Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not—September 28, 2015 Trust your weekend
was a great one and Monday is a proving to be a great one also and your pro
football teams were victorious on Sunday and as always I hope you enjoy
Monday’s holidays and observances, factoids of interest, a music
audio by Frankie Laine, a relevant
quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower, looking forward to enjoying a generous slice of
strawberry cream 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
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1. Freedom From Hunger Day—promoting awareness since 2006 of the existence of hunger around the globe, even in affluent places like Orange County, California, and seeking means to alleviate its existence.
1. Freedom From Hunger Day—promoting awareness since 2006 of the existence of hunger around the globe, even in affluent places like Orange County, California, and seeking means to alleviate its existence.
2.
World Heart Day—promoting
awareness of the need to eliminate tobacco use, obesity and high fat diets and
to promote physical activity as a means to reduce cardiovascular deaths and
disease.
3. 1949 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song in 1949 on a long run of 8 weeks in that position That Lucky Old Sun by Frankie Laine. Here is a link to Frankie Laine’s recording
of That Lucky Old Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHuf866KP_Y
4.
Strawberry Cream Pie Day—celebrating a favorite way to
end a meal without or without ice cream.
5. The Sky Seemed to Have
No Limits—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1992 of Skye McCole Butusiak,
a highly acclaimed child actress who died far too early at the age of 21 of an
accidental drug overdose.
On this day
in:
a. 1924 after taking off from Seattle on April 6, 1924, three of the original
Douglas Cruisers that had taken off from Seattle to attempt a circumnavigation
of the globe successfully landed in Seattle to complete the first successful circumnavigation
of the globe.
b.
1928 Sir Arthur Fleming noticed mold growing on bread which ultimately he
developed and refined to become penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic drug.
c.
1971 the British Parliament banned the medicinal use of cannabis.
d. 1995 Yitzhak
Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
e. 2006 SpaceX
launched into orbit, the first private spacecraft the Falcon1.
Reflections the
balance between guns and butter: “Every gun that is
made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president of the United States Supreme
Allied Commander in Europe
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