Ridley's Believe It Or Not—September 16. 2014: Trust
your Tuesday is proving to be a good one and that you enjoy the holidays and factoids
and quote from Carlos Fuentes with a slice of cinnamon raisin bread in your
hand, a smile on your sunscreened face, a positive attitude, secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event, you know that
the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem tailored to the event
and the recipient. Happy Grito de Dolores Day
to Mexico.
1. Grito de Dolores Day—celebrating the declaration of independence
of Mexico from Spain written by Father Miguel Hidalgo in 1810.
2. International Day for the Preservation of the
Ozone Layer---A U.N. observance in honor of the signing of the Montreal
Protocol on this day in 1987 on substances that deplete the ozone; diminished
ozone in the upper atmosphere leads to a lot more ultraviolet light bombarding
this planet which is not good for human beings.
3. Step Family
Day—commemorating that for better or worse the traditional radial family
due to our high divorce rate is becoming an endangered species and step-parents
and step-siblings in a blended family becoming more of a norm.
4. Working
Parents Day—creating awareness of the sacrifices made by working moms
and dads and prompting their children to take up some slack for them by doing
the dishes, cleaning their rooms, doing the laundry, etc.
5. National
Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day—celebrating one of my favorite breads
especially when toasted and the aroma of cinnamon fills the kitchen.
On this day in
a. 1880 the Cornell Daily Sun printed its first issue and today is the
longest continuous college newspaper in the country.
b. 1920 in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on Wall Street a bomb in a horse
wagon was detonated, killing 38 and wounding 400.
c. 1959 the first successful
photocopier the Xerox 914 was first demonstrated on live TV in New York City.
d. 1992 the trial in the U.S. of
deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega for drug trafficking and money
laundering ended with a 40 year sentence.
Always
nice to be viewed as a role model especially when liberal professors like
Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers are prone to heap scorn on this country: "Like all of Latin America, Mexico after
independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish
heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and
black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked
towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic
republics." -- Carlos Fuentes, noted Mexican novelist and essayist of
the 20th and 21st Centuries. A great way for Mexico to
celebrate this day would be to release Andrew Tahmooressi, the U.S. Marine
languishing in a Mexican prison.
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16, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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