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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated within 4 months after he took the seat Presidency?

Did you know that four sitting presidents have been killed in office? Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President), James A. Garfield (the 20th President), William McKinley (the 25th President) and John F. Kennedy (the 35th President).

Abraham Lincoln

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first sitting President to be assassinated in office?

 

 

 

 

 

James A. Garfield

Did you know that James A. Garfield was the second sitting President to be assassinated in office?

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated within 4 months after he took the seat Presidency?

Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, 1881?

Charles J. Guiteau
Did you know that James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, he shot Garfield twice, once in his right arm and the other in his back, with a .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver?

Did you know that Garfield died 11 weeks later, on September 19, 1881, at 10:35 p.m., of complications caused by infections?

Did you know that William McKinley was the third sitting President to be assassinated in office?

William McKinley
Did you know that William McKinley was assassinated September 6, 1901, at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York at 4:07 p.m. on Friday?

Leon Czolgosz,
 Did you know that William McKinley was shot twice in the abdomen at close range by Leon Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, who was armed with a .32 caliber revolver?

Did you know that John F. Kennedy was the last sitting President to be assassinated in office?

Did you know that John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m?

Did you know that Kennedy was fatally wounded by a sniper's bullets in his neck from
Lee Harvey Oswald,
Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza?

Did you know that  was was shot and fatally wounded in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters byJack Ruby?

Jack Ruby


Did you know that two presidents survived  an  attack when they were injured in an assassination attempted?

Did you know that former President Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President), and President Ronald Reagan (the 40th President)?






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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Did you know that Bryant is the third youngest player to play in the NBA , he was 18 years, 72 days?

Did you know thatAndrew Bynum  is an American professional basketball center with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA)?




Did you know that  Bynum was named an All-Star and an All-NBA selection for the first time in 2012?

Did you know that Bynum was born October 27, 1987?

 Did you know that Bynum was an All-American player in high school when he decided to enter the 2005 NBA Draft?

Did you know that Bynum was selected with the 10th overall pick by the Los Angeles Lakers?



Did you know that Bynum became the youngest player ever to play an NBA game he was 18 years, 6 day?

Did you know that  Bynum missed significant time due to injuries, but he continued as a starter as the Lakers won consecutive NBA championships in 2009 and 2010?

Did you know that Bynum was traded after the 2011–12 season from the Lakers to the Philadelphia 76ers as part of a four-team deal that also sent All-Star center Dwight Howard to Los Angeles. Bynum missed the entire 2012–13 season because of knee problems?

Did you know that Bynum signed with Cleveland in July 2013?


Did you know that Jermaine Lee O'Neal  is an American professional basketball player who plays  for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA?

 Did you know that O'Neal was born October 13, 1978?

Did you know that O'Neal played his first game on December 5, 1996?
Did you know that O'Neal  is the second youngest player to play in the NBA he was18 years, 53 days?
Did you know that O'Neal declared his eligibility for the 1996 NBA Draft straight out of high school?  





Did you know that O'Neal was drafted (17th) as a forward-center at 6 ft 11 in?

Did you know that O'Neal was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers and later traded to the Indiana Pacers in 2000?

Did you know that in eight seasons with the Pacers O'Neal was voted an NBA All-Star six times, made the All-NBA teams three times, and was voted the NBA Most Improved Player in the 2001–02 season?

Did you know that O'Neal helped Indiana reach the NBA Playoffs six times, including the Conference Finals in the 2003–04 season?

Did you know that O'Neal has played on 7 different teams in the NBA?





Did you know Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA)?

Did you know that Kobe was the third youngest player to entered the NBA directly from high school?

Did you know that Bryant and has drafted with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers?

Did you know that Bryant is the third youngest player to play in the NBA , he was 18 years, 72 days?

Did you know that Kobe Bryant played his first game on November 3, 1996?

Did you know that Bryant was born August 23, 1978?

Did you know that Kobe has played for the Lakers his entire career, winning five NBA championships?

Did you know that Bryant is a 15-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team?

 Did you know that Bryant is nicknamed the "Black Mamba"?

Did you know that as of March 2013, he ranks third and fourth[3] on the league's all-time postseason scoring and all-time regular season scoring lists?

Did you know that Kobe Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in NBA history, second only to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962?

Did you know that Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 2008?

 Did you know that Bryant led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the NBA Finals MVP Award on both occasions?

Did you know that at 34 years and 104 days of age, Bryant became the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points?

Did you know that Bryant is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history?

