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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Wikipedia is 15 years old today.
And as such has been involved here (RHP) for the past two years, right?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
And as such has been involved here (RHP) for the past two years, right?
I think Wikipedia lied about its age!

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
I think Wikipedia lied about its age!
"lied"?

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Saturday 17th January 2015

English Premier League

Aston Villa 0-2 Liverpool
Burnley 2-3 Crystal Palace
Leicester City 0-1 Stoke City
Newcastle United 1-2 Southampton
Queens Park Rangers 0-2 Manchester United
Swansea City 0-5 Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Sunderland

Top 5
1 Chelsea
2 Manchester City
3 Southampton
4 Manchester United
5 Tottenham Hotspur
....
Bottom 5
16 Sunderland
17 Burnley
18 Hull City
19 Queens Park Rangers
20 Leicester City

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Tuesday 17th January 1978

Grateful Dead at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, CA

Set 1:

Promised Land
Dire Wolf
Cassidy
Loser
Looks Like Rain
Row Jimmy
New Minglewood Blues
It Must Have Been The Roses
The Music Never Stopped

Set 2:

Bertha
Good Lovin'
Candyman
Estimated Prophet
He's Gone
Drums
The Other One
Black Peter
Truckin'
Around And Around

Encore:
U.S. Blues

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Originally posted by FMF
Saturday 17th January 2015

English Premier League
English First Division

17th January 1975

Stoke City
Everton
Burnley
Ipswich Town
Liverpool
Manchester City
West Ham United
Middlesbrough
Derby County
Newcastle United
Sheffield United
Leeds United
Queens Park Rangers
Wolverhampton Wndrs
Coventry City
Birmingham City
Arsenal
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur
Carlisle United
Luton Town
Leicester City

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17th January 1985

After five weeks as the UK No.1 single, Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was replaced in the top spot by Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" which remained there for three weeks.

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January 17, 2016 is my son's birthday.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
January 17, 2016 is my son's birthday.
Is he historic?

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January 17th, 1945 : Evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp begins.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Is he historic?
Is your own son or daughter "historic"?

My son's arrival was certainly a momentous occasion for our entire family.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Is your own son or daughter "historic"?

My son's arrival was certainly a momentous occasion for our entire family.
I'm sure it was. What is his place in history, aside from being your son?

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
I'm sure it was. What is his place in history, aside from being your son?
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"This Day in History Jan 19, 1809

On this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the time he was three years old, both of Poe’s parents had died, leaving him in the care of his godfather, John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant. After attending school in England, Poe entered the University of Virginia (UVA) in 1826. After fighting with Allan over his heavy gambling debts, he was forced to leave UVA after only eight months. Poe then served two years in the U.S. Army and won an appointment to West Point. After another falling-out, Allan cut him off completely and he got himself dismissed from the academy for rules infractions.

Dark, handsome and brooding, Poe had published three works of poetry by that time, none of which had received much attention. In 1836, while working as an editor at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia, Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. He also completed his first full-length work of fiction, Arthur Gordon Pym, published in 1838. Poe lost his job at the Messenger due to his heavy drinking, and the couple moved to Philadelphia, where Poe worked as an editor at Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and Graham’s Magazine. He became known for his direct and incisive criticism, as well as for dark horror stories like “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Also around this time, Poe began writing mystery stories, including “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter”–works that would earn him a reputation as the father of the modern detective story.

In 1844, the Poes moved to New York City. He scored a spectacular success the following year with his poem “The Raven.” While Poe was working to launch The Broadway Journal–which soon failed–his wife Virginia fell ill and died of tuberculosis in early 1847. His wife’s death drove Poe even deeper into alcoholism and drug abuse. After becoming involved with several women, Poe returned to Richmond in 1849 and got engaged to an old flame. Before the wedding, however, Poe died suddenly. Though circumstances are somewhat unclear, it appeared he began drinking at a party in Baltimore and disappeared, only to be found incoherent in a gutter three days later. Taken to the hospital, he died on October 7, 1849, at age 40."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Balliol
On this day in 1356 Edward gave up his claim to the Scottish throne ... in exchange for a pension!

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