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Post by barb43 on Nov 18, 2023 16:11:50 GMT
Yes. His high school coach gave him the nickname "Snake" after a long, winding touchdown run.
Per Wikipedia,
The Ken Stabler page on Wikipedia just cracked me up.
He died of colon cancer at the age of 69. Almost a year after his death, researchers at Boston University discovered high Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in Stabler's brain. He is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head. Unfortunately, that's the legacy of years and years of playing football.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Nov 21, 2023 17:58:29 GMT
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, this Doctor and scientist served as the personal physician to two kings and one queen of Britain. He is also usually credited with inventing a beverage that is still popular today, but some claim that he actually stole the recipe from the Natives of Jamaica.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 22, 2023 14:05:30 GMT
His collection of over 71,000 curious items was the beginning of what later became the British Museum.
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Post by barb43 on Dec 23, 2023 16:13:15 GMT
Sir Hans Sloane.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 23, 2023 16:19:17 GMT
Correct!
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Post by barb43 on Dec 25, 2023 21:43:13 GMT
This USAF Colonel was on duty one day when he received a wrong number call on the "hot line" red phone in his office. It was a little boy with a 4-word question.
The straight-laced Colonel found no humor in the call, thinking it was a joke. When he dug a little deeper, he proved to be a good-hearted man who liked kids, and so was instrumental in starting a tradition that the government has carried on for almost 70 years.
Who is he and what did he get started?
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 25, 2023 23:46:34 GMT
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Post by barb43 on Dec 26, 2023 1:37:28 GMT
Yes, that's Harry Shoup, who was known everafter as the "Santa Colonel".
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 29, 2023 4:08:35 GMT
This actor played many roles, but he is best known for his role as a 1950's TV western hero. He later reprised his role as that same character in a number of guest appearances in various TV shows and movies throughout the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Post by barb43 on Dec 30, 2023 16:43:13 GMT
That's Cheyenne Bodie. In real life, Clint Walker. Those old westerns are staples in our tv viewing.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 30, 2023 17:03:26 GMT
correct!
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Post by barb43 on Dec 31, 2023 7:46:15 GMT
As a writer, this man was prolific. He took on many local issues which he found abhorrent, such as workhouses or debtors' prisons for the impoverished.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jan 4, 2024 14:49:07 GMT
Charles Dickens?
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Post by barb43 on Jan 4, 2024 15:10:29 GMT
Yes - that's Charles Dickens. I wonder if public school students today read/study his works the way we did back in the late 60s & into the mid-70s.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jan 11, 2024 1:40:11 GMT
He wrote the rule book for a popular sport.
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