Did you know since his second year in the league, Bryant has been selected to start every All-Star Game?

Did you know that Bryant has won the All-Star MVP Award four times (2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011), tying him for the most All Star MVP Awards in NBA history?

 Did you know that Bryant won gald medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics?











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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Did you know that there has been more assassination attemps made on President Barack Obama than any other President?

President Richard Nixon

Did you know that President Richard Nixon had 2 different people attempt to assassinate him while he was in office?

Arthur Bremer
Did you know that April 13, 1972: Arthur Bremer carried a firearm to an event intending to shoot Nixon,
?

Did you know that Bremer a few weeks later, shot and seriously injured Governor of Alabama George Wallace which left Wallace paralyzed, for the remainder of his life?

Samuel Byck
Did you know that on February 22, 1974 Samuel Byck planned to kill Nixon by crashing a commercial White House?[21]
airliner into the

Did you know that Byck tried to hijacked the plane on the ground by force by shooting the pilot and copilot?

Did you know an officer shot Byck through the plane's door window and he turned the gun on him self?

Did you know that President  Gerald Ford had 2 different people attempt to assassinate him while he was in office?

Lynette Fromme
Did you know that on September 5, 1975 Lynette Fromme on the northern grounds of the California State Capitol,  drew a Colt M1911 .45 caliber pistol on Ford when he reached to shake her hand in a crowd?
Did you know that Fromme was a follower of Charles Manson?
Did you know that Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from custody on August 14, 2009 (2 years and 8 months after Ford's death)?[22]

Sara Jane Moore
Did you know that September 22, 1975 Sara Jane Moore fired a revolver at Ford from 40 feet (12 m) San Francisco, California?[23]
away in
Oliver Sipple

Did you know that a bystander, Oliver Sipple, grabbed Moore's arm [24]
and the shot missed Ford?
Did you know that Moore was sentenced to life in prison?[25]  
Did you know that Moore was paroled from a federal prison on December 31, 2007 after serving more than 30 years. (It was more than a year after Ford's natural death.)?

Did you know that Jimmy Carter had 1 person attempt to assassinate him while

Jimmy Carter

he was in office?

Raymond Lee Harvey
Did you know that Raymond Lee Harvey was an Ohio-born unemployed American drifter who was  arrested by the Secret Service after being found carrying a starter pistol with blank rounds, ten minutes President Jimmy Carter was to give a speech at the Civic Center Mall in Los Angeles on May 5, 1979?
before
Did you know that Harvey was never charged with anything due lack of evidence?[29]
Ronald Regan

Did you know that Ronald Reagan had 1 person attempted to assassinate him while he was in office?

Did you know that On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr.. had shot President Reagan and three other men?
 
Did you know that Hinckley claimed to have wanted to kill the president to impress the teen actress Jodie Foster?

Did you know that Hinckley wasdeemed mentally ill and was confined to an institution?

 Did you know that besides Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty were also wounded in the attack?

Did you know that all three survived, but Brady suffered brain damage and was permanently disabled?

George H. W. Bush

Did you know that George H. W. Bush had had one group of people attempt to assassinate him after he had left office?

Did you know that on April 13, 1993 after Bush left the White House, fourteen men believed to be working for Saddam Hussein smuggled bombs into Kuwait to assassinate former president Bush by a car bomb during his visit to Kuwait University several months after he had left office?[30] 

 

 

 Did you know that President Bill Clinton had 3 different attempts to assassinate him while he was in office?

Bill Clinton

Did you know that on January 21, 1994 Ronald Gene Barbour, a retired military officer and freelance writer, plotted to kill Clinton while the President was jogging?


Ronald Gene Barbour
Did you know that Barbour was sentenced to five years in prison and was released in 1998?

Frank Eugene Corder 
Did you know that September 12, 1994 Frank Eugene Corder flew a stolen single-engine Cessna onto the White House lawn and crashed into a tree?
 
Did you know that Corder, was killed in the crash?
Frank Eugene Corder

Did you know that October 29, 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there ?
 
Did you know that three tourists, Harry Rakosky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone?
 
Did you know that Duran was sentenced to 40 years in prison?[36]

Did you know that George W. Bush had 2 different people attempt to

George W. Bush

assassinate him while he was in office?

 
Did you know that on February 7, 2001 President George W. Bush was in the White House, Robert Pickett
Robert Pickett

stood outside the fence and shot several times toward the building.?
 
Did you know that according to CNN correspondent Eileen O'Connor, the police confiscated a sophisticated handgun that could have reached the White House if the angle was not obstructed?

