Monday, October 16, 2006

10/16/06
Man, I love my theme. Anyways, I saw Cory Shoemaker today and if you don't know who that is, he is one of my previous section leaders. Also, I launched my rocket today, beat the normal bottle (if you are not familiar with this atory, I made a bottle rocket and launched it). Also, I had trombone lessons today with the G-Man (Goretta). He actually said I'm better than where I am in the seating chart (currently 4th). But I really can't brag because he really hasn't listened to each trombone. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia.
1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
2003 - The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees face off in a historic ALCS game 7 at Yankee Stadium. The game ends in dramatic fashion with an Aaron Boone walk off home run.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The American Bison (Bison bison), is a bovine mammal that is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America, and one of the largest wild cattle in the world. With their huge bulk, bison are only surpassed in size by the massive Asian gaur and wild water buffalo, both of which are found mainly in India.
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Sunday, October 15, 2006

10/15/06
"Winning run at 2nd base, we are in the bottom of the 9th inning. Ordonez 0 for 2 in his career against Huston Street. IN THE AIR TO LEFT FIELD, THE TIGERS MARCH TO THE WORLD SERIES!"



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DID YOU KNOW...
...that local farmers would drive rock laden wagons onto the Ada Covered Bridge in Ada, Michigan to prevent it from washing away during floods?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1582 - The Gregorian calendar was implemented to replace the Julian calendar, in use since 45 BC.
1894 - The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French military, was wrongly arrested for treason.
1917 - Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad for spying for Germany.
1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England.
2003 - Chinese space program: Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission was launched, carrying astronaut Yang Liwei.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Detroit Tigers celebrate with Magglio Ordonez (30) who hit a three-run game-winning homerun in the ninth inning to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 and clinch the American League pennant in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series in Detroit, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006.

P.S. Yes, I am rooting for the Tigers in the World Series

P.P.S. Yes, my life was somewhat boring yesterday except for the Tigers.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

10/14/06
Well, our football team lost in double overtime, 31-24. We blew a 17-3 lead. We lost against our rival. We suck. Yesterday was so long since I really had nothing to do.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1066 - Battle of Hastings: The Norman invasion forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.
1773 - The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, was formed in Poland.
1947 - Flying a Bell X-1, test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1953 - Qibya massacre: Israeli military commander Ariel Sharon and his Unit 101 special forces were ordered to "inflict heavy damage on the inhabitants" of a village on the West Bank.
1981 - Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Photograph of a Martian sunset taken by the Spirit rover at Gusev crater, May 19, 2005. Spirit is the first of the two Mars Exploration Rover missions. She successfully landed on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004 and has operated successfully for over one full Martian year or two Earth years. Her twin Opportunity landed successfully on Mars on January 24, 2004.
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Friday, October 13, 2006

10.13.06
And there was much rejoicing, no school today, but, our rivary game is today between Butler and Northmont on this Friday the 13th of October. Well, still somewhat depressed from the accident Wednesday. You know what, I might use a radio call for the next theme, it is known as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" mainly because of our troops in Korea. Sorry I didn't post yesterday but I couldn't get on the computer. I was 2nd period during school but I was busy trying to finish an essay at the last minute.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834?

...that the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof?

YESTERDAY IN HISTORY
1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia
1793 - The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
1892 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits

TODAY IN HISTORY
54 - Claudius was fatally poisoned by his wife Agrippina the Younger, making her 17-year-old son Nero the next Roman Emperor.
1307 - Thousands of members of the Knights Templar were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair and subsequently tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1843 - The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, the oldest continually-operating Jewish service organization in the world, was founded in New York City.
1917 - An estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal witnessed "The Miracle of the Sun."
1943 - World War II: With a new government led by General Pietro Badoglio, parts of Italy switched sides to the Allies and declared war on the Axis Powers.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Siberian, Korean, Manchurian, or North China Tiger, is a critically endangered subspecies of tiger (P. tigris). About 500 individuals are left in the wild, mostly in the regions of Primorye and Khabarovsk of eastern Russia.


The central electrode of a plasma lamp, showing a glowing blue plasma streaming upwards. The colors are a result of the radiative recombination of electrons and ions and the relaxation of electrons in excited states back to lower energy states. These processes emit light in a spectrum characteristic of the gas being excited.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

10/11/06
I soon as I got home, I was given tragic news. Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and current NY Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle died in a plane crash in New York. It justed seemed too sudden for him.

