> My reply was meant to be humor.

I knew that......

My 'explanation' of PON PON was directed at those who may not be versed in what the US Coast Guard protocols are....

What's with all the eggshells ............................... ?

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This Day In History | Literary

April 17

1885 Isak Dinesen is born


Karen Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, is born in Rungsted, Denmark. Dinesen's memoir, Out of Africa, helped demystify the Dark Continent for millions of readers.

Dinesen was born to an upper-class Danish family. Her father committed suicide when Dinesen was 10, ending the happiest period of her childhood. She began writing plays and stories and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she developed an interest in art.

When her family sent her to Oxford to study English, she rebelled and went to Paris and Rome to study painting. In 1914, she married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and the couple moved to what was then British East Africa (now Kenya), where they owned and operated a coffee plantation. While the unhappy marriage dissolved in 1921, Dinesen fell passionately in love with Africa and remained to manage the plantation for a decade. In Africa, she was a lively and extravagant hostess, fond of throwing lush dinner parties for her friends-parties which laid the basis for her 1949 story, Babette's Feast, which was filmed in 1987.

Drought and a crash in coffee prices forced Dinesen, penniless, back to Denmark in 1931. She began publishing short story collections with Seven Gothic Tales (1934), followed by Out of Africa in 1937, which brought her recognition and respect. She published several other story collections before her death, in 1962.

read more about this story here:

http://www.historychannel.com/today/

My very best wishes ........ and kindness to all ...........................

friendly and respectful
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> This Day In History | Literary
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> April 17
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> 1885 Isak Dinesen is born
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> Karen Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known by her pen name Isak
> Dinesen, is born in Rungsted, Denmark. Dinesen's memoir, Out of Africa, helped
> demystify the Dark Continent for millions of readers.
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Hi Byron,

Thanks for sharing.

I have a 1.st edition (bought on the publishing day!) hardback in slip case copy of the collection of her letters from Africa 1914 - 1931 for sale! In good condition, only a little faded on the backs!

Anyone interested?

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Hi, byron...... (camping out weather is here.... )

More history happenings on this day in history.

Apr.17
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:

618: Scotland: Fifty-three monks are burned alive in their refectory by a gang of armed women seeking revenge for being cheated out of their pasture rights, on the island of Eigg.

1414: Isabelle la Boulangere fined for performing an act of prostitution on this day (it was Easter Sunday.

1492: Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella sign the agreement to finance and set the terms of Columbus's voyage to the Indies. The document is known as the Capitulations of Santa Fe. Establishes that Columbus would become the viceroy and governor of all discovered land and rights to 10% of all assets brought to Spain, among other terms.

1521: Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

1680: Death of Kateri Tekakwitha, first Indian Roman Catholic nun, from self-inflicted penitential wounds. In 1980, 300 years later, she becomes first American Indian to be beatified by Roman Catholic church.

1790: American polymath, revolutionist Ben Franklin dies, 84. Twenty thousand people attend his funeral.

1817: Seven Luddites hanged in London for destroying textile machines.

1824: Slavery abolished in Central America.

1833: Birth of Arthur Arnould, Dieuze (the Moselle), France. Journalist, novelist, member of First International and the Paris Commune, companion of Michael Bakunin.

1854: Birth of Benjamin Tucker (1854-1939), South Dartmouth, Mass. American individualist anarchist, publisher, journalist, propagandist, theorist.

1864: Bread riots in Savannah, Georgia.

1905: U.S. Supreme Court holds that a maximum hours law for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional under the due process clause of the 14th amendment.

1914: Yarmouthm England pier hit by a suffragette bomb.

1954: President Eisenhower issues a memo threatening use of atomic bomb against China.

1959: Twenty-two arrested in Times Square for refusing to take part in civil defense drill, New York City.

1960: As a response to the Greensboro sit-in, 140 black students form Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the late 60s it becomes a black militant organization and far from nonviolent in position. Nearly 150 students from nine states met in North Carolina with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr. By this time, in mid April, over 50,000 students have participated in sit-ins in less than three months.

