Why Is the Rook so Short?
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itsyaboikade wrote:
And also we don’t need words of wisdom, thanks
Ok, but I don't care about what you think.
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you"
Carl Jung
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish"
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear
George Orwell
“Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too”
Today Nov 1
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets.
On Nov. 1, 1512, Michelangelo's just-completed paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel were publicly unveiled by the artist's patron, Pope Julius II.
itsyaboikade wrote:
And also we don’t need words of wisdom, thanks
Who is WE, you mean I right.
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left"
"The best way to predict the future, is to create it"
Abraham Lincoln
Today Nov4,1979
At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City.
Today Nov4,1980
Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States.
Today Nov4,2008
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois elected 44th president of the United States, the first African American to hold that position.
I think these were Freds last two posts on rook.
Fun Fact: The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the world's first skyscraper.
The world’s first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, erected in 1884-1885. The so-called "Father of the Skyscraper" towered all of 10 stories with its peak at 138 feet, miniature by today’s standards but gargantuan at that time. The architect, Major William LeBaron Jenney, incorporated a steel frame that supported not only the walls but the great weight of the entire building. The exterior, however, was made of brick. This technique spawned a new type of construction referred to as the "Chicago Skeleton." The landmark building did not last; it was demolished in 1931, which was ironically, the year that The Empire State Building in New York was completed.
World's First Skyscraper
Where's Fbloggs?
I'm losing hope........ 
"Comparison is the thief of joy"
Theodore Roosevelt
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is
Albert Camus