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2009-03-03 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2009-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 "they just don't make hats like that anymore"

Gott sei dank!
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-03-03 00:17||   2009-03-03 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Happy Birthday:

Alexander Graham Bell - died 1922 (75) " Invention of the telephone" (Now)

Matthew Bunker Ridgway - died 1993 (98) "Replaced MacArthur in Korea" (Now)

Jean Harlow - died 1937 (26) "Blonde Bombshell" (Now)

Diana Barrymore - died 1960 (38) "Drank to unemployment and death" (Now)

Lee Radziwill - 76 "Jackie Kennedy's sister" (Now)

Jennifer Warnes - 61 "Singer/Song writer, 'Up Where We Belong'" (Now)

Miranda Richardson - 51 "Rita Skeeter, Harry Potter" (Now)

Herschel Walker - 47 "# 34" (Now)


This day in History:
1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England
1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time. (Let's hope 2009 will be the last)
1931 - The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1945 - World War II: The American and Filipino troops take in Manila the Philippines.
1958 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King (Can't we all just get along)
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-03 00:24||   2009-03-03 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 
Helen Hughes the Medium?
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-03 01:40||   2009-03-03 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by BookSeekers 2009-03-03 05:07||   2009-03-03 05:07|| Front Page Top

#5 No. Ask Obama. He seems to be getting advice from it.
Posted by gorb 2009-03-03 05:34||   2009-03-03 05:34|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by Alexwebmaster 2009-03-03 06:07||   2009-03-03 06:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Better a "medium" than an "extra large" I always say.
Posted by Mike 2009-03-03 08:12||   2009-03-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#8 1945 - World War II: The American and Filipino troops take in Manila the Philippines.

Never forget.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-03 10:20||   2009-03-03 10:20|| Front Page Top

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