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‡ TODAY’s “Geez”:
¬ 1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
¬ 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police
¬ 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
¬ 1921 - New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
¬ 1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
¬ 1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine
‡ Free Rambling Thoughts…
A day of on and off showers in our little town. Overcast most of the day. The rain showers were gentle enough and long enough to give our land a good soaking. Sadly that also set up flash flood warnings for those below the burn area. Monsoons are great for everyone else.
My sore feet healing quite nicely. The cream is doing a great job. I only took one pain pill today and it lasted all day and into the night. So nice to be able to walk again, still a little slow on steps but no longer do have to do both feet on each step. The human body is amazing and while age seems to slow the healing process, it is still able to heal given enough time.
Tomorrow I’m doing lunch with Cheryl as Mary is still in Portland, enjoying her time with at the beach with her friends and family. It will be nice to share our two weeks adventures. Cheryl will have great stories of Michigan with her sisters and grandkids. Quite an adventure since the grandkids had never met that side of the family. She also drove, so I’m sure two teens added a lot to the many long hours inside her Rav.
I paid some bills on line today and discovered that my very first SS check was deposited on the 5th of July. I had been told it would be deposited on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, so that was a nice surprise. I sure hope Congress stops the politics and does something to prevent a default. I’m not sure what they are doing, and hear about a stop in SS checks, a stop in paying the troops, and furlough for many government employees. Haven’t heard about a stop in Civil Service Retirement checks, but am sure that is also on the table. I’m sure it is all political and they will do something. The sad part is the new Tea Party group don’t seem to have learned that the government ship is not a row boat that can turn on a dime. I heard today that while the politicians seem to think the Dept. of Treasury will have to determine who gets paid and who doesn’t. The problem is Treasury, part of the Executive Branch, doesn’t have that power, only the Legislative Branch has that power. Hmmm.
‡ Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. Who became the youngest head of state of a republic in 1994?
2. What was the name of the judge in the Louise Woodward trial?
3. Who became a Prime Minister at the age of 78 in 1994?
4. Which prominent Nigerian writer was executed in 1996?
5. What was the name of the car in which Andy Green broke the land speed record in 1997?
6. Which 90’s European Prime Minister has had the most wives?
7. Where is Pavarotti's War Child concert held annually?
8. In which city did Princess Diana have her last meeting with Mother Teresa?
9. What was the most expensive film to debut on cable television?
10. Which Kennedy was due to marry when John F Kennedy Jr's plane crashed on its way to the wedding?
11. Who was expelled from the US with the closure of his Oregon commune and died in 1990?
12. In what year did the USSR pull out of Hungary?
13. Who led the rival Christian forces in Beirut in the early 1990s?
‡ Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
‡ Hmmmmm…
¬ Number of different Halloween costumes a San Diego company markets for sale as ‘sassy and sexy’--51
‡ Somewhat Useless Information…
¬ Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged. Cellophane was invented in 1908 by a Swiss chemist named Jacques Brandenburger who was trying to make a stainproof tablecloth and ended up with cellophane instead.
¬ Big Ben is not a clock. It is a bell located in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London. It weighs 13 1/2 tons, is nine feet in diameter, and stands at 7 1/2 feet tall. The bell was installed a little over a hundred years ago, in 1859.
¬ The story of the little Dutch boy who placed his finger in a dike to save a town from a flood is an American invention. It was never heard of in Holland before the 20th century.
¬ The Tower of London is not one particular tower, but a group of buildings covering 13 acres along the north bank of the Thames River. The central "White Tower," built in 1078 and used as a fortress, a royal residence, and finally as a prison, is the "tower" of which the English so often spoke in horror.
¬ The Pyramids of Egypt were not among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, although the Sphinx was. The other six wonders were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the lighthouse at Pharos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Temple of Diana at Ephesus.
¬ Saint Joan of Arc was not French. She was born in 1412 in Domremy, which at the time was an autonomous state outside the jurisdiction of the French monarchy.
