Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—December 14, 2015, 403 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your weekend was a
great one; your college football team is off to a decent bowl game; but sadly
the SEC once again bamboozled the Heisman voters and once again a Stanford
player came in second; as always, I hope you enjoy Monday’s holidays and observances, a link to the New Vaudeville Band, factoids of interest, a relevant quote
from Dick Rutan looking forward to enjoying a bowl of bouillabaisse, blessed
with a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that
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1. World
Monkey Day—honoring the contributions of primates such as monkeys to health
and medicine.
2.
Green Monday—commemorating
the growing trend of online shopping in the days before Christmas.
3. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1966 on a run of three weeks in that position Winchester Cathedral by the New Vaudeville Band. Here is a link
to the New Vaudeville Band performing Winchester
Cathedral:
4.
National Bouillabaisse Day—celebrating
a great way to utilize fish and shellfish and tomatoes.
5.
Even Heisman Is Not Immortal—celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1939 of Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win
the Heisman Award whose professional career was cut short by death from leukemia
at the far too young age of 23.
On
this day in:
a.
1782 the Montgolfier brothers’ hot-air balloon made its first flight.
b. 1902 the Commercial Pacific Cable Company laid the first transpacific telegraph
between San Francisco and Honolulu.
c. 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
in the case of the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States that the
Congress had the right to ban discrimination in public accommodations pursuant
to the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
d. 1967 DNA was replicated in a test
tube for the first time.
e. 1986 Voyager piloted by Dick Rutan
and Jeana Yeager took off from Edwards Air Force Base on the first nonstop, nonrefueled
flight around the world to land back on December 23, 1986 after 9 days, 3
minutes and 44 seconds later.
Reflections on what our
youth need: “It’s
not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a
better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to
exploration.” Dick Rutan
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