1. National Find A Rainbow
Day--great
concept given the symbolism of rainbows but cannot help but imagine the day is
celebrated to honor those leprechauns who had a wee bit too much of St.
Patrick's Day and are just waking up to search for a pot o'gold.
2. World
Party Day (P-Day)--started in 1996 on a grass roots basis on the premise
that the opposite of war is not peace but party; only hope the celebrants
remember to bring their designated drivers.
3.
Tweed Day--another excuse
to wear your best tweed attire or especially if living in New York City to
celebrate corruption in city government ala Boss Tweed.
4. National Chocolate
Mousse Day--here is a holiday to really sink your teeth into preferably more
than once.
On this day in:
a. 1948 President Harry Truman
signed into law the Marshall Plan providing $5 billion of foreign aid to 16
European nations thereby preventing the Iron Curtain from being extended from
Eastern Europe to the Atlantic Ocean.
b. 1973 foreshadowing the doom
of tranquil restaurant meals and being chained 24/7 to work, Martin Cooper of
Motorola made the first mobile hand held phone call on a prototype DynaTAC 8000
to Joel Engel of Bell Labs, although it took over ten years for the phone to be
offered commercially. Weighing only two pounds the "brick" was sold
at the "bargain" price of $3995 ($9200 in today's 2014 dollars).
c. 1981 the first successful PC,
the Osborne 1 was introduced.
A new meaning on disaster: “Look at the world and think about a catastrophic disaster
where the cell phone towers went dead. How would you ever be able to
'TEXT" your next door neighbor to see if they were okay” Stanley Victor
Paskavich, noted author of Return to Stantasyland and commentator on
technology's impact on life.
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 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; for Cupid on Valentine's Day;
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 death of Pastor Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro
Baptist Church; Obama's "sanctions" compared to Rolling Thunder 49
years ago: Mustangs advance in the Dance
to await the Shockers; Russian Roulette with Putin; EPA's war against a Wyoming
family; on Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District of Florida;
China's red line on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union contributors
by attacking charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt to ban Condi
Rice from being a commencement speaker; Newport Beach's assault on recovery
homes, including the Ohio House; on students protesting Keystone XL as the
world's largest oil producer militarily occupies the Crimea: the banning the
wearing of the American flag on Cinco de Mayo to join numerous other comments
on news events always in rhyme of course.
©April 3, 2014 Michael
P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com www.twitter.com/alaskanpoet Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times Ridley's Believe It Or Not www.facebook.com/Alaskanpoet www.linkedin.com/in/octechlaw
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