Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--April 28, 2014: As always, after some
searching, I found these few holidays worthy of mention or celebrating in
culinary fashion, to go with the factoids and quote to enjoy as you come back
under a full head of steam to start your work week.
1.
Workers’ Memorial Day (International) – honoring the countless number of workers
injured or killed or subject to crippling diseases during the course of their
employment and to encourage progress in worker safety.
2. Holocaust Remembrance Day—since 1982 commemorating the Holocaust and
the over 6,000,000 Jews, men, women, and children killed by the Nazis during
World War II.
3.
National Blueberry Pie Day—when confronted with a day barren of holidays worthy of
mention it is best to quit looking, look for the ice cream and help yourself to
a large slice of anti-oxidants which really good for you and enjoy this day.
On this day in:
a. 1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the
essence of Buddhism, thereby founding Nicheren Buddhism.
b. 1932 a vaccine for Yellow Fever, another one of those fatal gifts carried by
mosquitoes, in humans was announced—great news for world travelers going to
parts of Asia and Africa where the disease kills more than 30,000 annually and
is on the increase.
c.
2005 multimillionaire Dennis Tito paid $20 million to the Russians to become a
space tourist, spending 7 days in space at the International Space Station;
sadly Aeroflot, the non space airline of Russia does not offer frequent flyer
miles or Tito could have been flying the Airline free for a very long time.
Why in the words of a survivor there
must be a Holocaust Remembrance Day: “I decided to devote my life to
telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the
dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” Elie Wiesel, Rumanian
born Jewish-American survivor of three Nazi death camps and the author of 57
books.
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 poems the 2014 Boston Marathon; on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing record; to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a broken pelvis after 600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for poems on the scandal of vets dying in Phoenix while waiting to see a doctor; Blues in Illinois caught in questionable procedures and forced to rescind $100 million to Obama Presidential Library; coffee as the new wonder drug to curtail Type II Diabetes; the futility of aiding Ukraine with MRE’s; the cowardice of the Korean ferry boat captain abandoning his ship while over 300 students were being drowned; the Overland Park shootings to join numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
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 poems the 2014 Boston Marathon; on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing record; to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a broken pelvis after 600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for poems on the scandal of vets dying in Phoenix while waiting to see a doctor; Blues in Illinois caught in questionable procedures and forced to rescind $100 million to Obama Presidential Library; coffee as the new wonder drug to curtail Type II Diabetes; the futility of aiding Ukraine with MRE’s; the cowardice of the Korean ferry boat captain abandoning his ship while over 300 students were being drowned; the Overland Park shootings to join numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©April 28, 2014 Michael P.
Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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