OrigScreaminDemon
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I am adopted
On this date in 1937, the Hindenburg burst into flames & crashed while docking in Lakehurst, NJ.
There are a lot of opinions on this facts thread.
52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right
In a tour de force of technology and just plain stubbornness spanning half a century and costing more than $750 million, a team of experimenters from Stanford University reported on Wednesday that a set of orbiting gyroscopes had detected a slight sag and an even slighter twist in space-time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/space/05gravity.html?_r=1&ref=science
Tomorrow is the 99th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. We should have a group viewing of this to celebrate:
On May 6, 1997, the Whalers officially left Hartford for Raleigh :tear: Although I guess a bunch of people who post here were probably happy about that.
http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/7735/this-day-in-sports-history-the-whale-leaves
I don't know any names. I just watch the free stuff online.
John Tyler, who was a US President from 1841-1845, has two living grandsons.
Didn't WFRULZ say his grandfather fought in the Civil War? That's not even as impressive as John Tyler (born in 1790!) having two living grandsons, but still mindboggling to think about.
A friend of mine needed a kidney transplant. He was less worried about finding a match than most.
His father was one of a family of eleven siblings. His mother had ten brothers and sisters.
He had over 120 first cousins.