Ridley's Believe It Or Not November 27, 2022

 

Hope you had time to shop at some small businesses yesterday and if a member of the dwindling number of Stanford football fans are celebrating Coach Shaw’s taking the high road and resigning after the loss to BYU last night. Stanford alums are hoping there  is a great coach brave enough or dumb enough to take the job and fight the Dean of Admissions to recruit and enroll A+ student athletes. Please enjoy today’s Ridley's Believe It Or Not. Hope you find them informative and worthy of your time to read. If not, please reply “Unsubscribe” and I will delete you from the mailing list.

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not November 27, 2022
         National Holiday: Small Brewery Sunday: Created by American Brewery Association on November 18, 2019 to promote the numerous craft/micro breweries that have sprung up across the nation putting beer connoisseurs into 7^th Heaven to dismay of the tasteless giants like Budweiser and Miller. Easy day to celebrate by going to a brew pub and sampling their libations.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “abessive” which means an absence or lack which describes Stanford’s wins to a tee.
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song in 2020 was “Mood” by  24 Goldn feat. Iann Diors on a run of 4 weeks non continuous to share with 24 other acts recording number 1 hits, 12 of whom including 24 Goldn feat. Iann Diors achieved their first number 1.  Here is a recording of 24 Goldn feat. Iann Diors performing “Mood”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fvw0TkENHM
          Famous Birthdays: Bill Nye, born on this day in 1955, noted TV host and comedian, best known for his 5 year program Bill Nye, The Science Guy from 1993 to 1998 and marrying musician Blair Tindall in 2006 only to end the marriage after 7 weeks after learning their marriage license was invalid.
          Famous Events that occurred on November 27^th
          1.       1895—At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Albert Nobel executed his last will and testament providing for the creation of the Nobel Prize and allocating his estate to fund the awards for Nobel Prizes to be awarded.
          2.       1924—To the joy of residents of New York City and later the nation, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held.
           3.       1945—In another example of the inherent generosity of the American public, CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to send food relief to a very devastated Europe.
           4.       1973 —The Senate voted 92-3  (the House voted 387-35 on December 6) pursuant to the 25^th Amendment to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President to fill the position vacated by Spiro Agnew’s resignation due to charges of receiving kick backs as Maryland’s Governor.
           5.       2015—In Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood Clinic, Robert Dear shot a killed a police officer and two civilians and wounded 5 police officers and 4 civilians and surrendered to SWAT after they rammed into the building to gain entrance. He was arrested but found mentally incompetent to stand trial for murder and attempted murder and has been confined to a mental institution to this day.
             Quote of the Day: Albert Nobel on the prospects for peace: “ I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” Sadly Nobel was very prescient in terms of the forces of war pushing aside the prospects of peace

Michael P Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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