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- Fisher Price Bluetooth Speaker
- Let’s go to the opera
- Buzz Aldrin had to fill out a form for what?
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- What’s your favorite Superhero and Why?
- Marti: D.K. S.: U.S. Army Hero. `nuf said~
- Vmail from Krazy Joe
- (Sorry for the delay) If you could hack a digital road sign, what would you say?
- John: Cookies Need Love Too!
- Fred: Take Shelter Now!
- Chuck: Your Mother Can Hear You
- Justin: Stop, no, uh, Go! Whatever, do what you want. I’m just a sign, not your boss.
- Daniel: Abandon all hope ye who enter here (at the beginning of a construction zone.)
On This Day In History for August 12, 2015
August 12 is the 224th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
- Also today in 1851, Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos on this date in 1877.
- 55 years ago today, Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite is launched.
- The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise on this date in 1977.
- It was 34 years ago today that The IBM Personal Computer is released.
- That same date in 1990, Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
- 15 years ago today, The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to
- Businessman and philanthropist Diamond Jim Brady, born on this date in 1856.
- Director and producer Cecil B. DeMille was born August 12, 1881.
- Born today in 1887, a man who could never find his cat, Austrian physicist and academic, Erwin Schrödinger
- Also born today in 1910, actress and singer Jane Wyatt.
- Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge turns 96 today.
- Computer scientist Dorothy E. Denning is 70.
- and finally scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer for Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler is 66.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 12, 2015
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