Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—July 10, 2014: Better but still meager day
for holidays. Hope you enjoy the factoids, an original clerihew by the
Alaskanpoet, and two quotes by Howard Hughes.
1. Beatles
Day (Hamburg/Liverpool) —celebrating
since 2008 the return of the Beatles on July 10, 1964 from their first
successful tour of the United States.
2. National
Clerihew Day—commemorating the invention by Edmund Clerihew Bentley of
the clerihew which you now know is a whimsical four lien whimsical poem—Ridley is
my name/ Poetry is my game/ A retired parasite now active poet for hire/ Who on
reading poetry will ever tire? 3. National
Pina Colada Day—commemorating a great way to put coconut in your diet
especially on a hot summer day.
4. Raging
Bull Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1921 of one of the
great middleweight boxers of all time Jake La Motta played by Robert De Niro in
the movie Raging Bull.
On this
day in:
a. 1938 Howard Hughes completed the
first solo circumnavigation by plane of the globe in the blistering pace of 91
hours.
b. 1962 in a shrink the globe
moment, Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite was launched.
c. 2007 Erden Enuc started his solo human
powered circumnavigation of the globe from Bodega Bay, California and after
traveling 41,196 miles ended the journey at Bodega Bay on July 12, 2012.
Amazing feat for someone 52 years old.
When
it comes to racist remarks Donald Sterling has company: “I am not a deranged millionaire. God dammit I
am a billionaire!” Howard Hughes. “I can
summarize my attitude about employing more Negroes very simply. I think it’s a
wonderful idea for somebody else, somewhere else. I know this is not a very
praiseworthy point of view, but I feel that Negroes have already made enough
progress in the last century, and there is such a thing as overdoing it.”
Howard Hughes, noted aviator, movie producer, industrialist and germaphobe
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© July 10,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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