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American Adventures Month |
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7/26-8/11 Games of
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1-7 Happiness Happens Week Link |
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Girlfriend's Day |
National Minority Donor Awareness Day National
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Today’s Quote
All that we
are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
Today’s Meme
Today’s Thoughts
I’m ready to start a new month, after
all the craziness of July this year.
There are some clouds, but it is still
hot and a very little breeze, with no moisture.
President Biden has proposed 3 supreme
court reforms: Add term limits, a code of conduct, and a constitutional
amendment to clarify immunity for crimes a former president may have committed while
in office. All sound good to me, but I’m sure others will make this nearly
impossible. At least Biden can start the ball rolling.
I’m still enjoying the Olympics. Swimming
has been very good. Others seem bent of finding problems. It is not political.
It is competition of athletes.
1974 was 50 years ago…
- IRA begins bombing campaign on
mainland Britain
- Richard Nixon becomes the first
US president forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal
- Rumble in the Jungle--Boxing
- The Kootenai Native American
Tribe in Idaho declares war on the United States
- Stephen King, a 26-year-old
author, published his debut novel “Carrie,”
- President Gerald Ford gives
unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon
- Lucy an almost complete hominid
skeleton over 3 million years old is discovered in Ethiopia, Africa (I saw
it on a Focus Trip)
- 55 MPH Speed Limit imposed to
preserve gas usage US wide
- Sears Tower in Chicago becomes
the world’s tallest building
- The Global Recession Deepens
Random Thoughts…
The political terms “Left-Wing” and
“Right-Wing” are traced back to the French Revolution. It referred to the side
of the assembly politicians sat. The Right was supportive of the King and upper
class while the Left was supportive of the Revolution and the Lower Class.
The price of a bottle of Coca-Cola stayed at a nickel for over 70 years. As a
result, vending machines only took nickels, and before raising prices to a dime
the president of the company asked President Eisenhower to mint 7.5 cent coins
to keep the increase reasonable.
American History…
4. Where did the
pilgrims land in America
Incorrect: Plymouth Rock Correct:
Unknown
According to The
Washington Post, the only reason we currently think
that Plymouth Rock is the spot where the pilgrims
first touched U.S. soil is because 121 years after their arrival, "a young
boy overheard 95-year-old Thomas Faunce relate that his father, who
came to Plymouth three years after the Mayflower, told him he'd
heard from unnamed persons that the landing occurred there."
So, it's a fact
that's based on a rumor that's hundreds of years old. WaPo also
notes that the English Puritan William Bradford failed to mention
Plymouth Rock in his book Of Plymouth Plantation, which would be a
pretty big oversight on his part if that was, in fact, where they landed.
Did you Know…?
Rhode Island Has More
People Than Alaska
One might think that the smallest state in the union has
few bragging rights over the largest state. However, Rhode Island has a higher
population than does Alaska. Despite the fact that Alaska is 425 times larger than the smallest state, its people population is estimated to be only about 733,000.
On the
other hand, the population of Rhode Island was 1,095,610 as of July 2021. The land mass and
population ratio means "Little Rhody" has more than 700 times
more people per square mile than Alaska. But more importantly, which one has
more moose?
Historic Events
- 1834 – Slavery was abolished in
Jamaica
- 1944 – The last entry for
Anne Frank’s diary
- 1969 – The Zodiac Killer’s
letters arrived at several San Fransisco newspapers. The killer was never
caught.
- 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee and
Robert Cailliau created the prototype HTML language and the World-Wide
Web.
Birthdays
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@53 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (died in 1995; heart attack) @90 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (died in 2015) @75 – Dom DeLuise, American actor (died in 2009;
kidney failure) @71 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French
fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (died in 2008; brain
cancer) @72 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story
writer, and poet (died in 1891; cardiac dialation) @68 – William Clark, American explorer, of Lewis
& Clark (died in 1838) |
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