Legacy Family Tree News

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Legacy Family Tree News

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:

Legacy Family Tree News

Climbing My Family Tree

Genealogy Bank

Jayne Shrimpton’s Blog

Genealogy’s Star

Find My Past

Ancestry Insider

Granite in my Blood

The Genealogy blog     

Dear Mytle

Photo Detective

Genealogue

Genea-Musings

Ancestry.com/blog               

Today in History

1626 The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.

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 state's Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent "the adulteration of food or drugs."

1894 The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.

1910 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory.

1912 Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.

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, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt.

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 complete tandem bicycle ride around the world, a record 18,020 miles (29,000.4 km).

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.

Chuck Berry

1989 Chuck Berry performs his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of Voyager II's encounter with the planet Neptune.

1991 Moldavia declares independence from USSR.

1993 The Rainbow Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay, completed.

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)

C.S. Forester

1899 C.S. Forester, novelist and author of the Horatio Hornblower series

1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States (1963-1969).

1910 Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and Nobel Peace Prize winner

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

Sarah Chalke

1977 Sarah Chalke, actress (Roseanne TV series)

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 or Worcester to Wooster.
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); Feb 24, 1997.

"'I'm no doctor, but they say I just fainted,' said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode."
NHL Report; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Oct 20, 2010.

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)

Ingredients:
1 (3 pound) pork butt
1 cup bbq sauce
4 buns
2 cups coleslaw

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.

ENJOY!

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Climbing My Family Tree

Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s genealogy blog

Climbing My Family Tree

Genealogy Tip for today:  I LIKE this blog! It’s easy to read and the blogger has interesting posts. A lot of her entries are about research on her family. But it tells you how she found her information. So, even though it is familial it is also educational. 

She also tells about going to the recent FGS conference (Federation of Genealogical Societies) which was held last weekend in Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you don’t recognize the significance of that town, it is home of the famous “ACPL” – Allen County Public Library which is nationally known (if not more so) for its genealogy department. It is one of three top genealogy collections/libraries in the country.  

Her blog is also full of pictures of family members. She has tabs at the top for the different lines she is pursuing in her family. This makes it easy, if you have a common line, to pop in and see if you connect.

Stop by today and have a look around. I think you’ll enjoy your visit. 

As always, if you like what you see here, and like where we send you, drop us a comment so we will know if we are reaching anyone or being of any help to you.

Blogs reviewed to date:

Climbing My Family Tree

Genealogy Bank

Jayne Shrimpton’s Blog

Genealogy’s Star

Find My Past

Ancestry Insider

Granite in my Blood

The Genealogy blog

Dear Mytle

Photo Detective

Genealogue

Genea-Musings

Ancestry.com/blog

Today in History

1017 Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manikert, Eastern Turkey.

Joan of Arc

1429 Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.

1789 The Constituent Assembly in Versailles, France, approves the final version of the Declaration of Human Rights.

1862 Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson encircles the Union Army under General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

1883 The Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupts in the largest explosion recorded in history, heard 2,200 miles away in Madagascar. The resulting destruction sends volcanic ash up 50 miles into the atmosphere and kills almost 36,000 people–both on the island itself and from the resulting 131-foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages on the shores of nearby Java and Sumatra.

1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is officially ratified, giving women the right to vote.

1943 The United States recognizes the French Committee of National Liberation.

1957 Edsel

1957 Ford Motor Company reveals the Edsel, its latest luxury car.

1966 South African Defense Force troops attack a People's Liberation Army of Nambia at Omugulugwombashe, the first battle of the 22-year Namibian War of Independence.

1970 A nationwide Women's Strike for Equality, led by Betty Friedan on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment calls attention to unequal pay and other gender inequalities in America.

1977 The National Assembly of Quebec adopts Bill 101, Charter of the French Language, making French the official language of the Canadian province.

Pope John Paul I

1978 Albino Luciani elected to the Papacy and chooses the name Pope John Paul I; his 33-day reign is among the shortest in Papal history.

