Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—August 24, 2015 Trust your weekend was
awesome with all batteries fully charged to meet the challenges of the week and
as always I hope you enjoy Monday’s holidays and observances, factoids of
interest, a music video by Elvis Presley, a relevant quote by Johannes Gutenberg,
looking forward to enjoying a large slice of peach pie, 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. William Wilberforce Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1759 of William Wilberforce, a British M.P. and an early tireless English abolitionist who has been compared to Martin Luther King and Gandhi and through his efforts, England emancipated the slaves throughout the British Empire in 1833 three days prior to his death.
1. William Wilberforce Day—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1759 of William Wilberforce, a British M.P. and an early tireless English abolitionist who has been compared to Martin Luther King and Gandhi and through his efforts, England emancipated the slaves throughout the British Empire in 1833 three days prior to his death.
2. National Strange Music Day—started
by Julliard graduate Patrick Grant on this day in 1998 to encourage music
listeners to listen to music foreign to them or outside their comfort zone
(good concept but sounds like a marketing ploy to increase downloads or the
sales of CDs).
3. 1960 Number One
Song—celebrating the number one song in 1960 on a run of five weeks
in that position It’s Now Or Never by
Elvis Presley. Here is a link to an
Elvis Presley video clip while in the army with a sound track to
It’s Now Or Never:
4. National Peach
Pie Day—great day to turn all those peaches I advised you not to eat and
save the other day into one very tasty fruit pie.
5. Surf’s Up Day—celebrating
not an excuse to leave work early and hit the surf, but rather the birthday on
this day in 1890 of Duke Kahanamoku, noted Hawaiian surfer and winner of five
Olympic medals for swimming and displayed on an emoticon when you open Google
today.
On this day
in:
a. 1456 to the dismay
of monks eking out livings as scribes, the Gutenberg Bible, the first book with
movable type, was completed.
b.
1814 during the War of 1812 British troops enter but could not hold Washington,
D.C. torching the White House, Capitol and numerous other buildings.
c. 1967 led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party shut
down the New York Stock Exchange by tossing dollar bills from the viewers’
gallery to the floor, causing the brokers on the floor to stop trading and
scramble for the dollars floating down.
d.
1969 Columbian drug barons declared “total war” on the Columbian government, a
precursor to what has been going on with increasing ferocity in Mexico.
e. 1992 the costliest hurricane
in U.S. history and one of the strongest at a Force 5, Hurricane Andrew, made
landfall south of Miami and then crossed Florida and entered the Gulf of
Mexico to ravage and decimate the U.S. Gulf Coast. Reflections
on the impact of the Gutenberg Bible and movable type printing: “Yes, it is a
press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams,
the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the
thirst of men! Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall
flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and
cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.” Johannes Gutenberg
Unfortunately in addition to the truth and the beginning of the end of
illiteracy for millions, the press also was instrumental in propaganda and
other deviations from the truth.
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Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 162 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. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com Ridley's Believe It Or Not Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times
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