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Share Your World – Week 220

March 23, 2001 was a day for the Chicken Little in all of us, at least if you lived near the International Date Line.  This was the day that Russia decided to remove the space station MIR from orbit by … Continue reading

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Share Your World – Week 219

On March 16, 1906 one of the hardest working men in showbusiness was born, Henny Youngman.  “The King of the One Liners,” Youngman revolutionized stand up comedy in the first half of the 20th century with short jokes that got … Continue reading

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Share Your World – Week 218

The hip hop version of John Lennon’s assassination happened in the wee hours of March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles, as one Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., was gunned down in a drive by shooting following an after party … Continue reading

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Share Your World – Week 217

On March 2, 1972 NASA launched the Pioneer 10 space probe on a mission to provide data on the planet Jupiter, which it had reached by late 1973.  Pioneer 10 has the distinction of being the first manmade object to … Continue reading

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Share Your World – Week 216

On the night of February 23, 1941, a team of University of California-Berkley physicists led by Glenn Seaborg became the first scientists to ever successfully produce and isolate the element plutonium…. though nobody would know of their discovery for many … Continue reading

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