"SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD"..("MICLEE"S 21st CENTURY")

Some Things.......................... In This World................... Are So Old .............................."When We Were Kids?"........................................ (You Can Something In................If You Care To.................. From Here).

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"Maybe One Day"

"Somewhere In The Future?"

"We Will Know The Answer".............................detective
"All Of The Life Boats On The Titanic"

"Could Carry 64 Passengers"

"its A Shame That First Life Boat Left With Only 28 On Board"

"Otherwise...Another 36 People Would Have Survived"....................detective
"From The Crimean War"........."1863-1866"

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"The Blue And The Gray In 1913"..."Attending The 50th Anneversary Of..... The Battle Of Getttysburg"

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"60 Years Later...What Was Left Of The CSA Calvary...Had A Reunion...Chattanooga Tennessee...1921"

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"Captain R D Parker...(Age 90.... Plays The Drums At The Final Parade Of The "Grand Army Of The Republic" On September 23 1936"........"He Also Played The Drums At Abraham Lincolns Inauguration"

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"The Very Last Documented Civil War Veteran"...."Albert Woolson......Died In 1956 At 109 Years Old"

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"Sergeant Alvin York"

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"During World War Two?"

"A Squad Of Russians Had... What They Thought... Was The Enemy"

"Holding Up....... In A Cave"


"According To The Report They Gave?"

"An Ape Like Creature Bigger Than A Human?'

"Came Charging Out Of The Cave....And They Opened Fire And Killed It"


"I Wouldnt Think Any Of The Squad..... Was Carrying A Camera"

"Because If One Of Them Did?"

"We Might Have Had The Proof Of Their Existence.......................detective
"A Planet Was Discovered In 1930"
"And How It Got Its Name Is Another Story Entirely"

"One Story Is That When It Was Initially Discovered?"....."A Group Of Astronomers Were Wondering What It Should Be Called"........."Supposedly...One Of The Astronomers Had His 5 Year Old Daughter With Him"
"And She Said..."Why Dont You Call It "Pluto"...After The Disney Character"

"The Other Is....... An 11 Year Old Girl From England"
"Who Suggested It Be Named After....... The Roman God Of Death"
"Pluto"

(One Of These Stories Is True)
(Not Sure Which One Though)...............................detective
"One Of The Oldest Meteorites From The Martian Planet...Mars...That Has Landed On Planet Earth?"
"Has Been Estimated To Be 4.091 Billion Years Old"


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"During The Late Sixties And Early Seventies?"

"Doc Ellis"...... Was A Great Baseball Pitcher.... Who Played For Two Teams Back Then"

"His Second Team Was The Pittsburgh Pirates "


"On June 12 1970...Pitcher "Doc Ellis" "Took LSD...Thinking It Was A Day Off From Playing"

"He Was Wrong"......................................"And An Hour After Taking LSD?"

"He Found Out That He Was Going To Be The Starting Pitcher Against The :San Diego Padres"


"He Obviously Didnt Tell Anybody About The LSD"..."And Went There And Performed His Duty"


"Performed His Duty?"..."He Certainly Did!!"

"Tripping Away?".........He Ended Up Pitching A :"No Hitter" That Day"........(Go Figure That Out)

"It Was Twelve Years Later In An Interview"

"That He.............. "Spilled The Beans".......................detective
"Pat Garret".....Was A Law Man.... Bartender..... And Customs Agent Around The 1880s"
"And Is Famously Known.... For Killing ............."Billy The Kid"

"But Only Ten Years After The Killing Of Billy?"
"Questions Started To Rise Up Doubting The Story Pat Garret Told The Authorities"

"From That Day?..."Its Been Looking"
"More And More....... That It Was Murder"

"And To Add To That Possibility That Garret Was Playing Both Sides Of The Law?..... In 1908...While Garret Was With 2 Other Men Traveling?"
"They Had Stopped Along The Dirt Road...... So Garret Could Take A Leak"
"It Was At That Moment That Pat Garret Was Shot In The Back.... And Died instantly
"It Seems This... "Lawman"....And Customs Agent"..."Was Into Other Dealings Outside of The Law"
(That Should Become Obvious To The Reader ....... From His Murder Alone)

"So?"........"It Seems Ole Pat?.........Was Living On The Shady Side Of That Fine Line"....."And....It Seems?"
"Ended Up Getting What Was Coming To Him"

"For....It Was Around Midnite ...July 14 1881...That According To Pat Garrret?..He Stood In The Darkness Of The Kids Dwelling"
And According To Garret?.."When He Shot Billy?...He Was Acting In Self Defense"

"But Other Accounts Say That Billy..(Not Knowing Who It Was.... Asked..."Who Is It?"
"And Then Pat Garret Shot Him Through The Heart"

(History Is Not Always What Is Seems)

(More Than Likely... History?...... Is Only ..."His Story)..........................detective
"This Picture?"... "Was Bought At A Flea Market For 10 Dollars"...."What No One Realized Was The Picture Contains "Billy The Kid"..(2nd From Left)....."It Should Be Worth Millions When It Comes To Be Auctioned Off"

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"Taken Around 1850"...."Some Buffalo Herds Measured 20 Miles Wide And 50 Miles Long"..."It Has Been Estimated There Were Some 60 To 80 Million Buffalo...And Could Cover The Entire State Of Oklahoma"

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Nam you should be a contestant on Jeopardy as you should be able to answer a lot of their questions.
wave
There is right now a contestant on Jeapardy that has made over halve a million in 8 days.
He is a walking encyclopedia
wave
"Jesse James".................September 5 1847-April 3 1882"

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"Robert Newton Ford"

"The Man Who Murdered Jesse James?"

