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Morning all

Good morning. Dog thought it was a great idea to get me up at 3am.... No dog parks were attended

Good morning baws and bawettes. Week 1 of college football is finally here, with quite a few games on tonight.

On this day in history:

476
The fall of the Western Roman Empire was completed as Emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the German warrior Odoacer.

1774
St. Elizabeth born in New York City. Elizabeth Ann Bayley is born in New York City on August 28, 1774. She went on to found the first Catholic school and the first female apostolic community in the United States. She was also the first American-born saint beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

1793
The Siege of Toulon in the French Revolutionary wars began.

1830
The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins!

1850
Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin was performed for the first time, at Weimar, Germany.

1879
Zulu king captured. King Cetshwayo, the last great ruler of Zululand, is captured by the British following his defeat in the British-Zulu War. He was subsequently sent into exile. Cetshwayo’s defiance of British rule in southern Africa led to Britain’s invasion of Zululand in 1879.

1914
The first major engagement of the British and German navies during World War I occurred at the Battle of Helgoland Bight.

1937
Toyota Motor Corporation is Formed
The car company was first founded in 1933 as a subsidiary of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. The division was headed by Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of the Toyota founder, Sakichi Toyoda.

1946
The Killers, starring Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster in his breakthrough role, had its world premiere in New York City, and it became a film noir classic.

1955
Emmett Till is Murdered in Mississippi. The 14-year old African-American boy was brutally killed by white men after he was allegedly reported to have flirted with a white woman a day before. Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, when he was kidnapped, mutilated, and his body dumped into the river.

1957
South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond begins what was then the longest filibuster speech in Senate history, orating for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In all, senators spent 57 days filibustering, unsuccessfully, against the law.

1963
Civil rights march on Washington
On this day in 1963, some 200,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., an event that became a high point of the civil rights movement, especially remembered for the famous “I Have a Dream” speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963
Evergreen Bridge Opens for Traffic for the First Time
The longest floating bridge in the world, the Evergreen Point Bridge or the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is on Route 520 in the state of Washington. It is built on Lake Washington and connects Seattle with the city of Medina. The bridge is 4,750 meters long, half of which is over the water.

1968
Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention—fueled, in part, by opposition to the Vietnam War—culminated in the so-called Battle of Michigan Avenue, a violent confrontation between demonstrators and police.

1993
The spacecraft Galileo took pictures of the asteroid Ida.

1996
The 15-year marriage of Charles, prince of Wales, and Diana, princess of Wales, ended as a final divorce decree was issued.

2003
Britney Spears and Madonna kiss at the VMAs. In what became an instantly iconic moment of early 2000s pop culture, Britney Spears and Madonna share a passionate kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2003.

2014
American spy John Walker, a U.S. Navy communications specialist who passed classified documents to Soviet agents for nearly two decades (1967–85) before being caught, died in prison at age 77.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Mawnin y’all

Yeah I need one of those. I came home at 515 yesterday and my wife found me passed out on the small couch at 545 asking if I was sick. I said no, I'm just ready for the weekend

Good morning, folks.

Don't forget to have some pie today.

Mornin everybody

Good Morning Humans
Thaco Thursday according to Mike Tyson!

Alrighty then, let’s get a game plan and hit the field. Start with some quick yardage then go deep for all the points.

Let tomorrow be a mop up day as a reward for doing the heavy lifting today.

Time to get crackalackin!

We've got more CFB tonight