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[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

On this day

April 10

Big Ben in 1858

• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when Austria invaded Bavaria.
• 1858 – Big Ben (pictured), the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
• 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published.
• 1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
• 2009 – Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was illegal.

Michael Tarchaniota Marullus (d. 1500) · Thomas Jones (d. 1619) · Kishori Amonkar (b. 1932)

 

[ihaveno1]

not a lot of history on this day tbh

 

[Insomniac]

Damn, April 10th fucking sucks.

 

[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

Did you know...


Chinese alligator

• ... that the critically endangered Chinese alligator (pictured) may have helped inspire the mythology of the Chinese dragon?
• ... that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings?
• ... that Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery?
• ... that Siegfried Vogel, a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
• ... that Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
• ... that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister?
• ... that the Tugnet Ice House, the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
• ... that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk?

 

[Insomniac]

Did you know...


Chinese alligator

• ... that the critically endangered Chinese alligator (pictured) may have helped inspire the mythology of the Chinese dragon?
• ... that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings?
• ... that Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery?
• ... that Siegfried Vogel, a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
• ... that Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
• ... that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister?
• ... that the Tugnet Ice House, the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
• ... that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk?

gators me

 

[Deleted member 16455]

Damn, April 10th fucking sucks.

 

[Guest2]

@Cuyen

 

[Cuyen]

why you stole my content

 

[Blacktarpill]

why you stole my content

Over for postmaxxers with stolen content.
You are out of ideas tbh.

 

[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

why you stole my content

yes bro

 

[Insomniac]

why you stole my content

sue him tbh

 

[Cuyen]

yes bro

So you're going by "MarriedAndLookin4Fun" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..

 

[ReallyRice]

Over for postmaxxers with stolen content.
You are out of ideas tbh.

So you're going by "MarriedAndLookin4Fun" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..

 

[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

So you're going by "MarriedAndLookin4Fun" now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it's Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we're married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..

In the [News]


Supermassive black hole M87*

• The Event Horizon Telescope releases the first direct image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole M87* (pictured).
• In basketball, the Virginia Cavaliers defeat the Texas Tech Red Raiders to win the NCAA Division I Men's Championship.
• In rowing, the women's and men's crews of Cambridge defeat Oxford in their respective Boat Races.
• In Iran, widespread flooding since late March kills at least 70 people.
• Zuzana Čaputová is elected president of Slovakia, becoming the country's first female president and its youngest.

Ongoing:

• Algerian protests
• Brexit negotiations
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Recent deaths:

• David J. Thouless
• Nina Lagergren
• Sydney Brenner

 

[Cuyen]

In the [News]


Supermassive black hole M87*

• The Event Horizon Telescope releases the first direct image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole M87* (pictured).
• In basketball, the Virginia Cavaliers defeat the Texas Tech Red Raiders to win the NCAA Division I Men's Championship.
• In rowing, the women's and men's crews of Cambridge defeat Oxford in their respective Boat Races.
• In Iran, widespread flooding since late March kills at least 70 people.
• Zuzana Čaputová is elected president of Slovakia, becoming the country's first female president and its youngest.

Ongoing:

• Algerian protests
• Brexit negotiations
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Recent deaths:

• David J. Thouless
• Nina Lagergren
• Sydney Brenner

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[MarriedAndLookin4Fun]

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Okay cuyenbot

 

[Smallondick]

I used to ring bells.


Here in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) there is a great tradition of ringing bells in some colonial cities. Big Ben is a cracked bell, yet it has a good sound.

 

[Michael15651]

Thanks for the reminder, OP.

 

[Ritalincel]

Recent deaths:

• David J. Thouless
• Nina Lagergren
• Sydney Brenner

deads me