Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—July 3, 2015 Trust your Friday is
proving to be a great one and your plans for the 4th are set which
include some reflections on 1776 and plans to avoid the use of illegal
fireworks and the sane use of legal
fireworks and as always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances
which are somewhat meager, factoids of interest, a music video by the Human League, a relevant
quote by Robert E. Lee, looking forward to enjoying some chocolate wafers, blessed with a positive attitude and secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like,
birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can
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1. Stay Out of the Sun Day—celebrating the need to protect one’s skin from the UV rays of the Sun which are usually easier by staying indoors when the 4th of July does not fall on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday; consider instead using large amounts of sun block.
1. Stay Out of the Sun Day—celebrating the need to protect one’s skin from the UV rays of the Sun which are usually easier by staying indoors when the 4th of July does not fall on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday; consider instead using large amounts of sun block.
2. Hitch Hiking
Month—celebrating an inexpensive way to get around especially in the 60’s
and 70’s although today a mode of
transport much more dangerous for both hitch hiker and driver.
3. 1982
Number One Song—celebrating the number one song
in 1982 on a three week run at that position, You Don’t Want Me by the Human League. Here is a link to the group
performing the hit song You Don’t Want Me
with an apology for the inane ads in the video:
4. National Chocolate Wafer Day—a great American
snack, a taste of chocolate in a bed of crispy wafers.
5. Data Leaks Far Worse Than Water—celebrating
or bemoaning depending on your perspective of the birthday on this day in 1971
of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
On this day in:
a. 1852
the U.S. Congress established the second U.S. Mint in San Francisco.
b. 1863
the Battle of Gettysburg ended with Pickett’s Charge, the high water mark for
the Confederacy.
c. 1886
in a forerunner of business cutting labor costs by automation The New York
Tribune became the first newspaper to utilize linotype replacing human typesetting.
d. 1938
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Monument
at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
e. 2015
in a forerunner to a potential end to the fossil fuels era, the Solar Impulse 2
landed in Hawaii after a five day solar powered flight from Japan, a distance
of 5,139 miles which is the longest flight powered solely by solar power.
Reflections from the man who gambled
and lost in three days the fate of the Confederacy at Gettysburg: “I can
anticipate no great calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union.
It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of and I am willing to
sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.” Robert E. Lee in a letter
to his son Curtis, January 23, 1861 Sadly, how right he was and one can only
speculate how much shorter the Civil War would have been if Lee had not
resigned his commission and instead had risen to the command of the Union Army.
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