----------ooOoo---------- April 18, 1956 Grace Kelly weds Prince Ranier of Monaco Abandoning her Hollywood career, American actress Grac...

---- 😊😊😊 ----- Happy Easter Byters. A few Easter jokes to get things rolling. Caution: risqué content ahead. ---- 😊😊😊 ----- SOME H...

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.  - Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell (1872...

----------ooOoo---------- April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on this d...

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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark ...

----------ooOoo---------- April 16, 1746 Battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden took place on this day in 1746 near Inverness in the ...

From Bytes May 14, 2012 A Tale of Two Ships and Two Towers Ship #1: On 1 March 2008 the USS New York, an American warship, was christened in...

 “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the ...

----------ooOoo---------- April 15, 1912 Sinking of the Titanic RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15...

----------ooOoo---------- Fable: The Ass & His Driver An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he sudde...

 

----------ooOoo---------- April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln shot. On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War...

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you ...

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.  Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce (1842[2] – c. 1914) was an A...

----------ooOoo---------- April 13, 1970 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here". Apollo 13 (April 11–17...