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Post by mrwoogieman on Jun 19, 2017 4:08:04 GMT -8
As of the start of 1798, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. What if Greg's calendar was the right one!?  Isn't that the one we use now? So then it's Jules who got shafted?!?! |
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Post by steveinthecity on Jun 19, 2017 5:48:10 GMT -8
Isn't that the one we use now? So then it's Jules who got shafted?!?! If given the chance I'm sure he'd rethink the inclusion of March 15 on the calendar, but otherwise I believe he was paid up front for his work. IP laws were quite different back then I understand. |
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Post by Bats on Jun 19, 2017 12:48:17 GMT -8
In 1798, on July 13th, William Wordsworth wrote the poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
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Post by mrwoogieman on Jun 19, 2017 18:38:49 GMT -8
Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth and died in Cumberland.  |
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Post by mrwoogieman on Jun 20, 2017 4:10:25 GMT -8
1799
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Post by steveinthecity on Jun 20, 2017 5:07:21 GMT -8
Rodophe Topffer was born in 1799. A Swiss writer and artist who created the content that was published as The Adventures Of Obadiah Oldbuck, considered by some to be the earliest American comic book.
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Post by mrwoogieman on Jun 20, 2017 5:53:29 GMT -8
Rodophe Topffer was born in 1799. A Swiss writer and artist who created the content that was published as The Adventures Of Obadiah Oldbuck, considered by some to be the earliest American comic book. I recall when Bob Beerbohm was touting this book as the end all be all of platinum comic collecting and sold, I believe, two copies to a collector on the CGC boards, Steve someone or other, for like $10,000 each! What a boondoggle! |
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Post by steveinthecity on Jun 20, 2017 8:16:58 GMT -8
Rodophe Topffer was born in 1799. A Swiss writer and artist who created the content that was published as The Adventures Of Obadiah Oldbuck, considered by some to be the earliest American comic book. I recall when Bob Beerbohm was touting this book as the end all be all of platinum comic collecting and sold, I believe, two copies to a collector on the CGC boards, Steve someone or other, for like $10,000 each! What a boondoggle! Yeah, that gets mentioned every so often. I can't recall his user name(sckao?), but Stelbert will know. |
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Post by Stu on Jun 20, 2017 8:30:35 GMT -8
In 1799 my town celebrated it's 100th birthday  |
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Post by Stu on Jun 20, 2017 8:42:43 GMT -8
I recall when Bob Beerbohm was touting this book as the end all be all of platinum comic collecting and sold, I believe, two copies to a collector on the CGC boards, Steve someone or other, for like $10,000 each! What a boondoggle! Yeah, that gets mentioned every so often. I can't recall his user name(sckao?), but Stelbert will know.  Yes I do know. It was Steve Meyer aka Showcase4. He was in the mortgage business when he started out. I can't say for sure it was Beerbong's fault, but after the OO boondoggle Steve quit his mortgage job and became a New Age scam artist!! www.holisticdna.com |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Jun 20, 2017 15:11:49 GMT -8
damn.
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Post by steveinthecity on Jun 20, 2017 15:40:41 GMT -8
I'll send this to you when I'm through with it.  Edit: America, Canada, same difference right? (except Hockey, Curling, and y'all have Labatt's Black Ice, but that's off topic.) |
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Post by Stu on Jun 20, 2017 16:22:38 GMT -8
I'll send this to you when I'm through with it. Edit: America, Canada, same difference right? (except Hockey, Curling, and y'all have Labatt's Black Ice, but that's off topic.) When was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, huh?  |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Jun 20, 2017 16:46:51 GMT -8
I'll send this to you when I'm through with it. Edit: America, Canada, same difference right? (except Hockey, Curling, and y'all have Labatt's Black Ice, but that's off topic.) When was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, huh? How many Canadians play for those American teams eh!?  Steve..I used to love Black Ice..I thought it was Carling though? I bought a six pack of 950ml for a good time! |
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Post by mrwoogieman on Jun 20, 2017 17:30:50 GMT -8
Yeah, that gets mentioned every so often. I can't recall his user name(sckao?), but Stelbert will know. Yes I do know. It was Steve Meyer aka Showcase4. He was in the mortgage business when he started out. I can't say for sure it was Beerbong's fault, but after the OO boondoggle Steve quit his mortgage job and became a New Age scam artist!! www.holisticdna.comYou can see how a guy like that would be duped by the itinerant traveler (Beerbong) and his pocket full of magic beans (Oldbucks).  |
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Yes I do know. It was Steve Meyer aka Showcase4. He was in the mortgage business when he started out. I can't say for sure it was Beerbong's fault, but after the OO boondoggle Steve quit his mortgage job and became a New Age scam artist!!
