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* 3D Art
* Space Potatoes
* Star Trek vs Star Wars throwdown

Special Guest: Ben and Keith from TGGeeks
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* What is the strangest thing you’ve seen on the Internet?

* Rob Riehl: There was this podcast called Technorama. That was pretty strange.
* Trampas Whiteman: https://www.lingscars.com
* Scott Long: This question
* Katie Bohmont: Goatse… definitely
* Jack Mangan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFmQU4IStg


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On This Day In History for July 12, 2017
This is the 193rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining in 2017.

* It was on this date in 1493, that Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published..
* July 12, 1543, King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace..
* That same date in 1561, Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow is consecrated..
* Also today in 1776, Captain James Cook begins his third voyage..
* It was on this date in 1804, that Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel..
* July 12, 1962, The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London’s Marquee Club..
* That same date in 1971, The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

* English civil engineer of the 19th century, Thomas Hawksley, born on this date in 1807. He was particularly associated with water engineering projects.
* Otto Schoetensack, the German paleoanthropologist was born 167 years ago today.
* George Eastman, American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer was born on that same date in 1854.
* Albert Calmette, the French scientist was born 154 years ago today.
* Born July 12, 1863, German physicist specializing in optics Paul Drude.
* Margherita Piazzola Beloch, the Italian mathematician was born 138 years ago today.
* American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist, Buckminster Fuller was born 122 years ago today.
* American comedian and actor, Milton Berle, born on this date in 1908.
* German engineer, Fritz Leonhardt was born 108 years ago today.
* Willis Lamb, American Physicist was born on that same date in 1913.
* American chemist, Elias James Corey, born on this date in 1928.
* Van Cliburn, American pianist was born on that same date in 1934.
* American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist, Bill Cosby, born on this date in 1937.
* British rock singer, Christine McVie is 74 today.
* American exercise instructor, Richard Simmons, born on this date in 1948.
* Also born on that same date in 1951,  actress, Cheryl Ladd.
* Rick Husband, American astronaut was born on that same date in 1957.
* American Businesswomen, Vice President and Managing director of Facebook EMEA, Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields is 55 today.

Listener Birthdays

* 12 – Shadowbird712 of Shadowbird Studios (http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.blogspot.com/) (Sorry for the cheap plug, y’all)
* 12 – François Pominville nickname: Bookaroo (Year: 11110110001, Canada)
* 13 – Ben Ragunton of TGGeeks
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