February 15, 2023 Ridley's Believe It or Not

 

The Chiefs fans were lining up for the victory parade today a 6:00 A.M. in the morning and the parade route was soon packed with fans with Patrick Mahomes swizzling beers while holding up his MVP silver football in one hand and Kelce snagging a Fireball thrown up at him from a fan to quaff in down while most of the Chiefs were vowing they would be back on the route next year with another win. Raquel Welch passed at 82 and the residents of East Palestine, the scene of a massive train derailment on some 110 rail cars are not buying the EPA’s assurances that with toxic fires burning and toxic clouds soaring into the sky that it is safe to return to their homes. In a great day for chickens but not necessarily for customers, McDonald’s is introduced chicken free plant base chicken nuggets in Germany. Hope you find Ridley's Believe It Or Not worth your time reading and if not please respond with an “Unsubscribe” in the message. 
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 15, 2023
          Noted Holidays: National St. Skeletor’s Day: Created by British Comedian Richard Herring in 1998 to commiserate on the day after Valentine’s with those single people who had not valentine to share a date with or to send a card to or receive a card from but who will probably receive no sympathy from the likes of Hallmark Cards, Sees Chocolates or the American Florists Association, all of whom and their members reap in huge dollars for Valentine’s Day.
          Word of the Day:  The word of the day is “agnosy” which describes a lack of enlightenment which describes too many of our elected or appointed officials in their views of us mere mortals.
          Number 1 Song: The number 1 song on this day in 1958 was “At The Hop” by Danny and the Juniors on a run of 7 weeks to share with 25 other songs that achieved number one status while 8 acts  achieved their first number one status. Here is Danny and the Juniors performing in suits and ties  “At The Hop”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3KjDpvmtwU  Although the group released several singles, 1 of which reach the top forty they were never able to replicate the success of “At The Hop.”
          February 15 Famous Birthdays:  Miep Giel, a very brave Dutch citizen born on this day in 1909 who helped hide Anne Frank and members of her family  for two years and kept Anne Frank’s diary safe from discovery to have it published in 1947 to aid the world in trying to cope with the atrocity to trump all atrocities The Holocaust. This brave lady who never called herself a hero, died on January 10, 2010 after a fall a month before her 101^st birthday.
          February 15 Notable Events
          1.     1879—In needed glass shattering event President Hayes signs a bill allowing women attorneys to practice in front of SCOTUS.
          2.     1933— in Miami, Giuseppe Zangara tried to  assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt but missed and wounds 5 others including Chicago mayor Anton J. Cernak who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. Zangara pled guilty to murder and attempted murder and was executed in the electric chair om March 20. 1933 with these final words: "Viva l'Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Push the button! Go ahead, push the button!”
          3.     1992—Jeffrey Dahmer, aka the Milwaukie Cannibal, was sentenced to 15 life sentences which in prison justice was proved to be much shorter as he was beaten to death on November 28, 1984 by  a fellow prison inmate, Christopher Scarver.
          4.      2001—Nature published the first draft of the complete human genome project.
          5.      2003—Worldwide protests against the impending Iraq War by the U.S. and a U.S. led coalition smaller than the first Gulf War coalition that would invade Iraq on March 19 to find nonexistent WMD’s begin with upwards of 8 million plus protestors which sadly and with great ultimate fiscal cost to the U.S. did not deter the invasion and overthrow and execution of Saddam Hussein.
          Famous Quotes on Notable Events Or Persons:  Miel Giel: “My story is a story of very ordinary people during extraordinarily terrible times. Times of which I hope will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see that they do not.”
Miel Giel: “The message to take from Anne’s story is to stop prejudice and discrimination right at its beginning. Prejudice starts when we speak about THE Jews, THE Arabs, THE Asians, THE Mexicans, THE Blacks, THE Whites. This leads to the feeling that all members of each such group think and act the same.”
Miel Giel “If any German had ever asked Anne to tell something about herself, I think she would be still with us today. However, nobody asked: she was just a Jew!”

Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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