> To continue off topic (Sorry Byron) NA posts in tongues... :)
>

Nah, it's perfectly clear to me! I had just expected him to include them all!

I know he speaks a lot of other languages such as c, c++, ....

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> > To continue off topic (Sorry Byron) NA posts in tongues... :)
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>
> Nah, it's perfectly clear to me! I had just expected him to include them all!
>
> I know he speaks a lot of other languages such as c, c++, ....
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I didn't say I didn't understand him.. I said he posts in tongues..

BTW: My post was my languages not his..

Oi vey! I didn't know computer languages were gonna be included. Here goes:

<li>Bread and butter
8-bit BASICs, QuickBASIC for DOS and Macintosh, Chipmunk BASIC (One of the best IMNSHO), VisualBASIC 6, HTMLs 1-4, CSS 1-3, XHTML.</li><li>Competence
Logo, ANSI C99, XML and XSLT, Shell scripting, MySQL, TeX and LaTeX</li><li>I scrape by
AppleScript, Fortran, JavaScript/ECMAScript, some C++</li><li>I used to know
Pascal, 6502 assembly, and some 68k assembly</li><li>I know enough to realize I don't want nothing to do with it
Java, C# and Objective-C, REALbasic, VisualBASIC .NET, Ada, PHP, and x86 assembly</li><li>Trying to learn
PPC assembly and APL</li>

And for those who don't know, the language codes are ISOs for English, Spanish (Cono Sur), Hebrew (Just enough to scrape by intelligibly), Japanese (Which is an ongoing learning process)

.o0(You asked for it!)

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> .o0(You asked for it!)
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Yep! Our very own prodigy!! :-)

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

> I didn't say I didn't understand him.. I said he posts in tongues..
>
> BTW: My post was my languages not his..
>


I got that! ;-)

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Apr.27


1174: Marie of Champagne issues a "responsum" to the inquiry "Can real love exist between married people?" The answer was "No."

1521: Philippines natives with the right idea ambush and kill European explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

1759: Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, England. Wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women."

1773: British Parliament passes the Tea Act.

1813: The U.S. burns Toronto to the ground in an unsuccessful attempt to gain control of Lake Ontario.

1825: First strike for 10-hour day by Boston carpenters.

1861: Pres. Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus due to the Civil War. Thousands are jailed for the duration of the conflict without charges.

1861: West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from U.S..

1865: The worst ship disaster in American history occurred when the overloaded river steamer Sultana, equipped with tubular boilers ill-suited for use in the muddy waters of the lower Mississippi, blew up and sank near Memphis, Tenn. Over 2,300 perished, many of them emaciated Union soldiers returning north after being released from a Confederate prison camp.

1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord, Massachusetts. Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery beside Thoreau and Hawthorne.

1915: International Congress of Women founded in The Hague, Netherlands.

1927: Birth of activist Coretta Scott King.

1937: The first Social Security payment was made.

1937: Death of Italian philosopher/communist Antonio Gramsci.

1942: Sixteen pacifists, including A.J. Muste and Evan Thomas, refuse to register for the draft.

1945: Three anarchist editors jailed nine months for "incitement to disaffection," London.

1960: Student protests in the wake of rigged elections force the resignation of South Korean President Syngman Rhee.

1968: Sixty thousand march against Vietnam War in New York City; 2,000 march in Seattle.

1974: Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.

1974: A four-hour long battle with police occurs after the Cherry Blossom Music Festival in Richmond, Virginia.

1977: Soweto protest starts demonstration against South African educational system.

1979: Zuni tribe files suit against U.S. government for New Mexico lands taken or damaged between 1846 and 1946.

1987: Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia blockaded by protesters of U.S. policies in Central America and Southern Africa. 700 arrested.

1989: First of many massive pro-democracy demonstrations in China.

1994: In South Africa's first all-race elections, Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress are swept into office.

1996: 30,000 rally across Germany for an end to nuclear power.

1996: Twenty-seven arrested at Watts Bar nuclear power plant, Spring City, Tenn.

1997: Seventeen activists protesting continued funding of the School of the Americas are arrested for digging a mass grave on Pentagon grounds.

1998: Over 10% of the workforce of Denmark--at least 500,000 people--go on strike in protest of proposed social service cutbacks.

