Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—June 10, 2015 Trust your Hump Day is
off to a great start. As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and
observances, factoids of interest, a music video by the Ray Charles, a relevant
quote by Alcoholics Anonymous, looking forward to enjoying a Black Cow and/or
iced tea to go with your food lavishly seasoned with your favorite herbs and
spices, blessed with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that
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1. Founding of AA Day —observing and celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous on this day in 1935 in Akron, Ohio (the date of Dr. Bob’s last drink) by Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson.
1. Founding of AA Day —observing and celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous on this day in 1935 in Akron, Ohio (the date of Dr. Bob’s last drink) by Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson.
2. National
Ball Point Pen Day—honoring the filing of a patent for the ball point
pen by the Bíró
brothers, László and György, on this day in 1943.
3. 1962
Number One Song—celebrating the number one song
in 1962 on a five week run I Can’t Stop
Loving You by the Ray Charles. Here is a link to the Ray Charles
performing I Can’t Stop Loving You with
an apology to a RAM truck commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_7iRVtxui8
4. National Herbs and
Spices / Iced Tea/ and Black Cow Days—celebrating freedom from bland and
tasteless food/ a great summer cooling drink and last but not least, a root
beer float.
5. Roses Are Red, Violets Are Walls—celebrating
not a new strain of flowers but rather the birthday of Violet Oakley on this in
1874, the first female muralist to receive a public commission to paint a mural
on public property, in this case the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
On this day in:
On this day in:
a. 1793
Le Jardin des Plantes opened in Paris and one year became the first public zoo.
b. 1854
the first class of the United States Naval Academy graduated.
c. 1963
the Equal Pay Act of 1963 banning wage discrimination based on gender was
signed into law by President Kennedy. 52 years later the Blues still believe there
is a war on women based on alleged gender pay inequality.
d. 1977
the Apple II went on sale.
e. 2003
Spirit, the first NASA Mars Exploration Rover was launched; it successfully landed
on January 4, 2004 and explored the Martian surface until it became stuck in
2009 and finally stopped transmitting to Earth on March 22, 2010. If you are
ever in Pasadena, you should plan ahead to visit JPL where a model of Spirit
and other unmanned space crafts are on display.
Reflections
on alcoholics: “...one
of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that
nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change
their goals to meet their behaviors.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous Astute observation if applied to comparing politicians and nonpoliticians might conclude: “nonpoliticians change their behavior to meet their goals and politicians change the rules to meet their behaviors.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous Astute observation if applied to comparing politicians and nonpoliticians might conclude: “nonpoliticians change their behavior to meet their goals and politicians change the rules to meet their behaviors.”
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