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Today's Highlights September 13, 2008
Chocolate
Quote: "And, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after."
September 01, 2008
Walter Reuther
Quote: "If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win."
Today in History
The 'Titanic'
- World War II: the largest war in history began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland (1939)
- Titanic: the wreck of the luxury liner was found on the North Atlantic ocean floor 73 years after she sank (1985)
- Beslan: Chechen terrorists took over a Russian school; hundreds were killed during the three-day standoff (2004)
Today's Birthdays
Ricardo Antonio Chavira
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950): creator of Tarzan
- Seiji Ozawa (73): renowned conductor
- Phil McGraw (58): TV psychologist and life strategist
- Gloria Estefan (51): Grammy-winning singer of "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"; also, musicians Barry Gibb and Greg Errico (both 62), Boney James (46) and Grant Lee Phillips (45)
- Ricardo Antonio Chavira (37): Desperate Housewives' Carlos Solis; other actors born on this date include Lily Tomlin (69) and Scott Speedman (33)
Word of the Day
The method of teaching in which the master imparts no information, but asks a sequence of questions, through answering which the pupil eventually comes to the desired knowledge. Socratic irony is the pose of ignorance on the part of the master, who may in fact know more about the matter than he lets on. See also elenchus, maieutic method.
August 18, 2008 
Quote: "Give the news impartially, without fear or favor."
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Spotlight: John Huston — the filmmaker who directed both his father, Walter (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and his daughter, Angelica (Prizzi's Honor), to Oscars — was born on this date in 1906. Among his other famous movies are The Misfits, The Man Who Would Be King, and The African Queen. Huston made his directorial debut with Dashiell Hammett's detective classic, The Maltese Falcon. The movie made Humphrey Bogart a star and established Huston as a father of film noir.
Quote: "A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."
Question of the Day: What awards did John Huston receive for his writing and directing?
John Huston won two Academy Awards, both for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Best Direction, Best Writing of a Screenplay). His father, Walter Huston, won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in the same film.
Among John Huston's other awards were three Golden Globes: for Best Motion Picture Director (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Prizzi's Honor) and for Best Supporting Actor (The Cardinal). He received an Independent Spirit Award for his direction of The Dead; a Silver Ribbon from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for his direction of Moby Dick; a London Critics Circle Film Award for directing The Dead; three National Board of Review awards for directing, for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle and Moby Dick; and National Film Critics Circle Awards for direction for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Moby Dick and Prizzi's Honor. More
What a Wonderful World
Quote: "If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out."
US Capitol
Quote: "How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"
July 30, 2008
Brontë Sisters
Painted by Their Brother, Patrick
Quote: "If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results."
July 25, 2008
Marie and Pierre Curie at Work
Quote: "I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done." — Madame Curie
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Simon Bolivar
Quote: "Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement." — Simón Bolívar
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July 13, 2008
Friday, July 11,2008
Spotlight: Scottish King Robert
I, known as Robert the Bruce, was born on this date
in 1274. Though he had sworn allegiance to Edward
I of England in 1296, a year later he switched sides
and began fighting for Scotland's independence. He was crowned
King of Scots at Scone in
1306, though Scotland had not yet achieved self-rule. Making
slow inroads, Bruce's victory at the Battle of Bannockburn
(1314) was a major stride in achieving his goal. In May
1328, England's King
Edward III recognized Scotland as independent with Bruce
as its king.
June 28, 2008
Spotlight: Serb nationalist Gavrilo
Princip assassinated Austrian archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife on this date in 1914, leading Austria-Hungary to
declare war on Serbia a
month later, and kicking off World
War I. Exactly five years later, the war was declared over
with the signing of the Treaty
of Versailles. US president Woodrow
Wilson, French premier Georges
Clemenceau, British prime minister David
Lloyd George and Italian prime minister Vittorio
Emanuele Orlando — the so-called Big Four — drew
up the treaty which blamed Germany and its allies for the war,
and demanded that Germany make reparations payments.
May 27, 2008
New York content is late arriving!
May 26, 2008
Memorial Day!
Please don't forget our troops and remember they did not have a vote on this war.
