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10-14 National Young Readers Week Link 13-15 National Donor Sabath World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 14-20 15-21 International Fraud Awareness Week Link |
American Education Week: 16-20 Link |
Daily Observations
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Breaking Free From Nicotine Day |
National Check Your Wipers Day Link Link |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for
the day
Weather is ready to change. There might even be some non-accumulating
snow tonight to tomorrow. I’m just hoping the non-accumulating is true.
Facebook reminded me that I was enjoying Cuba a decade ago today. It sure
was a great Focus Travel Club trip. Lots of good memories.
Trump has proposed a $1 coin for our country’s 250 birthday next year.
Not a surprise he wants his likeness on the coin. I doubt it will happen.
History that is not true…
Greek and Roman statues were white
Today, the white-marble constructions of the classical world represent a
popular and particular aesthetic. Neoclassical buildings like London’s
Buckingham Palace, the Prado Museum in Madrid, and the US Capitol gleam
white-hot in the summer sun, while the elegant statues of the Renaissance
favored form over color – in supposed homage to their Greek and Roman
forebears. White marble remains a status symbol thanks to its classical
connotations: grand yet graceful, opulent yet austere.
It's all rather ironic, because the great works of the classical
canon were originally brightly colored – perhaps too brightly
colored for many modern tastes. Vibrant shades abounded even on stern
busts of Roman emperors and the intricate friezes of the Parthenon.
Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving
rise to a range of colorless copycats that would have left the Romans
cold. Here we see the famous Augustus of Prima Porta statue depicting
Rome's first emperor, alongside a replica with rich red robes and patterning.
Boomers Were Forced to Memorize These
Facts—And They’re All Useless Now…
Napoleon
Was Extremely Short
We all
learned that Napoleon was a tiny man with a big attitude, but in reality, he
was around 5’6” or 5’7”—average height for his time. The myth started because
of a mix-up in French and British measuring systems, plus some British
propaganda that painted him as an angry little guy. Yet, the idea of a
“Napoleon complex” still exists today, all because of a historical exaggeration
we memorized in school.
Random Thoughts…
One day,
you’ll be someone’s ancestor.
We talk
about Ancient Romans like they were basically all the same, but the
civilization lasted almost 1000 years. That’s like saying people in 2024 and
1024 are basically the same.
On any
given day in a hospital, you can find people having the best day of their life,
the worst day of their life, the first day of their life, and the last day of
their life all under one roof.
The
number of people older than you never goes up.
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