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  1. GhostDancer
    On this day in history, 1938, Action Comics #1 was published, featuring Superman. For more history, see our On This Day In History thread in Non-Gaming Discussions.
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    1792 Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States. 1796 Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States. 1938 The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published. 1958 General Charles De Gaulle became the premier of France. 1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died. 1980 Cable News Network (CNN) debuted. 2001 Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, sister, brother, and other members of the royal family before shooting himself.
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    I'd rule this out if it was in a Multipower slot.
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    1790 The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials. 1889 Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed. 1911 The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.” 1961 South Africa became an independent republic. 1962 Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. 1970 An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead. 2004 Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81. 2010 Nine people are dead after an Israeli navy commando attacks a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats on their way to Gaza to provide aid and supplies for the area.
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    May 30 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic. 1536 King Henry VIII of England married his 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn executed. 1911 The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun. 1922 The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. 1998 An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.
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    1647 The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged. 1703 St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great. 1936 The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later. 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened. 1941 British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives. 1994 Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile. 1996 After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire. 1999 Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
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    Two months late, LB.
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    1787 The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government. 1925 John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1935 American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in a little over an hour. 1965 Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title. 1968 The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis. 1969 Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released. 1979 The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people.
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    Mega Boy! Kid Supreme! Atomo!
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    The dog ate my bills.
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    I knight thee Sir Puppington.
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    1455 The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans. 1761 The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia. 1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock. 1927 An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims. 1947 Harry S. Truman's Doctrine brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of Communism. 1972 Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union. 1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen. 1992 Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show. 2003 The UN Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq. 2011 At least 140 people are killed and hundreds more injured as a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado hits Joplin, Missouri. The tornado is among the deadliest in the nation's history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging about 2,000 buildings, including water treatment and sewage plants. 2012 Tokyo Skytree, which at 634 meters high is the tallest tower in the world, opened to the public.
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    Weather Wizard (DC) vs Storm...Storm, because she doesn't need a wand to get it done. Who masters the fight, Shang Chi or Taskmaster?
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    Here's a pic for Zhao. I'd like to hear how he came to our time, and more. Does his Force Field manifest as a golden glow, or the stormy aura illustrated here?
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    Seal of the Dominion of New England 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded. 1588 The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August. 1643 The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation. 1921 Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants. 1928 The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California. 1935 British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. 1962 Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy. 1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect. 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.
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    1642 The city of Montreal was founded by the French. 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate. 1896 The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal." 1920 Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland. 1953 Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. 1974 India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power. 1980 Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years. 1994 Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over. 2000 A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse. 2003 President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh. 2004 Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India.
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    1792 The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement. 1875 The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky. 1938 NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time. 1954 The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education. 1964 Cartoonist Linda Medley was born, the creator of Castle Waiting. 1973 Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin. 1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62. 1997 Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2004 In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.
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    1770 Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. 1863 Champion Hill - Grant mauled Pemberton’s army, forcing it back to Vicksburg and practically guaranteeing the fall of that city a month and a half later. It was there the fate of the Southern Confederacy, chattel slavery in the United States, and the entire political economy of the South was decided. Destroying that polity was the last bastion of the socio-economic/class war that had started in Henry VIII’s time, placing the value of capital and human talent over that of land and inherited privilege. 1868 The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson. 1929 The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931. 1946 The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway. d 1952 The son and successor of a well-known comic-strip cartoonist was born. Chris Browne, who much later took over Hagar the Horrible from his father, Dik Browne (whose other work includes The Tracy Twins). 1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. 1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress. 1997 President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.
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    8' statue Gallos (Cornish: Power) atop Tintagel Cliffs to evoke King Arthur.
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    Re: bulletproof, remember "nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his skin" which may have referred to mortar rounds, known as shells.
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    1862 The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day. 1911 The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1918 The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia. 1930 On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess. 1940 Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States. 1941 Historian and comix creator Jack Jackson was born. The cartoonist responsible for God Nose, Recuerden el Alamo, and a new, revamped version of Texas History Movies. 1972 Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency. 1988 The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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    I proposed just such a thing locally years ago, titled Dark Age Champions. We didn't get anywhere with it.
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    1870 Manitoba became a province of Canada. #Canada150 1932 The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's kidnapped baby was found. 1937 Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. 1949 The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended. 1970 Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, swatted his 500th home run. 2002 Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba. 2008 Tens of thousands killed and thousands injured when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China. 2012 The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea.
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    Here's a Disadvantage (Complication) for Buddhist Warrior Nun Azalea of post #70 - Distinctive Features: Theme Song: Seeing her brings to mind your favorite nun's singing, such as this calming mantra by Ani Choying Dolma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twD0xPgHvU Disguise is an effective counter. (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) Attached is her picture. She let her hair grow as a mark of shame because she did not succeed in preventing the capture of her convent by the Wu Tang Clan, specifically, the Qi zhi shanyang di diyu (Seven Goats of Hell).
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    Perhaps more Victorian than Pulp Age, as Michael Surbrook put it, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer, and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine European, Asian, and African languages. One account lists him as being one of the ten best swordsmen of all times. Here is his character sheet and more http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationsassorted/richard_francis_burton.html
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