Not so notable Holidays

Ozark Tracker · January 30, 2007, 08:51:40 PM

veggie history, that'd be an interesting search

Trinity are ya saying Slim's like a Wizard

Trinity · January 30, 2007, 09:16:59 PM

No. No it wouldn't be an intersting search.

Slim?

Ah don' really know what he does in his spare time, but Ah wouldn't thank that he's a grand wizzard.

Sod Buster · January 30, 2007, 09:20:11 PM

Grand Poobah

Ozark Tracker · January 30, 2007, 09:22:34 PM

OK, now I think I could Sllm a wearing that

Trinity · January 30, 2007, 09:24:21 PM

Now THAT would be funny!!!

Ozark Tracker · January 30, 2007, 09:27:12 PM

he could be a wearing that and be a carrying the mighty 10

Trinity · January 30, 2007, 09:46:42 PM

NO one would mess with him. In fact, he should do that when his daughters start dating.

Sod Buster · January 30, 2007, 09:58:53 PM

Yup...before she ends up on Jerry Springer!

Silver Creek Slim · January 30, 2007, 10:12:21 PM

Quote from: Ozark Tracker on January 30, 2007, 08:37:50 PM
I bet Slim was a eating supper

Yep. I was eatin' supper.

Slim

Silver Creek Slim · January 30, 2007, 10:14:56 PM

Quote from: Trinity on January 30, 2007, 09:46:42 PM
NO one would mess with him. In fact, he should do that when his daughters start dating.

Sounds like a good idea.

Slim

Tensleep · January 31, 2007, 07:26:20 AM

Born- 1872 Zane Grey American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border)

1842 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
1849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California founded
1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
1855 Western railroads blocked by snow
1861 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
1861 Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod" premieres in Weimar
1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
1863 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky
1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill MO

Delmonico · January 31, 2007, 07:40:31 AM

Congress should declare this canned cow day and we all should get the day off to cook with canned cow, I had sausage gravy with it last night fer supper.

Silver Creek Slim · January 31, 2007, 09:19:43 AM

Borden's Evaporated Milk Book of Recipes

Slim

litl rooster · January 31, 2007, 07:51:15 PM

Born- 1872 Zane Grey American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border)

We all ride to the center of the Y bridge and remove our Stetsons for a silent moument for him

Tensleep · February 01, 2007, 05:13:20 AM

Feb 1

Born- 1901 Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)

1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)

1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS

litl rooster · February 01, 2007, 04:31:44 PM

1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede

always the Lone Star

Tensleep · February 02, 2007, 03:08:03 AM

Feb 2

Born- 1803 Albert Sidney Johnston General (Confederate Army), mortally wounded at Shiloh in 1862
1815 Nathaniel Collins McLean Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1827 Abner Monroe Perrin Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864

1811 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco
1843 US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose governmental committee
1848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million
1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
1864 Cruise of CSS Florida
1869 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade
1870 Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira NY
1894 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island

litl rooster · February 02, 2007, 04:17:49 AM

1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time

Following the Equator is one of my favorite books

"Be good and you will be lonesome"

Tensleep · February 02, 2007, 04:22:39 AM

Looks like it was quite a day for CW generals too....

litl rooster · February 02, 2007, 04:56:41 AM

Quote from: Tensleep on February 02, 2007, 04:22:39 AM
Looks like it was quite a day for CW generals too....

There's a bunch of CW stuff all week in those history links