"For The Next Year Or So?..."Became A Celebrity Of Sorts"

"He Would Do Payed Re Enactments Of The Killing Of Jesse James"

(I Dont Know Why People Would Pay To See A Man Being Shot In The Back...But They Did)


"When Robert Ford was Age 30................In Creede Colorado?"

"Mr Ford Was Shot To Death By Edward O Kelly"

"Who Attacked Him In One Of Roberts Fords Saloons"

(Maybe Because...(In Those Days?...You Didnt Shoot A Man In The Back)..........detective
"The Coward... Robert Ford...Who Shot Jesse In The Back"

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"5,000 Dollars?"..."Was A Lot of Money Back In The 1880s"

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Well nam it is in this world not What you know but Who you know wave
"The Term That A Lot Of People Use"

("The Whole Nine Yards?")


"Was Born During World War One"


"A German Colonel Yelled At His Machine Gunners"

"Give Em The Whole Nine Yards Boys!!!
"

"The Whole Nine Yards Was"

"The Length Of........... The Machine Gun Belts".........................detective
Shooting someone in the back is the cowards way then as it would be now. wave
"On October 10th 1973"

"Vice President Spiro Agnew... Resigned From The Vice Presidency"
"He Resigned Because The Justice Department Was After Him.... Full Force!!"
"For Accepting Bribes And....... Tax Evasion"
"He Became The Second Vice President.... Since John C Calhoun Resigned In 1832"

"This Set Off A Most Historical Event Ever In The History Of The United States"

"With His Resignation?.....Someone Had To Take His Place"
"A Congressman Named Gerald Ford...(From Michigan) Was Nominated......And Approved"

"Just About A Year Later?"....."President Richard Millhouse Nixon"
"Resigned From The Presidency Of The United States"
"Making Vice President Gerald Ford...The President Of The United States"

"Gerald Ford" Became The First Vice President And President Of The United States"
"Without Ever Being Voted Into The Job By The People"

"On Top Of That?.....Someone Had to Fill The Vice Presidency Once Again"

"A "Nelson Rockefeller" Was Nominated...And Approved"
."Becoming The 3rd Person To Become Vice President"
"Without The Vote Of The People"

"And...To End All Of This Insanity?...A Saying.... Dating Back To The Early 1900s?.... Once Again Came Into Play...And That Was?"

"Once Again...The Fords And The Rockefellers?"
"Are On Top Once More"...........................detective
"Genghis Kahn"......Born In 1162
"Ruler of The Mongolian Empire"
"Died On August 18 1227"

"His Funeral And Burial.......... Became One Of The Most Secretive Events Of History"

"All Of Those Who Gathered To Watch His Funeral Procession?"
"All Of Those Who Attened His Funeral"
"And Even Those Who Buried him?..........."Were Killed"

"In Reality?...Thousands Were Killed To Be Sure No One Knew Where He Was Interred"

"The Hunt... Is Still On... To Find His Final Resting Place"

(Though I Doubt Anyone Will Ever Know)......................detective
"It Took Only 300 Years"..."For The Island Of... "Manhattan"....To Go From A Forest ............To This"

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"For Panama City?".........."What A Difference............. 88 Years Can Make"

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Mr Bentlee

"An Amazing Video To Say The Least"


"Once One Starts Watching?..."One Has Been Captured"

"I Was Waiting To See Charlie Chaplain Show Up At Any Moment"


"Im Amazed How Everybody Times It Just Right"

"To Squeeze Through"


"A Great Video Mr Bentlee!".......................detective
To see Charlie whirl his cane to cross the street would be the best......
Can't get over how places like Panama City etc. grow so enormously in such a short time and also Manhattan Just amazing really wave
Have to show tomorrow those pictures of those kids with there loving animals those expressions on their faces are saying it all, love teddybear
"Thanks Bentlee And BC".....................detective
"Although The U S Government... Paid The Pinkerton Agency"
"To Protect President Lincoln"
("Recently...The Pinkertons Had Already Foiled An Attempt On The Presidents Life)
"They Could Not Be There 24 Hours A Day"

"In Fact...It Was Abraham Lincoln Himself....... Who Created"
"The ..."Secret Service"... That We Have Today"

"And In A Sick Sort Of Irony?"
"The Secret Service Agency Bill?"....... "That Was Signed Into Law?"
"Was Signed Into Law During The Afternoon Of............ April 14th 1865"

"Just Hours Before Lincoln Would Be Shot By John Wilkes Booth
"At Fords Theater That Night"

(There Mustve Been Some Guilty Type Of Thinking By The New "Secret Service")
(As To Why They Werent There To Protect The President)....................detective
Sure sounds suspicious does it not.
Reading back about going the whole 9 yards.
How often we say and repeat these sayings yet never knew where it had come from.
Until you nam found the reason why interesting for sure wave
"Miss BC"

"Im Sure There Are Others Like Me"

"We Are The Ones Who Have To Know Of"

"The Reason As To Why?".....................detective
Always had to know the how come and why's
Dad would often tell me that I could ask more questions than ten wise men could answer wave
"From What Ive Learned Miss BC"

"The Term?"

"They Wouldnt Give You The Light Of Day"


"Supposedly.... Comes From Ireland"

"Where The More Windows You Had?"

"The More The Rent Would Be"


(Only The Irish Know For Sure)..............................detective
Lol I often would joke and say; Someday we will be charged for the hours of sunlight we had that day.
Cor said don't joke it may happen...........wave
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