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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI might not have computer access later, so let's get the hysterical stuff
out of the way now.
Last Thursday:
Babe Ruth at first game in New York Citys new Yankee Stadium, today 1923:
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Mark Twain, who died April 21, 1910, was photographed late in life, using primitive color process:
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Called the last photo ever taken of Richard Nixon (at a wedding), who died 25 years ago this week, on April 22, 1994: #Episconixonian
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Some of Richard Nixons last notes before he died 25 years ago this week, planning a book tour that included appearance on Rush Limbaugh:
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I might not have computer access later, so let's get the hysterical stuff (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2019
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Karadeniz
(22,600 posts)1. Love historical photos and documents. Thanks for posting!
TexasTowelie
(112,619 posts)2. Thanks for posting.
Having limited computer access is a pain. I'm having to share a laptop so I know what it is like.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,715 posts)3. I don't have have high speed access at home.
I'm at the library now. It's closed tomorrow.
TexasTowelie
(112,619 posts)4. Feel fortunate that the library has high speed access.
The computers at the library where I live are incredibly slow. They are still running Internet Explorer v. 6.0 when nearly everywhere else uses versions 9 through 11. They also use one of the Windows versions that were released in the late 1990s.
IcyPeas
(21,931 posts)5. didn't know Rush Limbaugh was around back then. /nt
Submariner
(12,513 posts)6. Yup...as soon as Ronnie Raygun screwed it all up in 1987
Lying Limbaugh went on the air in 1988.
Harker
(14,069 posts)7. Manfred von Richthofen...
April 21, 1918.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)8. Adolf Hitler April 20, 1889 to April 30, 1945