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Post by SolarGarlic 🧀 on Sept 22, 2015 7:59:05 GMT -7
If you could go back in time and attend any historical event (THAT'S NOT MUSIC RELATED) which would you choose?
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Post by betterweather1239 on Sept 22, 2015 8:02:37 GMT -7
I'd like to see the days and months leading up to the American Revolution. Also the Soviet Revolution.
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Post by lordkundalini on Sept 22, 2015 8:03:08 GMT -7
the first meeting between Aliens and humans back in the distant past
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Post by hokiejoe on Sept 22, 2015 8:13:19 GMT -7
Frodo v. Stoops
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Post by Zeewada on Sept 22, 2015 8:14:42 GMT -7
the sinking of the titanic
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Post by hokiejoe on Sept 22, 2015 8:15:33 GMT -7
I'm not sure you want to attend that one Zee, maybe observe from a rescue boat?
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Post by Zeewada on Sept 22, 2015 8:16:58 GMT -7
celine dion's music makes it "music related" so Im going with the creation of the stonehenge.
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Post by PooDolla on Sept 22, 2015 9:29:18 GMT -7
the day prohibition ended.
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Post by ferd on Sept 22, 2015 10:05:36 GMT -7
Do I have to live out my days where I choose?
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Post by SolarGarlic 🧀 on Sept 22, 2015 11:08:38 GMT -7
No. You arrive for the event and leave when it's over.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 11:18:29 GMT -7
Today in History
September 21
454 In Italy, Aetius, the supreme army commander, is murdered in Ravenna by Valentinian III, the emperor of the West.
1327 Edward II of England is murdered by order of his wife.
1520 Suleiman (the Magnificent), son of Selim, becomes Ottoman sultan in Constantinople.
1589 The Duke of Mayenne of France is defeated by Henry IV at the Battle of Arques.
1673 James Needham returns to Virginia after exploring the land to the west, which would become Tennessee.
1745 A Scottish Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routs the Royalist army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans.
1863 Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is then besieged by Confederate troops.
1904 Exiled Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies of a "broken heart".
1915 Stonehenge is sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb, who buys it as a present for his wife. He presents it to the British nation three years later.
1929 Fighting between China and the Soviet Union breaks out along the Manchurian border.
1936 The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914.
1937 The women’s airspeed record is set at 292 mph by American pilot Jacqueline Cochran.
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit is published.
1941 The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
1942 British forces attack the Japanese in Burma.
1944 U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River.
1978 Two Soviet cosmonauts set a space endurance record after 96 days in space.
1981 Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1989 General Colin Powell is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1991 Armenia granted independence from USSR.
1993 The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 begins when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and invalidates the existing constitution.
1999 Earthquake in Taiwan kills more than 2,400, injures over 11,305, and causes $300 billion New Taiwan dollars ($10 billion in US dollars).
2003 Galileo space mission ends as the probe is sent into Jupiter’s atmosphere where it is crushed.
Born on September 21
1756 John Loudon McAdam, engineer who invented and gave his name to macadamized roads.
1866 Charles Jean Henri Nicolle, bacteriologist, discovered that typhus fever is transmitted by body louse.
1866 H.G. Wells, science fiction writer whose works include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.
1895 Juan de la Cierva, aeronautical engineer who invented the autogyro.
1902 Allen Lake, founded Penguin Books in 1935.
1912 Chuck Jones, animator and director of Warner Brothers cartoons.
1947 Stephen King, author best known for supernatural and horror tales (The Stand, Salem’s Lot, Joyland).
1947 Marsha Norman, playwright (Getting Out, ‘Night Mother).
1950 Bill Murray, actor; won Emmy for his work on Saturday Night Live TV series; movies include Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation.
1951 Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov, rebel leader widely credited for the Chechen victory in First Chechen War (1994-96); President of Chechnya (1997-99).
1957 Mark Levin, attorney, author; host of syndicated radio program The Mark Levin Show.
1968 Faith Hill, Grammy Award-winning country pop singer ("Breathe").
1968 Ricki Lake, actress (China Beach TV series), producer, host of The Ricki Lake Show TV talk show for which she won a Daytime Emmy.
1987 Ashley and Courtney Paris, twins who played in the Women’s National Basketball Association, Ashley for the Los Angeles Sparks, Courtney for the Atlanta Dream.
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Post by senatooorofspace on Sept 22, 2015 11:19:04 GMT -7
I hear Paris in the early 1700s was a pretty cool place to be.
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Post by ferd on Sept 22, 2015 11:19:55 GMT -7
Ok...I want to go to when cavemen invented fire, pour a bucket of water on it and then split.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 11:25:05 GMT -7
You are probably not the atletic type, you may not run fast enough.
I feel like you probably are most comfortable i na chair, but hey who can argue.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 11:26:11 GMT -7
1866 H.G. Wells, science fiction writer whose works include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.
^ wat does that mean?
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Post by dewme on Sept 22, 2015 11:34:18 GMT -7
The building of the pyramids.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 11:42:15 GMT -7
I would like to be there when Columbus landed in the Americas just chilling on the beach with a sign that said " what took you so long?"
I would also like to see an actual tournament for knights
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Post by SolarGarlic 🧀 on Sept 22, 2015 11:52:12 GMT -7
1866 H.G. Wells, science fiction writer whose works include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. ^ wat does that mean? That's a list of famous people born on Sept 21st. |
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Post by ferd on Sept 22, 2015 12:41:41 GMT -7
You are probably not the atletic type, you may not run fast enough. I feel like you probably are most comfortable i na chair, but hey who can argue. You talking to me motherfucker? I was an NCAA Division I athlete in my younger days. |
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Post by PooDolla on Sept 22, 2015 13:04:24 GMT -7
if having kids was a sport you'd be varsity.
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