In the World Cup Finals on Sunday Argentina beat France 4-2 penalty
kicks after the game ended in a n tie in regulation to deprive France of back
to back titles. Croatia in the Consolation Game beat Morocco 2-1 on Saturday
for third place. While the streets quickly filled in Buenos Aires after Gonzalo
Montiel kicked a penalty kick to with the game, an Argentinian woman in the
Qatar stadium got carried away and went topless to be led away by Qatar police
to face possible jail time. The U.S., Canada, and Mexico will host the 2026
World Cup so hopefully by then the U.S. will be able to start scoring more
goals to have a chance to advance into the final 4. Hope you enjoy today’s
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 19, 2022
Noted Holiday: First Day of
Hanukah, a eight day celebration commemorating the rededication and purification
of the Second Temple of Jerusalem after the Syrians had occupied it for two
years and permitted only the worship of Greek gods. According to Jewish law,
the purification had to be performed with a menorah burning for 8 days but it
their case they had only enough oil for 1 days burning but a miracle occurred,
and the oil lasted for 8 days to purify
the temple.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “acescence” which means to become sour which describes what happens
to milk left in the refrigerator too long.
Number 1 Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 2000 was “Independent Woman” by Destiny’s Child on
a run of 7 weeks to share with 17 other songs achieving number 1 status
while 10 acts achieved their first number 1 song. Here is a music video
with lyrics of Destiny’s Child “Independent Woman”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lPQZni7I18
Noted
Birthdays: Jason “Jake The Snake” Plumer, born on this day in 1974, a former
quarterback with the Arizona Sun Devils who played 10 year is the NFL and
acquired his nickname for his proclivity in slithering out of potential sack situations
by defenses and who now is a functional
mushroom grower.
Notable Events that occurred on
December 19
1. 1912
William Van Schaick, the Captain of the steamship William Slocum which
had been chartered on June 4, 1904 by St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in
the Little Germany district of Manhattan to go on their annual rite to cruise
up the East River and then across Long Island Sound to Locust Grove, a picnic
site on Long Island, was pardoned by President Taft and released from prison after
serving 3 ½ year of a ten year sentence for dereliction of duty when a fire
broke out soon after departure that quickly engulfed the ship carrying 1358
passengers and 30 crew, causing 958 deaths and 180 injuries.
2. 1984—The
Sino-British Joint Declaration stating that China would regain sovereignty over
Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China subject to
rights of autonomy of Hong Kong other than foreign policy and defense to be
effective July 1, 1997 was signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret
Thatcher. As might be expected China severely limited Hong Kong’s autonomy and
considers the treaty to now be null and void.
3. 1998—President Bill Clinton was
impeached for perjury but was acquitted in
the Senate with all Democrats voting not guilty.
4. 2001—Massive
riots broke out in Buenos Aires and other large Argentine cities over rising
inflation and the pegging of the Argentine peso to the dollar which caused the
deaths of 39 civilians and resulted in the resignation of the President of
Argentina.
5. 2016—Anis Amri, an Tunisian denied
asylum 4 days earlier, car jacked a semi-trailer truck, killing the driver and
then ploughed into an outdoor Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 shoppers
and injuring 44 others and managed to escape from the scene but was approached
by police in Milan, asking for his identification papers whom he shot and
wounded one and was then shot and killed by the other.
Quote
of the Day: Margaret Thatcher in a speech at the signing of the Sino-British
Joint Resolution on Hong Kong: “The Agreement fully meets the political
requirements of Britain and China, as well as the interests of the Hong Kong
people. It provides a framework in which, as a Special Administrative Region of
the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong will maintain its economic systems and
way of life for fifty years after 1 July 1997. It gives Hong Kong a high degree
of autonomy. Hong Kong people will administer Hong Kong and the Special
Administrative Region will pass its own legislation.
It allows Hong Kong to continue to decide its own economic, financial
and trade policies and to participate as appropriate in international
organizations and agreements. It preserves Hong Kong's familiar legal system
and the rights and freedoms enjoyed there.
In short, it provides the assurances for the future which Hong Kong
needs in order to continue to play its unique role in the world as a trading
and financial centre.” Great words to go with great hopes but sadly in dealing
with the CCP it sounds more like Neville Chamberlain’s waiving Hitler’s signature
to the Munich Sudetenland Agreement and pronouncing “Peace in Our Times.”
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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