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10-16-2007, 12:44 PM
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Re: History postslu... er Game
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On June 22, 1984, the official name of the Turkish city Urfa was changed into Şanlıurfa. Islam first arrived at Urfa around 639 C.E., when the Umayyad army conquered the region without a fight. Islam was then established permanently in Urfa by the empires of the Ayyubids, Seljuk and Ottoman Turks. In the aftermath of the First Crusade, the city was the center of the Crusader County of Edessa, but Muslim forces retook the city in 1146.
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[derail] Şanlıurfa means Glorious Urfa I remember my Turkish teacher explaining.[/derail]
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10-16-2007, 03:48 PM
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Re: History postslu... er Game
Vlad II, also known as Dracul (the Dragon) began his second term as ruler of Wallachia in 1443. He was the father of Vlad III - the Impaler, aka Dracula (son of the Dragon). Author Bram Stoker used Vlad III as the inspiration for the main character in his 1897 novel about vampires, Dracula.
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10-16-2007, 04:15 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: History postslu... er Game
June 2, 1897, Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, responded to rumors of his death with "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Clemens derived his penname Mark Twain from depth soundings that would be shouted to steamboat pilots on the Mississippi River. Mark Twain meant two fathoms, or about 12 feet deep, safe water for riverboat passage. Achieving a dream of his youth, Clemens received his riverboat pilot license in 1859.
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10-16-2007, 05:15 PM
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Re: History postslu... er Game
British Naturalist Charles Darwin published his seminal On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, aka The Origin of Species, in 1859. Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
"The Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on July 21st, 1403 between an army led by the Lancastrian King, Henry IV and a rebel army led by members of the Percy family from Northumberland, is principally remembered today by many as the climax of Shakespeare's play, Henry IV part 1."*
* source: The Battle of Shrewsbury 1403 - Welcome to The Battle of Shrewsbury (1403) 2003 Events Site
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10-16-2007, 09:25 PM
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Location: England
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Re: History postslu... er Game
1403 In Korea, a book is printed from movable type.
Around 1040, the first known movable type system was created in China by Bi Sheng out of porcelain.
Various sources
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10-17-2007, 02:39 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: History postslu... er Game
The worlds first brewery was found in 1040 in the Weihenstephan Abbey in Germany. Adolph Coors founded the Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873.
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10-17-2007, 04:00 AM
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Re: History postslu... er Game
US President Ulysses S. Grant began his second term in office in 1873.
James Joyce's novel Ulysses was first published in Paris in 1922, but banned in the US and UK until the 1930's.
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10-17-2007, 04:28 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: History postslu... er Game
The United States Naval Petroleum Reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyoming was leased to Harry Sinclair of Mammoth Petroleum in 1922 without competitive bidding, sparking what became known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. Harry Sinclair went on to found Sinclair Petroleum, which was purchased by Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) company in 1969.
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10-19-2007, 04:00 AM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: History postslu... er Game
In the wee hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York, precipitating three days of riots that would mark the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred Kinsey's landmark study positing that 10% of males have primarily same-sex partnerships for at least 3 years of their lives, was published in 1948.
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10-19-2007, 08:22 PM
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Compensating for something...
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Re: History postslu... er Game
1948, Israel was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a 'bad move'
One group of those angry people hijacked an Air France airliner in 1976, diverting to Uganda, under the control of Idi Amin. The resulting unprecedented rescue in Entebbe also resulted in the destruction of a good portion of the Ugandan air force on the ground. Only one soldier was killed, the Colonel leading the attack. One civilian was lost, a 75-year-old lady who had been sent to hospital and was never heard of until her remains were discovered in 1979.
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10-20-2007, 01:03 PM
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Re: History postslu... er Game
In 1976 the Northern Territory passed the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth). This act allowed Aborigines to claim land that their ancestors had used. This ultimately led to Federal vindication in the Mabo case in 1992 before the High Court of Australia (the highest court in the land). The ruling decreed that Aborigines have a legitimate claim to the land, a position that was anathema to the ruling white elite before this.
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