Tuesday

I had a great time with our Great Discussions group. Got home at 10:30. Intellectually spent. Everyone enjoyed my movies and my trinkets. I learned a lot about Syria and Jordan too. Good Experience.


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Random Facts…

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.


Crazy Stuff in the News…

UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A man in Georges Township, Pa., fired a cannon in his yard, sending a cannonball through the side of his neighbor’s home, police allege. Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Brian Burden said William Edward Maser, 54,allegedly fired his 80-pound French and Indian War replica cannon Wednesday evening, sending a two-pound lead ball into his neighbor’s closet, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Thursday. Burden said the cannonball broke a window while going through the side of the unidentified neighbor’s home. The projectile then went through a wall and landed in a closet, the trooper said. No explanation was given for the errant shot, but Burden told the Post-Gazette Maser is a regular participant in battle re-enactments. The incident resulted in reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct charges against Maser. No hearing dates were reported.

September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

Week of 7 Sep…

National Payroll Week
Suicide Prevention Week

9 Sep Observances…

252 days so far this year…113 days remain in 2009
Wonderful Weirdoes Days
*Russia – Knowledge Day.
*Singapore – Teachers' Day
*Slovakia – Constitution Day
*Uzbekistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
*Libya – Revolution Day (1969)
*First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.



BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

…ARTS…
1828….. Leo Tolstoy Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)

1925….. Cliff Robertson La Jolla Calif, actor (Charly)
1941….. Otis Redding Georgia, rocker (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
1952 Angela Cartwright England (Make Room for Daddy
1966….. Adam Sandler comedian

…ATHLETICS…
1919….. Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder gambler/sportscaster
1947….. Lynn Fitzgerald marathoner (ran 133 miles 939 yards in 24 hrs)
1949….. Joe Theismann football: Washington Redskins QB

…POLITICS/Business…
1585….. Cardinal A Jean de Plessicide de Richelieu Louis XIII chief minister
1754….. William Bligh nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
1890….. Harland Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken founder/colonel
1900….. James Hilton hotel magnate (Hilton Hotels)

…SCIENCE/Religion…

Events on this day…

1513….. Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1776….. Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States"
1836….. Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850….. California becomes 31st state
1850….. Territories of New Mexico & Utah created

1945….. First bug discovered in Computer Software Program when operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II Computer to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug.
1950….. 1st use of TV laugh track
1965….. Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1968….. Amateur Arthur Ashe wins the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first year it is open to both professionals and amateurs.
1971….. Inmates at the state prison in Attica, N.Y., take 30 guards hostage
1983….. Radio Shack announces their color computer 2
1986….. Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films
1987….. Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline"

2003….. Apple Itunes sells it's 10 millionth song after just 4 months ( songs cost 99 cents ) .


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