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From: "tfeeney" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Today in History Jan 19
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:18:19 -0500
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Thanks for sending this on, Roxanne. Interesting and have sent it on to
some friends who I think will find it equally interesting!!!.......Toni
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roxanne Koelpin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Today in History Jan 19


> Hi all,
>
> I had forgotten that it was Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. I heard a blurb
on
> the radio that every year someone brings 3 roses and a bottle of cognac on
> his grave. this is supposed to be some shadowy, hooded figure. Anyway this
> year along with the roses and cognac today, there was a note (I am just
> giving a synopsis of the note) that the cognac was left with great
> reluctance due to the French being a gainst the war in Iraq. I thought
that
> was so weird. I had forgotten about this story until this radio story. Of
> course I'm surprised that noone has set up cameras or anything to see who
> this person or persons are.
>
>
> Roxanne
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:57 PM
> Subject: [Q-R] Today in History Jan 19
>
>
> > Jan 19, 1649 The first executioner in Canada, at Quebec City, a pardoned
> > criminal, performs his first assignment, on a 16 year old girl, found
> guilty of
> > theft
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1736 Happy Birthday James Watt of Scotland, inventor of the
Steam
> > Engine
>
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> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1807 Happy Birthday Robert E. Lee, born at Stratford, Virginia
>
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> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1809 Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born at Boston, Mass.
>
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> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1770 Battle of Golden Hill-Lower Manhattan
>
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> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1793 French King Louis XVl sentenced to death
>
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> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19,1825 Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett patent Tin Cans for food
> storage
>
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> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, 1840 Antarctica discovered by Charles Wilkes
>
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> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19, Martin Luther King Day
>
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> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19 Southern US-Robert E. Lee Day
>
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> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Jan 19 Texas-Confederate Heroes Day
> >
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