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Subject: [Q-R] Excerpt of History
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:15:32 EST
..." Joseph Priestly is famous for discovering oxygen in 1774. Less well
known is the fact that he discovered how to make carbonated water, he's the Father
of Soda Pop. He also found that a gooey substance would erase pencil marks on
paper. Since he used it by rubbing it across the marks, he called the stuff
rubber".........................
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......." Carefully recorded in Kentucky marriages 1797-1865 is the wedding on
June 11, 1831 of Moses Alexander, age 93, to his blushing bride Frances
Tompkins, age 105. A following entry reports that Mr. and Mrs. Alexander were both
found dead in their bed the next morning"...............
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......." Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson, who's birthday was
yesterday, died after being shoot accidentally by his own troops at the battle
of Chancellorsville in 1863"..............
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........" Beautiful breasts have served as molds for drinking cups. Marc
Anthony drank from a goblet shaped around one of Cleopatras breasts, and a cup
molded on the breast of Marie Antoinette is on display at the porcelain factory
in Serves, France"...........
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........" When news got to England that U.S. President George Washington had
died overseas,British ships in the English Channel honored their former
adversary by firing a twenty gun salute"............ Isn't history
strange.......................
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....."What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their
elders,they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets
inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Sounds modern eh ! Plato spoke those words...........................
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.........." Did you know there are actually 4 paintings of Leonardo da
Vinci's, Mona Lisa? They are all on the same canvas. He painted three earlier ones,
the one we see, was the most recent and the three others buried below
it.".............
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......" It was agreed by the Union and Confederacy that George Washington's
beautiful plantation at Mount Vernon would be considered neutral territory. No
armies invaded it during the Civil War"..................
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......." The first police force was established in Paris, in
1667"....................
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