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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 13, 2014: Slow day and week (and I mean another day
of scrambling to find holidays of note) for holidays but pulled these
rabbits out of the hat to celebrate:
1.
Stephen Foster Day---The father of American Music who died on this day in
1864, less than a hundred years before
the Music Died again (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper).
2.
Korean American Day--significant contributions far beyond kimchi.
3.
International Skeptics Day and its counterweight Make Your Dreams Come True
Day. Celebrate the former in listening to politicians and the latter
when dealing with yourself. A dream does not have in many cases a long life
span and it is a terrible thing to waste.
On this day in:
a. 1785 John Walter published the first edition of the London
Times.
b.
1906 The first advertisement for a radio appeared in Scientific American
costing
$7.50
(about $190 today) with a claimed receiving radius of one mile (tough to be
an early adapter in 1906).
c. 1957 To the joy of future college students and dogs, Wham-O
produced the first
Frisbee.
Do not, repeat do not let this
happen to you! “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr., best selling contemporary American author.
Condolences
to the Chargers for getting close but not able to get the ball back from
Denver, Brady and Manning--good reason to be at home this weekend in front
of TV with family and
friends.
Take five from the first full week of work in 2014 and please enjoy the 140
character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
like them, retweet and join 134 growing followers and please
follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining
poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
an original poem on a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of
becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy)
and an original poem on 2013 in review just posted. Just posted
for your enjoyment on www.alaskanpoetcommentary.blogspot.com
poems on the belated admission by the State Department that Benghazi was a
terrorist attack, comment on pending litigation against the California
Teacher's Association infringement of the 1st Amendment, and comment on
Cartels and funding risks pot growers and retail sellers in Colorado now
may face.
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