A senior leader of Al Qaeda told interrogators that Osama bin Laden personally selected the targets for the Sept. 11 attacks and rejected plans for an even broader assault on prominent American buildings, including the Sears Tower, officials said Wednesday.
A classified government analysis circulated among counterterrorism officials said Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the captured Al Qaeda leader, told interrogators that bin Laden gave Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, “a list of targets.”
The document said it included the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Israeli Embassy in Washington and the Sears Tower.
In play: The Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog was first published in 1894. Richard Sears declared the catalog to be the “Book of Bargains: A Money Saver for Everyone,” and the “Cheapest Supply House on Earth.” The advent of Rural Free Delivery mail service in 1896 made distribution of the catalog economical.
Sears stopped producing the general catalog in 1993, although they still offer many specialty catalogs.
The year 1896 started on a Monday. MLB player Rick Monday is best remembered for saving the American flag from being burned in Dodger Stadium in 1976, the American Bicentennial.
Billy Sunday was a popular professional baseball player in the 1880s, playing a total of eight seasons with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia teams in the National League. Sunday was one of the fastest players in the National League, and was well-liked by fans for his athleticism as well as his outgoing personality.
Sunday became a Christian during either the 1886 or 1887 baseball season. After concluding the 1890 baseball season with Philadelphia, Sunday asked to be released from his contract, so he could focus on ministry. In the years that followed, Sunday became an evangelical preacher, and was the U.S.'s most influential evangelist of the early 20th century, regularly preaching before large crowds across the country.
I don’t see the point of commonality between the first and the second.
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Billy Sunday was a strong supporter of Prohibition, and his preaching is credited by some with playing a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, per Wiki.
Through the 1950s, MLB baseball was prohibited on Sunday nights, and lights could not be turned to thwart double-header darkness in non-DST states like Wisconsin and Missouri, so games were often called on account of darkness. The rule was changed when the league expanded to Houston, where climate change suddenly made it too hot to play in the daytime, even thought stadium lighting did not exist before 1938 when the Houston Buffalos played only day games.
Baseball legend Stan Musial was born on Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920, in Donora, Pennsylvania. Decades later, Ken Griffey Jr was born in the same little town of 6,000, and just a few miles out of town, so was Joe Montana.
Musial played in St. Louis, the greatest baseball city in the world.
Joe Montana’s final game as a college football player was the Cotton Bowl, on January 1st, 1979, where his Notre Dame team played against the University of Houston.
The weather was frigid and blustery, and by halftime, Montana (the Fighting Irish’s starting quarterback) was suffering from hypothermia. He was kept in the locker room during the third quarter, as the training staff warmed him up with intravenous fluids, blankets, and chicken soup. By the time Montana returned to the field, late in the third quarter, Notre Dame was trailing, 34-12.
Montana led the Irish on three touchdown drives over the final eight minutes of the game, the final one coming as time expired, and the Irish won, 35-34. Due to Montana’s heroics, the game became known as “The Chicken Soup Game.”
Joe Montana led the 49ers to four Super Bowls, and he won all four. He was the MVP in three of them and he was the first 3x Super Bowl MVP winner. He never threw an interception in any Super Bowl*.
— Lawrence Billups, though, dropped a sure one in Super Bowl XXIII!
The Minnesota Vikings are one of two teams to have an 0-4 record in the Super Bowl. In each of the Vikings losses, they failed to score in the first half.
The halftime score in each of these games:
Super Bowl IV: Chiefs 16, Vikings 0
Super Bowl VIII: Dolphins 17, Vikings 0
Super Bowl IX: Steelers 2, Vikings 0
Super Bowl XI: Raiders 16, Vikings 0
Annie,
The Patsies were inin 4 of the last 5. They won 3. They lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.
That’s my play.
EAT: and don’t get me wrong. Appearing in 4 of the last 5 is mightily impressive!
And, well, they should have lost to Atlanta.
And, well, they should have lost to Seattle. Pete Carroll — “OH NO!!! Love it.
Oh, I had absolutely no qualms about sharing this info with my buddy who’s a huge Vikings fan!
In play: The New England Patriots have appeared in 11 Super Bowls. This is the most by any NFL team.
Three teams have appeared 8 times: Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, and Denver Broncos. Tomorrow, the San Francisco 49ers will appear in their 7th Super Bowl.
