Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Midday Update 7/whatever today is/06
Boy, my life has been slow. Tomorrow is finally the today I'll do something. Band, yea. Can't wait to make people do push-ups. So fun. I really try not to torture people but some of them are idiots. The person who writes is really starting to slack off. Totally don't know what the heck that thing is.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Pachirisu is a fictitious Electric Squirrel Pokémon that can shock opponents?

TODAY IN HISTORY
64 - The Great Fire of Rome burned completely out of control, while Roman Emperor Nero reportedly played his lyre and sang as he watched the blaze from a safe distance.
1863 - American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, saw action against the Confederacy's Fort Wagner.
1925 - Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1944 - General Hideki Tojo was forced to resign as Prime Minister of Japan after a series of setbacks towards the end of World War II.
1982 - The Guatemalan army and allied paramilitaries slaughtered upwards of 250 Maya campesinos in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
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Monday, July 17, 2006

Doesn't This Take You Back

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Afternoon Update 7/17/06
Well, I stayed up til 7:30 AM. Wow, I actually saw the sun rise. I'm so screwed when band 3-a-days come.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Vitebsk Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg contains a replica of the first train used in the Russian Empire?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon (pictured) surrendered to British forces at Rochefort, France, ending the Hundred Days.
1936 - Nationalist rebels in Spain attempted a coup d'etat against the Second Spanish Republic, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
1945 - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry S. Truman met at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer post-World War II Germany.
1975 - History of East Timor: East Timor was annexed and became the 27th province of Indonesia.
1998 - Biologists reported in the scientific journal Science how they sequenced the genome of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.
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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Morning Update 7/16/06
Here is the situation, 2 outs, runner on 2nd, bottom of the 9th, Reds down by 1. Jason LaRue came to the plate, got hit by a pitch. Runners on first and second, Edwin Encarnacion pinch hitting, got hit by a pitch. Bases loaded, 2 outs for the Birthday Boy Chris Denorfia (who is a rookie). Hits a chopper toward the shortstop, it gets past the shortstop, 2 runs come in and this one belongs to the Reds. I also got a bunch of hats so if you want a Reds hat, I might be able to get you one. I'm sorry I'm not commenting much but I really haven't felt like commenting.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Fremantle Arts Centre was originally known as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was built between 1861 and 1868 by British convicts?

TODAY IN HISTORY
622 – Beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1918 – Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family at Ekaterinburg.
1945 – Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
1979 – Saddam Hussein took over as President of Iraq, succeeding Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
1994 – The planet Jupiter was hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Morning Update 7/15/06
So I'm going down to Great American Ballpark for my birthday. I get to have a tour of the stadium and then the Reds Hall of Fame. Then the Reds take on the Colorado Rockies as the guy who looks like me takes the mound (he copied me, I was a Reds fan before he was a Reds player). Oh yes, I'm through 30 episodes of Tsubasa Chronicles and now I have watched 10 of Steven Colbert's 435 part series, better know a district.

DID YOU KNOW...
...alchemy refers to both an early protoscientific and an early philosophical discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1410 - The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald.
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, was executed for his role in the Monmouth Rebellion.
1799 - French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
1806 - The Pike expedition, led by Zebulon Pike to explore the Louisiana Territory, began near St. Louis, Missouri.
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons.
1974 - Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, was overthrown in a coup d'état.
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Friday, July 14, 2006

My brother joins
Hey everyone. My brother recently started his own MyOtaku. His name is whitestorm. But take caution, he is the complete opposite of me. He has short hair. He doesn't like sports and doesn't have anything in common except the blood. Here is a link to whitestorm's site
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Midnight Update 7/14/06
I'm staying up late watching M*A*S*H. I need to get a life. Thank God the Reds won for the first time since Friday. Oh yea, today's facts are very interesting.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that I was born on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in France?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1789 - French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille.
1798 - The Sedition Act became United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1933 - Gleichschaltung: All political parties in Germany were outlawed, except the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1958 - King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by Abdul Karim Qassim.
1965 - Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet.
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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Afternoon Update 7/13/06
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I know none of you care but the Reds made an 8 player trade with the Nationals of Washington. I have done nothing for a long time. Band for me hasn't started even though it has already started for GN and LB.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that in the Battle of Wêgierska Górka, four unfinished and undermanned Polish bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1772 - HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England, under the command of Captain James Cook.
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, a leader in the French Revolution, was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
1878 - The major powers in Europe redrew the map of the Balkans in the Treaty of Berlin.
1923 - The Hollywoodland Sign was officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, California. The last four letters of the sign were later removed in 1949.
1985 - Live Aid benefit concerts, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held in London and Philadelphia.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Congradulations
Congradulations to Little Birdie who won my first contest. The correct answer was Animaniacs. She has won an e-card from me. YEA! Future contests are planned with many more prizes (probably more e-cards) that will be fun (I hope) for all of you. Please participate. Next up is a question that seems to have no right answer.
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Evening Update 7/12/06
Well, I have a meeting in 15 minutes so I won't be able to visit sites. No winner in the contest yet. Doesn't anyone care to win the prize. It is a nice prize. I watched Tenchi on Love 2 today.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Ogyu Sorai is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian philosophers in Japan during the Tokugawa period?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1543 - King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first Bible in Old Church Slavonic, was printed in Ostroh, Ukraine by Ivan Fyodorov.
1806 - Sixteen German imperial states left the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine.
1862 - The U.S. Army Medal of Honor was first authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal.
1979 - The Gilbert Islands gained independence and became known as Kiribati.
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