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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