Ridley's Believe It Or Not—August 19, 2014: Trust
your weekend was a good one and that you enjoy the holidays of some distinction
along with the factoids and quote from Linus Pauling Hoover with a smile on
your face, a positive attitude and the will power to not eat the entire bag pf potato
chips.
, 1.
World Humanitarian Day-- commemorating the deaths of 21 UN personnel
engaged in humanitarian work in Iraq in a Baghdad bombing on this day in
2003.
2. National Aviation Day—celebrating on this
day, the birthday of Orville Wright, since 1939 the development of aviation in
the United States.
3. National Potato Day--celebrating that
delicious tuber first domesticated in Peru and Bolivia around 5,000-8,000 BCE
which was brought back to Europe to spread across the world.
4. List
Day—celebrating the birthday of Malcolm Forbes, multimillionaire
publisher of Forbes Magazine who was famous for his lavish parties and
lists of the wealthiest Americans and wealthiest people in the world.
5. VC
Day---commemorating not venture capitalists or the Viet Cong, but rather
Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling who was a staunch proponent of Vitamin C
dosages to remain healthy and fight out disease who died on this day in 1994 at
the age of 93 proving his theory of the effects of Vitamin C usage.
On this day in
a. 1909 the first automobile race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway..
b. 1989 Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station in the North Sea was raided by
the British and Dutch governments.
c. 1989 several hundred East Germans crossed into Austria at the border between Hungary
and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic which began the process leading to
opening of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union.
Reflections on the fountain of youth: “By the proper intakes of vitamins and
other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth
or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of
well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.” Linus Pauling
Please
enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account
below (if you like them, retweet and join over 140 growing followers
and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The
Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that
should be of interest.
© August
19, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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