almost
out time ?), take a deep breath and watch
the dogs performing and envy a dog's life after you enjoy for today these
factoids, quote and a few hard to find holidays:
1. Plimsoll Day--celebrating not the sneakers of the same class but that 19th Century member of the English Parliament, Samuel Plimsoll who championed seamen's safety (always music to this former seiner's ears) and was known for the Plimsoll Line marking the waterline for a ship with its maximum weight of cargo on board.
1. Plimsoll Day--celebrating not the sneakers of the same class but that 19th Century member of the English Parliament, Samuel Plimsoll who championed seamen's safety (always music to this former seiner's ears) and was known for the Plimsoll Line marking the waterline for a ship with its maximum weight of cargo on board.
2. Umbrella Day--30 percent chance of needing it today in Southern
California; given our drought emergency in California, this is one holiday I
wished we celebrated more often.
3.
Clean Out Your Computer Day--absolutely a good idea to delete some of that clutter,
especially emails from past no longer Valentines in case current Valentines are
browsing your Outlook.
4.
Westminster Dog Show--if a canine lover three days starting on Monday of
pedigrees strutting their stuff for Best of Show (in a first, non pedigrees are
eligible in a blow for award equality).
On
this day in:
a. 1870 the YWCA was founded in New York City.
b. 1954 President Eisenhower warned against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, a
warning which was not heeded, putting over 58,000 names on The Wall in D.C.c. 1996 IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning chess champion Russian Gary Kasparov.
Four legged Valentine's Day Card: "Chocolates will melt in your mouth but a Maltese will melt your heart and if on a walk that Maltese will attract more women than a magnet will attrack iron filings." Anon. That is a statement you can take to the bank, day after day. Hope a Maltese wins Best of Show.
Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join almost 140 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 to honor Cory Remsburg, and original poem honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and an original in poem honoring a 17 year young Progeria victim who died on the eve of becoming an honorary captain for the Patriots (have tissues handy). Just posted for your enjoyment on Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times poems on the Beatles' 50 year anniversary of appearing on the Ed Sullivan; Starbucks barring a disabled Vet and his service dog; Fox News and poetry; DUI related death in Pomona of 6 people and a suggestion on how to reduce; Iran's sending two warships to U.S. coast to "give us a message", a Harwinton's elementary school banning candy on Valentine's Day; Putin as a "peacemaker" as the Games open; a great local issue, the refusal of the OC Board to agree to the OC Sheriff's plan to release some felons into electronic confinement; Justin Bieber's felony egging problems to join a great list of comments on the newsworthy times, in rhyme of course.
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