Spotlight: If you're looking for a job, the employment section of the newspaper is often a good place
to start. The first American woman in space got there by answering such an ad. When she was 26 years old, with four degrees already under her belt, Sally Ride saw an advertisement for an astronaut program placed by NASA in the Stanford University newspaper. Ride and some 8,000 others responded; 35 were accepted to the program, six of whom were women, Sally Ride among them. Six years later, Ride went up in the space shuttle Challenger; in 1984, she returned to space, this time on an eight-day mission. Ride has written several books for children, all of them about space and the solar system, and she has created organizations to encourage girls to pursue studies in math, science and technology. Happy birthday to Sally Ride, who turns 57 today.
Quote: All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. — Sally Ride
signed a bill establishing Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. At 1,932 ft (589 m), Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the US and the seventh deepest in the world. As its name suggests, it is a caldera lake: its water fills a deep depression that resulted from the collapse of a volcanic mountain. Aside from its startlingly clear, blue water, one of the lake's most famous features is a full-sized tree trunk that has been drifting vertically in the water for more than a hundred years.May 1, 2008
Spotlight: We would have all had a lot more free time were there no Aaron Spelling, but how much emptier the TV schedules would have been! Starting with Johnny Ringo and the Dick Powell Show; gaining speed through Burke's Law, The Smothers Brothers Show and Honey West; and at full throttle with The Mod Squad, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Charlie's Angels, there was hardly a season without at least one Spelling production on the schedule. The industry's most prolific television producer, he is credited with 218 shows. Known in later years for nighttime soap operas like Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place, Spelling won his first Emmy in 1994, for the HBO miniseries And the Band Played On. He was born on this date in 1923.Quote: Stay tuned! I may not be here, but my show was picked up! — Aaron Spelling
April 21, 2008
Spotlight: Kindergarten: a pleasant and sunny place where children are nurtured as they grow, so they bloom like flowers. The man who came up with the concept of a play-based early childhood education system — and, later, its name — was Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, who was born on this date in 1782. He established the first preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds in Germany in 1837. The Prussian minister of education accused Froebel of being an atheist and socialist and, in 1851, the minister closed the schools down. While kindergartens were gaining popularity in other countries, they were banned in Prussia until 1860, eight years after Froebel's death.
Quote: All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. — Robert Fulghum
Friday: April 18, 2008
Thursday: April 17, 2008
Spotlight: Most of us have been plagued by halitosis — bad breath — at some time in our lives. Chronic sufferers purchase hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of toothpaste and mouthwash each year. Recent studies have come up with the organism chiefly responsible for the malady: solobacterium moorei. Most bad breath is a result of the breaking down of bacteria in the mouth, leaving deposits on the roof of the mouth, the teeth, the gums and especially the tongue. Researchers found that brushing twice a day with antibacterial toothpaste and using a toothbrush with a built-in tongue scraper can help to eliminate chronic bad breath, and chewing on parsley, mint leaves, apples and citrus fruits freshens breath.
Quote: You must have crossed the river before you tell the crocodile he has bad breath. — Anonymous
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Spotlight: On a desert mountaintop on the western shore of Israel's Dead Sea, King Herod the Great built himself a stronghold (37-34 BCE) called Masada, from the Hebrew word metzuda, for fortress. When the Romans conquered Jerusalem in 70 CE, the surviving Jewish Zealots fled to Masada. At the end of a siege that lasted three years, believed to be on this date in 73, the Romans finally breached the walls of the fortress. They found that the Zealots, led by Elazar Ben Yair, had chosen to commit mass suicide rather than be taken as prisoners and sold into slavery by the Romans.
Quote: "A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea." — Peter O'Toole, as Cornelius Flavius Silva in the TV movie Masada
Friday, April 12, 2008:
| Spotlight: On this date in 1621, Samoset, the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims, strolled into their camp in Plymouth Colony and, in his broken English, welcomed them to the area and asked for a beer. A member of the Abenaki tribe, Samoset had learned English from fishermen who had spent time on Monhegan Island. Several days later, Samoset returned. He was accompanied by Squanto, one of the few remaining members of the Patuxet band of the Wampanoags, previous inhabitants of the area, who had been mostly wiped out by a plague. Squanto became the Pilgrims' trusted guide and interpreter. |
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Tuesday; March 4, 2008
Spotlight: Notre Dame's legendary football coach Knute Rockne was born 120 years ago today. His Fighting Irish went unbeaten and untied for five out of the 13 seasons Rockne led them, winning the last 19 games he coached, and his .881 percentage (100 victories, 12 losses, 5 ties) remains unmatched. Rockne revolutionized the sport: he initiated intersectional rivalries, built the first national games schedule, worked to develop the forward pass, and he used his knowledge of anatomy to design new uniforms and equipment for his team.
