Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For July 10, 2017 Yemen is suffering a massive cholera outbreak with over
300,000 cases with 7,000 new cases a day; the former choir boy of the FBI Comey
may have violated the law in releasing classified material (speculation that
even Meuller will not be able to protect him); Bernie and his wife Jane are in
apparent deep trouble over undue influence and overstating donations to obtain
a loan for Burlington College to purchase land for expansion of the failed
school; Johnny Depp remains in financial meltdown and is locked in litigation
with his former management group; on the collusion delusion front, Donald
Trump, Jr. is the latest target of the delusional Blues (when will this nonsense
and waste end?); more Blue meltdown as Ivanka Trump was blasted for subbing in
for her father at the G-20 while he had face to face meetings with Japan; through
July 9, 1933 people have been shot in Chicago 333 of whom have died (hopefully
the ATF agents Trump has sent in will help put a damper on this carnage.
As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, music links to the Shaun
Cassidy and Arlo Guthrie factoids of interest for this day in history, a
relevant quote by Paul Malenson on child sexual abuse, hoping if you avoid
anything that is inesulent, secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide
you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the
event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1.
Silence Day—promoted
by the Indian spiritualist Mehar Baba who remained silent from July 10, 1925
till his death in 1969 by foregoing conversation for 24 hours to concentrate on
meditation and fasting.
2. International
Town Crier Day—created by Scott Fraser in 1996 and celebrated on the second
Monday in July to honor accomplishments of town criers in the Middle Ages where
most of the population was illiterate and news and information on events were
disseminated by town criers.
3. 1977 Number One Song—the number one song in
1977 on a run of 1 week in that position was “Da Doo Ron Ron” by Shaun
Cassidy. Here is a performance by him of the song: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=shaun+cassiday+da+doo+ron+ron#id=1&vid=23ceb0c50043f5dcfd1b9e4dc89106e7&action=click
4. Word
of the Day—today’s word of the day is “inesulent” which means inedible, a
word describing toadstools to a tee.
5. City
of the Big Easy—celebrating the birth on this day in 1947 of Arlo Guthrie, noted
singer and guitarist with many hits including one of my favorites “The City of
New Orleans,” one of my favorite trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ
On this day
in:
a. 1938 Howard Hughes set
a new record by completing an around the world flight in 91 hours.
b. 1942 an American
pilot spotted an downed intact Zero on Akutan Island in the Aleutians which
enabled the Navy to recover it and learn
of its flight characteristics and strengths and weaknesses.
c. 1962 Telstar, the
world’s first communications satellite was put into orbit.
d. 1998 the Dallas Diocese
of the Catholic Church agreed to pay $23.4 million to 9 former altar boys who
had filed suit for sexual abuse by a former priest.
e. 2007 Erden Eruc, left
Bodega Bay to commence the first human powered circumnavigation of the world,
which he completed on July 21, 2012
after logging 41,196 miles.
Reflections on the media and clergy abuse: “When will the media acknowledge that the sexual abuse of children is not
a ‘Catholic problem’? The fact is that the media are not so much concerned with
the welfare of children as they are with unfairly portraying the abuse of
children as a ‘crisis in the Church.’” Paul Anthony Melanson,
noted Catholic lay philosopher. Please
enjoy the poems
on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet
and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in
History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on
breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or
Not for just This Day in History.
© July 10, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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