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Time to break out the roofing tools and get started.


Today in History.

1014
The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops.
1536
William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France.
1696
Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance.
1788
The Polish Diet decides to hold a four year session.
1801
Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland.

1847
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
1866
The Reno brothers--Frank, John, Simeon and William--commit the country's first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000.
1927
The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.
1941
German troops renew their offensive against Moscow.
1965
Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.

1966
Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin.
1969
Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges.
1973
Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1981
Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.
1987
Fiji becomes a republic independent of the British Commonwealth.

1995
Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.
2000
Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic and Argentina's vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices.
2007
Explorer and author Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Joke of the Day.


Four nuns are standing in line for confession. The first nun goes into the confessional and says bless me father for I have sinned I touched a manâ??s private parts.
The priest asks, "What part of your body did you use?"

The nun replies, "My right hand."

The priest tells her to dip her right hand in holy water say 10 hail Maryâ??s and all will be forgiven.

The second nun goes into the confessional and says, "Bless me father for I have sinned I touched a mans private parts."

The priest asks, "What part of your body did you use?"

The nun replies, "My left hand." The priest tells her to dip her left hand in the holy water say 10 hail Maryâ??s and all will be forgiven.

Well, this leaves the third and fourth nun standing in line. The fourth nun taps the third nun on the shoulder and asks, "Would you mind if I went first?"

The third nun says, "Sure I don't care, but would mind telling me why?"

The fourth nun replies, "Well, I would like to drink the water before you have to sit in it!"