Lies, It's All Lies
Ugg Boot
I started reading a new book. It's called "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong". What an interesting book. It points out things that, I feel, should have been taught in school. For example:
1. Who was Helen Keller? Blind and deaf, she graduated college, womens rights. Did you know she was a communist and a radical?
2. You always hear that Woodrow Wilson was a great president but have you heard of the secret war with Russia which eventually lead to the cold war?
3. When was the North American continent settled? 1600's? I think not. It was somewhere around 30,000 years ago. Yes, Native Americans are humans too.
It's a very interesting book. I remember hearing in school about a certain natural bridge that George Washing sat on his white horse and carved his initials. I traveled there on vacation one year and immediately wondered what kind of giant horse G W had. The carving was like 40 feet off the ground which had not been dug out or washed out according to the guide. Doh!!!
I've also been reading about another genius that was also seen as a mad scientist, Nikola Tesla. No he didn't sing "Sign, Sign, everywhere the Signs...". .......at one point while experimenting with mechanical oscillators he generated a resonance of several surrounding buildings, but ironically due to the frequencies involved, not his own building, causing complaints to the police. As the speed grew he hit the resonant frequency of his own building and belatedly realizing the danger he was forced to apply a sledge hammer to terminate the experiment, just as the astonished police arrived. He also lit vacuum tubes wirelessly at both of the New York locations, providing evidence for the potential of wireless power transmission. Tesla devised an "electric igniter" or spark plug for Internal combustion gasoline engines. When Tesla was 41 years old, he filed the first basic radio patent. A year later, he demonstrated a radio controlled boat to the US military, believing that the military would want things such as radio controlled torpedoes. He is a very interesting character. Good reading material.
In The News:
A parent complained that the teacher, Gary McDonald, told students Monday he would take anyone talking in class and line them up against a wall and shoot them. I wouldn't say a word. It all goes back to bad parenting. Don't believe me? Check this out...
Mom drives son to rob jewelry story. Was this the Barker family? Remember Ma Barker?
Train passengers asked to get out and push. Blahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Men convicted of stealing miles of railway line. They were probably asked to get out and push. hehe
Killers wrap victim in Christmas paper. Here you go Charlie. Here's the present from your gramma Manson.
Today in History:
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England. Okay, okay. Everytime I hear that someone flees, I think of a flea jumping. Couldn't you imagine the Queen doing the long jump to get somewhere? That'd be funny.
1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. I always hear that old story. When I was young we didn't use guns, we just fought about it and got over it. Obviously that wasn't entirely true.
1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. Didn't he record the song Great Balls of Fire? No wait, different person, same situation.
1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
1866 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer. How cool!!!
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. Only one vote? Whew that was close.
1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense. So much for that free country.
1920 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint. That does her a lot of good since you executed her.
1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out. "There ya go, there ya go, aaaaaaaand there ya go"
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. Many 80's rock concert-goers thank you.
1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand. Uh Oh SpaghettiO
1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. "She's got it..... Yeah baby she's got it"
1975 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. What? Women have learned the ability to climb? Next they'll be wanting to vote.
1988 - A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. BOOM!!!
2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. "of all the terrorist joints in all the world, you had to waltz into mine"
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. I thought it was the men that did all the suffrage.
2007 - Halo 3 beta is released to the public.
Happy Birthday to:
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) Checkout the movie V for Vendetta. It's amazingly good. My newest favorite movie.
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ยข/acre (d. 1872) Sweet deal.
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987) No it's not Lib R Ace.
1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson) Checkout "21st Century Schizoid Man"
1946 - Roger Earl, British rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1973 - Tori Spelling, American actress
Deaths on this day:
1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876) I just wonder if my bandmate drummer, Terry Resse, is related? Hmmmm. I do refer to his drum solos as Resse's Pieces.
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903) He was that friend (not) of Al Capone.
1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925) "The Candyman Can"
1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936) He was hangin' out with that Davis boy agains wasn't he?
1. Who was Helen Keller? Blind and deaf, she graduated college, womens rights. Did you know she was a communist and a radical?
