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Today in history: On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland just over two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Over 1,500 people died; 710 survived. Also on this date: In 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president hours later. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first Black major league player of the modern era, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day at Ebbets Field. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.) In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. In 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst. (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate in the robbery.)

1989, a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, caused 97 deaths and over 760 injuries. In 2013, two bombs made from pressure cookers exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260. In 2019, fire swept across the top of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral during renovation work on the landmark structure; the blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its iconic rectangular towers. (The cathedral was restored and reopened to the public in December 2024.)

Really makes you wonder where Obama was on 9/11....

Apparently, it's pretty big in England. Had a roomate a long time ago who turned me on to it. In the UK, only their style of Heinz beans are allowed. Here, we had it with Bush's beans. Gotta admit, for being some kind of WW2 hand-me-down, it's not too bad. Decent amount of crunch, warmth protein, & carbs. I can see why so many English started their days (or ended their nights) with it. It may be one of the cheapest hot meals around. And, in a pinch, you don't even need the 'hot' part. There's of course variations. Fairly tasty when you add cheese. I've tried the 'ranch style' beans down here in Texor and they're pretty good. Bush's is pretty sweet. The ranch style aren't. - Just a matter of preference. Anyhoo, just wondering if anybody else has ever heard of it. The English have some really interesting food preferences - and from I can tell, a lot of them come from subsistence living. What was a necessity before is a cherished comfort food now. More to come...

Crazy that Cleopatra lived closer to bitcoin than to the ancient pyramids of Giza.

Hudson River? Pretty sure they weren't the only semens in there.

Did I miss something? Their parents still murdered? Why are they up for resentencing?

Don't think you can say "squamus" anymore. Think its; Indigimous.

How's your Peroni's disease doing?

I hope your noodles are benign.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-allegations Never liked him anyway. Hope Dane Cook is next

Worst Dow drop in years. Fantastic.

Hard for ten people twice his age to collectively rack up $11M. Let alone one idiot kid.

Me and my bestie spent one entire summer watching Corvette Summer at the theatre. I swear, lost track at how many times I saw it. - When prices for kids daytime tickets were pocket change. We both knew on some level it was awful, but it's hard to beat a boring summer day with A/C and a big box of candy. ....and Annie Potts made my Tingler Tingle.

Absolutely can't stand it's a wonderful life. Interestingly, audiences at the time felt the same way. Some of the worst acting & writing I've ever seen in a film.

Won the thread.

That Viet Cong chick from Modern Family.

Screech

Oh, that rocking Final Countdown crap. For the longest time I thought it was a parody like Spinal Tap. God, I hate that song.

The Doors. Can't reach the dial fast enough.

Best performances were Real Genius and Top Secret. Imho...

Never did like Close Encounters. Then again, if Richard Dreyfus fell into a wood chipper, I wouldn't mind.

Wish Trump would go after Churches & their many tax dodges.

Literally becoming the thing that we abhorred. I Just sit back & smh at the news now. Really feels like the ship has been hijacked and were just hanging on for dear life.