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Tuesday, August 29, 2006


7/29/06
Ah, we practiced the songs for our senior show and I might find the songs and get them up. Staying up again for Reds-Dodgers. Don't know if I can handle it.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Spanish used Puerto Rican masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?

TODAY IN HISTORY
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time.
1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
1484 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and costing over 115 billion dollars in damage.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding and wind over millions of years. Antelope Canyon is one of the best-known and most-photographed slot canyons in the world. The flash floods that created the canyon are a danger to tourists. Rain does not have to fall on or near the area for flash floods to whip through, as rain falling dozens of miles away 'upstream' of the canyons can funnel into them with little prior notice. On 12 August 1997, eleven tourists in Lower Antelope Canyon were killed by a flash flood. Very little rain fell at the site that day.

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