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Today in History: 25 March

421 – The City of Venice is founded, at noon on a Friday

1199 – King Richard I (the Lion Heart) of England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leads to his death on April 6

1584 – English explorer Walter Raleigh granted seven-year royal charter by Elizabeth I to explore and colonize North America, after Humphrey Gilbert’s death at sea

1655 – Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn’s largest moon, Titan

1807 – British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; a penalty of £120 per slave is introduced for ship captains

1902 – In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and ‘political disaffection’ are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia

1937 – It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads

1943 – Akira Kurosawa’s debut film “Sanshiro Sugata” is released

1961 – Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit

1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama

1967 – The Turtle’s “Happy Together” goes #1

1996 – Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 Aus of Earth

2019 – NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn’t have enough spacesuits to fit women

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1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor

1908 – David Lean, English film director

1928 – Jim Lovell, American US Navy aviator, mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut

1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher

1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer

1947 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter and piano player

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1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer

1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist, explorer, and balloonist

1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia

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Mouseover: Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.

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Inspirobot Sometimes Controversial Inspirational Quote of the Day:

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In case you missed it, you can go take a look at yesterday’s Spark! by @steve6343 (if you can find it….) over here

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Inspirobot is on the good stuff today. That’s like… deep.

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@Inspirobot

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It’s funny, this happened yesterday too. Must have been shot twice, either side of midnight :slight_smile:

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I find this funny. The hardware that I work for sells Sawstop. I may have to share this with the some of my co-workers today.

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Guess he/she had some lazy parents as he/she is born without a name :slight_smile:

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Talk about having a bad week.

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Everyone is born without a name. The name they were given by their parents has been updated in the Spark!, though.

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Houston, we no longer have a problem!

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That’s another Inspirobot message that I cannot say is provably incorrect.

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About 9.5 million miles for anyone curious.

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Love me some Live.

@Panda-Marie @jameswalker20 @gurugabe1 @HulkSmash

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I just heard on the radio that Live and Collective Soul are playing a show here this summer, so I guess they are touring this year.

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Perhaps there is some disagreement on the actual date… :thinking:

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Removing a SawStart blade would be like playing one of those buzz wire games. One false move, and you’ll lose a finger, or worse.

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“Our names and titles are assigned randomly by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.” - Lightsong the Bold, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

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I hear Joan Jett and Billy Idol are on tour!

It’s Old New Year’s Day! Although the Gregorian calendar was created in 1582, many countries ignored it for several hundred years. Instead, they used “Annunciation Style dating,” which recognized the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25) as New Year’s Day.

1306: Robert the Bruce is crowned king of Scotland
2021: American children’s author Beverly Cleary, whose books included the hugely popular Ramona series, died at age 104.
1965: American actress Sarah Jessica Parker, perhaps best known for her role on the television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), was born.
2001: Icelandic pop singer Björk makes a splash at the Oscars

1982: Danica Patrick - American race car driver
1782: Caroline Bonaparte - Queen of Naples

You would think they had everything planned out and taken care of way ahead of time. Like, before launch.

@atruex @georgeSVFC @yellowshirtcc @ich-ni-san @jemjules @HulkSmash @panda-marie @chrisdavis8 @jameswalker20 @machomanrandall

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You would think that sexism, like racism, was supposedly a thing of the past and not still around in our day-to-day lives… Sadly both are still very much around.

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I have no idea what it’s talking about. :rofl:
@machomanrandall Great scene.
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me. I was wondering

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Probably a through and through - entered right above the 24th and exited out the 25th…

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