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Today in History: 27 May

1199 – John crowned King of England after the death of his brother Richard I

1692 – William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court of Oyer and Terminer to administer Salem witch trials

1873 – Heinrich Schliemann discovers “Priam’s Treasure” a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia

1905 – Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history

1906 – First outlining of Gustav Mahler’s 6th Symphony in Essen, Germany

1930 – The 1,046 foot Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public

1935 – Supreme Court declares FDR’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional

1940 – British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during World War II

1958 – Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School

1971 – John Lennon records the song “Imagine” at his Ascot Sound home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England

1995 – Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia

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1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American shipping and railroad magnate

1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American cowboy and scout

1907 – Rachel Carson, American marine biologist, conservationist, and author

1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and legend

1971 – Lisa Lopes, American singer (TLC)

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1564 – John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer and theologian

2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon

2017 – Gregg Allman, American Hammond organist, guitarist and vocalist

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Mouseover: Patients at least found it to be an improvement over Millikan’s incredibly messy and unpleasant oil drop suspension procedure.

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In case you missed it, you can go take a look at yesterday’s musical Spark! by @steve6343 over here

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Robin Hood… where are you?

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1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and legend

That perfectly describes Christopher Lee, and he will always be an absolute legend.

Looks like the bloke in today’s Inspirobot image lost his balance. Most likely had a few too many.

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Weetabix… hilarious.

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200w

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I think Tsushima is not the only decisive battleship action in the sense of destroying the enemy fleet.
While not as important to the outcome of the war, the Battle of Surigao Strait on October 25, 1944 was a decisive victory for the USN over the IJN, as well as the last battleship surface action. It is worth noting that the battleships engaged were all WWI vintage or immediately post war since the newest ship West Virginia had been commissioned in 1923 although most of the ships had been extensively reconstructed in the 30 or 40s.

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Better in Star Wars or Lord of the Rings? Best in both!
Absolutely a legend.

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According to our AI overlords:
“The Battle of Jutland, while not a decisive tactical victory for either side, was strategically decisive for the British. It established British naval dominance and ensured the effectiveness of the maritime blockade, which ultimately contributed to Germany’s defeat.”

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I think Tsushima is not the only decisive battleship action in the sense of destroying the enemy fleet.

This was the FIRST decisive clash between MODERN STEEL battleships. Nearly 40-years before the battle you mentioned. I think the original post misquoted that, leading to your post here.

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I think those 2 roles defined him as a class A actor. Anything I ever saw him in prior to those were B movies.

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1911 - October 25, 1993: Vincent Price - American actor

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1819: American author and lecturer Julia Ward Howe, who was best known for Battle Hymn of the Republic, was born.

February 22, 1890? - May 27, 1949: Robert L. Ripley - American cartoonist. Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
May 27, 1999 - May 28, 2016: Harambe - gorilla

1831: The Comanche kills mountain man Jedediah Smith
1887: Chinese gold miners are slaughtered in the Hells Canyon Massacre
1813: Thomas Jefferson writes to John Adams
1897: “Dracula” goes on sale in London
1949: Marilyn Monroe poses for “red velvet” n*de photo session
1963: Dylan’s breakthrough album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” is released
1703: St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great
1994: Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after exile
1986: African American inventor Lonnie Johnson patents the Super Soaker water gun
1937: Golden Gate Bridge opens
1941: FDR proclaims an unlimited national emergency in response to Nazi threats
1941: The British Navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck
1977: The British punk band the Sex Pistols released their second single, God Save the Queen, and the BBC and other outlets in England quickly banned it
1933: Walt Disney released the animated short film “The Three Little Pigs,” which featured the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” highlighting fortitude in the face of adversity. Both the cartoon and the song proved highly popular with Depression-era moviegoers.
2003: Led Zeppelin’s definitive live album “How The West Was Won” is released.
2006: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ninth album, “Stadium Arcadium,” is the band’s first #1 on the Billboard 200.
1968: The Iron Butterfly records their seventeen-minute epic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” at Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. The West Coast band performs the song as part of a sound check while waiting for their producer to arrive and is unaware they are being recorded. According to VH1 (in '09), the title track of the multi-platinum album is the 24th greatest Hard Rock song of all time.

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

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I forgot he played Scaramanga in Man with the Golden Gun

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I was about to apologize to the late Albert Brocoli and a few dozen others on behalf of all computer people everywhere, for the implication of Bond films being “B” movies.

You just saved me a lot of typing.

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There is a fun docu-movie about this called The Hunt for Troy
(It is in German , so you need subtitles)

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@ich-ni-san I present a Goldfinger scene for your heresy!

A random selection:

Paul is still crazy for Edie after all these years!

@Panda-Marie @chrisdavis8 @gurugabe1 @HulkSmash

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Some fine tunes today.

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+100 Internet to @gurugabe1 for the RHPS tangent.

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Funny you should post Edie Brickell and Paul Simon together since they dated

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