1961: U.S. uses covert mercenaries to invade Cuba in the abortive Bay of Pigs fiasco. Invasion ends quickly in disarray and ignomy for the U.S., which initially denies responsibility. An army of 1,500 anti-Castro rightwing Cuban exiles, mercenaries equipped and trained at a secret Guatemala base by the CIA, landed in an attempt to "liberate" Cuba from Communist rule. Within three days, the invasion proves an unqualified disaster; fully 1,200 of the exiles were taken prisoner.

1965: Twenty-five thousand march in first major national demonstration against the Vietnam War, Washington D.C. Sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society, the event also lives SDS to national prominence. The number of marchers is roughly equal to the number of of US troops in South Vietnam. Both would increase over time. Several hundred students in today's protest break away from the main march and conduct a brief sit-in at a Capitol door. Every subsequent anti-war demonstration will see the same split between those who want to maintain peaceful, legal demonstrations, and those who urge more radical tactics.

1968: One-third of Duke University student body strikes to protest racial discrimination in hiring of non-academic staff.

1968: Twenty thousand in final rally for annual anti-nuclear Aldermaston March, Trafalgar Square, London, England.

1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. His death sentence would later be commuted to life, a sentence he still serves, when capital punishment is ruled unconstitutional three years later.

1971: Seattle Peace Action Coalition leads an anti-war march of 2,500 from downtown to Seattle Center.

1973: Berkeley, Calif. voters approve law making marijuana possession lowest enforcement priority of police department.

1975: Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh falls to Khmer Rouge forces.

1986: Norweigan government rejects participation in Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars).

1986: Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and others co-found the Rainbow Coalition, initially intended as a progressive public policy think tank within the Democratic Party.

1989: France: Eugene Bizeau dies. French vine-grower, pacifist, anarchist poet and songster; Bizeau fought for his ideals until his death at age 105.

1990: Reverend Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64.

1990: In a significant setback for religious freedom, U.S. Supreme Court rules an Oregon ban on on peyote use by American Indians does not violate First Amendment rights to freedom of religion.

1992: Rally against increasing repression, Pancevo, Yugoslavia.

1996: Brazil: Police clash with 2,000 landless peasants in the eastern Amazon town of Eldorado dos Carajas, killing 19 and wounding 69. Although 156 officers were indicted for the killings, only three went on trial; they were acquited. Over 1,000 Brazilians, mostly indigenous, lose their lives in similar land disputes in the 1990s. Ninety percent of the land belongs to 20% of the people, while 40% own just 1%.

2001: Brazil: Protestors across the country mark the 1996 killings of landless protestors, planting crosses in city squares to honor the victims, blocking bridges and tossing McEggs at McDonald's McRestaurants. Coordinated by the Farmworkers Movement, which is pressuring the government for speedier land reforms.

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Tomorrow, ...April 18th 1792.... Vancouver will 'discover' Vancouver Island.
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> Hi Byron,
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> Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Fuzzy Hollynoodles,

thank you so very much for your kind reply to my post. From reading about her life I think, Isak Dinesen ........ was a brave, spirited, courageous and adventurous woman. I very much admired Isak Dinesen.

My very best wishes ..... to ...... Fuzzy Hollynoodles

friendly and respectful
byron

> Hi, byron...... (camping out weather is here.... )
>
> More history happenings on this day in history.
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> Apr.17
> Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:



Hi Paul,

thanks very very much for your Great your post. Wow that's great !

> Hi, byron...... (camping out weather is here.... )
>
you're right Paul, you folks up in Alaska must now must be getting more day light then us city folks down south on 49 degrees latitude. I love Alaska and the Yukon .... any where north of 60. During World War 2 my uncle joined the U.S. Air force , as a mechanic and was stationed in , Fairbanks .... my uncle loved Alaska so much , he took out his American citizenship ... my uncle was a very good mechanic he could fix any motor from a Diesel in a D-8 cat ... to the gas engine , in a Beaver float plane. I'd like to see if I could make a camping trip , Via the Alcan highway , to Fairbanks Alaska this year or next ... oh well some day maybe ___ :)


anyway .... nuff rambling 4 now ....

