Archive for August, 2012

FREE INSIDE EVERY BOX!

 rice crisp

submarine

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This 1950’s cereal premium was powered by ordinary baking soda

Baking-soda

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BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA ON THIS DAY IN 1945

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ANGOLA GAY
The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bomber

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Pilot Paul Tibbets waives from Enola Gay’s cockpit  before
taking off for the bombing mission   

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The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

posted by Bob Karm in AIRCRAFT,ANNIVERSARY,DEATH,Disaster,Government,HISTORY,MILITARY,WAR and have No Comments

COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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        Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

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THE REGAL GAS STATION ~ S.E. 122nd & STARK

regal gas station 122nd stark

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WE LOST MARILYN ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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Marilyn Monroe at the birthday party for President Kennedy in 1962

         Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) 

                             (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

The death of Marilyn Monroe was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning"
by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office and listed as "probable suicide".

Many believe to this day that she was murdered. The death of Monroe has
since become one of the most debated conspiracy theories of all time.

marilyn on time
May 14, 1956

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