Today in History 24 August
so today 24 August in history the following happened:
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1858 Richmond “Daily Dispatch” reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs New York)
1847 Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of “Jane Eyre”
1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1826 Netherland’s South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks
1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1704 Sea battle at Malaga
1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1658 Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1654 Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1516 Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1217 Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
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How to make a paper airplane.
Old School song
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Just for a laugh
Here are some really funny quotes: have fun.
1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine.
21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’
22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ’Dam!’
23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’
25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.
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I am so Bored
I am so bored…
Think this often? well, here are some things you can have a look at today.
Read about the battle of five forks
The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the “Waterloo of the Confederacy,” pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett’s loss at Five Forks triggered Lee’s decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.
Read the whole story here: Battle of Five Forks
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How to… make toast.
How to Make Toast
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Toast can be made with any type of bread, but the favorite seems to be white bread.
Steps
- Choose the kind of bread you wish to use. You can use just a regular white bread, or a specialty bread like rye, whole wheat, brown or french.
- Using a ‘bread’ knife slice your bread to fit the toaster unless it is already sliced for you.
- Carefully put your slices of bread into the bread slots of the toaster or rack of a toaster oven.
- Choose what settings to use. Use a lower setting to start out with until you’ve mastered the skills needed to handle the higher settings.
- Plug in the toaster.
- Push down the toaster plunger to turn it on.
- Wearing an oven mitt, carefully remove the hot toast from the toaster after it pops up. Unless it jumps out itself, like mine usually does.
- Place the toast on a plate, remove your oven mitt and spread toast with butter, peanut butter, jam or whatever you prefer on one side.
- Slice in half, quarters, or leave whole.
- And now that you have gone through all that, don’t forget to eat your toast!
- Unplug the toaster.
- Clean up your mess and put away the things you use. Enjoy!
Tips
- Be careful with which setting you use. If you do not know what setting to use refer to your toaster manual for help. If you use too high a setting, you may burn your lips on the hot toast, and then you will have to rush to the Emergency Room of your nearest hospital.
- If you burn the toast, you can still fix it. Take the flat side of a butter knife and scrape off the burned crumbs; be sure to do this over a trash can, as this makes a mess. But, if the whole bread is totally burned, make another one. This is why you must practice first on the lower settings of the toaster. Remember, practice makes perfect toast.
- If you use butter, spread it on the bread as quickly as you can after the bread comes out of the toaster. This way, the butter melts into the bread and it is easier to spread because the toast is still hot.
- Never put your sliced bread in the freezer. Instead, keep bread in a bread box, which will keep it fresh and the toast will taste better.
Warnings
- Don’t stick your hand/fingers into the toaster. You will get burnt and could get electrocuted.
- Don’t get your toaster or the toasters cord anywhere near water. It could be very dangerous.
- Don’t use a knife to get the toast out if it’s stuck, as it is also very dangerous.
Things You’ll Need
- Bread
- Bread knife (for unsliced bread)
- Toaster
- Butter (optional)
- Butter knife (optional)
- Oven Mitts (optional)
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Make Toast. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
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super Mario Bro’s Flash game
This is really cool. Remember the old nintendo super mario?
Ever wanted to play it again but did not know where to find it? Well, here it is. Super mario Bro’s Crossover. It even has the sounds to go with it. Plus some extra characters to play with. have fun:
http://supermariobroscrossover.com/
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