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(70,589 posts) Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:36 PM Jun 2016

.... by a Serb, Gavrilo Princip. Please plan your day accordingly.

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ATTN DU today is the 102 anniversary of Arch Duke Ferdinand and his wife being shot .... (Original Post) Botany Jun 2016 OP

been a tough damn century, ain't it? . . . . . .n/t annabanana Jun 2016 #1

That settles it, I'm knocking down my neighbor's mailbox. NightWatcher Jun 2016 #2

And this year is the 100th anniversary Wednesdays Jun 2016 #5

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1. been a tough damn century, ain't it? . . . . . .n/t

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:39 PM

Jun 2016

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2. That settles it, I'm knocking down my neighbor's mailbox.

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:41 PM

Jun 2016

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3. It can't happen again. It can't happen again. It can't happen again. It can't happen again.

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:46 PM

Jun 2016

I keep telling myself that 'things are different now' but I wonder if they didn't say that before too.

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4. Driver took a wrong turn - was headed to hospital to visit victim of earlier grenade attack

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:04 PM

Jun 2016

Princip was one of several (9) assassins who had been lying in wait for the Duke. Princip thought he had missed his chance do he started getting drunk. The Duke's car suddenly comes around the corner and.....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2014/06/27/the-wrong-turn-that-changed-a-century-and-still-haunts-us-today/#1c6b25113494

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5. And this year is the 100th anniversary

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 05:31 PM

Jun 2016

of some of the most horrific battles in history.
End result of the aforementioned shooting.