This Day in History
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Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
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hey_kittay:
Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
ï¸â¤ï¸ð??¹ Very Cool!!! Wouldn't that be your 3 G Cousin?
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SurSteven:
hey_kittay:
Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
ï¸â¤ï¸ð??¹ Very Cool!!! Wouldn't that be your 3 G Cousin?
Something like that. He died without having children so his distant relatives have to tell his story.â¤ï¸â?
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Well, that's a very neat story! I have a 4th cousin who was part of the development of the jet engine.
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SurSteven:
Well, that's a very neat story! I have a 4th cousin who was part of the development of the jet engine.
OMG, that is amazing! Tell us the story?
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hey_kittay:
Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
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cool .... Glad you could share that here 
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I'm pretty sure October 28, 1929 is when the stock market crashed.
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I miss Doris and when she used to have a thread like this... 1633: Galileo on trial for heretical beliefs Astronomer Galileo is ordered by the Catholic church to turn himself in for trial. This was owing to his apparently heretical belief that the earth revolved around the sun!
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Did you read recently about a couple of famous basketball players who truly believe the world is flat?! Heck, now there's four of them! http://mashable.com/2017/03/19/shaq-flat-earth-explanation/
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There's more than 4 of them... Hard to believe... and we have the photos from space! It must have been so difficult for Gallileo, being under house/church arrest. Especially when he knew he was right. According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called him the father of modern science. And the Catholic Church finally came around, however they put off he plans for a statue of Gallileo to be built in the Vatican. On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and issued a declaration acknowledging the errors committed by the Catholic Church tribunal that judged the scientific positions of Galileo Galilei, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture. -
Thanks to Liz for finding and merging my post with an earlier thread on the topic.
Shaq was the first one I heard about converting to flatearthianism 
I heard a truck driver call in on a radio show about a month ago claiming that if the earth wasn't flat then the oceans would drip off the earth. A Truck Driver!!! Makes you feel safer on the roads!!! -
SurSteven:
hey_kittay:
Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
ï¸â¤ï¸ð??¹ Very Cool!!! Wouldn't that be your 3 G Cousin?
Your great-great-great uncle's son is by definition your great-great uncle! His son would be your great uncle, and his son would be your uncle, whose son would be your first cousin. If your great-grandparents are first cousins, like my great-grandmother, Maude Cobb was to baseball player Ty Cobb, then Ty Cobb is my first cousin 3 times removed. I would also be 4th cousin to any of Ty's great-grandchildren. P.S. I knew my great-grandmother quite well as I was 15 when she died! She outlived my grandmother by one year.
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Nancy R:
SurSteven:
hey_kittay:
Today in 1904, New York City Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. (My great-great-great uncle's son) Introduces the rapid transit system to NYC! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-york-city-subway-opens Pretty Groovy!â?
ï¸â¤ï¸ð??¹ Very Cool!!! Wouldn't that be your 3 G Cousin?
Your great-great-great uncle's son is by definition your great-great uncle! His son would be your great uncle, and his son would be your uncle, whose son would be your first cousin. If your great-grandparents are first cousins, like my great-grandmother, Maude Cobb was to baseball player Ty Cobb, then Ty Cobb is my first cousin 3 times removed. I would also be 4th cousin to any of Ty's great-grandchildren. P.S. I knew my great-grandmother quite well as I was 15 when she died! She outlived my grandmother by one year.
I don't think I'm related to anybody famous. Sigh.....unless you count a real live Pirate in the 1800s!
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Yesterday(Wednesday) we almost got smucked by an asteroid. Apparently 4 millions miles is close. I wonder if we will talk about this in the future??? If we WERE hit there'd probably be NO one around to talk about that!
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LITTLE LAURA:
Yesterday(Wednesday) we almost got smucked by an asteroid. Apparently 4 millions miles is close. I wonder if we will talk about this in the future??? If we WERE hit there'd probably be NO one around to talk about that!
So we better make the most of the near-misses! I heard that on the radio late Wednesday night. These people said 1 million miles away and the meteor was 2,000 feet long. That's only 4 times the distance to the moon. Keeping my fingers crossed!
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D - Day (June 6, 1944). Anniversary
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July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong (Astronaut ) Climbed down the steps of the Lunar Module And stepped on the Moon Millions of people watched on Television With extreme interest and intensity - Many were in the shared moment - What an achievement "That's one small step for (a) man... One giant leap for mankind" Many felt good, proud and in awe of What you believe you can achieve. The world seemed to be in this moment Of something great happening ... And then look in the sky ... See the moon And try to comprehend that there were Two men - Astronauts walking on the Moon!
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The Eagle landing on the Moon was predicted by The Hopi Indians long ago... http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/01/the-fulfillment-of-native-american-prophecies-is-accelerating/ I remember watching it LIVE as a teenager with my Grandmother.
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I remember watching Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon on our grainy black-and-white TV. The picture quality was horrible, but the moment was riveting. The U.S. government has always been seriously flawed, but it could occasionally do great things.
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I watched it live too, with my parents. I was 14.
