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On this day 100 years ago, and 105 years after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo, the Great War finally came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | ||
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On this day in 1935 – FDR ordered a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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