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And the losers shall dine on Eyeballs with Grease!!!
By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 29, 1429: Joan of Arc leads the French to victory over the English at Orleans, France. She fires up the French troops by telling them that if the French lose, they would have to eat English cuisine. This morsel ...
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By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 28, 1958: Vice President Richard Nixon begins a sinister trip into Latin America in search of organs to harvest for American baseball parks
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By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
For the first time, an organ is used during a baseball game. It was a lung.
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Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Japanese schoolgirls or none of the above?
By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 26, 1711: Scottish philosophical sceptic David Hume is born. Because he didn't empirically witness his own birth, Hume would spend his life in existential angst, unsure if he was actually there. To see more Uncle History CLICK HERE
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Finally, something that Glenn Beck and President Obama agree on
By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 25, 1987: Realizing that most crimes in America are committed by men who have the middle name Wayne or Lee, or who have the first name Jesse, Congress passes the Jesse Lee Wayne Act. The measure called for the ...
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By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 24, 1969: Paul McCartney's angry ghost denies that he's dead. To see more Uncle History CLICK HERE
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Emily Dickinson, badass Part 2
By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 23, 1850: A tonic-inebriated Edgar Allan Poe is awoken early in the morning by a heavy pounding on his door. Poe ushers in a ragged and out-of-breath Emily Dickinson, who was dragging a sea bag containing the body of ...
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The rather large appetite of King Henry VIII
By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 22, 1509: Henry VIII ascends to the English throne. He celebrates by consuming the Cotswolds. If you have an appetite for more Uncle History, CLICK HERE
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April 21, 1878: First Lady Lucy Hayes introduces the first Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn. The event would end in disaster when four children and Vice President William A. Wheeler are absorbed into the president's beard, never ...
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By unclehistory in UNCLE HISTORY
April 20, 859: Because everyone is afraid to tell him to use less perfume, Guntherus is named Bishop of Cologne behind his back.