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Jan 2nd Free Weight Loss .com (Award Winning Site) www.free weight loss .com/ Free Weight Loss . com provides TONS of free weight loss information, products, programs and tools!

Jan 3rd in History 1521 : Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.Martin Luther dealt the symbolic blow that began the Reformation when he nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church. That document contained an attack on papal abuses and the sale of indulgences by church officials.

Jan 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . 361 days (362 in leap years ) remain in the year after this day. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar , it was first proposed by the Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius , and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII , for whom it was named

Jan 5th www.americanwest.com/pages/ davy croc.htm 1836 : Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo

Jan 6th http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/ on this date in 1838 : Samuel Morse gives the first demonstration of the electric telegraph.

Jan 9th Welcome to Kelly Miller Circus .Com Oklahoma-based traveling circus founded in 1938. Includes history, video, and photographs. On this day, Englishman Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London. Trick riders, acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other familiar components of the circus have existed throughout recorded history, but it was not until the late 18th century that the modern spectacle of the circus was born.

Jan 10th http://www.georgeforeman.com/; born on this date in Marshall, Texas; world heavyweight boxing champion (1971-74); in 1994, he became the oldest heavyweight champion in history.

Jan 11th http://www.ameliaearhart.com/: official site including photos, quotes, a biography, and more about the aviator who made international flight records in the 1930s. 1935  Earhart flies from Hawaii to California. In the first flight of its kind, American aviator Amelia Earhart departs Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.

Jan 12th http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sphinx1.htmLocated at Giza outside Cairo, some of the oldest manmade structures on earth were showing severe signs of decay by the early 1980s. Successful repair work began on the 4,600-year-old Sphinx in 1981, but restoration of the pyramids proved destructive when water in modern cement caused adjacent limestone stones to split. On January 12, 1984, restorers stopped using mortar and adopted the system of interlocking blocks practiced by the original pyramid builders. From thereon, the project proceeded smoothly.

Jan 13th http://www.speedace.info Get info on all kinds of automobile history. You can even find out what happened On this day in 1942, Henry Ford patented a plastic-bodied automobile. The car was 30 percent lighter than ordinary cars. Plastic, a relatively new material in 1942, was revolutionizing industry after industry in the United States. Today most car bodies are still made of metal, but plastic parts are becoming more and more common.

Jan 16th Tina found the image one day in December while going to retrieve her 21 month old daughter from the laundry room. While walking into the room she slipped on a sock and fell on her back. She looked up and there was an image of The Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. Hi. I would like to give you a sneak peak at the next biggest auction to hit ebay. All events in the auction are true and happened in Oklahoma. http://www.thebluejeangirls.com/mary.html \

Jan 17th http://www.house.gov/house/Educate.shtml on this date in 1919 The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes," achieves the necessary two-thirds majority of state ratification, and thus becomes the law of the land.

Jan 18th http://bass-fishing-experts.com or www.bassfishingexperts.com At Bass Fishing Experts, YOU are the expert. If you know how to bring in the big ones, submit a tip, review or photo. If we use it on the site, you will automatically be entered in our monthy drawing for a bass fishing prize.

Jan 19th 1840  Wilkes claims portion of Antarctica for U.S. http://www.south-pole.com/

Jan 20th 1736: James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, was born in Scotland.

Jan 23rd RecipeZaar
Search more than a recipe database at this online cooking community. Review almost 150,000 recipes, save them in a personal cookbook, get advice and more

Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49. http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/chron1.html

Jan 25th On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports.http://www.torino2006.org

Jan 26th In 1802, Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol. The Library of Congress

Jan 27th 1904  Internal Combustion Strikes Back! American racer set a new land-speed record of 76.086mph in a gasoline-driven Mors automobile at Ablis, France. It was the first major speed record to be set by an internal-combustion car. All previous records had been set by steam- and battery-powered cars. http://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org

Jan 30th Pound Sand
An infinite amount of colored sand, a random destructo-disk, and your creative barrier placement... ah, the days go by so quickly. Like sands through the hourglass

Jan 31st That's Ironic i-ron-ic Adj. Poignantly or darkly contrary to what one expects or intends. Often, but not always, humourous.

Feb 2nd Doctor Confidential
A doctor created this site to tell you some of the things doctors discuss among themselves but may not share with patients.