1999: Protests across U.S. to call attention to effects of economic sanctions against Iraq.

2001: Former senator and presidential candidate Bob Kerrey admits he gave orders to execute 13 civilians at Thanh Phong, Vietnam, in 1968, and covered up the war crime for the following 33 years.

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Apr.28

1635: Virginia Gov. John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office.

1688: Portugese Carta Regia re-establishes slavery and warfare against indigenous peoples.

1789: Mutiny on The Bounty.

1914: 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia.

1919: Seattle mayor Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. He declares the government should "buck up and hand or incarcerate for life all the anarchists." One of 36 bombs which turn up in the mails across the nation.

1924: 119 die in Benwood, West Virginia coal mine disaster.

1942: Twelve hundred Berkeley, Calif. residents of Japanese descent report for transport to internment camp.

1943: At Fort Douglas, Utah, a sentry is found "not guilty" for shooting and killing, 15 days earlier, James Hatsuki Wakasa, a 63-year-old Japanese-American chef, at Heart Mountain concentration camp. Wakasa was allegedly trying to escape through a fence. It is later determined that Wakasa had been inside the fence and facing the sentry when shot.

1945: Mussolini executed, Italy.

1945: Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, is liberated.

1953: After overthrow of democratically elected government, the CIA installs the Shah of Iran, beginning a 25-year dictatorship in that country.

1961: Over 2,000 defy mandatory civil defense drill, New York City.

1962: In protest against nuclear tests, 70 sit down at Town Hall and 1,500 meet at Pier Head, Liverpool, Britain.

1965: President Johnson sends 14,000 U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent the ascension of demoncratically elected president Juan Bosch.

1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali is arrested for refusing military induction.

1970: Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) enacted.

1977: Baader-Meinhof Red Brigade terrorists get life sentences, Germany.

1978: At Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, near Denver, over 5,000 protest and 284 arrested for blocking railroad tracks entering the plant.

1987: Benjamin Linder, a volunteer engineer from Seattle, is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras (characterized by then-Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural Nicaragua.

1991: Death of Igal Roodenko, World War II conscientious objector and pacifist activist, New York City.

1996: Sixty-one arrested for dismantling railroad tracks leading out of Gundremmingen nuclear power station, Bavaria, Germany.

1997: Police beat and pepper-spray affirmative action protesters at Univ. of California-Berkeley.

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Paul,
Thank you once again for "enlightening" us all with your darker sides of history. It is such an emotional charge for so many of us here.It is a shame that you are locked into the bad that has happened thoughtout history.
Have you thought about running for office? Or do you currently hold a political Office?

S.G.

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Paul,

Thanks for these lesser published, but nevertheless important facts about this day.

Some good news (liberation of Dachau, first social security payment), some reminders of tragic incidents (installation of the Shah...).

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Gruesse vom Saenger

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april, 29 in history

1289 - Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.

1429 - Joan of Arc lead Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.

1661 - The Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.

1672 - King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands.

1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.

1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.

1856 - A peace treaty was signed between England and Russia.

1858 - Austrian troops invaded Piedmont.

1861 - The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union.

1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.

1864 - Theta Xi was founded in Troy, New York.

1879 - In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first time.

1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.

1916 - Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities in Dublin.

1918 - Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I.

1924 - An open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.

1927 - Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis was completed for Lindbergh.

1941 - The Boston Bees agreed to change their name to the Braves.

1945 - The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.

1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.

1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.

1954 - Ernest Borgnine made his network television debut in "Night Visitor" on NBC-TV.

1961 - ABC’s "Wide World of Sports" premiered.

1974 - Phil Donahue’s TV show, "Donahue" moved to Chicago, IL.

1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.

1981 - Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the major leagues to get 3,000 career strikeouts.

1984 - In California, the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor went online after a long delay due to protests.

1985 - Billy Martin was brought back, for the fourth time, to the position of manager for the New York Yankees.

1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a major-league baseball record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters.

1988 - The Baltimore Orioles set a new major league baseball record by losing their first 21 games of the season.

1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev promised more religious freedom.

1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.

1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.

1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.

1994 - Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

1996 - Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. Colby's body was later recovered.

