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Posted in History on Aug 4th, 2008
Real headlines from real news sites with not-so-real subheads
From BBC News:
Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Mac sale increase
From BBC News:
Georgia accused of lethal attack
Florida calls police
From BBC News:
Eight more deaths linked to bug
Killer aphid sought
From BBC News:
Parents forget child at airport
Kevin McCallister can’t catch a break
From CBS News:
“Hidden” Van Gogh Found — In Plain Sight!
Mary [...]
Posted in History on Jul 4th, 2008
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]
Posted in History on Feb 29th, 2008
Today is the 5th Friday in February.
That don’t happen much.
In fact, this is only the second time it’s happened in my lifetime.
Of course, it’s because February is usually only 28 days long, and that means only 4 of any named weekday in that month.
But this is a leap year. So February gets 29 days. And [...]
Tonight’s lunar eclipse wasn’t the first one I’ve seen. But I’m always fascinated by eclipses.
I’ve seen partial lunar eclipses. I’ve seen total eclipses. And they’re all cool.
But the coolest eclipse I ever saw was not a lunar eclipse.
It was a solar eclipse. The total eclipse of March 7, 1970.
That eclipse hit the southeastern U.S.
It hit [...]
Posted in History on Feb 18th, 2008
From 2007:
Today is one of those days that really gets on my nerves.
Oh, not because it’s the official celebration of George Washington’s birthday. Because that’s what today is.
But because of what some people call today. Some call it Presidents Day. Or Presidents’ Day. Or President’s Day.
But those people are dumbasses. Because it’s not Presidents Day [...]
Now that former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney has withdrawn his candidacy, it pretty much looks like Arizona Senator John Sidney McCain III will be the Republican Party nominee for President.
On the Democratic side, though, Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton are battling it out.
Some say that if the Democratic race drags on, [...]
I saw a story about the mayor of Anderson, Indiana, losing an election, but refusing to leave office.
The deal is that there’s a lawsuit filed by some folks that worked for sitting mayor Kevin Smith (no, not Silent Bob). The suit charges that Kris Ockomon, who won the election, didn’t meet the residency requirements to [...]
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