1978 Sigmund Jähn becomes first German to fly in space, on board Soviet Soyuz 31.

1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.

Birthdays today:

1743 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry who defined the role of oxygen and named it

1874 Lee De Forest, physicist, inventor, considered the father of radio.



Peggy Guggenheim

1875 John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, writer and governor general of Canada, famous for his book The Thirty-Nine Steps.

1898 Peggy Guggenheim, art patron and collector

1906 Christopher Isherwood, English novelist and playwright, author of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the play I am a Camera and the musical and film Cabaret.

1906 Albert Sabin, medical researcher, developed the polio vaccine.



Mother Teresa

1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), missionary, Nobel Prize laureate for her work in the slums of Calcutta



Irving Levine

1922 Irving Levine, journalist; first American television correspondent to be accredited in the Soviet Union

1940 Donald Leroy "Don" LaFontaine, voice-over actor; recorded more than 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers

Prince Richard,
Duke of Gloucester

1944 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George).

1945 Tom Ridge, first US Secretary of Homeland Security

1952 Will Shortz, American puzzle creator and editor.

1957 Nikky Finey (Lynn Carol Finney), poet; won National Book Award (Head Off & Split).

1960 Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

1970 Melissa Ann McCarthy, comedian, writer, producer, Emmy-winning actress (Mike & Molly TV series)

Word for the day:  

apheresis

PRONUNCIATION:

(for 1: uh-FER-i-sis, for 2: af-uh-REE-sis)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word. For example, the change in pronunciation of knife from (k-nyf) to (nyf) or the formation of till from until.
2. A method in which blood is drawn from a donor, one or more blood components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells) are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin aphaeresis, from Greek aphairesis (taking away), from aphairein (to take away), from apo- (away) + hairein (to take). Earliest documented use: 1550.

USAGE:

"Williams gives the Narragansett word in full [poquauhock], though common usage reduced it and Anglicized it through apheresis [to quahog]."
Ray Huling; Harvesting the Bay; Lyons Press; 2012.

"He had quartered in Memphis with Cynthia for weeks, giving over his stem cells through apheresis."
Jan Karon; In the Company of Others; Viking; 2010.

Quote for the day:

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (b. 1932)

August is Sandwich Month

Today’s Recipe

Turkey Waldorf Pocket

Ingredients

1/2 cup(s) (quartered seedless) red grapes
1/2 cup(s) (finely chopped) apple, such as Fuji or Gala
1/2 cup(s) (finely chopped) celery
4 tablespoon(s) (reduced-fat) mayonnaise
4 tablespoon(s) (plain nonfat) yogurt
4 (whole wheat) pita pockets, halved
8 large lettuce leaves
1 pound(s) (sliced oven-roasted) turkey breast

Directions

1. Mix fruit, celery, mayonnaise and yogurt in medium bowl until well combined. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, or until you’re ready to prepare your lunch.

2. Line each pita half with a lettuce leaf and several slices of turkey. Stuff with a scoop of chilled fruit mixture. Wrap each pocket individually in plastic wrap.

ENJOY!

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Genealogy Bank

Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s genealogy blog

 Genealogy Bank

Genealogy Tip for today: It took several tries before I found a blog that I could review for today. I looked at four and two of them are no longer posting, one was not about genealogy, but had ‘family’ in its title, and one was for another country. When I get done reviewing genealogy blogs I may just give you a list of non-current blogs. Their past posts may still be of interest.

Some of the blogs we have found are associated with a commercial website or business. Genealogy Bank is just such a blog. I do like their page presentation. It is clean and easy to navigate. It gives you the beginning of all their posts with a link to the remaining part. It makes it easy to surf down through the posts allowing you to pick the one you want to read further.

Genealogy Bank is a wonderful source of newspapers, letters, documents and other ephemera that are full of genealogical information. They currently are offering a 30 day free trial to their website. This may be all the time, I don’t know. But I do think I will try this out as there are records I haven’t found on other sites.

