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Stanford 31, Cal 10 for yesterday's big game. The Stanford Band behaved.
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jinx758
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:11 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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December 2nd, 1907 ...
The first ticket written for speeding.
17 miles an hour.
Regulate yourselves ... stay safe
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Glenn 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 7:04 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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This was 9/11 before there was a 9/11
84 years ago.....
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 7:32 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Glenn wrote: |
This was 9/11 before there was a 9/11
84 years ago..... |
84 years ago Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7.
Roosevelt declared war on Japan (only) on Dec. 8.
Dec. 11 Hitler declared war on USA, so USA entered the European war. The following clip was colorized. Look at the unanimous clapping from the audience - either ALL agreed, or were totally afraid not to clap vigorously !!!
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tencentlife
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:28 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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^Which illustrates why they say with dictators "at least the trains run on time". They don't, but no one dares complain.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:42 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Many years ago I worked with an Austrian chef named franz who was a young boy in austria during the war years. When I asked him if he understood what was going on then, he said yes and added that when those people (nazis) told you how things were to be, you did not argue with them |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Glenn wrote: |
This was 9/11 before there was a 9/11
84 years ago.....
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Russo-Japanese War 1904ish from what I gather was about Russia gaining control or Korean peninsula...
Then after that war the next war was Korea..
Russia was our allies when Japan was attacking Pearl harbor...
Wars go on and on and on I remember in the '70s when the Kurds and over and over and over..
My Papa came back from Vietnam and s  aid the war was over rubber trees and he gave me an American Express card for my graduation with a green condom in it that said don't leave home without it....lmao... Oops I did!
What gets me is why don't we just all get along and put a helium in our condoms and tires and just have a good year day! Lmao
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viiking
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| Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Yes a sad day in history that led to even more casualties and the involvement of very many brave Americans and other allies.
I’ve been to the Arizona memorial and despite not being an American I became totally overwhelmed by the sombre, moving experience. The silence as they say was deafening. It reminded me of the sacrifices so many paid for our freedom and in that moment of reflection I paid homage to my father in law who fought so gallantly against the Japanese in New Guinea and my two brothers in law who fought in Vietnam alongside the US.
Yet the parallels are uncanny with Ukraine. Unprovoked attack by a dictatorship. Promises of safety and security by the eventual aggressor.
Imagine however instead of eventual defeat of Japan that the US would have faltered and had to relinquish Hawaii after that heinous attack on Pearl Harbour and break off alliances with other of the Allies and reduce its capacity to maintain a fighting force. Let’s not let history repeat itself.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 7:12 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| viiking wrote: |
Yet the parallels are uncanny with Ukraine. Unprovoked attack by a dictatorship. Promises of safety and security by the eventual aggressor.
Let’s not let history repeat itself. |
I felt the same when Russia attacked Ukraine. Too similar to Nazi aggression, a grab for land, raw materials, etc. So much of Ukraine destroyed, Russia thought it would be easy and quick.
It's too bad that some have not learned from history...
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:02 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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And too bad we picked the wrong side in this one...
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Glenn
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:33 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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12/8/80 John Lenon assassinated
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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45 years. It truly does not seem that long ago. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Fish wrote: |
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45 years. It truly does not seem that long ago. |
Yeah, no shit....., that was a bad day, thanks for making me feel old. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Little known fact - he released a hit single in Israel in March of that year, "Imagine there's no Leaven" but it was passed over by the media
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 6:55 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| 12/8/80 John Lenon assassinated |
Little known fact - he released a hit single in Israel in March of that year, "Imagine there's no Leaven" but it was passed over by the media |
Haven't heard that before and couldn't find any articles to support this. Do you have anything?
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Glenn
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Pez wrote: |
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| 12/8/80 John Lenon assassinated |
Little known fact - he released a hit single in Israel in March of that year, "Imagine there's no Leaven" but it was passed over by the media |
Haven't heard that before and couldn't find any articles to support this. Do you have anything? |
I guess you missed it 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| 12/8/80 John Lenon assassinated |
Little known fact - he released a hit single in Israel in March of that year, "Imagine there's no Leaven" but it was passed over by the media |
I thought he wrote Imagine there's no Xevin
where would Xatie be ehehe e ee
Edit... X2!
Come on man no one can imagine stuff like that  heart u2!
Edit X3...
I was reading a book that talked about the captains in the hull while everyone was heaving and hoeing on the ores when the wind sails were low...
He said if you heave and hoe you will get to heaven!..
That damn garden hoe broke me down babies 
Gonna take a Mulligan and let the babies heave and hoe a bit..roflmao
Edit X4... And babies don't make AI artificial ignorance 
Next...Dec. 9th...
On December 9, year?.., archaeologists announced the discovery of a luxurious 1st-century AD Roman pleasure barge off Alexandria, Egypt, a rare find preserving a large section of its hull, highlighting daily life in Roman Egypt, while other recent finds include a massive Bronze Age city in Kazakhstan, a Roman basin near Rome, and a 2,400-year-old sacrificial complex in Russia, showcasing diverse global archaeological discoveries.
I didn't even notice it said 2025.
Looks to me like they had a bbq pork cook off party
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