My very very best wishes .. to ya .... Paul ..


friendly and respectful
byron

Hi Byron,
thank you for creating this post. i have enjoyed reading your post in these forums for quite a while. this peticular thread reminds us all...Where we have been!


Very Respectfully,

Rocky

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> I'd like to see if I
> could make a camping trip , Via the Alcan highway , to Fairbanks Alaska this
> year or next ... oh well some day maybe ___ :)

The trip can be very enjoyable if you don't try to make too many miles a day..... lot's of interesting places along the way, try to schedule plenty of time. It is a wonderful drive if taken leisurely.

My last trip from here to Seattle by road was 3 days...... a flat butt was had by all.....2500 miles is too far, in that short of time...

Take that trip, byron. You will enjoy it.

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> Take that trip, byron. You will enjoy it.
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thanks Paul .... I will

friendly and respectful
byron

> Hi Byron,
> thank you for creating this post. i have enjoyed reading your post in these
> forums for quite a while. this particular thread reminds us all...Where we have
> been!
>
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
> Rocky
>



Hi Rocky,

thank you very much for your post ..... Rocky ............... I always enjoy reading you post, you alway bring a sense of civility and tolerance to these boards... thank you

You always keep your cool.

Rocky ..... thank you for your Humanity and your Eloquence , and your courage to do the right thing. We need more people like you in the world today.

My very best wishes to you ........ Rocky

friendly and respectful
byron

Apr.18
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:

1792: Vancouver "discovers" Vancouver Island.

1857: Birth of Clarence Darrow, famed lawyer and crusader for social justice best known for defending the teaching of evolution in the 1925 Scopes monkey trial.

1879: Trial starts in Standing Bear vs. Gen. Crook in front of Judge Dundy, arguing (in vain) that Indians citizens have the same rights to habeas corpus as other U.S. citizens. Indians would not get full U.S. citizenship for another 40 years.

1906: Earthquake and subsequent fires destroy much of San Francisco.

1912: West Virginia coal miners strike, defend themselves against National Guard.

1941: Bus companies in New York City agree to hire black workers after a four-week boycott.

1955: Albert Einstein, pacifist scientist, dies.

1958: First march against nuclear arms, West Germany.

1970: Four thousand march in Seattle for peace in Southeast Asia, escorted by Seattle police officers with daffodils tied to their night sticks.

1970: Native Americans start five-day sit-ins at several Bureau of Indian Affairs offices across the country.

1977: Native American activist Leonard Peltier found guilty of murdering two FBI agents, despite government testimony that he was not present at the scene of the killings.

1980: Ending racial civil war, the segregated African nation of Rhodesia becomes the liberated African nation of Zimbabwe.

1996: One hundred refugees in a U.N. compound killed by intentionally targeted Israeli artillery, Quana, Lebanon.

1997: "Choose Life" Plowshares action at Bofors weapons factory in Karlskoga, Sweden, exporter of arms to Indonesia.

1998: Labor organizations from across Latin America converge on Santiago, Chile, in a mass protest of Bill Clinton's free trade visit and Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations there.
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Tomorrow, (in 1775), the American Revolution begins....

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thanks Paul


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hi, byron

So did you declare 'Vancouver Day' and have a holiday?

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> hi, byron
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> So did you declare 'Vancouver Day' and have a holiday?

hi, Paul

ya , sort of LOL ___ :)

Apr.19


1775: American Revolution begins with battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass.

1851: Kalapuyan Atfalate cede lands to U.S. in exchange for a small reservation at Wapato Lake, Oregon.

1879: Moses Lake reservation established for Chelan people.

1943: Jews in Warsaw, Poland, begin revolt against Nazi tyranny. It is crushed within a month.

