Don Lemon has gone to the woodshed to be chastised by the head of CNN Chris Licht and will undergo 2 days of training before will appear on CNN. We hope the “training” will help him to learn that biased based attacks on conservative Red women are no longer acceptable ere his time on CNN will be numbered. Kviv has been ground zero for hundreds of Russian missile attacks and unlike cities in Israel is protected by Iron Dome from death and destruction. Could in be that our Defense Department was terrified for his safety in visiting Kviv today and notified Russia of his trip? As the war in Ukraine approaches its one year anniversary, news of a Kremlin secret plan to within 7 years bring Belarus but into the old Soviet Union fold. What Biden fails to comprehend is that any decrease in the price of oil and natural gas due to an unshackling of our domestic production will threaten Putin’s ability to wage war in the Ukraine. The California State Bar is in a world of hurt as one of its members Sara Jacqueline King who was suspended in 2022 for nonpayment of bar dues and re-admitted has been sued for taking over $10 million of a client’s money to loan fully secured to third parties but instead blew the funds gambling in Las Vegas. In what started as a real Stanford Women shellacking of UCLA turned into in the 4th quarter a very close game with UCLA leading into the last minutes of the game before Stanford went ahead to win by 71-66. I hope you find Ridley's Believe It Or Not worth your time reading and if not please respond with an “Unsubscribe” in the message. As a kid I used to laugh at the antics of the cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn who was a harmless blow hard not like the rooster recently reported on in Cork, Ireland who killed a farmer on whose property he had been moved to for attacking a child by puncturing his leg causing him to bleed to death (here is the face of the killer rooster that should scare anyone: Don Lemon has gone to the woodshed to be chastised by the head of CNN Chris Licht and will undergo 2 days of training before will appear on CNN. We hope the “training” will help him to learn that biased based attacks on conservative Red women are no longer acceptable ere his time on CNN will be numbered. Kviv has been ground zero for hundreds of Russian missile attacks and unlike cities in Israel is protected by Iron Dome from death and destruction. Could in be that our Defense Department was terrified for his safety in visiting Kviv today and notified Russia of his trip? As the war in Ukraine approaches its one year anniversary, news of a Kremlin secret plan to within 7 years bring Belarus but into the old Soviet Union fold. What Biden fails to comprehend is that any decrease in the price of oil and natural gas due to an unshackling of our domestic production will threaten Putin’s ability to wage war in the Ukraine. The California State Bar is in a world of hurt as one of its members Sara Jacqueline King who was suspended in 2022 for nonpayment of bar dues and re-admitted has been sued for taking over $10 million of a client’s money to loan fully secured to third parties but instead blew the funds gambling in Las Vegas. In what started as a real Stanford Women shellacking of UCLA turned into in the 4th quarter a very close game with UCLA leading into the last minutes of the game before Stanford went ahead to win by 71-66. I hope you find Ridley's Believe It Or Not worth your time reading and if not please respond with an “Unsubscribe” in the message. As a kid I used to laugh at the antics of the cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn who was a harmless blow hard not like the rooster recently reported on in Cork, Ireland who killed a farmer on whose property he had been moved to for attacking a child by puncturing his leg causing him to bleed to death (here is the face of the killer rooster that should scare anyone:
Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 20, 2023
Noted Holidays: Presidents’ Day: Celebrating the birthday of George Washington on February 22, 1732
and the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809 but celebrated on the
third Monday to give our hard working federal workers a 3 day weekend.
National Cherry Pie Day: Celebrating
pies made from this delicious fruit which has not even appeared on cherry trees
in Washington, D.C. but probably observed to honor the myth of honesty of a
young George Washington who refused to lie to his father that he had cut down a
cherry tree on the family farm.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “aiger” which means a tidal wave occurring when a flood tide is channeled
into a narrow inlet which if one lived near
the Qiantang river at Hangzhou in China, one would face a tidal wave which could
exceed 4 meters high, spreading out over 3 kilometers wide and traveling with
speeds in excess of 24 kilometers an hour.
Number 1 Song: The number 1
song on this day in 1953 was “Till I Waltz Again with You” by Teresa Brewer on a run of 5 weeks to share
with 9 other songs that achieved number one status. Here is Teresa Brewer performing “Till I Waltz Again with You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkTC0YmfVY
February 20 Famous Birthdays: Cindy Crawford, an iconic model born on this day in 1966 at Dekalb, Illinois who
graduated a valedictorian of her high school and was admitted to Northwestern
University on a scholarship to study chemical engineering but dropped out after
one quarter to pursue a career in modeling which would make her famous
dominating most of the fashion magazines with well over 500 appearances. She
retired from active modeling in 2000 to launch
a cosmetics line and a line of home furnishings. Still alive and well
and as attractive as ever.
February 20 Notable Events
1. 1685—French explorer Rene-Robert
Cavelier established the Fort St. Louis colony which by 1688 half of the
settlers had died from disease and the other half killed by attacks of Karankawa
Indians, save 5 children who were adopted the tribe.
2. 1942—USN Lieutenant Edward O’Hare became
the first American ace in World War II by shooting down 5 Japanese Betty
bombers on this day enroute to attack his carrier. He was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor and after a period of training pilots to face
Japanese tactics to be able to survive combat returned to combat and
unfortunately on November 26, 1943 while flying a Wildcat F6 fighter on a night
mission to intercept Betty bombers armed with torpedoes was shot down and his
body and aircraft never recovered. He will be remembered daily by the thousands
of passengers who pass through the terminals at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport from
or to their planes.
