August 24 is a special day for lots of reasons. In El Paso, Texas lots of students are going through the torture of returning to school after their summer holidays. A few students actually feel positive about this return, and thus will get something out of their years in the educational system. The others are mostly just wasting their time.
In Hampstead, London, about 1-1/2 miles southwest of Karl Marx’s ostentatious and anti-proletarian grave site in Highgate Cemetery, the brilliant British author and actor Stephen Fry was born on August 24, 1957.
August 24, 2006 was the fateful day when the astronomical body called Pluto was officially downgraded from a full blown planet to merely being a dwarf planet.
On August 24 - 25, 79 AD near to Naples, Italy the mountain called Vesuvius erupted for 19 hours. Approximately 1 cubic mile of the mountain just ceased to exist. The ash and rock which was blasted away fell over a wide area to the south and southeast of the mountain,
completely covering up the thriving Roman cities of Ercolano and Pompei.
On August 24, 2009 in Martha's Vineyard the first black President of the United States of America was on vacation with his wife, their two lovely daughters, and their friend Bo.
In the middle east the Arabs still hated the Jews and refused to recognize the right of the state of Israel to exist. The Muslims and Christians worldwide distrusted each other, and the states of India and Pakistan continued to feel threatened by each other. North Korea and Iran continued their quest for nuclear weapons.
After hearing that the government in Great Britain had released the Libyan man who was found guilty of killing 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland after having served only a few years of a life sentence (for compassionate reasons because he has cancer) the prosperous Wall Street thief and convicted mastermind of the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff promptly announced that he was dying from pancreatic cancer.
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In Hampstead, London, about 1-1/2 miles southwest of Karl Marx’s ostentatious and anti-proletarian grave site in Highgate Cemetery, the brilliant British author and actor Stephen Fry was born on August 24, 1957.
August 24, 2006 was the fateful day when the astronomical body called Pluto was officially downgraded from a full blown planet to merely being a dwarf planet.
On August 24 - 25, 79 AD near to Naples, Italy the mountain called Vesuvius erupted for 19 hours. Approximately 1 cubic mile of the mountain just ceased to exist. The ash and rock which was blasted away fell over a wide area to the south and southeast of the mountain,
completely covering up the thriving Roman cities of Ercolano and Pompei.On August 24, 2009 in Martha's Vineyard the first black President of the United States of America was on vacation with his wife, their two lovely daughters, and their friend Bo.
In the middle east the Arabs still hated the Jews and refused to recognize the right of the state of Israel to exist. The Muslims and Christians worldwide distrusted each other, and the states of India and Pakistan continued to feel threatened by each other. North Korea and Iran continued their quest for nuclear weapons.
After hearing that the government in Great Britain had released the Libyan man who was found guilty of killing 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland after having served only a few years of a life sentence (for compassionate reasons because he has cancer) the prosperous Wall Street thief and convicted mastermind of the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff promptly announced that he was dying from pancreatic cancer.
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