Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—August 15, 2015 Trust your Saturday is off to a great start with your weekend plans set and as always remember to go to my blogs to receive Ridley's Believe It Or Not-This Day In History on Saturday and Sunday and for today I hope you enjoy Saturday’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music video by Rosemary Clooney, a relevant quote by Rick Perlstein, looking forward to enjoying a large slice of lemon meringue pie, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Independence Day (India)—celebrated in India’s independence from England on this day in 1947.
1. Independence Day (India)—celebrated in India’s independence from England on this day in 1947.
2. International Geocaching Day—celebrating a great way to spend a weekend with friends and family—bury a treasure in a well hidden cache and then with clues and a GPS create a challenge to find it.
3. 1951 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1951 on a run of six weeks in that position Come On a My House by Rosemary Clooney. Here is a link to Rosemary Clooney performing Come On a My House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mriXncI96lw
4. National Lemon Meringue Day—celebrating this omnivore’s favorite pie, one of the few that you don’t need ice cream to enjoy.
5. Sacre Blue In The Kitchen Day—celebrating on this day in 1912 the birthday of the
French Chef, Julia Child.
French Chef, Julia Child.
On this day in:
a. 1914 the Panama Canal opened for ship with the SS Ancon being the first ship to transit the Panama Canal.
b. 1935 Will Rogers and his pilot Wiley Post crashed and died outside of Barrow, Alaska.
c. 1969 the three day Woodstock Music and Art Festival attended by 500,000 fans opened in upstate New York.
d. 1977 at Ohio State University, the Big Ear, a radio telescope as part of a SETI project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) detected a 28 second narrow band radio band transmission not from our solar system. The human volunteer who detected it wrote “Wow” on the margin of the recording and the signal forever more was known as the Wow Signal.
e. 2013 the Smithsonian announced the discovery of a new species the olinguito, in the rain forests of Columbia. The animal is related to racoons but resembles a cross between a slender cat and a small black bear.
Reflections on Woodstock which this poet missed because he was in Mexico soaking up the rays and enjoying the surf: “There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.” Rick Perlstein, noted American historian and journalist
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