What a Wonderful World.....

In The News:

Offensive greetings? Australian Santas have been told to stop using the phrase "ho ho ho."
Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women Okay. C'mon. Santas have said that forever now. Get over it stupid hos.

Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth hahahahahahaha

Papa John's takes texted pizza orders

Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten Crazy Germans.

Two Zeppelin tickets make $170,000 in charity sale How will I ever repay that amount to the bank?

Today in History:
1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)

1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.

1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.

1970 - The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.

1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.

1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.


Happy Birthday:
1906 - Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)

1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)

1919 - Joseph Wapner, American judge. You know. Peoples court.

1929 - Ed Asner, American actor

1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor


Deaths on this Day:
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)

1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)

Super Freaks are Cool

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IN THE NEWS:
Girl with 8 limbs has 4 removed.They just ended her career at the circus. Did they not think of that?



Today in History:
1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.

1895 - While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1950 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

1974 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.


Happy Birthday:
1945 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles)

1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)

1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer

1952 - Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises

1975 - Tara Reid, American actress

1985 - Jack Osbourne, English television star


Deaths on this Day:
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)

1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)

It's a crazy world. Or is it me that's crazy?

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In The News:
Die and you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws

Hank Thompson dies of lung cancer at 82

What says Christmas like a serial killer? Christmas? I think I'll take a vacation from Christmas this year.

Today in History:
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party

1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote. Now look at 'em. Reading, thinking, and what not.

1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).

1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the pubic. Uhhh, opens to the pubic?

1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.

1933 - Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City......and as a consolation prize you get an airport named after you. Yippee!!!!

1940 - In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. Germans can screw anything up. That's what I need,... a German girl. hahahhahahahahahaha. Maybe not, they spit when they talk.

1973 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. We see how well that works.

1991 - Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD lab inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. Thank you DEA. Do you know how long it took me to convert that over? Gyah!!!

2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break. Lazy Bastard.

2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products. I ban Iran. Sounds like a song. Ban Iran, Ban Iran, My Man, Ban Iran.


Happy Birthday:
1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)

1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer

1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician


Deaths on this Day:
1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)

....the Chicken or the Egg???

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Crazy Chinese People

In The News:
MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Parkbut on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond. I went there and dug for diamonds. I wouldn't have known a diamond unless it was attached to a gold ring.

Court orders goat thief to say sorry

"Cremated son" turns up alive Uhhhh. Say that again?


Today in History:
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia

1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.

1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1861 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.

1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established

1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.

1879 Canada's First Official Thanksgiving Day1893 Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace

1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"

1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation." Gotcha!!!


1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.

1936 RCA displays TV for the press

1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.

1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

1952 1st hydrogen bomb exploded (by US at Eniwetok Atoll)

1975 1st appearance of the Sex Pistols

1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.




Happy Birthday:
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902) as in... Dow Jones...

1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)

1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer

1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)

1946 - Sally Field, American actress

1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)

1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)

1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist

1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor

1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)


Deaths on this Day:
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)

Guy Fawkes Night

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Thanks Dana. I needed this one. If only it said Hot Damn instead of beer. lol









Addiction - the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.





Guy Fawkes Night (more commonly known as Bonfire Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of Roman Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.


In The News:
Lack of sleep may lead to fatter kids

Couple from Hell wins Halloween lottery

Robin Hood's forest is in trouble

Egypt puts King Tut on public display

A new speed record, but not a good one 168 miles per hour. Dang!!!

A German retiree secretly cut down or shortened 122 trees in a publicly owned forest to give his holiday cottage a clear view of the Baltic Sea.


Today in History:
1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It's the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary in world History.

1556 - Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mughal Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India. In the battle, Hemu became unconscious when an arrow stuck into his right eye. He was brought as captive to Akbar and was hanged.

1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. You should see the movie V for Vendetta. Amazing movie. Amazing.

1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. But she did get a $1 piece with her picture on it.

1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected to third term as President of The United States of America.

1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

1968 - Richard M. Nixon elected as the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America. I like Dick. Uhhhh wait a minute.

1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan". He can't be all wrong.

1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.


Happy Birthday:
1715 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)

1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)

1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967) (she was british and bipolar)

1931 - Ike Turner, American musician

1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician

1943 - Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor

1947 - Peter Noone, English musician (Herman's Hermits)

1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician

1961 - David Bryson, American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows)


Deaths on this Day:
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)

1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)

2000 - Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)

2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936) Two coasters died on the same day? Weird.

2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940) So is the group now called the Righteous Brother? Just curious about that.

November is here!!! Whoopitydoo

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It's now November. I'm listening to The Who Tommy. I love this time of year. I should be in Salem, Ma. right now but that's a whole other story that no one wants to hear. So now, I get a whole new vacation anywhere I want to go. Where should I go?

Holidays:

Mexico- Day of the Dead celebrations begin.
Roman festivals - last day of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae.
Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day. Holiday in Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Guatemala.
United States - Start of National Novel Writing Month WTF?

In The News...
Actor and singer Robert Goulet dies at 73

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted almost to his dying day that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at night.

Texas town up for sale on eBay I'm not making this crap up.

Chimpanzee who knew sign language dies



Today in History:
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.

1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1611 - William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. Bad mistake.

1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.

1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.

1918 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.

1938 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.

1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

1951 - American soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary. Good thing they weren't in California. Atomic explosions have been known to cause cancer in California.

1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.

1955 - The Famous Flames, a band featuring James Brown, records "Please, Please, Please" at a radio station in Macon, Georgia.

1970 - A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 144 young people.

1991 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.


Happy Birthday:
1937 - Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter

1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher

1947 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter

1950 - Dan Peek, American guitarist (America)

1957 - Lyle Lovett, American singer

1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)


Deaths on this Day:
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917) Yes, even deaths of horses make my page.