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Amazingly the coffee shop experienced the same until 1PM then the fog burned off and it got up to almost 70F...We've done daylight saving British style today -
no daylight.
(Thick fog over most of the country)
November 11 in the US observes Veterans Day. Unlike Memorial Day in May which reflects upon those who die fighting for our country, today is to thank all those who served in the military and have lived.
So I offer a sincere thanks to our veterans and veterans around the world who served to keep us free...
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So I offer a sincere thanks to our veterans and veterans around the world who served to keep us free...
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iI'm also viewing BFMTV and listening EUROPE 1 ....
Thanks Hansi ...
At least 15 people were killed in shooting attacks in Paris late Friday and three others were killed following several explosions at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, west of Paris, Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN. He said President Francois Hollande was evacuated at halftime of the France-Germany soccer match.
Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve are holding a crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry to address the attacks in Paris and the explosions in Saint-Denis, according to BFMTV.
Paris police tell CNN there were three attacks. Attackers reportedly used AK-47 automatic weapons. There were one or two explosions at the Stade de France
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34814203
French media say at least 15 people have been killed near the Bataclan arts centre. A hostage taking is under way, with reports of up to 60 held.
French media say at least 15 people have been killed near the Bataclan arts centre. A hostage taking is under way, with reports of up to 60 held.
...I am lost for words. These 'people' have a cause I do not understand and many think they will not harm us if we just 'understand' them.
...I don't understand them nor care to try...
Many, many more than 15 dead, I'm sorry to say.
I love Paris and I am terribly sad to see this happening, but the French are no strangers to terrorism and they will rise to the ocassion.
This has unfolded over my Saturday morning, I have watched it at breakfast and in shop windows, and over lunch. A terrible thing, and I'm sorry to say that my views become harder and harder with every atrocity.
It is likely that the perpetrators of this are "French", but their allegiance is not to France or its way of life or to their fellow citizens. Every time I hear of another "Australian" or "Briton" or "Belgian" or whatever who has gone to cut necks in Syria I think "No, they are not Australia/British/Belgian/whatever, they have repudiated that. They have turned their backs on that. They don't deserve the name"
I feel these events are moving ever further beyond the bounds of terrorism, and into war. What else can you call it?
I am profoundly sad that we have come to this.
Sorry for speaking harshly in this friendly forum
I love Paris and I am terribly sad to see this happening, but the French are no strangers to terrorism and they will rise to the ocassion.
This has unfolded over my Saturday morning, I have watched it at breakfast and in shop windows, and over lunch. A terrible thing, and I'm sorry to say that my views become harder and harder with every atrocity.
It is likely that the perpetrators of this are "French", but their allegiance is not to France or its way of life or to their fellow citizens. Every time I hear of another "Australian" or "Briton" or "Belgian" or whatever who has gone to cut necks in Syria I think "No, they are not Australia/British/Belgian/whatever, they have repudiated that. They have turned their backs on that. They don't deserve the name"
I feel these events are moving ever further beyond the bounds of terrorism, and into war. What else can you call it?
I am profoundly sad that we have come to this.
Sorry for speaking harshly in this friendly forum
My condolences to the French ...
November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today
· 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militumRicimer.
· 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
· 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
· 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
· 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
· 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
· 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
· 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
· 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
· 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
· 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
· 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
· 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
· 1941 – World War II: Battle between HMASSydneyand HSKKormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
· 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
· 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
· 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
· 1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
· 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
· 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
· 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
· 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
· 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
· 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
· 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
· 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
· 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourthhumans to walk on the Moon.
· 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
· 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
· 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
· 1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
· 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
· 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
· 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
· 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack fromAlbanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
· 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicianshad provided all the vocals.
· 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
· 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
· 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
· 1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
· 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
· 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
· 2004 – The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games
· 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
· 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
Today
· 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militumRicimer.
· 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
· 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
· 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
· 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
· 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
· 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
· 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
· 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
· 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
· 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
· 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
· 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
· 1941 – World War II: Battle between HMASSydneyand HSKKormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
· 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
· 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
· 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
· 1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
· 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
· 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
· 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
· 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
· 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
· 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
· 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
· 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
· 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourthhumans to walk on the Moon.
· 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
· 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
· 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
· 1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
· 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
· 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
· 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
· 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack fromAlbanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
· 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicianshad provided all the vocals.
· 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
· 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
· 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
· 1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
· 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
· 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
· 2004 – The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games
· 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
· 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Don't forget (in your own backyard) : 1421 - Saint Elisabeth's Flood. Thousands of people killed in the Low Countries when the dikes cannot hold the force of a North Sea storm. Large areas were flooded, particularly at the Holland-Zeeland border. Remants still exist, like the Biesbosch, one of the largets tidal wetlands in Europe.
RacingRodent
Consul
mewrci for the reminder it is a new start
Good to have the old school Milestones back Admi
I'll tryGood to have the old school Milestones back Admi
That would be St Elizabeth of Hungary (her feast day was moved back to 17/11 after Vatican II)
there are some enjoyable miracle stories about her,
but enough solid fact to show she was (a David Farmer says in Oxford Dictionary of Saints)
'ardent, passionate and handsome', an impressive woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Hungary#Early_life_and_marriage
19/11 is now the feast-day of Mechtilde of Hackeborn, another 13th century 'flesh and blood' woman,
not just a plaster saint - we have enough reliable information to show she was highly talented,
creative and imaginative, a visionary (but she does get muddled with her friend,
Mechtilde of Magdeburg, another important female mystic).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechtilde