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Ridley's Believe It Or Not--January 5, 2014: National
Bird Day and the 12th Day of Christmas (after
a house full of six days of increasing numbers of birds and more pipers and
drummers than the human ears can withstand, finally the last day); and on
this day in 1940 FM radio was first demonstrated by the FCC ; in 1949
President Truman in his State of the Union unveiled the Fair Deal; and in
1974, to the disbelief of the cruise ship passengers stranded in the ice at
Antarctica for weeks during the holidays, the warmest sustained temperature
59 degrees was recorded in Antarctica.
Mystery of why the cruise to Antarctica braved the hazards of
getting stuck in the ice. "Even the
cleanest air in the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over the
Antarctic has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every
lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of a
Serengeti migration or over a six-lane freeway during rush hour in downtown
Los Angeles." Llyall Watson, noted maverick
scientific polymath and explorer who wrote the best-selling book Supernature.
All All things being
equal, I would recommend instead a cruise to Alaska.
As
you enjoy the start of NFL playoffs, take five and please enjoy the 140
character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
like them, retweet and join 134 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
an original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in
review just posted.
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