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Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
I hope everyone had a great
Thanksgiving. I know I did.
While I was waiting to leave for my
dinner with friends I stumbled upon the booklet for my sound bar for my big TV.
It had stopped working in July, and I couldn’t find the booklet. I grabbed the
book, made a couple of changes and the sound bar is working again. I am
thankful.
Violence of any kind is unacceptable.
Both some Trump nominees and a some Dem candidates have had bomb threats and/or
swatting. This is unacceptable in today’s world. I hope the criminals are found
quickly and end up behind bars.
Trivia Time
Christmas Traditions
Caroling
Though it may
seem like a centuries-old tradition, Time reports that
showing up at people’s houses to serenade them with seasonal tunes only dates
back to the 19th century. Before that, neighbors did visit
each other to impart wishes of good luck and good cheer, but not necessarily in
song. Christmas carols themselves go back hundreds of years, minus
the door-to-door part. The mashup of the two ideas didn’t come together until
Victorian England, when caroling was part of every holiday—even May Day
festivals. As Christmas became more commercialized, caroling for the occasion
became more popular.
Historic Events
3340 BC –
Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland.
1609
– Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a flat surface on
a circle in the sky.
1858
– The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186) by Philadelphia tinsmith
John Landis Mason.
1872
– First international soccer game was played. Final score: Scotland-England 0-0
(in Glasgow)
1931 – The
Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer was published.
1936
– London’s Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire.
1956 –
CBS became the first network to broadcast from videotape. It was a rebroadcast
to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program. It was
recorded on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine.
1994 –
Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro caught fire off Somalia, with 3 people
dead, and most of the nearly 1,000 passengers and crew escaping in lifeboats.
It sank on December 2nd.
2004 –
Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally lost,
leaving him with $2,520,700 – television’s biggest game show winnings.
2009 –
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) started. “CERN’s Large Hadron
Collider has today become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator,
having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the
early hours of the morning.” CERN is experimenting with things like “The Big
Bang” but hopefully on a smaller scale.
Birthdays
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Bo
Jackson, 62 Baseball
Player Gael
García Bernal, 46 Movie Actor Mandy
Patinkin, 72 Stage Actor
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@95 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014) @90 – G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host (d.
2021) @90 – Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and
politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Nobel Prize laureate, d. 1965) @89 – Robert Guillaume (Robert Peter Williams),
American actor and singer (d. 2017) @84 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005) @82 – Dick Clark, American TV host, and producer
(founded Dick Clark Productions, d. 2012) @77 – Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, and essayist (d.
1745; dementia) @76 – Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and
producer (d. 2003; cancer) @74 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic
(d. 1910) @52 – Abbie Hoffman, American
activist and author co-founded the Youth International Party, (d. 1989;
OD) @48 – Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian,
singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973; respiratory failure) @45 – John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet
(In Flanders Fields, d. 1918) |
…The End for today…
