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2009-05-29 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2009-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday: May 29th

Patrick Henry - died 1799 (63)

Bob Hope - died 2003 (100) "Babs, Bob and Astronauts - G.I.'s best friend in Show Business - WWII - Korea - Vietnam - 1987 - Gulf War"

John F. Kennedy - died 1963 (46) "35th President of the United States"

Annette Bening - 51 "For Fred's Nekkid as an egg collection" (Now)

Melanie Brown - 34 "Scary Spice" (Now)

On this day in history: May 29th.
1453 – Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. (Religion of Peace)
1780 – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed. (Bloody Brits)
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1919 – Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed).
1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union.
1990 – Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments. (Didn't win enough to pay cart fees)
2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (About time)

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-29 02:28||   2009-05-29 02:28|| Front Page Top

#2 

A picture is worth a thousand words

Daily Gam Shot

Gone Fishing

Little Bo Peep


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-29 03:27||   2009-05-29 03:27|| Front Page Top

#3 A picture is worth a thousand words

Gah . . . :-P
Posted by gorb 2009-05-29 04:32||   2009-05-29 04:32|| Front Page Top

#4 
Posted by kardozo 2009-05-29 11:00||   2009-05-29 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Is that a hernia belt that Scary Spice is wearing?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-29 12:14||   2009-05-29 12:14|| Front Page Top

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Posted by kardozo">kardozo  2009-05-29 15:13|| http://flowerhire.com]">[http://flowerhire.com]  2009-05-29 15:13|| Front Page Top

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