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Hey it happpened again about the Licsense plates, only I thought to play this plate number and I didn't and surely it came out, I had it in mind to play it, 3131 when I loooked at the Lottery, I couldn't believe my eyes. I think part of the number 51 came in Eveing in  3 digit. I haven't been on here latey.

Aug 19

Today's highlight in history:
On Aug. 19, 1909, thefirst automobile races were run at the just-opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner of the first event was auto engineer Louis Schwitzer, who drove a Stoddard-Dayton touring car twice around the2.5- mile track at an average speed of 57.4 mph.

1909 could be good or 1919, 019,909 box them all! good luck!

Sep 2

On this date:
In 1930, the first nonstop airplane flight from Europeto the U.S. was completed in 37 hours as Capt. Dieudonne Costes andMaurice Bellonte of France arrived in Valley Stream, N.Y., aboard theirBregut 19 biplane which bore the symbol of a large question mark.

(The Joker?)

Sep 8

In 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Major LeagueBaseball's record for home runs in a season, hitting his 62nd offChicago Cubs pitcher Steve Traschel and eclipsing the 37-year-oldrecord held by Roger Maris.

Sep 20

In 1974, in their so-called"battle of the sexes", tennis star Billie Jean King defeated BobbyRiggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the Astrodome in Houston.

Sep 28

Sep 28

On this date:
In 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.

In 1924, two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

Sep 30

In 1939, the first college football game to be televised was shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeated Waynesburg College, 34-7.

Oct 6

On this date in 1969, the New York Mets won the first-ever NationalLeague Championship Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-4, in Game3; the Baltimore Orioles won the first-ever American LeagueChampionship Series, defeating the Minnesota twins 11-2 in Game 3.

Oct 29

On this date in 1940, Secretart of War Henry L. Stinson drew the first number - 158 - in the lottery for America's first
peacetime military draft.

Nov 2

Today's highlight in history:
On Nov. 2, 1959, formergame show contestant Charles Van doren admitted before a Housesubcommittee that he'd been given questions and answers in advance whenhe appeared on the NBC program "Twenty One", amassing $129,000 during a14-week run.

Sounds interesting. Your Landlady was probably destined to be aligned  with these numerical messages that she intuitively acknowledged and acted upon these clues that randomly came her way via the news media. Thanks

Gleno

Hi Gleno,

Yeah, I've thought of that. Or maybe such "messages" are there for all of us but very few pay attention.

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From Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird:

Harry Potter would probably do a better job

Thefirst line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdadare small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, butwhich U.S. official say are about as useful as Ouija boards. The Iraqiofficial in charge, Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, is so enamored with thedevices, according to a November New York Times dispatch, that whenAmerican experts repeatedly showed the rods' failures in test aftertest, he blamed the results on tester's lack of "training". The Iraqigovernment has purchased 1,500 of the ADE651s from its manufacturer,ATSC Ltd. of the UK, at prices ranging from $16,000 to $60,000 each.The suicide bombers who killed 155 in downtown Baghdad on Oct. 25passed two tons of explosives through at least one ADE-651-equippedcheckpoint.

Latest religious messages

"Bonnet Books" area "booming new subcategory of the romance genre", reported the WallStreet Journal in September, describing "G-rated" Amish love storiesthat sell well among outside readers but have an even more avidaudience among Amish women themselves. The typical best-seller is by anon-Amish writer, perhaps involving a woman inside the community whofalls in love with an outsider. In one book described by the Journal,the lovers "actually kiss a couple of times in 326 pages."