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2009-04-27 
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Posted by Fred 2009-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Hmm... can't quite make out her name...
... but I enjoy trying.
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-27 00:42||   2009-04-27 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it says "Abbe Lane".
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-04-27 01:03||   2009-04-27 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Happy Birthday: April 27th

Ulysses S. Grant - died 1885 (63) "General-in-Chief of the Union Army - 18th President of the United States"

Walter Lantz - died 1994 (94) "Cartoonist and Animator - Woody Woodpecker"

Jack Klugman - 87 "The Odd Couple - Quincy, M.E." (Now)

Sandy Dennis - died 1992 (54) "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Judy Carne - 70 "Joyce Botterill - Sock it to me!" (Now?)

Sheena Easton - 50 "Singer - For your Eyes Only" (Now)

On this day in history: April 27th
1521 – Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1805 – United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna.
1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1861 – President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 – The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-27 02:53||   2009-04-27 02:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Gams Gone Wild

"Jayne Mansfield may turn boys into men, but I take them from there" - Abigail Lassman



From Here to Eternity

Twelve O'clock High

The Crossing

The High and The Mighty

The Pink Panther

Pillow Talk

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-27 04:12||   2009-04-27 04:12|| Front Page Top

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-27 04:29||   2009-04-27 04:29|| Front Page Top

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