‡ Yeah, It Really Happened…
ST. ANDREWS, Prince Edward Island - A Canadian man was charged with assault after he allegedly shoved a sheriff's car off his property with a forklift, police said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wilfred Doyle, 45, of St. Andrews was charged with mischief and obstructing a police officer, as well as assault with a deadly weapon, after the run-in at his home last week. The Mounties told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. the law enforcement officer went to Doyle's place on Prince Edward Island to serve him a court order. Doyle turned the routine process into a confrontation when he fired up his tractor, which was equipped with a forklift, and pushed the car out of his yard. Doyle was released after spending a night in jail.
‡ Guffaw…or at least smile…
Glen, why do you always get so dirty? asked the teacher.
Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are. He replied.
‡ Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Vincent Van Gogh Paintings
‡ Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
¬29-31 Garlic Days
World Lumberjack Championships
‡ TODAY IS
¬ Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day: a day to buy cheese for your mousetrap.
¬ Lasagna Day
¬ Lumberjack Day
¬ Rain Day
¬ NASA Anniversary – 50 years old today
¬ National Talk in An Elevator Day
¬ System Administrator Appreciation Day
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‡ Today’s Events:
· IN ARTS
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
· IN ATHLETICS
1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1950 - Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
· IN BUSINESS
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
1844 - NY Yacht Club forms
1987 - Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
· IN EDUCATION
1585 - Friese academy opens
1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States
· FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1706 - Spaniard Juan de Uribarri is leading twenty soldiers, twelve settlers and 200 Indian allies from Santa Fe to rescue a band of enslaved Indians held by the Cuartelejo Apaches in what is now eastern Colorado. They cross the Arkansas River near present day Pueblo, Colorado
1837 - Henry Dodge, representing the United States, and the Chippewa Indians sign a treaty (7 Stat., 536.) at St. Peters, Wisconsin. The Chippewas trade large land holdings for $9,500 immediately, $19,000 worth of supplies, and a release from their debts.
· IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1565 - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling
1588 - Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1858 - US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1981 - Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
· IN RELIGION
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
· IN SCIENCE
1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
· IN US POLITICS
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1975 - Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
Birthday Pictures return tomorrow
· ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS
Ken Burns, epic documentary maker (Civil War, Baseball) turns 58
1878 - Don Marquis, American author
Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle turns 62
1869 - Booth Tarkington, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
· ATHLETES
Steve Wojciechowski, pitcher (Oakland A's) turns 41
· ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Stephen Dorff actor turns 38
Robert Fuller, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train) turns 78
Robert Horton, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena) turns 87
Martina McBride, singer turns 45
Alexandra Paul , actor turns 48
· ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher
1907 - Melvin Mouron Belli, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts")
1938 - Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
· POLITICIANS
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87) turns 75
1861 - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1905 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, 2nd UN Sect-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator
· SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1871 - [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk
‡ Today’s Obits:
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer des at 83
1596 - Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84
1983 - Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
1960 - Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies of heart attack at 61
2007 - Tom Snyder, American television personality dies of leukemia at 71
1890 - Vincent Van Gogh, painter, suicide at 37
‡ ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
1. Who became the youngest head of state of a republic in 1994?
a. Yaya Jammeh of the Gambia at age 29
2. What was the name of the judge in the Louise Woodward trial?
a. Hiller Zobl
3. Who became a Prime Minister at the age of 78 in 1994?
a. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka
4. Which prominent Nigerian writer was executed in 1996?
a. Ken Saro Wiwa
5. What was the name of the car in which Andy Green broke the land speed record in 1997?
a. Thrust
6. Which 90’s European Prime Minister has had the most wives?
a. Gerhard Schroeder of Germany, married 4 times—first three ended in divorce.
7. Where is Pavarotti's War Child concert held annually?
a. Modena, Italy
8. In which city did Princess Diana have her last meeting with Mother Teresa?
a. New York
9. What was the most expensive film to debut on cable television?
a. Lolita
10. Which Kennedy was due to marry when John F Kennedy Jr's plane crashed on its way to the wedding?
a. Rory, youngest of Robert and Ethel’s eleven children
11. Who was expelled from the US with the closure of his Oregon commune and died in 1990?
a. Bhagwan Rajneesh
12. In what year did the USSR pull out of Hungary?
a. 1990
13. Who led the rival Christian forces in Beirut in the early 1990s?
a. Michel Aoun & Samir Geagea
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree. All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] may not be totally accurate.
‡ AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW ‡
