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jimmygately65@gmail.com: Dec 14 01:14PM -0800

Eunice Wentworth
Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Dec 14 02:53PM

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:56:10 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
 
> to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely released American
> film to feature any nudity, and it grossed over $3,000,000 US in
> domestic box office.
 
"Wings"
 
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either faulty
> or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting all of
> their appeals.
 
Sacco and Vanzetti
 
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22¢.
> *When?*
 
1962
 
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13¢.
> *When?*
 
1979
 
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97¢.
> *When?*
 
1949
 
> since then, many artifacts have been recovered from the ship,
> including 31 cannons, and the wreck has been designated a national
> heritage site.
 
Queen Anne's Revenge
 
tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Dec 14 05:15PM

> American film to feature a male/male kiss and the first widely
> released American film to feature any nudity, and it grossed
> over $3,000,000 US in domestic box office.
 
Wings
 
> first-degree murder based on testimony that was mostly either
> faulty or recanted, were executed on 1927-08-22 after exhausting
> all of their appeals.
 
Sacco and Vanzetti
 
> deaths. The Nanchang Uprising is now considered the beginning
> of the Chinese Civil War, as well as the birth of *this
> organization*, which considers August 1 to be its anniversary.
 
People's Liberation Army
 
> Puerto Principe, Porto Bello, Maracaibo, and Panama City.
> He was later knighted by Charles II and eventually made
> Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
 
Morgan
 
> common idea of buried pirate treasure), and for his protestations
> that he was a legal privateer at his trial in 1701 that led to
> his execution.
 
Kidd
 
> a pirate in 1717 -- commissioning his own pirate ship to do
> so. He sailed with Blackbeard on two occasions, but failed to
> become a successful pirate captain and was hanged in 1718.
 
Kidd
 
> A movie ticket: $1.50.
> A loaf of bread: 22?.
> *When?*
 
1966
 
> A pound of coffee: $2.25.
> A first-class postage stamp: 13?.
> *When?*
 
1972
 
> Average cost of a rental apartment for one month: $80.
> A gallon of milk: 97?.
> *When?*
 
1956
 
> ever built. It was sunk in 1945 while traveling to Okinawa
> with orders to beach itself and defend the island. The wreck's
> discovery was confirmed in 1984.
 
Yamato
 
> entire wreck was transported from the sea floor to *this city*,
> where a museum was built to house the wreck and the innumerable
> Tudor-era artifacts found with it.
 
Brighton; Portsmouth
 
> States. The merchant is famous for introducing ready-to-wear
> men's suits to American customers. It launched its first
> full-scale women's department in 1976.
 
Brooks Brothers
 
> It was the first store to present dramatic Christmas windows
> filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise. It has
> been a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Co. since 2008.
 
Macy's
 
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