Friday, October 6, 2006

10/6/06
Another day bites the dust and suddenly I now know that life has become boring again. A good boring but still boring.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that credit and royalties for the 1968 Arthur Brown song "Fire" had to be shared due to similarities to another song, "Baby, You're a Long Way Behind"?

TODAY IN HISTORY
105 BC - The Cimbri and the Teutons inflicted a major defeat on the Roman Republic in the Battle of Arausio.
1927 - The first successful talking movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.
1976 - Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China.
1981 - Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
1995 - An article in the journal Nature reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Aerial view of the tip of Manhattan, New York, 1942.
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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Just a quick question
What do you like about my site the most? Pictures, info, me, songs, ect.
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10/5/06
Short and Sweet. I've been watching MLB playoffs, getting lots of homework, finishing lots of homework and waiting for my countdown to reach 0. I have 2 picture of the days.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Hurricane Alberto of 2000 completed the largest loop ever observed over the Atlantic Ocean?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1877 - After battling U.S. armed forces for more than three months, retreating over 1,000 miles across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, and enduring a five-day siege, Chief Joseph and his Nez Percé band finally surrendered.
1908 - Prince Ferdinand became the first Tsar of Bulgaria since the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century.
1930 - The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.
1969 - The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on BBC1.
1970 - Members of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped a British diplomat, sparking the October Crisis in Montréal, Canada.

PICTURES OF THE DAY

Horses race on grass at the 2006 Tambo Valley Races in Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia. Horseracing is the third most popular spectator sport in Australia, behind Australian rules football and rugby league, with almost 2 million admissions to the 379 racecourses throughout Australia in 2002–03.


A fish-eye view curves the fixed service structure toward Space Shuttle Atlantis as it leaps off Launch Pad 39B, propelled by columns of fire from the solid rocket boosters. At the lower left is the White Room that, when extended against Atlantis, gave the mission crew access to the orbiter.
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3-day theme
Shooting Star from Please Teacher
Selected by LittleBirdie

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Wednesday, October 4, 2006

10/4/06
Sorry for not commenting on anyones stuff but my computer won't let me. It's always the this computer, never my dad's, never the school's, always mine. Anyways, I have a performance tonight to help raise money for the band. Well, hope you all have a pleasant tomorrow (and today). Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the first American ship sunk in World War II hit a German mine off Cape Otway in the Southern Ocean?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1830 - Belgian Revolution: A provisional government in Brussels declared the creation of the independent and neutral state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1883 - The Orient Express began operations.
1910 - Manuel II, the last King of Portugal, fled to the United Kingdom when a revolution erupted in Lisbon and his palace was shelled. The Portuguese First Republic was proclaimed the next day.
1957 - Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 was launched by an R-7 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR and became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombarded the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Hacha Grande (562m), in the south of the Canary Island of Lanzarote, viewed from the road to the Monumento Natural de los Ajaches (Punta de Papagayo). Lanzarote is a volcanic island with very low rainfall; much of the south of the island is desert and a barren expanse of lava flows.
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Some unworldly unbearable news,
180 days until Opening Day. AHHHHHHHHHHHHh. Worse than Homework. I got it done but probably not correctly because I turned my homework in and then left the class (French) to have a meeting with UC 3rd period.
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10/3/06
Don't Have Time, Must Do Homework.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that when Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Lincoln's White House went into mourning?

TODAY IN HISTORY
2333 BC - Dangun, a mythical figure, established the Kingdom of Go-Joseon (present-day Korea).
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd the Prince of Wales, the last native ruler of Wales to resist English domination, was executed by drawing and quartering.
1935 - Italy invaded Ethiopia, igniting the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
1990 - German reunification: The five re-established German states (Bundesländer) of East Germany formally joined West Germany.
1993 - Soldiers from Malaysian, Pakistani and U.S. armed forces attempted to capture Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in the Battle of Mogadishu.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The points show the locations of the storms at six-hourly intervals.

NEED HELP ON HOMEWORK. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Monday, October 2, 2006

Wow, I just sent a lot of e-mails and if you didn't recieve one from me, it either means I don't have your e-mail or I skipped you on accident. Well, now I have a headache and will be heading to bed. Ta Ta For Now.
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10/2/06
So exhausted. I though I would release school stress by going to the UC-Miami game but I think I made it worse. I couldn't stay 100% awake for 5 consecutive minutes. Anyways, during lunch, apparently there was a fight between two freshman and it reaffirmed my belief of how I hate HS freshman. At least most freshman (any freshman on otaku are cool because they get what is really cool in life, Anime). Also, our band director (Mr. Goretta) talked to the band today (I knew it was coming) about how horrible we are as a group and I believed every word he said. Well, I hope you like the theme and if you don't feel free to suggest, so far I've only gotten 3 from LB (2 were the same song) and 1 from GN. So I added something, if you suggest a song from 10/2/06 on, I will put your song up and get you something else (PRIZES RULE). Also, today's picture has something to do with Japanese culture (And there was much rejoicing). Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Paramarines was a short-lived parachute-trained unit of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, but its members were never dropped by parachute into combat?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1187 - The Siege of Jerusalem: Ayyubid forces led by Saladin captured Jerusalem, prompting the Third Crusade.
1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached an Iroquois fort on the island now known as Montréal.
1835 - Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
1928 - Saint Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church.
1950 - Peanuts, a syndicated comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, featuring Charlie Brown and his pet beagle Snoopy, was first published in major newspapers.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Wikipe-tan, a moé anthropomorphization of Wikipedia, similar in theme to an OS-tan. In Japanese animation, "moé" characters are those designed to elicit a protective or loving response from the audience. Moé anthropomorphism is a form of anthropomorphism where moé qualities are given to non-human beings, objects, concepts, or phenomena. Like many moé characters, Wikipe-tan is designed to be a cute young girl, and this image shows her in a maid costume.
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3-day theme
I decided on this one.
Batman

Note: LB, I put up Shooting Star sometime recently and I'm want to get through more songs before going back to Shooting Star. Also, I have 4 other TV/Movie Themes ready but I will still accept requests. Requests will be posted before the ones I chose.
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