Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s
genealogy blog
Genealogy
Tip for today: This website is not a
blog per se’. But it does post information on a frequent basis, - about every
two days. However sometimes there is more than one ‘post’ on any given date. It
is the “Press Room” for the software of the same name.
It announces new information,
not only about their genealogy software, but also about other events that are
happening, including webinars that you can sign up for and attend. It is
associated with FamilySearch.org, the LDS church, so it also gives you the
latest news from their website as well.
Take a look at this and I
think you will be coming back to this site on a regular basis to keep up with
news in the genealogy world.
Blogs
Researched:
Today in
History
1626 The Danes are
crushed by the Catholic League in Germany
1776 The Americans are
defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
1793 Maximilien
Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris , France
1813 The Allies defeat
Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden.
1861 Union troops make
an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras ,
North Carolina
1862 As the Second
Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County , Virginia
1881 New York
1894 The United States
1910 Thomas Edison
demonstrates the first "talking" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey
1916 Italy declares war on Germany
1928 Fifteen nations
sign the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, outlawing war and calling for the
settlement of disputes through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries
eventually sign the pact.
1941 The Prime
Minister of Japan
1945 B-29
Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps
in China
1963 Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam
1975 Veronica &
Colin Scargill of England
1979 Lord Mountbatten
is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo , Ireland
1984 President Ronald
Reagan announces NASA Teacher in Space project, intended to inspire students
and honor teachers and spur interest in the fields of science, mathematics and
space exploration.
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| Chuck Berry |
1991 Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1993 The Rainbow
Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay
2003 Mars makes its
closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing within 34,646,418
miles (55,758,005 km).
2008 Democrats
nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American nominated by a
major political party for the office of President of the United States
2012 First
interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity.
Birthdays today:
1770 George William
Hegel, German idealist philosopher
1871 Theodore Dreiser,
novelist (Sister Carrie)
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| C.S. Forester |
1908 Lyndon B.
Johnson, 36th president of the United
States
1910 Mother Teresa,
founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta
1915 Walter Heller,
economist; chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (1961-64); suggested a
"War on Poverty" to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and tax cuts to stimulate
the economy.
1929 Ira Levin, author
(Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil)
1931 Sri Chinmoy
(Chinmoy Kumar Ghose), Indian spiritual leader whose teachings attracted a
worldwide following; nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
1943 Tuesday Weld (Susan
Ker Weld), actress; won Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer, 1960 (Looking
for Mr. Goodbar).
1947 Barbara Bach,
actress (The Spy Who Loved Me)
1949 Jeff Cook,
musician, singer with the band Alabama
1950 Charles
Fleischer, actor, (Laverne and Shirley TV series) comedian, voice-over
actor best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
1952 Pee-Wee Herman
(Paul Reubens), actor (Pee-Wee's Playhouse children's TV series, Pee-Wee's
Big Adventure).
1954 Derek Warwick,
Formula 1 race car driver
1975 Jonny (Jonathan)
Moseley, Olympic Gold Medal skier; first Puerto Rican on US Ski Team
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| Sarah Chalke |
1986 Mario (Mario
Dewar Barrett), singer / songwriter ("Let Me Love You"), actor (Freedom
Writers), dancer, model; included on Billboard magazine's Artist of
the Decade list for the 2000s.
1988 Alexa Vega,
actress, singer (Spy Kids movies, Ruby in Ruby & the Rockits
TV series)
Word for the
day:
syncope
PRONUNCIATION:
(SING-kuh-pee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't orWorcester
to Wooster
2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.
1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't or
2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.
ETYMOLOGY:
From
Latin syncope, from Greek synkope (contraction, cutting off), from syn-
(together) + koptein (to cut). Earliest documented use: c. 1400.
USAGE:
"There
were important books on vowel syncope in Greek and Indo-European."
Robert Coleman; Oswald Szemerenyi --Hungary 's
Eclectic Cockney Linguist; The Guardian (London ,
UK
"'I'm no doctor, but they say I just fainted,' said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode."
NHL Report; ThePhiladelphia
Robert Coleman; Oswald Szemerenyi --
"'I'm no doctor, but they say I just fainted,' said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode."
NHL Report; The
Explore "syncope" in the Visual Thesaurus.
Quote for the day:
New opinions are always suspected,
and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already
common. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
August
is Sandwich Month
Today’s
Recipe
BBQ Pulled
Pork Sandwich
from Closet
Cooking
(makes 4+
servings)
Directions:
1. Put the pork in the slow cooker, pour 1/2 cup of the bbq sauce over it and cook on low heat for 8 hours.
2. Remove the pork from the slow cooker and let cool.
3. Meanwhile, skim the fat from the juices, place the juices in a sauce pan and simmer to reduce.
4. Mix as much of the juices as you want into the remaining bbq sauce.
5. When the pork is cool enough to work with, shred it with a pair of forks.
6. Mix the pulled pork bbq sauce.
7. Assemble sandwiches and enjoy.
1. Put the pork in the slow cooker, pour 1/2 cup of the bbq sauce over it and cook on low heat for 8 hours.
2. Remove the pork from the slow cooker and let cool.
3. Meanwhile, skim the fat from the juices, place the juices in a sauce pan and simmer to reduce.
4. Mix as much of the juices as you want into the remaining bbq sauce.
5. When the pork is cool enough to work with, shred it with a pair of forks.
6. Mix the pulled pork bbq sauce.
7. Assemble sandwiches and enjoy.
ENJOY!
Now You Know!
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