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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47807)	2/15/2005 10:12:49 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

2003 - Millions of people around the world took part in the largest mass protest movement in history I have some doubts about the accuracy of that claim. Tim

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47807)	2/16/2005 2:17:57 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Today in history-February 16: 1249 - Louis IX of France dispatched Andrew of Longjumeau as his ambassador to the Mongols. 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur led a raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in Tripoli of the Barbary States, denying her use to the enemy in the First Barbary War. 1857 - Gallaudet University, the world’s only university for hearing-impaired students, was established in Washington, D.C.. 1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was created by Ward Christensen during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois.