Archive for August 20th, 2023

THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN MOSCOW ~ 1990

The first McDonalds in Moscow on opening day, 1990. It
was the largest McDonald’s in the world at the time, with
seating for 900 and a staff of 600 workers.

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FIRST ENSLAVED AFRICANS ARRIVE

400 years ago, the first ship carrying African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia | WSET

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by
the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are then bought by English colonists.

The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marked
the beginning of two and a half centuries of
slavery in North
America
.

1619: 400 years ago, a ship arrived in Virginia, bearing human cargo | Slavery, History ...

Black Then1619: The First African Slaves Arrive in a Ship into What Would then Become the United ...

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TODAY’S POLITICAL HUMOR FROM THE BLOG

08.10.23

posted by Bob Karm in HISTORY and have No Comments

HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

The Voyager 2 aboard Titan III-Centaur launch vehicle lifted off on August 20, 1977. The Voyager ...
Voyager 2 launched by a Titan-Centaur rocket.

Contemporary newspaper coverage of Voyager (2) | The Planetary Society

Daily Visual 20.08.15: Voyager 2 and the Golden Record

posted by Bob Karm in Air strikes,HISTORY,Invation,Launch,MUSIC,NASA,NEWSPAPER,Soviet Union,SPACE and have No Comments