The_Kitchen_Guy
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There were no new developments in Paige's case yesterday. No news, no new developments. In news of Candles for Paige we had 123 candles as of this post. Remember, candles go out after 48 hours so keep lighting candles for Paige, her family and her three children.Instructions for lighting candles for Paige are in the Missing thread, in this post.On this date in History......it was a good day for American Generals named, "George" and a bad day for Germans....in 1776, General George Washington finished his raid on Trenton, New Jersey that started on Christmas night, by ferrying his 2,500 man army across the Delaware River by boat. The 1,400 man Hessian army, hung over from too much Christmas celebration, were taken completely by surprise by the American Continental Army about 8:00 AM and Washington quickly sewed up the city of Trenton. The Americans confiscated every scrap of supplies and ammunition they could find and carried it back to the boats, waiting to take them back across the river. Although it was not a major strategic victory, it was a major victory for Washington's reputation and a tremedous morale booster. It also demonstrated the pluck of the ragged patriot army and proved that good leadership and dedicated troops could face overwhelming odds and come out victorious....in 1944, General George S. Patton arrived at Bastogne, Belgium after using a brilliant, and audacious, strategy to get to the beleaguered town. During the Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne was a key prize for the German offensive, because every road that went through the Ardennes Forest came to Bastogne, in fact, the Germans referred to the town as "The Octopus" because of the many roads that lead in and out. General Anthony McAuliff had been ordered to hold the town at all costs, because of the strategic value. As you already know from the update on the 22nd, the Germans had demanded his surrender. McAuliff responded with a one word message to the Germans, "Nuts!" Old Blood and Guts, as Patton was known as, turned his 3rd army 90º in a counterthrust, broke through the German lines and relieved McAuliff's 101st Airborne. He continued with his thrust and pushed the Germans east, back across the Rhine River, effectively ending the last major German offensive of the war....in 1825, the Erie Canal opened, linking the Atlantic Coast to the Great Lakes and providing a waterway to the west. It signaled the start of a boom of canal building, thought by many to be the way to move people and materiel to the western United States. The canals became obsolete with the coming of the railroads and went broke. Many of the abandoned canals still exist in Ohio.
The Miami & Erie Canal connected Eastern & Western Ohio by water,
248 miles long. Parts of it still remain; this portion is in Delphos, Ohio....in 1946, mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opened the Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino in the sleepy crossroads town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Attracted by legal gambling and off-track betting on horse races, developers had already begun to build the Flamingo but ran out of money. (Building materials, in short supply after World War II, were very costly.) Enter Bugsy Siegel, who bought the project and continued building. He, too, ran out of money and on this date in 1946, opened the unfinished resort to try to recoup some of the investment and make enough to keep building. The attempt failed, in fact, The Flamingo lost $300,000 in its first week of operation. Bugsy died in what appeared to have been a hit, because his investors didn't think he was playing straight with them. His murder remains unsolved. Meanwhile, The Flamingo has changed hands several times, and the only thing that remains from Bugsy's 1946 desert dream (the last of the original structure was razed in 1993) is the name of the place. Today's Flamingo is owned by Harrah's Entertainment with 3,626 rooms and 77,000 square feet of gambling room. (By comparison, a football field is 57,600 square feet.)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/50/11012007_Flamingo_LV.jpg/200px-11012007_Flamingo_LV.jpgThat's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.
The Miami & Erie Canal connected Eastern & Western Ohio by water,
248 miles long. Parts of it still remain; this portion is in Delphos, Ohio....in 1946, mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opened the Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino in the sleepy crossroads town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Attracted by legal gambling and off-track betting on horse races, developers had already begun to build the Flamingo but ran out of money. (Building materials, in short supply after World War II, were very costly.) Enter Bugsy Siegel, who bought the project and continued building. He, too, ran out of money and on this date in 1946, opened the unfinished resort to try to recoup some of the investment and make enough to keep building. The attempt failed, in fact, The Flamingo lost $300,000 in its first week of operation. Bugsy died in what appeared to have been a hit, because his investors didn't think he was playing straight with them. His murder remains unsolved. Meanwhile, The Flamingo has changed hands several times, and the only thing that remains from Bugsy's 1946 desert dream (the last of the original structure was razed in 1993) is the name of the place. Today's Flamingo is owned by Harrah's Entertainment with 3,626 rooms and 77,000 square feet of gambling room. (By comparison, a football field is 57,600 square feet.)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/50/11012007_Flamingo_LV.jpg/200px-11012007_Flamingo_LV.jpgThat's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.
