Thursday, February 19, 2009

Blog for a busy Thursday

I might have something later today - it was PRETTY exciting driving home yesterday, it's not often you can actually witness 4 spinoff's. DJ and I were going WHOA look at that one and Watch out Whoo hoo!!!
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I'm a little busy today so here are a couple tidbits of random stuff to clog your brain on a Thursday.

On this day in 1920 the Janesville city Council voted to allow billiards halls and bowling alleys to be open for a limited time on Sundays. If you stay open longer you would be fined $15 which is the equivalent of $154 in today's money.

And in a bring you down moment on this day three days ago in 1943 Mildred Harnack was guillotined in Berlin. She was born in Milwaukee and a founding member of the Red Orchestra, a German resistance group which assisted German Jews and political dissidents, circulated illegal literature, met secretly with prisoners of war, and worked to document Nazi atrocities in Europe and most importantly informed the Soviets of the upcoming Operation Barbarossa.

Mildred fell in love with Arvid Harnack, a German exchange scholar majoring in economics in Madison in 1925 and married. The two shared a love of Germany and hatred for social injustice. Two years later Arvid returned to Germany and Mildred followed him to her husband's homeland.

Mildred is the only female American executed inside the German Reich for opposing Hitler.

Her last words were "Und ich hatte Deutschland so geliebt" ("And I had loved Germany so much").

nuff said

9 comments:

  1. see you at the meeting this morning- I'll fill you in on TCIP....

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  2. There is new information about the meaning of BIG news and this is bigger then I first anticipated involving Columbus perhaps in 2010???

    Also new news about a local premier (not Columbus).

    I'll have more tomorrow once I digest this and figure out how to mention it without being a rumor monger.

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  3. OK - I'll give you a hint - an actor in Columbus signed an autograph.

    so and so Public Enemies 1.

    Plus one of the scouting sites had PE1 listed.

    nuff said

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  4. Great Blog for a Thursday!!!

    Glad you and DJ were not in the ditch like the rest of them...

    PE News is good!!!
    Love bits of info ......

    Well I hope everyone is keeping warm and sipping Hot Cocoa!!!!!

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  5. come on Grinder....we love you to rumor monger!!!!!!!!! PLEASE we need some good PE news


    PPLLEEAASSEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

    pretty please with a cherry on top....

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  6. Grinder, your article in the Pioneer this week is GREAT!!! That's why I love ya guy....that and your beer!!! (Which by the way I LOVED!!! except for one)

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  7. OH - Which one - was it a foamer? or a flavor - I would rather have people tell me what they didn't like.

    and TY

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  8. Great talk yesterday at the Business Rountable (even though there was no round table- there is one in a room at the F&M bank- maybe we should meet there sometime...John???)
    It's refreshing to have a different perspective on our wonderful city! Thanks for doing that!
    Can't wait for the PE news!!!!!

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  9. Blog for a busy Thursday....


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