1948: Costa Rica abolishes its army -- a major factor in its never having fallen prey to corruption, dictatorships, or the bloodshed that has marred much of the region since.

1952: Thirty-five Operation Gandhi supporters picket Aldermaston spy base, Britain.

1971: Several hundred Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin an encampment on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

1978: California Gov. Jerry Brown refuses a request from South Dakota to extradite American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks to South Dakota to stand trial.

1988: U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Forest Service can build logging road through sacred lands of Yurok, Karok, and Tolowa tribes in Northern California.

1989: Turret explosion aboard U.S.S. IOWA (BB-61) kills 47 sailors. Explosion is initially blamed on alleged suicide pact between gay sailors, as conjectured by Naval Investigative Service and as leaked to NBC News. Eventually, explosion is found to have been caused by unstable gun powder. Surviving gunner's mate sues NBC and Navy for libel and defamation of character.

1990: United Front conducts two-day student strike in support of a diverse faculty, Univ. of California-Berkeley.

1993: Federal agents attack Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas; incinerating about 80 members. Later revelations suggest government munitions started the deadly fire and that agents prevented compound residents from fleeing the burning building. Because of the nature of the Branch Davidians - - a tiny evangelical sect -- and the weaponry charges being pursued by the government, the deaths become a rallying point for far right activists, but are largely ignored by the left.

1995: Bombing of Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills nearly 200. Bombing is initially blamed on Arab terrorists; later found to be the work of far- right American "patriots" striking back to commemorate Waco.
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Tomorrow, (in 1969), People's Park is planted, Berkeley.
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> Hi Rocky,
>
> thank you very much for your post ..... Rocky ............... I always
> enjoy reading you post, you alway bring a sense of civility and tolerance to
> these boards... thank you
>
> You always keep your cool.
>
> Rocky ..... thank you for your Humanity and your Eloquence , and your courage
> to do the right thing. We need more people like you in the world today.
>
> My very best wishes to you ........ Rocky
>
> friendly and respectful
> byron


Hi Byron,
Thank you for your kind words. It is difficult finding some civilty with all that is going on, but you my friend have seemed to put it foremost in your posts.I look forward to talking with you more in the future.

Very Respectfully,

Rocky

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For all of you without user ID:712168 already on your ignore list:
He's just a racist jerk , who got shunned, and tries to wreak havoc indiscriminantly (perhaps the only thing, where he doesn't discriminate ;)

Simply ignore him, he's not capable of thinking, let alone reply requests in a appropríate manner.

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On this day... <A><B>April 20</B>[/url]

0295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

0850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne

1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg

1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal

1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines

1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house

1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks
Spanish silver fleet

1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth

1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray", premieres in London

1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales

1775 British begin siege of Boston

1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia

1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod", premieres in Weimar

1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

1836 Territory of Wisconsin created

1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad

1861 Battle of Norfolk VA

1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens

1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase

1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitán", premieres in NYC

1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis

1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida", premieres in London

1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow CO

1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast

1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi

1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday

1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police

1935 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)

1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine

1939 New York World's Fair opens

1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA

1941 100 German bombers attack Athens

1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach

1942 Heavy German assault on Malta

1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin

1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany

1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer

1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

1947 Frederik IX becomes King of Denmark

1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5¢ to 10¢

1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll

1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators

1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters

1962 OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers

1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda

1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War

1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon

1967 French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM

1968 South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed

1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria

1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"

1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2

1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit

1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"

1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses

1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift

1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession

1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock

1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security

1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghánistán

1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland

1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances

1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1987 Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead

1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR

1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians

1991 "Les Miserables", opens at Odense Teater, Odense

1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs

1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)

1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed

1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands

1997 DL Coburn's "Gin Game", opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances

1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to homerun on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)

1997 Noël Coward's "Present Laughter", closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC

1999 Deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School, Littleton CO, 13 killed, 23 wounded

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