!
Thinking back, this makes me think of something a pal said when I told him I was going self-employed 'the work's christmas party is gonna be rubbish!'  |
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eefanincan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| faceless wrote: | | eefanincan wrote: | | Dec. 21, 2007 - eefanincan wins a Christmas prize at work. Momentous occasion as she NEVER wins anything. |
nice one - anything good? Or is it just the fact you won anything at all!
Thinking back, this makes me think of something a pal said when I told him I was going self-employed 'the work's christmas party is gonna be rubbish!' |
It was some footspa bath thing that you plug in and it massages, bubbles,etc. etc. A nice idea, but I can't STAND anything done to my feet --- but I was well pleased just at having won something. But my mother-in-law loved it so I sent it home with her --- I figured my dog would have just thought it was a "bubbling water dish" anyway |
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Skylace
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| Woot! Way too go eefan! It's just fun to win sometimes, even when you don't want it. Joy! Joy! |
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Skylace
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| December 27th 1831-Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle |
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Bat
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| Dec 27th, hmmmmmmmmmm I was born in 1965, Churchill died, that'll do. |
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Skylace
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| The obvious is it's New Year but on 1/1/1818 Frankenstein was published. |
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Skylace
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| In 1957 the late, great Jackie Robinson retired from baseball. |
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Bat
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| Skylace wrote: | | In 1957 the late, great Jackie Robinson retired from baseball. |
Who? Can we make this international things from now on so that we can all at least know who we're talking about? Yes,no?  |
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Skylace
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| Bat wrote: | | Skylace wrote: | | In 1957 the late, great Jackie Robinson retired from baseball. |
Who? Can we make this international things from now on so that we can all at least know who we're talking about? Yes,no? |
There are international ones. Just on the first it was the publication of Frankenstein, we've had Darwin and plenty of others.
If you don't know who you can also look it up. That's the great thing about history, we learn it and don't know it all. I know I have to do that with some other things as well. I had never heard of Thomas Graham before.
Jackie Robinson is an important figure in sports history and black history as he was the first black to play on a major league baseball team. |
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Bat
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Jackie Robinson maybe an important figure for some in US sports history but for the rest of us the name means absolutely nothing - not a thing. If I mentioned some UK sporting "legend" in football for example it would mean nothing to the majority of US people on this site. This is an international site so all I'm saying is let's try and keep it international - me too.  |
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Skylace
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| Bat wrote: | | Jackie Robinson maybe an important figure for some in US sports history but for the rest of us the name means absolutely nothing - not a thing. If I mentioned some UK sporting "legend" in football for exand mple it would mean nothing to the majority of US people on this site. This is an international site so all I'm saying is let's try and keep it international - me too. |
Jackie Robinson was an important figure in Civil Rights history as well and if a UK sports legend was posted it here it doesn't matter. If anything that would allow other people outside of a certain nation to learn more.
I hadn't heard of Emily Wilding Davison until I read something ages ago about her on the first couch. She had nothing to do with American history. I had also never heard of Sir John Barbirolli until I read about him here in this section or knew that he Professional Footballer’s Association was formed in 1907.
This isn't supposed to just be an international history section, it's a history section. And if posts are made that may be something that is more important in one area than another, that doesn't matter. It allows us then to learn more about the history and culture of each other countries or even cities and regions. |
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Skylace
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January 6 1540 Henry VIII marries his 4th wife.
She's the one who got off lucky! He didn't like her but couldn't blame her for anything so she didn't loose her head, her life or dignity. Of course, being married to him wouldn't help with the dignity part. |
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Skylace
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January 7, 1927-First Transatlantic phone call was made.
January 7, 1789-First U.S. presidential election (And we still have to wait for ours and get through these damn primaries!) |
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luke
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7th January
1536 Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I, died.
1558 English forces were ousted from the French port of Calais, led by the Duke of Guise. The town's burghers had surrendered to an invading English army in 1346.
1618 Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England. Later that year he was accused of taking a bribe, and fined £40,000, a huge sum of money for those times.
1805 The famous pugilist Tom Cribb had his first public fight. It was against Tom Maddox at Wood Green. Cribb was declared the winner after an incredible 76 rounds.
1889 Birth of Arthur Clifford Hartley, the English inventor of World War II’s PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) and FIDO (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation).
1904 The CQD distress signal was introduced. CQ stood for ‘seek you’, and the D for ‘danger’. It lasted just two years before being replaced with SOS.
1927 A telephone service began operating between London and New York. A three-minute call cost £15. Nevertheless 31 different people made a call on the first day.
1965 Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were in custody, charged in connection with running a protection racket. When they died, their funerals were like those of royals, but they were simply notorious criminals with a history of violence and murder in London’s East End.
1976 The Ministry of Defence claimed that a British naval frigate, HMS Andromeda, had been deliberately rammed into by an Icelandic gunboat in the Atlantic. The ‘attack’ was one of several incidents between Britain and Iceland with regard to disputed fishing territory.
1988 The death of the actor Trevor Howard.
1994 After a wait of 800 years, girls were invited to join the Cathedral Choir at Wells in Somerset. Click here for a picture of Wells Cathedral (file size 152K)
2000 Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was released from jail after serving less than half of his 18-month sentence. He had been imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice after his libel case against the Guardian Newspaper and Granada Television collapsed. |
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