2. You always hear that Woodrow Wilson was a great president but have you heard of the secret war with Russia which eventually lead to the cold war?
3. When was the North American continent settled? 1600's? I think not. It was somewhere around 30,000 years ago. Yes, Native Americans are humans too.
It's a very interesting book. I remember hearing in school about a certain natural bridge that George Washing sat on his white horse and carved his initials. I traveled there on vacation one year and immediately wondered what kind of giant horse G W had. The carving was like 40 feet off the ground which had not been dug out or washed out according to the guide. Doh!!!
I've also been reading about another genius that was also seen as a mad scientist, Nikola Tesla. No he didn't sing "Sign, Sign, everywhere the Signs...". .......at one point while experimenting with mechanical oscillators he generated a resonance of several surrounding buildings, but ironically due to the frequencies involved, not his own building, causing complaints to the police. As the speed grew he hit the resonant frequency of his own building and belatedly realizing the danger he was forced to apply a sledge hammer to terminate the experiment, just as the astonished police arrived. He also lit vacuum tubes wirelessly at both of the New York locations, providing evidence for the potential of wireless power transmission. Tesla devised an "electric igniter" or spark plug for Internal combustion gasoline engines. When Tesla was 41 years old, he filed the first basic radio patent. A year later, he demonstrated a radio controlled boat to the US military, believing that the military would want things such as radio controlled torpedoes. He is a very interesting character. Good reading material.
In The News:
A parent complained that the teacher, Gary McDonald, told students Monday he would take anyone talking in class and line them up against a wall and shoot them. I wouldn't say a word. It all goes back to bad parenting. Don't believe me? Check this out...
Mom drives son to rob jewelry story. Was this the Barker family? Remember Ma Barker?
Train passengers asked to get out and push. Blahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Men convicted of stealing miles of railway line. They were probably asked to get out and push. hehe
Killers wrap victim in Christmas paper. Here you go Charlie. Here's the present from your gramma Manson.
Today in History:
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England. Okay, okay. Everytime I hear that someone flees, I think of a flea jumping. Couldn't you imagine the Queen doing the long jump to get somewhere? That'd be funny.
1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. I always hear that old story. When I was young we didn't use guns, we just fought about it and got over it. Obviously that wasn't entirely true.
1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. Didn't he record the song Great Balls of Fire? No wait, different person, same situation.
1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
1866 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer. How cool!!!
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. Only one vote? Whew that was close.
1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense. So much for that free country.
1920 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint. That does her a lot of good since you executed her.
1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out. "There ya go, there ya go, aaaaaaaand there ya go"
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. Many 80's rock concert-goers thank you.
1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand. Uh Oh SpaghettiO
1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. "She's got it..... Yeah baby she's got it"
1975 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. What? Women have learned the ability to climb? Next they'll be wanting to vote.
1988 - A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. BOOM!!!
2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. "of all the terrorist joints in all the world, you had to waltz into mine"
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. I thought it was the men that did all the suffrage.
2007 - Halo 3 beta is released to the public.
Happy Birthday to:
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) Checkout the movie V for Vendetta. It's amazingly good. My newest favorite movie.
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ยข/acre (d. 1872) Sweet deal.
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987) No it's not Lib R Ace.
1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson) Checkout "21st Century Schizoid Man"
1946 - Roger Earl, British rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1973 - Tori Spelling, American actress
Deaths on this day:
1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876) I just wonder if my bandmate drummer, Terry Resse, is related? Hmmmm. I do refer to his drum solos as Resse's Pieces.
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903) He was that friend (not) of Al Capone.
1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925) "The Candyman Can"
1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936) He was hangin' out with that Davis boy agains wasn't he?
posted by Crazy B @ 9:43 AM
3 Comments:
Since when have you started reading (I mean something besides the back of the cereal box)?
When recently asked:who was the greatest person ever? my son and I simutaniously answered: Nikola Tesla!
Nikola Tesla rocks. ....and Penmeister, I try not to tell many people that I can read. I have a reputation to uphold.
B
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