Tuesday, September 5, 2006

9/5/06
First off, I got sick at school today and had to leave after 3rd period. I had band practice tonight but I can't attend due to school policy. I need a new three day theme and this was all I could come up with. And for those of you concerned, I'm feeling much better now after some chicken noodle soup and crackers.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1793 - French Revolution: The National Convention voted to implement terror measures, beginning the Reign of Terror.
1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, USA, officially ending the Russo-Japanese War.
1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacked Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
1977 - NASA launched the Voyager 1 spaceprobe, currently the most distant man-made object from Earth.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A pod of hippopotamuses in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, the southernmost of three national parks in the valley of the Luangwa River. Hippo pods generally number up to about 40 individuals. Hippos spend most of their time in shallow water, rarely coming out of that depth. Most hippos that look as though they are floating are in fact standing or lying on the bottom.
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Monday, September 4, 2006

9/4/06
Well, I woke up unusually this morning at 5:30 AM. I don't even get up this early for school. But what I heard on my radio this morning started to make me cry. Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter had died. I grew up watching him and learned so much from him. I really didn't cry but just had watery eyes.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?

TODAY IN HISTORY
476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1260 - Florence and Siena fought in the Battle of Montaperti, as part of the conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines.
1886 - After years of fighting against the U.S. Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered in Arizona.
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
1972 - Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals at the same Olympic games.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Matterhorn is located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, towering over the Swiss town of Zermatt and the Italian town Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche. Long an iconic symbol of Switzerland and the Alps, it was the last major mountain of the range to be climbed, not merely because of its technical difficulty, but of the fear it inspired in early mountaineers. The summit of the Matterhorn was first reached in 1865, after several years of attempts. By today's standards, the climbing is not especially hard, and thousands make the ascent each summer.
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Sunday, September 3, 2006

September 3rd, 2006
Hey everyone, hope you all have had a good weekend so far. I'm using my dad's computer right now which I'm really not suppose to do but oh well. I did finally watch episode 40 of Tsubasa Chronicles (how far are you LB). Ta Ta for now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the world's first airline was DELAG, which operated with zeppelin airships?

TODAY IN HISTORY
301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
1260 - Mamluk forces defeated a Mongol army in Palestine in the Battle of Ain Jalut, marking the point of maximum westward expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1783 - The signing of the Treaty of Paris formally ended the American Revolutionary War.
1901 - The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time in Melbourne.
1976 - The Viking 2 spacecraft landed on Mars and took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A cluster of Moai found in the Rano Raraku crater on Easter Island. These monolithic statues, carved from compressed volcanic ash, may weigh more than 20 tonnes and be more than 6 m (20 ft) tall. About 95% of the 887 moai known to date were constructed at Rano Raraku, where 394 moai still remain visible today. It is not known exactly how the moai were moved, but Pavel Pavel demonstrated that only 17 people with ropes are needed for relatively fast transportation of the statues.
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Saturday, September 2, 2006

My new 3-day theme

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9/2/06
Our football team lost 21-20. Our kicker sucks. He kicked and extra-point attempt into our own team. Another successful show though. The Reds finally won and the Buckeyes start play today. Anyways, hope you have a nice weekend.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Banksia epica is named after two epic journeys the first by Edward John Eyre in 1841 to cross the Nullarbor and the second by John Falconer in 1986 to collect specimens from the same area?

TODAY IN HISTORY
31 BC - Troops under Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium.
1666 - Great Fire of London: A large fire began in London and burned for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Napoleon III of France was captured after the Battle of Sedan; the Second French Empire collapsed within days.
1898 - Forces led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen at the Battle of Omdurman, establishing British dominance in northeastern Africa.
1945 - The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri, formally ending World War II.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A graphical depiction of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, showing how the tsunami radiated from the entire length of the 1,200 km (750 mi) rupture. The leading fronts of the waves appear to hesitate before hitting the shore. This effect occurs because waves slow down in shallower water; tsunamis travel fastest in the deeper ocean.
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Friday, September 1, 2006

9/1/06
Another football game. Well, wish me luck. Hope the first day of September was good. I don't have facts today because my internet doesn't seem to like me, I can only get on a few sites. Well, ta ta for now.
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Thursday, August 31, 2006

8/31/06
Hello everyone, can't remember if I posted this morning around midnight. Anyways, I just want to wish you all happiness and I'm off.
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8/31/06
The Reds are losing again, this time 7-2, currently it is the top of the 9th. Staying up in vain. Given up all hope for them, first time at .500 winning percentage since 4/5/06 when they were 1-1. Haven't been below .500 since 4/4.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that for over 200 years the Ribeira Palace in Lisbon was the residence of the Kings of Portugal until its destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1876 - Abdul Hamid II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when his brother Murad V was deposed.
1888 - In Victorian London, Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim.
1920 - Polish forces, led by their cavalry, defeated the Bolshevik Red Army in the Battle of Komarów.
1986 - After a collision with a freighter, Soviet ocean liner Admiral Nakhimov sank in the Black Sea within 7 minutes, killing 398 on board.
1992 - Pascal Lissouba was inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multi-party presidential election, ending a long history of one-party Marxist rule.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850), inspired by Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, was William-Adolphe Bouguereau's first major work. In this depiction of Hell, Dante and the Roman poet Virgil (in the background) observe a pair of Hell's inhabitants.

In his own time, Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world, but he fell into disregard in the early 20th century, due perhaps to his staunch opposition to the Impressionists. However, today there is a new appreciation of his works, with over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibiting his oeuvre.

I don't promote this picture.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

My new 3-day theme.

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8/30/06
Well, I got 3 hours of sleep last night and I plan on doing the same thing tonight. Gosh darn it was all in vain. The Reds lost again. AHHHHHHH! I really haven't been watching anime since school started. I still need to watch episode 40 of Tsubasa Chronicles.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Mixmath is a Canadian board game similar to Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city.
1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their "One to One" concert at New York's Madison Square Garden to benefit mentally handicapped children. Stevie Wonder and Roberta Flack joined them to perform "Give Peace a Chance."
1993 - The first episode of the Late Show with David Letterman airs on CBS, following Letterman's move from NBC.
2005 - The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached during Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

This diagram in SVG format shows the terminology for the basic fielding positions in the game of cricket, for a right-handed batsman. The area to a right-handed batsman's left is called the leg side or on side, while the off side is to his right. If the batsman is left-handed, the leg and off sides are reversed and the fielding positions are a mirror image of those shown. The 9 mobile fielders (not counting the bowler and wicket-keeper), are allocated to fielding positions, a crucial strategic decision made by the team captain.

Reminder: I don't chose pictures, they chose me.
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