Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—July 25, 2014: Another meager day of holidays
but you are probably on vacation anyway and do not need the time off. Hope you
enjoy what is posted, along with the factoids and quote from Oliver Herford on
bagpipes with a smile on your face and a well aged scotch in your cocktail glass.
1.
National Sleepy Head Day —celebrated
in Finland by tossing water on the last person in a house to get up or better
yet tossing that person into a lake or ocean.
2. Bagpipe
Appreciation Day—celebrating
that great musical instrument revered by Scots and Irish everywhere.
3. Parents’
Day—celebrated since 1994 to recognize the role of parents in the
rearing of their children.
4. National
Crème Brûlée
Day/National Scotch Day—what better way to listen to bagpipes that with a
well aged glass of scotch.
On this
day in:
a. 1789 the first federal agency was
established-The Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of
State).
b. 1949 the initial flight of the De
Havilland Comet, the first jet powered commercial airliner took place.
c. 1974 the House Judiciary
Committee voted 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against
Richard Nixon.
d. 1995 the Korean War Memorial was
dedicated.
A thought as one enjoys the sound of the pipes: “The Irish
gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots have not seen the joke
yet.” Oliver Herford, noted 20th Century American writer
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© July 27,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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