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Lets go boys..... Morning Hillabee, Wally and BB. Heading to the Gulf today. Snook hunting then bikini watching.


Hope you all have a great day.

RIP Ryne Sandberg

Between him, Hulk and Ozzy, tough week for big time names

Buenos días a todos!

July 29th has twice been an unlucky date for the Spaniards

1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, and several skirmishes follow, forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland.

1715 Ten Spanish treasure galleons sink off Florida's coast in a hurricane

Morning all. gonna be a good day. wife and I keep one of our grands today

GM GMT!

Let us do work!

Rip and Tear; Until it is Done!

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Against all the evil that hell can conjure, all the wickedness that mankind can produce

We will send onto them only you

Rip and Tear, Until it is Done

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Daily Theme: This heat makes me "Unsummering"

Mawnin y’all

Morning all

Good morning baws and bawettes!

This day in history:

1588
The Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England, was first sighted by the English off Lizard Point, Cornwall.

1836
The Arc de Triomphe, one of the largest triumphal arches in the world, was officially inaugurated in Paris.

1858
Townsend Harris persuaded the Japanese to sign the Harris Treaty, an agreement securing commercial and diplomatic privileges for the United States in Japan.

1862
Confederate spy Marie Isabella “Belle” Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. It was the first of three arrests for this skilled spy who provided crucial information to the Confederates during the war.

1872
Nathaniel P. Langford and James Stevenson made the first ascent of Grand Teton, the highest peak of the Teton Range in Wyoming.

1890
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, died in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, two days after shooting himself.

1900
In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I is shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who resided in America before returning to his homeland to murder the king.

1909
General Motors Corporation (GM) acquires the country’s leading luxury automaker, the Cadillac Automobile Company, for $4.5 million.

1913
Albania was formally recognized by the major European powers as an independent principality following the issuance of the Vlorë proclamation.

1921
Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Under Hitler, the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany as a totalitarian state from 1933 to 1945.

1954
The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings—which became a sociocultural phenomenon and was adapted into a series of blockbuster films in the early 2000s—was published.

1957
The International Atomic Energy Agency was created.

1958
National Aeronautics and Space Administration established. Criticized for allowing the Soviet Union to launch the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth (Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957), U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation this day in 1958 that created NASA.

1965
The first 4,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. They made a demonstration jump immediately after arriving, observed by Gen. William Westmoreland and outgoing Ambassador (formerly General) Maxwell Taylor. Taylor and Westmoreland were both former commanders of the division, which was known as the “Screaming Eagles.”

1967
The Doors score their first #1 hit with “Light My Fire”

1976
David Berkowitz, later to be known as the “Son of Sam,” pulls a gun from a paper bag and fires five shots at Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti of the Bronx while they are sitting in a car, talking. Lauria died and Valenti was seriously wounded in the first in a series of shootings by the serial killer, who terrorized New York City over the course of the next year.

1981
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married in St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

1996
Carl Lewis wins his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the long jump. It was the ninth and final Olympic gold of his storied career.

2005
Planetary scientists formally announced the discovery of what was believed to be the 10th planet; it was later designated a dwarf planet and given the name Eris.

Hope everyone has a great day!

It's Taco Tuesday!