Ridley's Believe It Or Not—August 20, 2014: Trust
your week is proving to be a good one and that you enjoy the holidays of some distinction
along with the factoids and quote from Malcolm Gladwell with a smile on your
face, a positive attitude and the will power to not eat a whole chocolate pecan
pie but the desire to support budding entrepreneurs by stopping at a child’s
lemonade stand..
, 1.
World Mosquito Day-- commemorating the discovery by British physician
Sir Ronald Ross on this day in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria to
human beings—thank God these insects that blot out the sky in Alaska and are
rumored to have carried away small dogs and cats are not being honored, only a
doctor who called out the need to try, albeit not successfully, to eradicate
these pests from the face of the earth.
2. National Radio Day—celebrating one of the
great inventions of all time the radio even if the car next to you at the stoplight
has his on at a 300 decibel level listening not to classic rock of the 60’s but
rather the scourge of rap or hip hop.
3. National Dosimetrist Day--celebrating
that key member of an oncology radiation treatment team who calibrates the
dosages so the patient does not glow in the dark.
4. Lemonade
Day—celebrating that great summer drink that in stands around the country
manned by small children defy bureaucrats who trying to justify their existence
are always trying to shut them down.
5. National
Chocolate Pecan Pie Day---celebrating a desert that this highly evolved
omnivore has never enjoyed but sounds like it should go on my dietary bucket
list.
On this day in
a. 1920 the first public radio station commences operations in Detroit,
Michigan as 8MK now WWJ.
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b. 1940 with Britain on the ropes fighting for its life against the
Luftwaffe, Churchill trying to rally the nation made one of his greatest
wartime speeches honoring the RAF with the line “Never was so much owed by so
many to so few.”
c. 1968 in a move that may be replicated today in Ukraine, the Soviet Union
with its Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia ending the Prague Spring.
Bill Gates may be unloved because of Windows, but when it comes to
malaria he is closing the window on the spread of the disease: “There will be
statutes of Bill Gates across the Third World. There is a reasonable shot
that because of his money we will cure malaria.” Malcolm Gladwell, noted
Canadian writer, author and speaker and member of the staff of The New
Yorker.
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© August 20,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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