3. 1962—After Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed
one Earth orbit on April 12, 1961, John Glenn in Friendship 7 became the
first American to orbit the Earth which he did for three times before splashing
down safely in the ocean.
4. 1986—The Soviet Union successfully
launched into orbit its MIR space station where it would remain for 15 years,
10 which it was occupied.
5. 2003—at a Great White concert at The Station,
a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island a pyrotechnic display part of the
concert set fire to the acoustic padding in the walls of the stage, causing the
building to be totally engulfed in less than 6 minutes, killing 100 and injuring
some 230, making it the 4th deadliest nightclub fire in the nation.
Famous Quote on Notable Events Or
Persons: Edward O’Hare’s Medal of Honor Citation: “For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in aerial combat, at grave risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty, as section leader and pilot of Fighting Squadron 3 on
February 20, 1942. Having lost the assistance of his teammates, Lieutenant
O'Hare interposed his fighter between his ship and an advancing enemy formation
of 9 attacking twin-engine heavy bombers. Without hesitation, alone and
unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation, at close range in the
face of intense combined machine gun and cannon fire. Despite this concentrated
opposition, Lieutenant O'Hare, by his gallant and courageous action, his
extremely skillful marksmanship in making the most of every shot of his limited
amount of ammunition, shot down 5 enemy bombers and severely damaged a sixth
before they reached the bomb release point. As a result of his gallant
action—one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the
history of combat aviation—he undoubtedly saved his carrier from serious
damage.”
© 2/20/2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on events of the day
Commissioned unique poems
Ridley’s
Believe It Or Not February 20, 2023
Noted Holidays: Presidents’ Day: Celebrating the birthday of George Washington on February 22, 1732
and the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809 but celebrated on the
third Monday to give our hard working federal workers a 3 day weekend.
National Cherry Pie Day: Celebrating
pies made from this delicious fruit which has not even appeared on cherry trees
in Washington, D.C. but probably observed to honor the myth of honesty of a
young George Washington who refused to lie to his father that he had cut down a
cherry tree on the family farm.
Word of the Day: The word
of the day is “aiger” which means a tidal wave occurring when a flood tide is channeled
into a narrow inlet which if one lived near
the Qiantang river at Hangzhou in China, one would face a tidal wave which could
exceed 4 meters high, spreading out over 3 kilometers wide and traveling with
speeds in excess of 24 kilometers an hour.
Number 1 Song: The number 1
song on this day in 1953 was “Till I Waltz Again with You” by Teresa Brewer on a run of 5 weeks to share
with 9 other songs that achieved number one status. Here is Teresa Brewer performing “Till I Waltz Again with You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkTC0YmfVY
February 20 Famous Birthdays: Cindy Crawford, an iconic model born on this day in 1966 at Dekalb, Illinois who
graduated a valedictorian of her high school and was admitted to Northwestern
University on a scholarship to study chemical engineering but dropped out after
one quarter to pursue a career in modeling which would make her famous
dominating most of the fashion magazines with well over 500 appearances. She
retired from active modeling in 2000 to launch
a cosmetics line and a line of home furnishings. Still alive and well
and as attractive as ever.
February 20 Notable Events
1. 1685—French explorer Rene-Robert
Cavelier established the Fort St. Louis colony which by 1688 half of the
settlers had died from disease and the other half killed by attacks of Karankawa
Indians, save 5 children who were adopted the tribe.
2. 1942—USN Lieutenant Edward O’Hare became
the first American ace in World War II by shooting down 5 Japanese Betty
bombers on this day enroute to attack his carrier. He was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor and after a period of training pilots to face
Japanese tactics to be able to survive combat returned to combat and
unfortunately on November 26, 1943 while flying a Wildcat F6 fighter on a night
mission to intercept Betty bombers armed with torpedoes was shot down and his
body and aircraft never recovered. He will be remembered daily by the thousands
of passengers who pass through the terminals at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport from
or to their planes.
3. 1962—After Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed
one Earth orbit on April 12, 1961, John Glenn in Friendship 7 became the
first American to orbit the Earth which he did for three times before splashing
down safely in the ocean.
4. 1986—The Soviet Union successfully
launched into orbit its MIR space station where it would remain for 15 years,
10 which it was occupied.
5. 2003—at a Great White concert at The Station,
a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island a pyrotechnic display part of the
concert set fire to the acoustic padding in the walls of the stage, causing the
building to be totally engulfed in less than 6 minutes, killing 100 and injuring
some 230, making it the 4th deadliest nightclub fire in the nation.
Famous Quote on Notable Events Or
Persons: Edward O’Hare’s Medal of Honor Citation: “For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in aerial combat, at grave risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty, as section leader and pilot of Fighting Squadron 3 on
February 20, 1942. Having lost the assistance of his teammates, Lieutenant
O'Hare interposed his fighter between his ship and an advancing enemy formation
of 9 attacking twin-engine heavy bombers. Without hesitation, alone and
unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation, at close range in the
face of intense combined machine gun and cannon fire. Despite this concentrated
opposition, Lieutenant O'Hare, by his gallant and courageous action, his
extremely skillful marksmanship in making the most of every shot of his limited
amount of ammunition, shot down 5 enemy bombers and severely damaged a sixth
before they reached the bomb release point. As a result of his gallant
action—one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the
history of combat aviation—he undoubtedly saved his carrier from serious
damage.”
© 2/20/2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
Poems on events of the day
Commissioned unique poems
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