Trust your Wednesday
is proving to be a good one and as always I
hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids and a quote from Robert
Brault, with a smile on your sunscreened face, happy that you are about to
enjoy a bowl of chicken soup, blessed with a positive attitude even though you
know you will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in
the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event or the
coming Christmas, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique
customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient.
1. World
Pneumonia Day—commemorating since 2009 the fight against pneumonia which
is the number one killer of children under the age of five.
2. Heart of Gold Day
—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1945 of one of the iconic
singers and songwriters of all time Neil Young who survived polio in Ontario to
be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not once but twice.
3. The Thinker Knows How To Kiss Day--celebrating
the birthday on this day in 1840 of one of the greatest sculptors of all time
Auguste Rodin, some of whose works can be found at Stanford.
4.
National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day—celebrating
that age old remedy handed down from generations of mothers, a meal that cures most
if not all maladies that may affect the human condition.
On this day in
a. 1971 President Nixon as part of his
Vietnamization strategy announced he would withdraw another 45,000 troops from Vietnam
in 1972.
b. 1979 as a result of
the hostage crisis in Tehran, President Jimmy Carter banned all oil imports
from Iran.
c. 1990 Tim Berners-Lee
published a proposal for the world wide web.
c. 1997 Ramzi Yousef was
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole of
the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; like all good terrorists he is
rotting in a federal penitentiary in Colorado.
Reflections on the internet
and blogging: “Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends,
the other repulsing relatives. Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I
introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my
family to me.”Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Please enjoy the 140 character poems
on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet
and join almost 150 growing followers and please 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. Go to Rhymes
On The Newsworthy Times for
comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest.
© November
12, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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