Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Omnibit 8-14-15

William Lawrence Omnibit 8-14-15

William Penn’s neighbor as a child in England was the famed diarist Samuel Pepys. Pepys didn’t like the Penns. He had tried to seduce William’s mother and sister and couldn’t.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-12-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-12-15 The first book ever sold on Amazon was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The purchase date was April 3, 1995. The customer was John Wainwright. He still has the book and the packing slip. He says he was an employee at Kaleida Labs and ordered it from work over a T-1 connection.

The first book ever sold on Amazon was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The purchase date was April 3, 1995. The customer was John Wainwright. He still has the book and the packing slip. He says he was an employee at Kaleida Labs and ordered it from work over a T-1 connection.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-11-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-11-15 The Dakota War of 1862 ended with the hanging of 38 of the participants who had committed rapes and murders of civilians. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.

The Dakota War of 1862 ended with the hanging of 38 of the participants who had committed rapes and murders of civilians. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.

Due to the demand for cadavers for anatomical study several of the Indian graves were robbed and their bodies acquired by doctors. One of those lucky medical men was William Worrall Mayo who had the skeleton of Mahpya Akan Nazin cleaned, dried and varnished. He kept it in an iron kettle in his office and used it to give his sons anatomy lessons.

Mayo would go on to found the Mayo Clinc. The clinic eventually acquired Mahpya Akan Nazin bones and kept them until finally returning them for reburial to the Dakota tribe shortly before the turn of the Millennium.

Largest mass execution in United States history

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-10-15

No Anthony, black pepper is not an American native. Its roots are in Java, and it was once so valuable that a small amount made a royal gift. It's great demand was a reason for seeking a seat route to the East. Of course, that led to the discovery of red pepper in the New World.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-10-15

No Anthony, black pepper is not an American native. Its roots are in Java, and it was once so valuable that a small amount made a royal gift. It’s great demand was a reason for seeking a seat route to the East. Of course, that led to the discovery of red pepper in the New World.

And it is healthy.

Black pepper