Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—April 5,
2015 Trust your Easter weekend is proving to be a
great one and your Easter is spiritually refreshing. As always, I hope
you enjoy the holidays and observances albeit somewhat meager today, factoids
of interest, music video of Champs, and a relevant Easter quote by Frederick Buechner
Williams, anticipating a savory deep dish pizza to share with friends,
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
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1. Cold Food Day
(China)—celebrating the
time to plant seeds and bring water to the rice paddies in China.
2.
Easter—an observance celebrating the resurrection of Christ and for the
children the Easter baskets filled with treats and the chance to find Easter
eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny whose fellow rabbit the Gutenberg Hare is
immortalized in poetry. http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2015/04/easter-bunny-and-easter-hare.html
3.
1958 Number One Song—celebrating the
number one song on this day in 1958, as part of a five one week run, Tequila by Champs, the first band to
with an instrumental as their first release vault into the number one position.
Here is a link to Champs performing Tequila
on the Dick Clark Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5J802Hqsu8
4. National Deep
Dish Pizza Day—celebrating that great pizza created in Chicago in 1943
by Uno’s Pizzeria founder Ike Sewell (hopefully the national pizza chains will
be giving discounts in honor of the day).
5. Ride
Ended Too Soon Day Day—commemorating the birthday on this day in 1949 of
America’s second female astronaut after Sally Ride who was on her second Space
Shuttle mission on board the Challenger which exploded shortly after takeoff,
killing all aboard.
On this day in
a. 1614 Native
American Princess Pocahontas married John Rolfe in Virginia.
b.
1792 George Washington exercised for the first time a veto, rejecting a bill
that would have increased the number of Congressional seats in the North
(already the seeds of discontent over the issue of slavery were beginning to
germinate).
c. 1922
the American Birth Control League, the precursor of Planned Parenthood was
formed.
d. 1932 President Franklin Roosevelt signed
two Executive Orders 6101 creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and 6102
forbidding Americans to hoard gold bullion.
e. 1993 construction began at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Reflections on Easter
and the connection to God: “And
now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it
also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just
this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the
only life?” Frederick Buechner author of The Magnificent Defeat
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