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Cross post - today Chuck Norris is 77th level. What is your favorite Chuck Norris joke?
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Cross post - today Chuck Norris is 77th level. What is your favorite Chuck Norris joke?
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1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years. 1785 Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France. 1848 Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War. 1864 U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War. 1876 The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell. 1948 The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven. 1969 James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.
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1796 Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution. 1841 The Supreme Court ruled that the Amistad slaves were free. 1862 The first battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (Confederate) occurred, revolutionizing naval warfare. 1933 The special session of Congress known as the "100 days" opened, launching FDR's New Deal. 1964 U.S. Supreme Court issued N.Y. Times v. Sullivan ruling. 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first Hispanic and woman to be U.S. surgeon general.
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International Women's Day! 1782 A peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio. 1917 Russia's February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the csarist government, began. 1945 Phyllis Mae Daley, the first African-American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission. 1948 The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution. 1950 The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb. 1965 First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam. 1983 President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire." 1999 Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died.
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1850 Daniel Webster gave a three-hour speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. 1936 Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland. 1945 During World War II, U.S. troops crossed the bridge at Remagen, the first incursion into Germany by Allied forces. 1965 Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.” 2004 V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was invested as the first openly gay Episcopal Church bishop. 2005 John R. Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the UN.
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1836 The Alamo fell to Mexican forces. 1857 The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens. 1930 Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1957 The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana. 1981 Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather. 1997 Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.
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1845 Florida became the 27th state in the United States. 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics. 1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1918 Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. 1931 The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem. 1991 Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape. 2000 Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges. 2003 New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
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1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call. He was the only president elected this way. 1917 Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship. 1923 The first issue of Henry Luce's TIME magazine appeared on newsstands. 1933 King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City. 1949 Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around the world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours, 1 minute. 1956 Morocco gained independence from France. 1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in a basketball game. 2001 The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan. 2008 Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who has never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev's prime minister.
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1790 The U.S. Congress authorized the first census. 1803 Ohio became the 17th state in the United States. 1864 Rebecca Lee was the first black woman awarded a medical degree. 1867 Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States. 1872 Yellowstone became the world's second National Park. Some sources incorrectly state is was the first, others correctly cite Bogdkhan Uul, just south of Ulanbator, Mongolia, the oldest national park in the world. That’s right — it predates Yellowstone by roughly 100 years. Established by the Mongolian government in 1778, it was originally chartered by Ming Dynasty officials in the 1500s as an area to be kept off limits to extractive uses, protected for its beauty and sacred nature. 1922 Birth of EC/MAD Maestro Will Gaines (Today's post is sponsored by the book about the Mad rip-offs, Behaving Madly, now at the printer! Pre-order here now: https://www.amazon.com/Behaving-Madly-Cockeyed-Rip-off-Magazines/dp/16314085691932 1932 The 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped. 1961 President John F. Kennedy signed a signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. 1981 IRA member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison; he would die 65 days later.
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A Tsuchigumo is described as being a spider that has lived long enough to gain magical powers. Using said powers it can disguise it's true form as that of a human. All the stories seem to indicate that they all turn themselves into lovely women, suggesting that much like the kitsune the "woman" you see can actually be a male or female creature. The standard it seems for the Tsuchigumo is that once they have disguised themselves as a woman they will find a semi secluded place and wait for a human (usually male) to show up. The tales vary; some tell of the Tsuchigumo asking individuals to marry them (with often disastrous results) or ask someone to care for their baby which is later discovered to be the spider's egg sack. There are also stories of men falling in love with the Tsuchigumo and slowly die as she drains his life away every time he goes to see her. The most common however seems to be that the Tsuchigumo will find a safe place to wait and lure a an to sit with her as she plays her Biwa, a Japanese instrument. It is said her playing is so beautiful that the man doesn't notice he's being cocooned until it's too late. Soon after the Tsuchigumo devours it's victim or feeds them to it's young. There is however another aspect to the Tsuchigumo, a legend tells of a man who was down by a waterfall in Kashikobuch (meaning "clever abyss") and managed to escape the web trap the Tsuchigumo had laid by wrapping it around a stump. After she tore the stump out of the ground and into the water he fled, but as he ran he heard her voice call out, "How clever, how clever!". It seems she was so impressed by his escape and decided to reward humans as a whole; as she is now worshiped there as a a goddess who protects the residents from drowning. There is still a shrine standing there in her honor. Though most Tsuchigumo hide their true spider body it seems this one has been kind enough to show off her extra bedecked limbs to us. And if one looks carefully you can see her young peeking out from their shelter beneath her kimono.
