In New York the climate change warriors have been
replaced by the military called up to enforce the traffic ban in Buffalo due to
the deadly blizzards and to patrol the
roads and highways as the winter storm finally is abating. Unfortunately the
winter storms have not abated fast enough as on Monday some 5000 flights were
cancelled and thousands more were subject to flight delays. For those
celebrating the 2nd day of Kwanzaa and having the misfortune of
having lost power due to winter storms, on the bright side the red candle burning
to represent Kujichagulia, or self-determination will burn brighter. I hope you enjoy today’s Ridley's Believe It
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not December 27, 2022
Noted Holiday: National Snowflake
Day, not sure who created this day and when but it is celebrated by
cutting out paper snowflakes which seems somewhat of an overkill when the real
stuff is many inches or feet deep and snarling all traffic.
Word
of the Day: The word of the day is “acronyx” which means an ingrown
nail which can be painful and best treat by cutting a “v” in the nail and
rubbing a file across the center of the nail.
Number 1 Song of the Day: The
number 1 song on this day in 1995 was “One Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II
Men on a run of 5 weeks to share with 11 other songs achieving number 1 status
while 5 acts achieved their first number 1 song, Here is a music video
with lyrics of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men performing “One Sweet Day”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
=UXxRyNvTPr8
Noted Birthdays: Hayley Williams, born on this day in 1988,
is the lead vocalist, principal songwriter and keyboardist for the pop rock
band Paramore.
Notable Events that occurred on
December 27
1. 1845—To
the joy and relief of future mothers destined to undergo painful delivery,
Doctor Crawford Long used ether anesthetic for the first time in Jefferson,
Georgia.
2. 1845—Having previously coined the term “manifest
destiny” in July, journalist John L. O’Sullivan argued in his newspaper The New
York Morning News that the United States had the right and duty to claim
all of the Oregon Territory.
3. 1929—Soviet
General Secretary ordered the liquidation of the “kulaks” as a class in Ukraine
through mass murder, starvation and deportation.
4. 1978—Spain
became a democracy after 40 years of General Franco’s fascist rule commencing
from his victory in the Spanish Civil War.
5. 1989—The Romanian Revolution which
resulted in the execution of Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elana on Christmas Day
came to an end with minor street protests and stray shootings in Bucharest.
Quotes
of the Day: Eugene Lyons, United Press correspondent in Russia during
the genocide of the Ukrainian kulaks on complicity of foreign journalists blind
to the killings: “ The truth is that we did not seek corroboration for the
simple reason that we entertained no doubts on the subject. There are facts too
large to require eyewitness confirmation. … Inside Russia the matter was not
disputed. The famine was accepted as a matter of course in our casual
conversation at the hotels and in our homes.”
Garath Jones, a 27 year old former secretary to
Britain’s Prime Minister David Lloyd George who managed to visit 20 villages
and broke the story of the famine to the West: “I crossed the border from Great
Russia into the Ukraine. Everywhere I talked to peasants who walked past. They
all had the same story.” “There is no bread. We haven’t had bread for over
two months. A lot are dying.” The first village had no more potatoes left and
the store of burak (“beetroot”) was running out.” “They all
said:” “The cattle are dying, nechevo kormit’ [there’s nothing
to feed them with]. We used to feed the world & now we are hungry. How can
we sow when we have few horses left? How will we be able to work in the fields
when we are weak from want of food?”
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