ensign_beedrill

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  1. You're banned for not Italicizing ship names.

     

    The above two people are banned for making me realize that after all these years on the forum, thats NOT the Enterprise in my avatar........ :yucky:

     

    Seriously? Haha... I had actually just noticed myself after watching it go 'round a few times and seeing the "1703."


  2. Finished Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness and also the short follow-up Horn and Ivory in the last Gateways book. Not bad all around, though the end left me thinking, "What just happened?"

     

    Started Mission Gamma: Twilight in a continuation of the Deep Space Nine relaunch. The book has very small print, which made it even harder to read while on the elliptical this morning. :yucky:


  3. 1189 – Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey.

    1658 – Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector of England, died.

    1783 – The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.

    1939 – Great Britain and France declared war on Germany during World War II.

    1967 – Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.

    1974 – Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.

    1976 -- The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.

    1978 – Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.