Paul

Father of Spike & Toonie; #GoAvsGo; #Broncos #BacktheBlue; 🖖; #FlyFishing #LGBTQIA+ #FilmNoir

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Dinner last night at one of my favorite mafia haunts, Gaetano’s in Denver

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@AryePulliNFL He’s normally a tough competitor, but he lay there like he had a broken leg. Usually with a hand, wrist, or finger issue the player runs off the field.

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@jimandreen77 @classic_film

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@AGoodRowe @mikemovies Ds

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@CineVanta I don’t think there has to be a favorite. They all brought their special gifts, in their own way.

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@real_codyp @nuggetsfan4ever @garthbrooks Cry about it snowflake hahaha

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@DanishDesign @jim_benemann No 🙄

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It looks like a pretty good list!

The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century https://t.co/jxZ8HbcWWu via @NYTimes

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Flashback for Aug. 1, 2026

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This!

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5 months to Christmas! 🎄

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@Chops1818 @HollywoodYeste1

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Connections: Sports Edition #635
Yellow first today: 74%
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Flashback for May 23, 2026

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Amazing!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1920, the New York Times told a 37-year-old physicist he didn't seem to understand high-school physics. His mistake was claiming a rocket could work in space. Forty-nine years later, the Times printed a retraction. Apollo 11 had launched the day before.

His name was Robert Goddard, a physics professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He had written a paper for the Smithsonian called "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," laying out the math for a multi-stage rocket that could leave Earth's atmosphere and, theoretically, reach the moon. The Smithsonian put out a press release. The Boston Herald ran it on the front page: "New Rocket Devised By Prof. Goddard May Hit Face Of The Moon." The Times' editorial response came 24 hours later, under the heading "A Severe Strain on Credulity."

The mockery wrecked him. As the takedown spread to newspapers across the country, Goddard withdrew, working almost in secret for the next 25 years and refusing interviews. On March 16, 1926, he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket rose 41 feet and crashed in a snowbank 184 feet away after 2.5 seconds of flight. His wife Esther had set up a movie camera, but the fuel burn delay meant she missed the flight itself.

In 1930, Charles Lindbergh personally lobbied the Guggenheim Foundation to fund Goddard's work. The grant came through: $183,500, about $3.7 million today. Goddard moved to Roswell, New Mexico and spent the next decade launching rockets in the desert with a small crew. Between 1926 and 1941 he flew 34 of them, the best one reaching an altitude of 1.6 miles at 550 mph. A Worcester paper covered one failed launch with the headline: "Moon rocket misses target by 238,799½ miles."

He died of throat cancer in August 1945. He had filed 83 patents during his lifetime; Esther filed another 131 in his name after his death, working from his notes. NASA would not exist for another thirteen years.

Apollo 11 lifted off on July 16, 1969. The next morning, the New York Times printed three short paragraphs under the heading "A Correction." The paper quoted its 1920 editorial and conceded Isaac Newton had been right about rockets working in vacuums. The closing line was five words: "The Times regrets the error." Goddard had been dead for 24 years. He never read the apology. Three days later, men walked on the moon.

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😂😂

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A couple were easy and a couple were hard. 🙂

Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, May 16, 2026 https://t.co/P34ESv9wD4 via @NYTimes

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I’m enjoying Jamie Ousley - Nocturne in E-flat on Bass Jazz channel on @JazzRadioNow https://t.co/QhUMFC46Pc

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Connections: Sports Edition
My stats are in! I had 0 mistakes on puzzle #553. Average mistakes: 1.1
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Wordle 1,745 4/6

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