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2009-06-19 
Good Friday morning!
Posted by Steve White 2009-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 These Iranian beauties don't seem to understand the concept of "making bunny ears" in a group photo.
Posted by Scott R 2009-06-19 00:25||   2009-06-19 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Happy Birthday: June 19th.

Moe Howard - died 1975 (77) "Moses Harry Horwitz"

Guy Lombardo - died 1977 (75)

Lou Gehrig - died 1941 (37) "The Iron Horse"

Lester Flatt - died 1979 (64) "Flatt and Scruggs"

Nancy Marchand - died 2000 (71) "The Sopranos"

Gena Rowlands - 79 "A Woman Under the Influence" (Now)

Pier Angeli - died 1971 (39) "Anna Maria Pierangeli, a twin"

Marisa Pavan - 77 "Marisa Pierangeli, also a twin"

Kathleen Turner - 55 "Romancing the Stone" (Now)

Paula Abdul - 47 "Lost track of her feet" (Now)

Sadie Frost - 44 "NSFW Nekkid as an egg PETA Ad" (Now)

Mia Sara - 42 "Ferris Bueller's girlfriend" (Now)

On this day in history: June 19th.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1846 – The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1862 – U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1944 – First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Garfield comic strip debuts and grows to over $1 billion in revenue within over 110 countries.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-06-19 00:31||   2009-06-19 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 More Potential Persian Protest Partners



Homayra

Hediyeh Tehrani

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Hammasa Kohistani

Pauline Ranjbar

Samin


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-06-19 04:33||   2009-06-19 04:33|| Front Page Top

#4 "If you pick it, it'll never heal"

/Lester Flatt
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-06-19 08:54||   2009-06-19 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "But it does make a joyful noise"

Earl Scruggs
Posted by Snaise Gonque1417 2009-06-19 11:51||   2009-06-19 11:51|| Front Page Top

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