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Mawnin y’all

Mornin

Good morning everyone, feels like fall is just around the corner.

Morning all

Good Morning Humans
Thursday!!

The weekend is getting closer!! I can almost taste it now.

But duty calls first. It’s a fine day to crank the crap out of widgets, guns and butter. The wheels of commerce require greasing for proper operation.

So find your zerk fittings and get to it.

Mornin everybody

Gooooooood morning baws and bawettes.

Been a little busy, but we're back ...

On this day in history:

1793
Yellow fever breaks out in Philadelphia. Prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush alerts the city's mayor that an epidemic of yellow fever was fast emerging. By the time the epidemic ended, some 5,000 people had died.

1808
British General Arthur Wellesley used his “thin red line” of infantry to defeat French General Andoche Junot's forces at the Battle of Vimeiro, leading to British control of Portugal.

1831
Nat Turner began an unsuccessful slave rebellion in the American South that eventually killed 60 people before being stopped by a 3,000-man militia.

1858
The famous debates in Illinois between Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate, and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas of the Democratic Party began.

1863
Guerrillas massacre residents of abolitionist settlement of Lawrence, Kansas. The vicious guerrilla war in Missouri spills over into Kansas and precipitates one of the most appalling acts of violence during the war when Southern partisans raid the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Kansas and murder 150 men.

1888
American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.

1897
Olds Motor Vehicle Company founded. Ransom Eli Olds of Lansing, Michigan, founds Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which will later become Olds Motor Werks and then Oldsmobile.

1911
Mona Lisa stolen. On this day in 1911 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by three Italian handymen; it was not recovered until 1913, and the media sensation helped make it one of the world's most famous paintings.

1942
The animated film Bambi had its theatrical release in the United States, and it became a classic in the Disney canon, noted for its lush hand-drawn animation and sensitive affective narrative.

1944
The seeds of the United Nations are planted. Representatives from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China meet in the Dumbarton Oaks estate at Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to formulate the formal principles of an organization that will provide collective security on a worldwide basis—an organization that will become the United Nations.

1959
Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state.

1974
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act is enacted on August 21, 1974. The new law addressed civil rights issues in education, barring states from discriminating against students based on gender, race, color or nationality and requiring public schools to provide for students who do not speak English.

1986
An eruption of lethal gas from Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills nearly 2,000 people and wipes out four villages on August 21, 1986. Carbon dioxide, though ubiquitous in Earth’s atmosphere, can be deadly in large quantities, as was evident in this disaster.

1987
The romantic drama Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, was released in American theatres, and it became a huge—and enduring—hit.

1991
Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

1991
Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days.

2004
American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his eighth medal of the 2004 Athens Olympics in spite of sitting out his eighth scheduled event, the final of the 4 x 100-meter medley relay. Phelps left Athens with six gold and two bronze medals. His eight total medals tied him with Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin for the most medals ever won by a competitor at a single Olympic Games.

2016
Greenville, S.C., police investigate reports of creepy clowns hanging around a local apartment complex, trying to lure kids into the woods. The story gains worldwide attention and sets off a “killer clown panic” across the US.

2017
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the continental United States experienced a total solar eclipse, which was viewed from Oregon to South Carolina.

Hope everyone has a great day!

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