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Samstwitch

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Today is my birthday and I thought it would be fun to start a game that whenever Paranormalis Members have a birthday, they can post something special here. You can post whatever you want, birthday wishes, historical facts, etc.,
 

Num7

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Nice, a Happy Birthday topic!

Happy Birthday to you Sam! :D
 

Samstwitch

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A little bit about me...

Born and raised in California.
Where I live now: Orange County, California
How many children I have: 3 sons grown + 2 that I consider sons :)
What I'm working on now: Moving to Texas to be near 2 of my sons.
Who I think is the sexiest man alive: Dwayne Johnson.
My favorite actor: Marlon Brando
My Top-2 favorite movies: Jane Eyre (with Toby Stephens) and Guzzarish (with Hrithik Roshan)
My Hobbies: Researching and writing.
Favorite subjects: Jesus and Time Travel
My Favorite books: The Bible, The Lost Books of the Bible and Forgotten Books of Eden, John Titor: Time Traveler's Tale, and Life After Phantom: Opera Erotica.
Occupation before Retirement: Baccarat and Blackjack Dealer in Las Vegas

Here are some Key Events in history that happened on May 15th...more listed on Wikipedia :)

*392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
*1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
*1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
*1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
*1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
*1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
*1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
*1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
*1928 – Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
*1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
*1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
*1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
*1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
*1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
*1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
*1972 – The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
*1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
*2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
*2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
 

kurisu

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It's a good thing Vegas was founded 1905 for you. It sounds like a fun job working as a dealer but, i'm sure it got boring after a while. I've been to vegas a few times stayed in a huge hotel near the pyramid think ( dont remember the name :p ) again happy birthday
 

Samstwitch

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It's a good thing Vegas was founded 1905 for you. It sounds like a fun job working as a dealer but, i'm sure it got boring after a while. I've been to vegas a few times stayed in a huge hotel near the pyramid think ( dont remember the name :p ) again happy birthday

Dealing cards was fun for awhile. (Of course, I never tired of dealing Baccarat! That was a very high-stakes game.) I was very good at dealing cards, considered a 'House Dealer' at Blackjack, but I hated taking people's money. I watched millionaires go broke. Gambling is very addictive. I learned very quickly never to gamble. In the end, I hated watching people lose their money.

I lived in Vegas during the glamour years! I had many exciting things happen to me. I was kissed by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones (at different time of course, LOL), went out with Bobby Sherman & Joey Bishop, was asked out by Joe Namath (he got mad when I refused), and I met many other stars as well.

I dealt Baccarat on the big table back in the days when they used cash (not chips). I was the 3rd woman Baccarat Dealer in Vegas. They didn't like or allow women dealers on that game back then. I worked with all men...We wore tuxedos, ruffled white shirts, and bow ties. The women were jealous of me, the men disliked me because I was a woman, but the bosses loved me. :) But I won over the respect of the men, because I was very good at my job, very professional, and I pulled in more tips than anyone else (we shared tips).

It was quite an experience. The last place I worked at was the Stardust. It was run by Mobsters (originally from Chicago and West Coast). When I started at the Stardust Casino, Frank Rosenthal had just survived the bomb explosion in his car. :eek:

Las Vegas is very different today. :sick:
 

kurisu

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Dealing cards was fun for awhile. (Of course, I never tired of dealing Baccarat! That was a very high-stakes game.) I was very good at dealing cards, considered a 'House Dealer' at Blackjack, but I hated taking people's money. I watched millionaires go broke. Gambling is very addictive. I learned very quickly never to gamble. In the end, I hated watching people lose their money.

I lived in Vegas during the glamour years! It's very different today. I dealt Baccarat on the big table back in the days when they used cash (not chips). I was the 3rd woman Baccarat Dealer in Vegas. They didn't like or allow women dealers on that game back then. I worked with all men...We wore tuxedos, ruffled white shirts, and bow ties. The women were jealous of me, the men disliked me because I was a woman, but the bosses loved me. :) But I won over the respect of the men, because I was very good at my job, very professional, and I pulled in more tips than anyone else (we shared tips). It was quite an experience. The last place I worked at was the Stardust. It was run by Mobsters (originally from Chicago and West Coast). When I started at the Stardust Casino, Frank Rosenthal had just survived the bomb explosion in his car. :eek:

Sounds like it was full of excitement then I had a friend and she worked at a 'high class' restaurant and those old rich guys loved giving out tips to the cute teenagers lol
 

Samstwitch

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Yes, many very rich people pass through Vegas. They're not all generous though. I saw one millionaire who was winning $100,000 (which was a fortune back in those days) and he tipped the cocktail 25 cents and laughed when he did it. But when I got on the table, he never won a single hand with me. He lost 100 straight hands, betting $1,000 per hand until he lost it all back! I was glad to beat that guy.

I just added a little more to my story above. I tell you though...I'm glad I moved away from there. It's really 'Sin City'...everything bad that you can think of happens there, and nowadays it has an astronomical murder rate, because TONS of gangs moved into Vegas during the 1980's and ruined it.

If I had to do it all over again, I would never have moved there. I'm one of the few who got away in time.
 

Justinian

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Happy birthday to ME... August 31st... I share the day with Richard Gere, and it is a day most famous for the day Princess Di was killed. And after the day I've had.. it is proving to be a tragic day every single year. BUT, I'm a year older. I survived again! I think this means I win at Life.
 

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