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Thread #59418   Message #1654985
Posted By: kindaloupehackenweez
24-Jan-06 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
James Marshall a young carpenter spied a golden pebble int the millrace of his new sawmill. He knew what it was, even thoughit was about 1/2 the size of a pea. The he saw another.....Within 10 years of the Gold Rush's beginnings, almost a million minors gouged and scraped the California Landscape for over $500 million in gold.

1848 Sutters Mill

In 1908 the first Boy scout troop was orgainzed in England by Robert Baden Powell

1935 Beer in cans was first sold in Virginia, by the Kreuger Brewing Company.

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