Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not—July 21, 2015 Trust your Taco Tuesday
is proving to be a great one and as always, I hope you enjoy Tuesday’s
holidays and observances, factoids of
interest, a music video by Elvis Presley, a relevant quote by Ernest Hemmingway,
looking forward to enjoying some of your favorite junk food, 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 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. Take a Monkey to Lunch Day—celebrated on this day bemoaning the conviction on this day in 1925 of John Scopes in Tennessee for teaching evolution and immortalized in the movie Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy.
1. Take a Monkey to Lunch Day—celebrated on this day bemoaning the conviction on this day in 1925 of John Scopes in Tennessee for teaching evolution and immortalized in the movie Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy.
2. Invite an Alien
to Live with You Day—celebrating the
birthday on this day of Robin Williams who took the entertainment world by storm
as the alien Mork in the TV sitcom Mork and Mindy and who so tragically took
his own life.
3. 1957 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1957 on a seven week run in that position (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear by Elvis
Presley. Here is a link to Elvis Presley performing (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear:
4. National Junk Food Day—celebrating an observance
that should definitely be celebrated only one day and then back to a healthy
diet.
5. The
Sun No Longer Rises Day--observing the birthday on this day in 1899 of
author Ernest Hemmingway who before killing himself wrote such great novels as The
Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and A Farewell to Arms.
On this day in:
a. 1865
Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tufts in the streets of Springfield,
Missouri in a shoot out regarded as the first gunfight in the West.
b. 1873
Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang at Adair, Iowa pulled off the first
successful train robbery in the American West.
c. 1904
Frenchman Louis Rigoly at Ostend, Belgium became the first person to break the
100 mph barrier on land in a car; 21 years later Sir Malcolm Campbell became
the first person to break the 150 mph barrier on land in a car.
d. 1961
Gus Grisson became the second American to be launched into space to suborbit
the earth and sadly the first American to have his Mercury 7 spacecraft sink on
landing in the ocean.
e. 2011
the U.S. Space Shuttle Program ended with the return of the Shuttle Atlantis.
An understatement on the art of
writing by one of the best: “There is nothing to writing. All you have to do is
sit at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemmingway
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