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Morning all

Good morning baws and bawettes.

On this day in history:

1676
Metacom (also called King Philip), intertribal chief of the Wampanoag, was killed, ending the conflict between Native Americans and English settlers known as King Philip's War.

1851
Isaac Merrit Singer patented his sewing machine and formed I.M. Singer & Company to market the product.

1877
Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison. On this day in 1877, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison made perhaps his most original discovery, the phonograph, and his early recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus.

1877
Mars' moon Deimos is discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall. The discovery took place at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Deimos is one of two natural satellites of Mars. The other moon, Phobos was also discovered by Hall and is the bigger satellite of the two. Phobos is also closer to Mars than Deimos is.

1883
The last known quagga, a type of zebra native to South Africa, died in the Amsterdam zoo.

1887
Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for his contributions to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics, was born in Vienna.

1898
The brief and one-sided Spanish-American War comes to an end when Spain formally agrees to a peace protocol on U.S. terms: the cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Manila in the Philippines to the United States pending a final peace treaty.

1944
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.—U.S. naval pilot, son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and brother of President John F. Kennedy—died in a plane crash while flying on a secret mission during World War II.

1961
East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall, which served as a symbol of the Cold War, separating East Berlin from West Berlin until 1989.

1966
During a press conference, John Lennon of the Beatles apologized for saying that his band was “more popular than Jesus now”; the comment had sparked protests and album burnings.

1973
American golfer Jack Nicklaus wins the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones’ record of 13 major championships.

1981
The IBM Personal Computer is stocked in stores for the first time. Known as the IBM PC or the IBM 5150, the computer had no disk drives and sold for about $1500.

1988
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, dies of an overdose. Jean-Michel Basquiat—a self-taught artist who rose from notorious graffiti tagger to one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, is found dead from an accidental heroin overdose in his New York City apartment at the age of 27.

1990
The most complete and best-preserved skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex was found on South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, and it was nicknamed Sue, after Susan Hendrickson, the paleontologist who discovered the dinosaur fossil.

1994
Major League baseball players go on a strike that lasts for 232 days. The 1994 World Series had to be canceled, the first time that happened in 90 years.

2014
American actress Lauren Bacall—who was known for her portrayals of provocative women who hid their soft core underneath a layer of hard-edged pragmatism—died at age 89.

Hope everyone has a great day!

89, 225, yote, rock, teech

Morning all

As a borderline homo, I would never give someone with long shorts the time of day.

Good morning, folks.

It takes too long to get to 8-30 this year.

Good morning, everyone!

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1988

Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, dies of an overdose. Jean-Michel Basquiat—a self-taught artist who rose from notorious graffiti tagger to one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, is found dead from an accidental heroin overdose in his New York City apartment at the age of 27.

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Who? Oh.. I found a work of his... yikes!



Anyway, wordled in five and yay for the 2nd day of school!

Good Morning Humans
Taco Tuesday!!

Shifting gears today. Yesterday was stuck in grammaw the whole long arse day. Now it time to reach cruising speed and cover more ground.

Best of luck in all y’all’s endeavors this day.

A good crushing speed is preferable. Easier to maintain progression.