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BTGBullseye

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  1. Banned for no capitalization, and no punctuation.
  2. 1903 - The first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east-west broadcast having been made in 1901). The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races. Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in the United States. Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" under the terms of the Cuban–American Treaty. In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens. The Paris–Madrid race begins, during which at least eight people are killed. 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “No. 9”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France. First Tour de France bicycle race, won by Maurice Garin. Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A. The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile. The Wreck of the Old 97 engine at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, which kills 11 people, inspires a ballad and song. Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory driver's licenses for operators of motor vehicles. Frank Nelson Cole proves that (2^67)-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years. The first modern World Series in North American baseball, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League, begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park. With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia. The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay opens its doors to guests. Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight. The first box of Crayola crayons was made and sold for 5 cents. It contained 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
  3. Heart and Souls
  4. Heart and Souls 9.5/10 VERY early Robert Downey Jr. movie.
  5. Dead egg sandwich. And milk. Or maybe cereal. And milk. *Dead egg = broken yoke, fried hard.
  6. Listening to this: 0C1jj6I0eJA Have to admit that it is one of the funnest songs I've heard in my life.
  7. http://the-keep.bandcamp.com/
  8. 1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism. Baseball's American League declares itself a Major League. J. P. Morgan buys mines and steel mills in the United States, marking the first billion dollar business deal. First public telephones at railway stations in Paris. Edward VII opens his first parliament of the United Kingdom. U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan as the first billion-dollar corporation. The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level. New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates. The U.S. stock market crashes. Cuba becomes a United States protectorate. Bureau of Chemistry established within the United States Department of Agriculture. The 1,282 foot (390 m) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world. The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom. Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick. The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region. Auguste Deter is first examined by German psychiatrist Dr Alois Alzheimer, leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name. The new Constitution of Alabama requires voters in the state to have passed literacy tests. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in England to Newfoundland, Canada; it is the letter "S" in Morse. Scotland Yard creates a fingerprint archive. Europium is isolated by Eugène-Anatole Demarçay. William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle. New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin. German Oscar Troplowitz invents for German company Beiersdorf AG the medical plaster patch called Leukoplast.
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  10. Just finished applying for a job at the county... My parents already work for the county... Now I'm getting ready to play Star Trek Online... Or maybe Rust... Or maybe something else... Or maybe...
  11. 1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba. Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. Opel Motors opens for business. Spanish–American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate. Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections. In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later. In Washington state, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established. Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark. At Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair. Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmits a radio signal across the English Channel. Students at the University of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University yelling at leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a symbol of the rivalry between the schools. New Richmond Tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200. Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story (later proved to be a fabrication) that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China. The paperclip is patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor. America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago. Marshall "Major" Taylor wins the world 1-mile (1.6 km) professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the first African American world champion in any sport. The White Star Line's transatlantic ocean liner RMS Oceanic sails on her maiden voyage. At 17,272 gross tons and 704 ft (215 m), she is the largest ship afloat, following scrapping of the SS Great Eastern a decade earlier. Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States. The American Line's SS St. Paul becomes the first ocean liner to report her imminent arrival by wireless telegraphy when Marconi's station at The Needles contacts her 66 nautical miles (122 km) off the coast of England. During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranus (technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies), Ceres and Pallas. A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the most recent time this has happened. David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der Geometrie. Oxo beef stock cubes introduced by Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
  12. DPMX-0E3D-0R1W-QA8Y-05JD
  13. Banned for not posting a reason.
  14. Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor.
  15. 1897- Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. The first Boston Marathon is held, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott. "The Stars and Stripes Forever', the American patriotic march by John Philip Sousa, is performed for the first time. Irish-born theatrical manager Bram Stoker's contemporary Gothic horror novel Dracula is first published (in London); it will influence the direction of vampire literature for the following century. The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle. The Oldsmobile is founded in Lansing, MI by Ransom E. Olds. The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America. The Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikh of the Sikh Regiment of British India, defend an army post against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen. The battle occurs in the North-West Frontier Province Afghanistan, now a part of Pakistan, which then formed part of British India. The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris. The word "computer", meaning an electronic calculation device, is first used. Bayer first produces Aspirin. Dos Equis is first brewed in anticipation of new century. J. J. Thomson discovers the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the nucleus). Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor.
  16. Banned for improper spelling.
  17. Welcome to the forums.
  18. Trying to make Firefox on Fedora 20 KDE play Netflix. I started at 8PM last night.
  19. Not bad... I liked the 3rd the best.
  20. Last game I played: How fast can I reinstall Fedora 20 KDE so I can see if installing different thing makes it work better.
  21. Well, that's the thing... There isn't a good 2d, or maybe even 3d graphical representation system available to describe most of the political individuals today. Half the old terms have mutated to mean the exact opposite of what they meant 20 years ago.
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