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Wednesday, April 21 — Apparently we made it through April 19 and 420 without harm. Now if you’ll excuse us we’ll go back to working on the newsprint end of the operation …. 1999—To honor those killed at Columbine the day before, NRA president Charlton Heston says the gun lobby will cut short its Denver convention by one day. 1992—At about 3:00 a.m., Robert Alton Harris is strapped into San Quentin’s gas chamber. Twelve minutes later amid legal wrangling, he’s taken back out. At 6:00 a.m., he’s put back in and gassed. 1989—Chinese students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square. 1986—On live TV, Geraldo Rivera opens Al …

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 — We should note that when we publish these morsels online here, we include some that will not fit into the limited space available on page eight. 2008—The New York Times reveals that many “independent military analysts” appearing on TV are really Pentagon puppets. 2008—Adelir Antonio de Carli, a Brazilian Catholic priest, in a chair suspended from 1,000 party balloons, reaches 19,685 feet before disappearing over the Atlantic. 2004—George W. Bush tells a Buffalo audience that the government doesn’t wiretap without a court order. 2001—The Peruvian Air Force, with some help from CIA “contract workers,” fires on a plane they think …

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Sunday, April 18, 2010 — The designer of the universe apparently intended for the events listed here to occur on this date. Unless otherwise noted, none of them were our idea; complaints should be addressed to the diety of your choice. These entries are terse because unlike the Interwebs, newsprint is finite. Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide accomodates fourteen of these on a single page. An example is shown at right; the original size is 1.4 inches by 5.9 inches. This digital medium being what it is, the reader might reasonably expect to find here links to further resources regarding these events. If we …

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Saturday, April 17, 2010 — The designer of the universe apparently intended for the events listed here to occur on this date. Unless otherwise noted, none of them were our idea; complaints should be addressed to the diety of your choice. These entries are terse because unlike the Interwebs, newsprint is finite. Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide accomodates fourteen of these on a single page. An example is shown at right; the original size is 1.4 inches by 5.9 inches. This digital medium being what it is, the reader might reasonably expect to find here links to further resources regarding these events. If we …

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