A slightly more intellectual post game: The Year Association Thread.

Xithras

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:14 PM
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A slightly more intellectual post game: The Year Association Thread.

Ok, so maybe its not "intellectual", but it's fun :) Here's how it works: A year is posted. You have to find something interesting that occured in that year, tell us what it is, and then post a new year. Someone else has to figure out something interesting that happened that year, post it, and then post a new year of their own. I've seen this done on many other boards and it's always fun, so I'd like to see how well it works here on DU. The only rule? It does have to be a date from recorded history. It's kind of like word association, but instead of testing your literary abilities, it challenges your knowledge of history.

I'll start.

1872

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SteppingRazor

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:17 PM
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1. US Grant wins the presidency

1175

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miss_american_pie

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:21 PM
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2. Frederick I (HRE) signed the Treaty of Montebello

1705

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Call Me Wesley

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:27 PM
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3. Edmond Halley is the first to recognize that comets are periodic.

He correctly predicts in Synopsis astronomiae cometicae ("summary of comet astronomy") the return in 1758 of the comet that appeared in 1682, and which comes to be called Halley's comet. Officially it is called Comet Halley today.

1889

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trackfan

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:35 PM
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4. Adolph Hitler born

1905

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Burma Jones

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:37 PM
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6. November 28

- Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn F�in in Dublin as a political party whose goal was the independence for all of Ireland.

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Burma Jones

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:35 PM
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5. 1889 - Hollerith gets a patent for his electronic tabulating machine

1922

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Xithras

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:39 PM
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7. Mussolini takes over Italy

1769

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bikebloke

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:39 PM
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8. Self-deleted as someone beat me to it.

Edited on Thu Apr-27-06 03:40 PM by bikebloke

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madinmaryland

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Thu Apr-27-06 03:40 PM
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9. The famed spice merchant McCormick opened its factory

in Baltimore, MD in 1889

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