Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—December 23, 2015, 394 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Wednesday is off
to a great start and your shopping is now complete; as always, I hope you enjoy
Wednesday’s holidays and observances, a music link to Jim Croce, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from Ayah Bdeir, looking
forward to enjoying a few pfeffernusses, 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
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1. HumanLight—observed
by humanists since 2001 to promote a secular humanist holiday during the
Christmas season.
2.
Noche de Rabanos (Night of the Radishes)—celebrated in Oaxaca, Mexico since 1897 in the town’s
central market with numerous artisans displaying carved large radishes and competing
for prizes.
3. 1973 Number One S ong—celebrating
the number one song in 1973 on a run of two weeks in that position Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce. Here is a
link to Jim Croce performing Time In A Bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1YxczPEPrs
4.
National Pfeffernusse Day—celebrating
those hard spicy cookies made with gingerbread spices, pepper and citron and dipped
in wine.
5. Life’s
Script Can Be Deadly—celebrating the birthday on this day
in 1971 of Canadian born actor Corey Haim who had early success as a young
actor but struggled with drug addiction and died of an accidental overdose of
prescription medications at the early age of 38.
On
this day in:
a.
1823 the iconic poem “The Night Before Christmas” was published anonymously but
later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.
b.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, thereby
creating the Federal Reserve System.
c. 1947 the transistor was first
demonstrated a Bell Laboratories and the race to consumer electronics was on.
d. 1968 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo
seized by North Korea in a blatant violation of international law were released
after being held for 11 months in deplorable conditions.
e. 1972 16 survivors of a plane
carrying a rugby union team from Uruguay
enroute to a game in Chile that had crashed in the Andes 82 days earlier were
rescued after two team members in hiked for 10 days over the mountains to find help.
The survivors resorted to cannibalism to survive giving rise to the t-shirt
logo “Rugby players eat their dead.”
Reflections on transistors:
“The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a
world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything
was interactive.” Ayah Bdeir, young entrepreneur and founder of littleBits
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