Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—December 24, 2015, 393 days to go
in President Obama’s pathetic lame duck term. Trust your Christmas Eve is
off to a great start and your shopping is now complete; as always, I hope you
enjoy Thursday’s holidays and
observances, a music link to Helen Reddy, factoids of interest, a relevant quote
from Charles Dickens, looking forward to enjoying a cup of egg nog, blessed with
a positive attitude and secure in the knowledge that
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1. Feast
of the Seven Fishes—observed in Italy and in Italian
American households by eating a grand meal consisting of seven seafood dishes—nothing
like servings of salmon to reduce the cholesterol to be able to enjoy a
Christmas Day ham and prime rib.
2.
Procrastinators’ Purgatory—bemoaning
the fate of the procrastinating shoppers frantically trying to complete their
Christmas shopping but some envy as all of the expensive must have gifts have
probably been all grabbed from the shelves to the relief of their overstretched
wallets.
3. 1974 Number One S ong—celebrating
the number one song in 1974 on a brief run of one week in that position Angie Baby by Helen Reddy. Here is a
link to Helen Reddy performing Angie Baby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg9U-jQjYlU
4.
National Egg Nog Day—celebrating
the essential drink during the Christmas season, especially if it has been
spiked with rum or brandy; if it has in moderation as one would not want to see a repeat of the Egg Nog Riot that rocked West Point in 1828.
5. Even
Wrestling Can Be Deadly—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1971 of Mexican
professional wrestler Jesus Silva who was known as Oro and who tragically died
in the ring at the age of 21 after striking his head on the mat and suffering an
cranial aneurysm.
On
this day in:
a.
1818 the first performance of “Silent Night” occurred at St. Nicolaus Church in
Oberndern, Austria.
b.
1828 the Egg Nog Riot involving one third of the cadets began in the evening
following a drunken party involving gallons of spirits smuggled into West Point
in the North Barracks at West Point and continued into Christmas Day.
c. 1914 along portions of the Western
Front the Christmas Truce began, involving hundreds of British, French and
German soldiers who laid down their weapons to mingle in “No Man’s Land”
fraternize, exchange small gifts and even play soccer.
d. 1955 NORAD tracked Santa Claus for
the first time in the skies over the United States, starting a Christmas Eve
tradition that this poet remembers very well listening to the broadcast over
the radio in Petersburg, Alaska.
e. 1973 the District Home Rule Act was
passed giving Washington, D.C. residents the right to elect their own local
government.
Reflections on Christmas:
“I have always thought
of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving,
charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year,
when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and
to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the
grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” ~Charles
Dickens, noted
English author and author of the Christmas Carol.
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