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9-17 Elvis Week Link National Resurrect Romance Week |
12-18 Safe + Sound Week Link Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link |
Daily Observations
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Baby Boomer's Recognition
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Massachusetts Day Meaning of "Is"
Day Nonprofit Day |
Today’s Quote
All I was
doing was trying to get home from work. Rosa Parks
Today’s Meme
Today’s Thoughts
A great summer Friday…deep blue sky,
minimal clouds, warm temperatures.
I did a little shopping and filled the
gas tank this morning.
I heard Kamala in NC. She has some great
plans for the middle class. She seems to have policy ideas behind each one of them.
I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. It was great. As I’ve grown older, I
have seen the middle-class become smaller and smaller. That is a shame.
The monsoon should return tomorrow so
there will be rain over this weekend.
1978 was 46 years ago…
Arctic - First Solo North Pole Expedition
1. Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura
became the first person to reach the North Pole in a solo expedition during
May.
2. He trekked alone through the Arctic with a team of malamutes to carry his
supplies.
3. The Canadian Air Force also provided some assistance by replenishing his
supplies via helicopter.
4. The 37-year-old explorer began his trip in early March and had
encountered several hardships along the way including encountering a polar bear
that ate some of his supplies and getting stuck on a cracking ice floe.
5. Uemura was also the first person to make a solo ascent of Mount Denali,
which he did in 1970.
6. In 1984, he disappeared making another ascent of Mount Denali during
winter.
The first Garfield comic strip debuts in U.S. newspapers
1. The very first “Garfield” comic
strip is published in 41 U.S. Newspapers during June of 1978.
2. Created by cartoonist Jim Davis, the comic strip focused on the life of a
lazy and often sarcastic cat named “Garfield.”
3. The comic quickly grew in popularity and was featured in 100 newspapers only
a year after its debut.
4. Featuring several other characters including Garfield’s owner John and the
cat’s rival pet, a dog named Odie, the popular comic was soon turned into
books, television specials, merchandise and even a movie, topping best seller
lists and winning awards along the way.
5. In 2002, Jim Davis’s Garfield was awarded the Guinness Record for being the
most widely syndicated comic strip, having been featured in over 2,500
newspapers worldwide.
Random Thoughts…
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A
group of Goldfinches is called a Charm.
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Alan’s
Law of Research: The theory is supported as long as the funds are.
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A
group of Hedgehogs is called an Array.
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The
biggest film of 1945: The Bells of St. Mary’s (Drama) earned ~ $21,000,000
American History…
Who invented
baseball?
Incorrect: Abner Doubleday Correct: Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr
As the story goes, Abner Doubleday invented baseball in
1839, in Cooperstown, New York. But, according to the Society for American Baseball
Research, "no evidence exists" to suggest that Doubleday had "anything
to do with baseball." Accounts from that time suggest he even disliked
the sport: Doubleday's own obituary says "he was rather
averse to out-door [sic] sports."
Frankly, it's hard to say who really came up with the popular pastime.
But many signs point to Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. In
addition to founding the New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club in 1845, he was
inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, where his plaque reads:
"Father of Modern Baseball."
Historic Events
- 1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat
begin its first trip between Albany and New York City.
- 1978 – Maxie Anderson, Larry
Newman, and Ben Abruzzo became the first people to make a transatlantic
trip across the ocean, landing in Miserey, France after a 137 hour trip
from Maine.
- 1998 – President Bill
Clinton made the statement “It depends on what your meaning of ‘is’ is”.
Birthdays
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Robert
De Niro, 80 Movie Actor Donnie
Wahlberg, 54 Movie Actor |
@49 – Davy Crockett, American soldier, politician
(died in 1836 at the Alamo)
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…The End for today…
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