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Tsuchigumo form!
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Re: Her Royal Highness, Yoshitoshi, there is plenty of room for improvement of her illusion ability. For use of her as a Player Character, I recommend her Hand-to-Hand damage not exceed the PC average, given that she can blindside a foe with her Invisible Spider Limbs. If her Player wants to keep the other Players unaware of this exact capacity, this could be referred to as her Shadowless Strike. Perhaps her mother is known as Our Lady, Queen of Secrets.
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1784John Wesley issues “Deed of Declaration” formally establishing the Methodist Church. 1849The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush. 1916Henry James, American novelist and critic, died. 1948The last British troops left India. 1953James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix. 1983The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history. 1986Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm. 1993Four federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
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1844Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti. 1933German Reichstag building in Berlin was destroyed by fire. 1951The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the President to two terms. 1973Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee, S.D. 1991Kuwait was liberated in the Gulf War. 2003Fred Rogers, of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, died. 2012Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down as president of Yemen after months of protests.
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Largely a cross post, such a creature appears in one of the MHI novels - Yoshitoshi, the Spider Princess, is a Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛), literally translated "dirt/earth spider", a historical Japanese derogatory term for renegade local clans, and also the name for a race of spider-like yōkai in Japanese folklore. Like others of her kind, she has no allegiance to the Japanese Emperor, and she only looks human. Her monstrous true form is seen by who are Stunned, or when she is Stunned, Knocked out, or asleep. She has four Invisible Extra Limbs with exoskeleton Armor, the body of a tiger, and the head of a demon. Her blood is white. She has a suite of spider Powers: Clinging, and 25 Multipower Spider Webs, Susceptible to Flame (-1) 1) Entangle 4d6 DEF 4, 1/2 END (+1/4), 1 2) Stretching 4", No END (+1/2), 1 3) Swinging 15", 4x NCM, No END (+1/2) An idea for her use as a Player Character would be to have her bodyguards slain in action (in play), and then offer employment to our other Player Characters as bodyguards. They may have to spar with her to show their skills. Funerals may also be role-played.
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1582Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull introducing the Gregorian calendar reform. 1803The Supreme Court ruled in Marbury v. Madison that any act of Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is null and void. 1821Mexico declared its independence from Spain. 1868Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, became the first president to have impeachmentproceedings brought against him by the House of Representatives. 1903The lease for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was signed. 1920Adolf Hitler outlined the basic points of the Nazi party at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. 1968The discovery of a pulsar was announced. 1980The U.S. hockey team defeated Finland to win the gold medal at the Lake Placid Olympics.
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Is the largest terrestrial 大怪獣 daikaijū the multi county sized gerrymander?
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1821John Keats, English Romantic poet, died. 1836Mexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo. 1896The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield. 18981898 French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus. 1942The first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif. 1945U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. 1997Scottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly. 2011The Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
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1371Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. 1819Spain ceded Florida to the United States. 1879Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York. 1924Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. 1935Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House. 1980In a major upset, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, N.Y.
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1613Michael Romanov was elected czar of Russia, beginning the Romanov imperial line. 1878The first telephone book was issued (New Haven, Conn.). 1916Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I, began. 1965Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. 1972President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China. 1995Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean solo in a balloon. 2002It was confirmed that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead, allegedly murdered by Islamic militants. 2012Eurozone finance ministers reached an agreement on a second, 130-billion bailout for Greece to help with the country's debt crisis.
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1792President George Washington signed the Post Office Act, establishing a permanent Post Office Department. 1809The Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state. 1895Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author, and orator, died. 1962John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. 1998Tara Lipinski won the Olympic figure skating gold medal. 2003 A fire in a nightclub in Warwick, R.I., killed 100 and injured over 150.
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My thoughts, too, including a crawl down the subterranean Alph the sacred river.
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Vilnius 1804U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur. 1918Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia. 1923The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened. 1937Nylon was patented. 1959Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. 1968The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala. 1999Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.
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1764St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post. 1879President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court. 1898USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War. 1913The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse. 1933Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami. 1965The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada. 1989More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country. 2002Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal. 2003Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq. 2012A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.