Did you know that ourt in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years imprisonment in connection with the incident?
 
Did you know May 10, 2005 while President George W. Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade toward the podium?
 
Vladimir Arutyunian
Did you know that the grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief was wrapped tightly around it and delayed the firing pin?[38] 
 
Did you know that Arutyunian escaped after the attempt that day but was arrested on July 2005?
 
Did you know that Arutyunian was convicted on January 2006, and he was given a life sentence?[39][40]

President Obama

Did you know that more attempts have been made to assassinate President Obama than any other President?

Did you know that  in Denver. Cousins Tharin Gartrell and Shawn Adolf, and their friend Nathan Johnson, went to Denver allegedly planning to assassinate Obama during his acceptance speech at the 2008?
 
Tharin Gartrell and Shawn Adolf, and their friend Nathan Johnson 
Did you know that a fourth attempt in Tennessee involved two white supremacists, Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart, who planned to drive their car toward the Democratic nominee Obama and open fire with guns and kill the President?[50][51]
 Did you know that the Schlesselman and Cowart were were arrested on October 22, 2008?
 
 
 
 
Did you know that Schlesselman and Cowart

pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the threat in 2010 and were sentenced to 10 and 14 years in prison, respectively?[50][52][53]

Did you know that several attempts to assassinate the President with letters laced with ricin,  was sent to President Obama?[54]

Did you know that the most recent attempt on the President was made in June 2013?
 10 Mind blowing facts about the assassination attempts on then PresidentObama they never told you about!





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Friday, November 22, 2013

Did you know that Wesley Snipes owed the IRS $17 million?

Did you know that Ja Rule owed the IRS $1 million plus penalties?

Did you know that Ja Rule was sentence: 2-3 years

Did you know that Ja Rule pled guilty to tax evasion last April in a Newark, N.J., federal court. Admitting that he hadn’t paid tax from earnings in 2004 and 2006?





Martin Scorses 
Did you know that Martin Scorses owed the IRS $2.85 million?

Did you know that Martin Scorses did not have to serve any prison sentence?

 Did you know that Academy-Award winning director Martin Scorses owed the IRS $2.85 million?

Did you know that Martin Scorses tax troubles began with his financial advisor Kenneth Starr?

Did you know that  Kenneth Starr,Starr pleaded guilty to a $33 million Ponzi scheme and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison?

Willie Nelson

Did you know that Willie Nelson owe d the IRS  $16.7 million?

Did you know that Willie Nelson died not serve any Prison sentence?
 






Wesley Snipes


Did you know that Wesley Snipes owed the IRS  $17 million?

Did you know that Wesley Snipes was sentence to 3 years in prison?








Richard Hatch
Did you know that Richard Hatch owed the IRS $2 million?

Did you know that Richard Hatch was sentenced to 4 years in prison?











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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Did you know that 7 ft 4 in André the Giant was considered The Eighth Wonder of the World"?


Did you know that André René Roussimoff,[3][6] was known world wide as ?
André the Giant

Did you know that André the Giant was a French professional wrestler and actor?

Did you know that André the Giant was best-remembered for his acting role of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride?[1]

Did you know that André the Giant size 7 ft 4 in was a result of gigantism (after which he suffered from acromegaly) and led to him being called "The Eighth Wonder of the World"?[5][8]

Did you know that the World Wrestling Federation is now known as WWE?

Did you know that André the Giant was a one-time WWF Champion[9] and a one-time WWF World Tag Team Champion?[10]

Did you know that André the Giant inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame?[7][11]

Did you know that André the Giant Died on January 27,1993?

 (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993)

Did you know that in 1982, Vince McMahon, Sr. sold the World Wrestling Federation to his son, Vince McMahon, Jr.?[22]

Did you know that André the Giant had one daughter,[12] Robin Christensen Roussimoff, who was born in 1979?

Did you know André was mentioned in the 1974 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid wrestler in history to that time. He had earned US$400,000 in one year alone during the early 1970s?[66]

Did you know that André the Giant died in his sleep of congestive heart failure on the night of January 27, 1993, in a Paris hotel room?[1][73]










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Did you Know

Did you know that the average human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons? These remarkable cells form intricate networks, allowing us to think, feel, and experience the world around us. Each neuron communicates with others through electrical impulses, creating a symphony of thoughts, memories, and emotions. So next time you ponder life’s mysteries, remember that your brain is orchestrating a cosmic dance of neurons!