Thought for Today:
ABSTINENCE
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
"Mark Twain"- autograph inscription in album to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, reported in The Washington Post, June 11, 1881
Tuesday, December 18, 2007: 7 days to Christmas....and Janurary 1, 2008 will happen in 2 weeks.
"I reckon you will be just about as happy today as you choose to be; me too." Okay, that being the case I choose happy. The quote (or something very like it) is attributed to Abraham Lincoln I believe. While I do believe the quote, I can't take credit for it....everything I say has already been said by someone else....no original thoughts.....can you fathom that? No, no no, changing a few words around does not make an original thought.....there simply are none left...BUT there are tons of them that weren't copywrite protected.....so have at it if it blows your skirt...who's to know---or care?If you look at anything too long you will very likely find something that distrubs you a bit, or more. So if you are going to study anything be prepared to get a little disgruntled at times......I think time really is moving faster. Darn, I wish Einstein was still here to study this speedy situation; or maybe he already did and I just thought I understood that theory of whatchamacallit. Just kidding---I never really thought I understood it---whatever gave you that idea? just because I explained it a few times (while under the influence of "loudmouth") that's a tonic that may still be popular---I used my share a long time ago and have not much noticed it of late.................I always thought the "doppler effect" had something to do with the weather? Well I guess it does but it also has to do with the changing frequency of sound as it travels, so I will post this explanation if anyone is interested.....
Christian Johann Doppler Austrian physicist (1803–1853)
Christian Doppler, the son of a stonemason from the Austrian city of Salzburg, studied mathematics at the Vienna Polytechnic. In 1835 he started teaching at a school in Prague and six years later was appointed professor of mathematics at the Technical Academy there.
Doppler's fame comes from his discovery in 1842 of the Doppler effect – the fact that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the velocity of the source relative to the observer. The effect can be observed with sound waves. If the source is moving toward the observer, the pitch is higher; if it moves away, the pitch is lower. A common example is the fall in frequency of a train's whistle or a vehicle siren as it passes. Doppler's principle was tested experimentally in 1843 by Christoph Buys Ballot, who used a train to pull trumpeters at different speeds past musicians who had perfect pitch.
Doppler also tried to apply his principle to light waves, with limited success. It was Armand Fizeau in 1848 who suggested that at high relative velocities the apparent color of the source would be changed by the motion: an object moving toward the observer would appear bluer; one moving away would appear redder. The shift in the spectra of celestial objects (the Doppler shift) is used to measure the rate of recession or approach relative to the Earth.
"the testing by Christoph Buys Ballot in 1843 is interesting and I will have to find out more about that....."
Today is Thursday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2007. There are 18 days left in the year, only 12 to Christmas.....are you ready??
"Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgment." _ Anonymous.
Today's Birthdays:
Happy Birthday to -- James Charles Webb -- he is 70 today. Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz is 87. Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is 82. Actor Christopher Plummer is 80. Actor Robert Prosky is 77. Country singer Buck White is 77. Music/film producer Lou Adler is 74. Movie producer Richard Zanuck is 73. Singer John Davidson is 66. Singer Ted Nugent is 59. Rock musician Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is 59. Country musician Ron Getman is 59. Actor Robert Lindsay is 58. Country singer-musician Randy Owen is 58. Actress Wendie Malick is 57. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is 54. Country singer John Anderson is 53. Singer-songwriter Steve Forbert is 53. Singer-actor Morris Day is 51. Actor Steve Buscemi is 50. Actor Johnny Whitaker is 48. Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 40. Rock singer-musician Thomas Delonge is 32. Actress Chelsea Hertford is 26. Rock singer Amy Lee (Evanescence) is 26. Country singer Taylor Swift is 18.Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 13, 1862, Union forces suffered a major defeat to the Confederates at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
On this date:
In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted present-day New Zealand.
In 1769, Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, received its charter.
