Wannamacher Cash Prize Contest

[Old Fart]

The OP was just begging for it, entry

Nay, I was just razzing Dennis.

 

[Old Fart]

check this out

 

[Mitch Rapp]

again....

 

[cmhbob]

109

That's so clean I thought it was a model.

 

[cmhbob]

1502: Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth voyage

 

[cmhbob]

1819: French physicist Jean Foucault, inventor of the gyroscope. born

 

[cmhbob]

1830: A race was held between a horse and an iron horse. The Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in The United States, was pitted against a real horse in a nine-mile course between Riley's Tavern and Baltimore. Tom Thumb suffered mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler and lost by a considerable margin

 

[foghorn918]

stop, wait, I can't keep up

 

[FenixTxM3]

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[cmhbob]

1874: The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West