Ridley's Believe It Or Not—November
2, 2014: Trust your weekend is
proving to be a good one with one more hour of sleep as clocks were set back
early Sunday morning. As always hope you enjoy the holidays and observances,
factoids and a few epitaphs of the famous and a poem relating to Halloween
posted on Halloween on www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
“Halloween not just for kids”, with a smile on your sunscreened face, enjoying
some deviled eggs, blessed with a positive attitude even though you know you
will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the
knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event or the coming
Christmas, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized
poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient.
1. All Souls Day—observing a day of prayer
for the soul dos the dead, especially, but not exclusively, for the souls of
family members.
2. Plan Your Own Epitaph Day—honoring the
need to make sure your last words on your grave stone are memorable; e.g. the
epitaph for lawyer John Strange: “Here lies an honest lawyer and that is
strange.” How true in the case of
lawyers whether their surname is “Strange” or not.
3. Don’t Let It Go To Your Head Day—celebrating
not the need to possess humility but rather to remember the birthday of Marie
Antoinette on this day in 1755 who lost hers on October 16, 1793 in the guillotine.
4. Bears Beware Day—celebrating the
birthday on this day in 1734 of that noted frontiersman and explorer Daniel Boone.
5. National Deviled Egg
Day—celebrating a great way have the incredible, edible egg, especially
when spiced up with a little Tapatio Hot Sauce.
On this day
in
a. 1920 radio station KDKA became the
first radio station in the United States to begin broadcasting; first broadcast
was the results of the 1920 Presidential election.
b. 1983 President Reagan
signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
c. 1988 the Morris Worm,
the first internet distributed computer worm to gain media attention was
distributed from MIT.
Reflections
on the epitaphs of some of the famous:
1.
Benjamin
Franklin: The
body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents
worn, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here, food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not
lost, for it will, as he
believed, appear once more In a new and more beautiful
edition, corrected and amended by its Author.
2.
Isaac Newton: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
3. Winston
Churchill: I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
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2, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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