As Hobbit Lass would say, "Eeeew." Icky thread for the queasy.
They were selling those bullets all over the place in Gettysburg. They sure don't look that menacing.
On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 05:
1324 David II Bruce king of Scotland (1331..71)
1326 Louis I [the Great] King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512 Gerardus Mercator Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1574 William Oughtred England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1637 John van der Heyden Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America
1746 Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1824 Elisha Harris US, physician/found American Public Health Association
1824 James Merritt Ives lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1825 John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1825 Joseph Albert German photographer (albertotype)
1893 Emmett J Culligan founder of water treatment organization
1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
1908 Sophie Stewart Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
1914 Joan Sterndale-Bennett London England, actress (Those Fantastic Flying Fools)
1920 Virginia Christine actress (Mrs Olson)
1934 James B Sikking Los Angeles CA, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
1935 Philip K Chapman Melbourne Australia, astronaut (Apollo 14 support)
1936 Dean Stockwell Hollywood CA, actor (Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet)
1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson Gary IN, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia)
1946 Michael Warren South Bend IN, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 Rocky Bleier Wisconsin, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1952 Alan Clark keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1953 Russel D Feingold (Senator-D-WI)
1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun Russian Colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
1954 Marsha Warfield comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)
1955 Penn Jillette Greenfield MA, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1974 Kevin Connolly actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Angus)
1977 Natalie Bevins Miss West Virginia-USA (1997)
Deaths which occurred on March 05:
0254 St Lucius I Pope (253-54), dies
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1605 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1625 James I (VI) king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1770 Crispus Attuks slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1827 Alessandro Volta Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1932 Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1953 Josef V Stalin soviet leader responsible for 11 million murders, dies at 73
1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer, dies at 61
1963 Cyril Smith actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
1963 Patsy Cline country singer (Crazy, I Fall To Pieces), dies in a plane crash at 30
1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok US impresario, dies at 85
1980 Jay Silverheels actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1982 John Belushi comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33
1990 Gary Merrill actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
1994 Joe Daley jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
1995 Ed Flanders actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 HESSOM ROBERT C.---ALAMEDA CA.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 17 OCT 94]
1970 ROSENBACH ROBERT P.---KIRKWOOD MO.
[REMAINS RECOVERED]
1971 HATLEY JOEL C.---ALBEMARLE NC.
[EXPLODE,NO SEARCH, NO REMAINS-EMPTY COFFIN BURIED, REMAINS RETURNED 1/90 I.D. 9/17/90 BURIED 9/21]
1971 KING MICHAEL E.---CALHOUN GA.
[EXPLODE, NO SEARCH ID'D ON ONE TOOTH, MINUTE BONES, REMAINS RETURNED 1/90 ID 9/17/90]
1971 MOREIRA RALPH A. JR.---BEAVER FALLS PA.
[EXPLODE, NO SEARCH ID'D ON ONE TOOTH MINUTE BONES. REMAINS RETURNED 1/90 ID 9/17/90]
1971 NELSON DAVID L.---KIRKLAND WA.
[EXPLODE,NO SEARCH NO REMAINS EMPTY COFFIN BURIED, REMAINS RETURNED 1/90 ID 9/17/90 BURIED 9/21/90 DISPUTED]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0254 St Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1908 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica
1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo TX)
1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO)
1948 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1953 Josef Stalin's death announced
1956 "King Kong" 1st televised
1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 Player representatives elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association
1970 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY
1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1984 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1990 To the cheers of onlookers, workers in Bucharest, Romania, finally succeeded in removing a 25-foot, seven-ton bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin from its foundation.
1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)(PARTY!!!)
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
2000 Israel's Cabinet voted unanimously to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon by the following July.
2002 Pres. Bush met with Egypt’s Pres. Mubarek, who called for greater US involvement in seeking Middle East peace.
2004 U.S. special operations forces killed nine suspected Taliban rebels in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan after the murdering scumbags tried to sneak by their position.
2004 Libya acknowledged stockpiling 44,000 pounds of mustard gas and disclosed the location of a production plant in a declaration submitted to the world's chemical weapons watchdog. (It's George Bush's fault)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Labour Day (Western Australia).
Boston MA : Boston Massacre Day (1770)
Multiple Personalities Day
US : National Procrastinators Week (Begins tomorrow)
National Noodle Month
Religious Observances
Anglican, Roman Catholic : Ember Day
Religious History
1179 The Third Lateran Council opened under Alexander III. It was attended by 300 bishops who enacted measures against the Waldenses and Albigensians. Lateran III also mandated that popes were to be elected by two-thirds vote from the assembled cardinals.
1555 French-born Swiss reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter to Philip Melanchthon: 'It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.'
1743 In Boston, editor Thomas Prince published the first issue of his weekly, "The Christian History." It was the first religious journal published in America.
1850 Birth of Daniel B. Towner, American music evangelist. An associate of D.L. Moody, Towner composed over 2,000 hymn tunes, including AT CALVARY ("Years I Spent in Vanity and Pride"), MOODY ("Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord") and TRUST AND OBEY ("When We Walk With the Lord").
1951 The religious program "Circuit Rider" debuted over ABC television. The broadcast featured music selections and biographies of evangelists, and was produced by Franklin W. Dyson.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"A highbrow is a man who thinks he has found something more interesting than women."
Today's text states that God causes the cypress tree and the myrtle tree to flourish where once thorns and briers encumbered the ground. This analogy reminds us that God can bring forth beauty and grace where evil once flourished. 
