December 8 Ridley's Believe It Or Not

 

Thursday Night Football featured a great game between the Rams and the Raiders and a comeback by Baker Mayfield after being let go from the Rams by the Panthers and joining the team 2 days ago to replace the second string starting quarterback and end up engineering a 98 yard drive late in the 4 quarter to win 17-16 in a disappointing season for both teams. Trust you have either purchased or assembled your tree for the Christmas season to decorate it and enjoy your work of art.   Hope you have time to read and 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 December 8, 2022
          Noted Holiday: National Christmas Tree Day, created by Jace Shoemaker-Galloway and celebrated on this day since 2015 but the Christmas Tree traces its lineage back to Roman times. Celebrate the day by if you have not already done so, decorating it to the max as a work of art that must be removed after January 1 before it gets too dry and flammable.
          Word of the Day: The word of the day is “abusion” which means outrage or delusion which describes to a tee the feeling many of us have when politicians do not practice what they preach in terms of how they want us to act.   
          Number 1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song on this day in 2009 was “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, on a run of 6 weeks  to share with 12 other songs reaching achieving number 1 status while 7 acts achieved their first number 1 song.  Here is a music video with lyrics of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performing “Empire State of Mind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk6014HuxcE
          Noted Birthdays: Jim Morrison, born on this day in 1943, was the lead vocalist for the Doors and a prolific poet, who struggled with alcohol and drugs and was found dead in a bathroom in Paris on July 3, 1971. Although friends suspected and accidental death from drugs, no autopsy was performed, and the cause of death remains unknown.
          Notable Events that occurred on December 8.
          1.       1962—Workers at 4 NYC newspapers later joined by workers from 5 other NYC papers went on strike protesting low wages and increased automation in the printing presses and remained on strike for 114 days. 
          2.       1972—United Airlines Flight No. 553 enroute from Washington National Airport via Chicago’s Midway International Airport to Omaha, Nebraska crashed into a residential area short of the runway, killing the 3 man crew, 40 of the 55 passengers and 2 persons on the ground while destroying 5 houses in the first fatal of a 737 since going into service in February, 1968.
          3.       1980—Mark David Chapman shot and kills John Lennon in front of his apartment building in NYC.
          4.       2010—With the second launch of the Falcon and the first launch of the Dragon, Space X became the first private company to launch, orbit and recover a rocket from orbit.
          5.       2019—The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was confirmed in China.
          Quote of the Day: Nora Roberts on the joy of Christmas Trees: “Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.”

Michael Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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