1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

1997 - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.

1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.

1998 - Brazil announced a plan to protect a large are of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.

2002 - Kelsey Grammer and his production company, Grammnet Inc., were ordered to pay more than $2 million in unpaid commissions to his former talent agency.

2003 - Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad.

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> april, 29 in history

Thanks, lisset

Great list..... Here are a few more..

1858: Publication in France of P.J. Proudhon's "Justice," with the memorable line, "Property is theft!"

1885: Women admitted to exams at Oxford University for the first time.

1894: Jacob Coxey's protest Industrial Army of the Poor reaches Washington D.C. He led a group of 500 unemployed people from the Midwest, and was arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds.

1895: American warships sent to Nicaragua, to protect U.S. interests.

1899: Their demand that only union men be employed refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamited the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, destroying it completely. Pres. McKinley responded by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas with orders to round up thousands of miners and confine them in specially built "bullpens." 1899-1901 saw U.S. Army troops occupying the Coeur d'Alene mining region in northern Idaho.

1915: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom founded, The Hague, Netherlands.

1916: Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin.

1961: 826 arrested in nuclear disarmament demonstration, London, Britain.

1952: United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty for "collective security" and "regional defense." Treaty eventually collapses in 1980's over U.S. refusal to honor nuclear-free ports.

1965: An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale shakes Seattle, killing five and causing over $15 million in damage.

1970: U.S. invades and bombs Cambodia, widening the Vietnam War.

1978: Ten thousand demonstrate against nuclear power plant expansion, Windscale, Cumbria, Britain.

1980: Film and TV thriller master Alfred Hitchcock dies, Los Angeles.
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Tomorrow, ( in 1975 ), ..... End of Vietnam War. Vietnam is reunited after 30 years of resistance to U.S. domination and 100 years of French colonial rule.

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This Day In History | Old West

May 3

1859 Cowboy author Andy Adams is born


Andy Adams, one of the most accurate chroniclers of the authentic "Old West," is born in Columbia City, Indiana.

While still in his teens, Adams ran away from home. He eventually made his way to Texas, where he found work as a cowboy. From 1882 to 1893, Adams witnessed firsthand the golden era of the Texas cattle industry, a time when the cowboys ran cattle on vast open ranges still relatively unrestricted by barbed wire fences. In 1883, he made the first of many cattle drives along the famous cattle trails running north from Texas to the cow towns of Kansas. As farmers began to challenge the ranchers for control of the land, Adams witnessed the gradual fencing-in of the cattle country that would eventually end the short age of the open range. He made his last cattle drive in 1889.


Read the rest about ... Andy Adams ... here:

http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest


__My Very Best Wishes__and kindness__to all

byron

> This Day In History | Old West
>
> May 3
>
> 1859 Cowboy author Andy Adams is born
>
>
> Andy Adams, one of the most accurate chroniclers of the authentic "Old West,"
> is born in Columbia City, Indiana.
>
> While still in his teens, Adams ran away from home. He eventually made his way
> to Texas, where he found work as a cowboy. From 1882 to 1893, Adams witnessed
> firsthand the golden era of the Texas cattle industry, a time when the cowboys
> ran cattle on vast open ranges still relatively unrestricted by barbed wire
> fences. In 1883, he made the first of many cattle drives along the famous
> cattle trails running north from Texas to the cow towns of Kansas. As farmers
> began to challenge the ranchers for control of the land, Adams witnessed the
> gradual fencing-in of the cattle country that would eventually end the short
> age of the open range. He made his last cattle drive in 1889.
>
>
> Read the rest about ... Andy Adams ... here:
>
> http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest
>
>
> __My Very Best Wishes__and kindness__to all
>
> byron
>

Thanks for that link Byron.

May 04, 1715 - A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.

May 04, 1776 - Rhode Island declared its freedom from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

May 04, 1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.

May 04, 1932 - Al Capone entered the Atlanta Penitentiary federal prison for income-tax evasion.

May 04, 1964 - "Another World" premiered on NBC-TV.

May 04, 1976 - KISS performed their first concert in their hometown of New York City.

May 04, 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.

May 04, 1998 - Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, CA. The sentence was under a plea agreement that spared Kaczynski the death penalty.

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