In 1835, Phillips Brooks, the American Episcopal bishop who wrote the words to "O Little Town of Bethlehem," was born in Boston.
In 1918, President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.
In 1928, George Gershwin's musical work "An American in Paris" had its premiere, at Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 1944, during World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack that claimed more than 130 lives.
Thursday: November 15, 2007
Spotlight: If you've been thinking about kicking the smoking habit, but couldn't seem to get started, today is the day. It's the 30th annual Great American Smoke-Out, sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The rules are simple: just put away your cigarettes for 24 hours. Maybe you'll be inspired to give them up for good. Some helpful tips for quitting: keep active, drink lots of water and juices, change your routine, avoid situations that tempt you to smoke, and buddy up with someone who will help you make it through the day... and beyond.
Quote: "Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking." — Nat King Cole, who died of lung cancer at 45
Wednesday: November 14, 2007
Today's Birthdays
- Claude Monet (1840-1926): Impressionist painter
- Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002): creator of Pippi Longstocking
- Prince Charles (59): heir to the throne of Great Britain
- Condoleezza Rice (53): US secretary of state
- Yanni (53): "contemporary instrumental" musician
- Laura San Giacomo (46): Maya Gallo on Just Shoot Me
Shrek, the Book
Spotlight: Wiliam Steig loved to draw. When his father lost the family's money during the Depression, Steig — to make ends meet at home — began to sell cartoons to The New Yorker magazine. Nearly 40 years later, he turned to writing and illustrating children's books. Among his award-winning books is Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. In 1990, Steig's Shrek! was released; it told the story of a green ogre who leaves home to find a bride as homely as himself. William Steig was born 100 years ago today.
Quote: "To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them." — William Steig
Tuesday: November 13, 2007
Spotlight: Stick a dime in the expired parking meter of a stranger's car. Visit a housebound relative. Compliment a coworker. Let a harried parent and child check out ahead of you at the supermarket. Help serve dinner at a local soup kitchen. Give up your seat on the bus. Write a note of thanks to someone who has had an influence on your life. Collect bottles and cans for recycling and give the proceeds to charity. Smile. It's Random Acts of Kindness Day.
Quote: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
In the News: Monday: November 12, 2007
- Peru: 4,000-year-old mural-filled temple uncovered, complete with steps to Ventarron, a fire-worship altar (story)
- fish: really can make you smarter (story)
- whale song: Australian scientists decode the marine mammal's messages (story)
Today in History
- Leonids: meteor shower was recorded for the first time (1799)
- Japan: war criminals sentenced to death, including PM Hideki Tojo (1948)
- Ellis Island: immigration station officially closed its doors; it had processed more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892 (1954)
Word of the Day
Fear of becoming angry.
In the News: November 10, 2007
- asteroids: NASA explores idea of sending astronauts to visit distant rocks (story)
- Yellowstone Park: ground is swelling up in former volcanic crater (story)
- Merck: to pay billions over Vioxx in largest drug suit settlement (story)
In the News; Friday: November 9, 2007
Today in History
- Kristallnacht: Jews were beaten and killed by Nazis and their homes and shops destroyed during the "night of the broken glass" (1938)
- Northeast Blackout of 1965: 25 million residents of Ontario and 7 US states lost power for up to half a day
- Berlin Wall: E. Germany allowed free travel for first time in 28 years (1989)
Today's Birthdays
- Elijah Lovejoy (1802-1837): abolitionist newspaper editor who was killed by a mob while defending his press
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938): Muslim Indian philosopher, poet and political thinker
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996): astronomer who searched for extraterrestrial life
- Mary Travers (71): Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary
November 8, 2007:
Quote: "But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know." — Alan Watts
November 7, 2007:
Happy Birthday to Me!.... Well, this is it, Birthday number sixty-nine for me is here. Man, I never would have thunk it! Still I am so happy to be where I am and if it has to be this high of a number then so be it..... I look forward to a few (quite a few I hope) more, although I must add, "not too anxiously", and by that I merely mean that it would be okay with me if the time didn't sail by so quickly.....slooooooooow dooooooooown a little (lot).
November 7: --- Okay, so the list is not all that impressive but include the entire month of November and that list certainly is impressive!
Some folks born on this day.....
Cortez Cate, born on November 7, 1938
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