Away from that, my day went pretty well. I really have nothing more to say.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Kennedia nigricans, or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m2 (200 ft2)?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, was inaugurated.
1865 - The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica and was brutally suppressed by Governor Edward John Eyre.
1899 - The Second Boer War erupted in South Africa between the United Kingdom and the Boers.
1954 - Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam.
1968 - NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned mission of the Apollo program.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

An HDR image of Tower Bridge at twilight crossing the Sacramento River in Sacramento, California. Completed in 1935, this was the first vertical lift bridge in the California Highway System. It is 52 feet (15.8 m) wide, 737 feet (223.3 m) long, and 160 feet (48.5 m) tall. There are four lanes for cars, and one large center lane for a railroad.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

10/10/06
Wow, usually don't post this late. Anyways, today, I went to that People. Power. Politics. thing I talked about a long while back. Boring. The only good thing was the free food. Anyways, I think that I have Speed Racer up next, UNLESS you want to suggest a song. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Elm Farm Ollie, in 1930, became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
1911 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1979 - The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Three willow flowers appearing as catkins. Willows are deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Salix, part of the willow family Salicaceae. Willows are dioecious with male and female catkins on different plants; the catkins are produced early in the spring, often before the leaves or as the new leaves open.
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Monday, October 9, 2006

10/9/06
Hey everybody, I'm kinda lazy today, I commented but don't feel like posting. Oh yea, the Reds won the World Series on this date. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that although Saint-Porchaire ware began the French tradition of high ceramic art, only some seventy examples survive?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1514 - Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.
1831 - John Capodistria, the Greek head of state, was assassinated in Náfplio.
1888 - The Washington Monument, then the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
1919 - The Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "defeated" "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the Chicago White Sox to "win" the World Series major league baseball championship by 5 games to 3.
1962 - Uganda became independent from the United Kingdom, with Milton Obote as the first Prime Minister.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Aloe aristata, also known as Torch Plant and Lace Aloe, is a species of aloe indigenous to South Africa and surrounding countries. It is a stemless, and saw-toothed succulent plant. Its nectar-rich flowers tend to attract birds and bees easily.
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Sunday, October 8, 2006

10/8/06
Scooby Doo is invading my site. Anyways, that kid that I babysat turned into a complete brat. I was trying to clean up a mess he made and he started throwing these rubber balls at me. So want to throw a 60 mph fastball into his face, though a curveball would've hurt more (because of the spin). And the downside, I don't get paid until Wednesday. Oh well, the Detroit Tigers and my favorite player, former Cincy Red, #21 Sean Casey (hence the 21 in redlegsfan21) beat the Yankee$ ($200,000,000 team). Well, have to finish homework now. Ta Ta For Now.

3-DAY THEME
Scooby-Doo Theme Song
Suggested by Me (Evil Laughter)


DID YOU KNOW...
...that a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24, 1998 killed over 250 people?

TODAY IN HISTORY
451: The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council in Christianity, opened. It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
1871: Two historic fires, the Great Chicago Fire and Wisconsin's Peshtigo Fire, broke out in the U.S. Midwest.
1962: The Spiegel scandal: Newsmagazine Der Spiegel uncovered the sorry state of the West German armed forces (the Bundeswehr), then facing the communist threat from the east. The magazine was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
1967: Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
2005: A major earthquake killed over 74,500 people in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy in a typical pose of mutual fear, after being confronted by a typical '"Scooby-Doo villain, a ghost from outer-space. From Scooby-Doo, Where are You! season one, episode fourteen ("Spooky Space Kook").
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Saturday, October 7, 2006

10/7/06
Well, our football team got destroyed 54-13. I'm mad at the band (again) and talked to the G-Man (Goretta). Well, I have to babysit today (yes, I know, who in their right mind would do that) but I'm going to try my best and hopefully have fun. One last thing. Today is the last day for the current theme. I have Scooby Doo ready unless someone wants to suggest something or feel the wrath of Scooby Doo. I miss that show. Oh well, I have a question for you all. What ticks you off the most? For me it's those band members who don't work hard (AHHHHHHHHHH). Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the 1985 trademark infringement case of Canfield v. Honickman, involving the makers of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda, continues to be used as an example during the study of trademark product law in the U.S.?

TODAY IN HISTORY
3761 BCE - The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar.
1571 - The Ottoman Empire was decisively defeated by the Christian West for the first time, as a multinational fleet led by Don John of Austria crushed the Turkish navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Berlin.
1985 - The Mediterranean ocean liner Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said.
2003 - California recall: Californians voted to recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A sculler rowing in front of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. Although Brussels is usually considered the 'capital' of the European Union, the Parliament meets monthly in Strasbourg. The rival demands of Belgium and France to base parliament in their state has prevented a final agreement as to which city would become the sole seat of parliament.
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