On This Date in History

Originally posted by Ponderable
90 years ago the currently longest married couple married.

source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_longest_marriages

Originally posted by wolfgang59
15th December 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Cheers! 🙄

Originally posted by Captain Strange
11th December 1936 King Edward VIII abdicated from the British throne.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Goodness! I've learnt something from a GB post!
I thought (wrongly) they were from Billericay, Essex.

20th Dec. 1955
Cardiff is officially the capital city of Wales.

Nadolig Llawen

Friday, December 25, 2015

Today has been a memorable day about families and their undying love for each other
as well as for us here to express our appreciation for our online global friends..

On This Date in History: World War II Decade:

"1940s Slang {20 June 2013)

A
Above my pay grade – That's not in my area of expertise so don't ask me
Ace - Top notch expert
Ameche – Make a telephone call
Applesauce – Expletive
Are you rationed? – Are you going steady?
Armored heifer – Canned milk

B
Baby - Affection term for male or female
Baby-doll - Affectionate term for female
Bad business - It's troublesome
Bad news - It's trouble
Bathtub – Sidecar for a motorcycle
Beat - Beyond tired
Beat me daddy eight to the bar - Exclamation of excitement or accomplishment
Be-bop - Dancing
Beef - A complaint
Bender - A drinking spree
Biz - Business
Black-and-white - Policeman's car
Blah - So-so
Blast - Ready set, go, shoot
Blivet - Unexplainable
Blow - While away, spend
Blow a fuse - Bad Temper
Bonkers - Over the top, wild
Book - Arrest
Boondocks - The middle of nowhere
Booze - Liquor
Bop - Dancing
Brainchild – An idea
Broad - A woman
Brush off - To ignore/snub
Bum - Borrow from
Bum rap - Accusation/false
Bupkis - Zero, Nothing
Bust your (his/her) chops - To scold, chastise.
Buy the farm - Croak, die
Buzz - Excitement/Heady/slightly inebriated..." (to be continued)

http://www.vintageallies.com/1940s/1940s-slang.html
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Note: Maybe your parents or uncles and aunts are aware of these "1940s Slang" words. Enjoy...

28th December 2015

Today is of course the 950th Anniversary of Westminster Abbey being consecrated.
It is now no longer an Abbey nor a Cathedral but the Royals personal church.
(Westminster Cathedral being a totally different building)

During renovations in the eighties (nineties?) I was lucky enough to be able to go
up the outside on the scaffolding. Great views and fab piece of Gothic architecture.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
28th December 2015

Today is of course the 950th Anniversary of Westminster Abbey being consecrated.
It is now no longer an Abbey nor a Cathedral but the Royals personal church.
(Westminster Cathedral being a totally different building)

During renovations in the eighties (nineties?) I was lucky enough to be able to go
up the outside on the scaffolding. Great views and fab piece of Gothic architecture.

30th December 1965

50 years ago today Marcos became President of the Philippines.

Jimmy Carter arranged an $88 million loan to Marcos, increased
military aid to him by 300%, and called him a "soft dictator".

Amnesty International report had alleged 88 government
torturers. By 1977, the armed forces had quadrupled and
over 60,000 Filipinos had been arrested for political reasons.

Vice President George H. W. Bush in 1981
praised Marcos for his "adherence to democratic
principles and to the democratic process.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
On This Date in History: World War II Decade:

"1940s Slang {20 June 2013)

A
Above my pay grade – That's not in my area of expertise so don't ask me
Ace - Top notch expert
Ameche – Make a telephone call
Applesauce – Expletive
Are you rationed? – Are you going steady?
Armored heifer – Canned milk

B
Baby - Affection ...[text shortened]... Note: Maybe your parents or uncles and aunts are aware of these "1940s Slang" words. Enjoy...

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
On This Date in History: World War II Decade:

"1940s Slang[/b] {20 June 2013)

C
Call-girl - Prostitute
Can - Jail
Carry a Torch – To ardently admire/have a crush on someone
Cat's Meow – The best
Cheesy - Crude/cheap
Chew out - Berate
Chicken - Coward
Chicken out - Weak
Chopper(s) - Teeth
Chrome-dome - Baldhead
Cock-eyed - Bac ...[text shortened]... ncracker - Good dancer" (to be continued)

http://www.vintageallies.com/1940s/1940s-slang.html[/b]

8th Jan 1900

On this day General A.W. Greely, Antarctic explorer and Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, was beaten unconscious at his home in Washington.

On the same day, his good friend, Nikola Tesla had his experimental laboratory in Colorado Springs closed down.

Coincidence?
Tesla was working on proof for his Flat Earth Theory and Greely was one of only 3 men
ever to have reached the "Ice Barrier" at the edge of the world.

The US government under guidance from the World Order silenced both.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
8th Jan 1900

On this day General A.W. Greely, Antarctic explorer and Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, was beaten unconscious at his home in Washington.

On the same day, his good friend, Nikola Tesla had his experimental laboratory in Colorado Springs closed down.

Coincidence?
Tesla was working on proof for his Flat Earth Theory and Greely ...[text shortened]... t the edge of the world.

The US government under guidance from the World Order silenced both.