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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quotes for Today

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

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The Brooklyn bridge, begun in 1872, had a center span of 1595 and side spans of 930 ft. The Brooklyn approach being 971 ft., and the New York approach 1562 ft., the total length of the
bridge was 5989 ft.

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Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser, considered the largest in the world, erupts as high as three hundred feet.

The capital of the state of Texas has been changed fifteen times.

The world's first train robbery took place on July 21, 1873, at Adair, Iowa, by the famous outlaw Jesse James.

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The largest masonry arch in 1903 was the Adolphe bridge in Luxemburg, which was erected between 1900-1903, with a span of 278 ft.

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William Shakespeare died in 1616, at the age of fifty-two.

Ringworm is a fungus not a worm.

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Water rushes over the precipices of Niagra Falls at the rate of 500,000 tons a minute.

Radio City Music Hall, the largest indoor theatre in the world at that time, was opened to the public on December 27, 1932, in New York City.

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Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.

The Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886.

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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, is 984 feet high.
Irving Berlin reportedly received thirty-three cents for the first song that he wrote.

Today most songwriters will not get out of bed for less than $33,000!(Tongue-in-cheek)

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A deep sea diver, when he's at a depth of 160 feet below the oceans surface breathes five times as much oxygen as he normally would breathe at the surface.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln instituted the first income tax law in American history.(bastard)

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The reported cost of manufacturing the first atomic bomb was two billion dollars.
Amazing fact, a seven-pound codfish can produce seven million eggs at a time.

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More than 620,000 soldiers and civilians died in the American Civil War, 2% of the nation's population in 1860.

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George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was a U.S. Cavalry officer who, along with 210 troopers, died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
Vice President Al Gore, 1997

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Sherlock Holmes, the great detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, appears in a total of 54 short stories, and 4 novels.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was born on May 22, 1859.

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BRIAREUS, or AEGAEON, in Greek mythology, was one of the three hundred-armed,
fifty-headed Hecatoncheires, brother of Cottus and Gyges (or Gyes).

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"Youth is wasted on the young."
Mark Twain

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NYSE
October 23, 1868: Memberships in the exchange were made saleable.

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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
Vice President Al Gore, 1998

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The writer Anne Rice's real name is: Howard Allen O'Brien

Quote for Today (Funny)

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore, 1993.

NYSE Fact

September 18, 1873: Stock Exchange closed at noon because of failure of Jay Cooke & Co., promoters of Northern Pacific Railroad. Many failures were imminent.

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
Mahatma Gandhi

On December 18, 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publication of 'Poor Richard's Almanac'.

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant

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"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore

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On May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run.

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison

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The earth is traveling through space at the rate of 72,600 miles an hour, or 1,100 miles every minute.

The population of the United States was seven million in 1810.

The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece.

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The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.

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"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."
Vice President Al Gore

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Ashley Judd's real name is Ashley Tyler Ciminella.

Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.

Elvis Costello's real name is Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus.

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"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
Vice President Al Gore, 9/5/93

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"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
Aldous Huxley

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N.Y.S.E. Fact
November 15, 1867 . Stock tickers were first introduced.

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Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

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"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A., was chartered in 1769.
It's Motto is: Vox clamantis in deserto (The voice of one crying in the wilderness.)

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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell

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As early as 1769, Daniel Boone, passed through the Cumberland Gap and brought back news of a wonderful country awaiting the plow.

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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
Salvador Dali

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Harvard University was founded in 1636.
Yale university opened in 1718.
They were intended primarily to train learned and godly ministers for the Puritan churches of New England.