As stated before, if you like what we are doing here, or if any of the posts have been helpful, or if you have any other kind of comment, please do so. We want to hear from you. We don’t know how far our blog reaches or of anyone it helps unless we hear from you.

Today in History



Mt Vesuvius

79     Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements.

410   German barbarians sack Rome.          

1542  In South America, Gonzalo Pizarro returns to the mouth of the Amazon River after having sailed the length of the great river as far as the Andes Mountains.

1572 Some 50,000 people are put to death in the 'Massacre of St. Bartholomew' as Charles IX of France attempts to rid the country of Huguenots.

1780 King Louis XVI abolishes torture as a means to get suspects to confess.

1814  British troops under General Robert Ross capture Washington, D.C., which they set on fire in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York (Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada.

Charlotte Bronte

1847 Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London.

1869 Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron.

1891 Thomas Edison files a patent for the motion picture camera.

1894 Congress passes the first graduated income tax law, which is declared unconstitutional the next year.     

1896  Thomas Brooks is shot and killed by an unknown assailant begining a six year feud with the McFarland family.

1912 By an act of Congress, Alaska is given a territorial legislature of two houses.

1942 In the battle of the Eastern Solomons, the third carrier-versus-carrier battle of the war, U.S. naval forces defeat a Japanese force attempting to screen reinforcements for the Guadalcanal fighting.

1948 Edith Mae Irby becomes the first African-American student to attend the University of Arkansas.

1954 Congress outlaws the Communist Party in the United States.          

1963 US State Department cables embassy in Saigon that if South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem does not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu as his political adviser the US would explore alternative leadership, setting the stage for a coup by ARVN generals.

1975 The principal leaders of Greece's 1967 coup—Georgios Papadopoulos, Stylianos Pattakos, and Nikolaos Maarezos—sentenced to death for high treason, later commuted to life in prison.  

 John Lennon

1981 Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon.

1989 Colombian drug lords declare "total and absolute war" on Colombia's government, booming the offices of two political parties and burning two politicians' homes.

1989 Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for gambling.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Comunist Party of the Soviet Union; Ukraine declares its independence from USSR.

1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Florida. The Category 5 storm, which had already caused extensive damage in the Bahamas, caused $26.5 billion in US damages, caused 65 deaths, and felled 70,000 acres of trees in the Everglades.

1994 Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) create initial accord regarding partial self-rule for Palestinians living on the West Bank, the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities.

2004 Chechnyan suicide bombers blow up two airliners near Moscow, killing 89 passengers.

2006 Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines "planet."

2010 The Mexican criminal syndicate Los Zetas kills 72 illegal immigrants from Central and South America in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Birthdays today:

1810 Theodore Parker, anti-slavery movement leader

1890 Jean Rhys, writer (Wild Sargasso Sea)

1895 Richard Cushing, the director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith

1898 Malcolm Cowley, poet, translator, literary critic and social historian

1899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (Ficciones)

1905 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, blues singer, a major influence on Elvis Presley

1915 Alice H.B. Sheldon, science fiction writer and artist, CIA photo-intelligence operative, lecturer at American University and major in the U.S. Army Air Force.

1929 Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Movement

1951 Oscar Hijeulos, novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love).



Cal Ripken, Jr.

1960 Calvin "Cal" Ripken, Jr., shortstop and third baseman for Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001) who broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played.

1963 Hideo Kojima, creator and director of video games (Metal Gear series)

1965 Reginald "Reggie" Miller, professional basketball player who set record for most career 3-point field goals (later superseded by Ray Allen); Olympic gold medalist

Alexandre Coste

1973 Grey DeLisle-Griffin, voice-over actress in animated TV shows (The Fairly OddParents) and video games (Diablo III)

2003 Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and former air stewardess Nicole Coste -------- >

Word for the day:  

paresthesia or paraesthesia

PRONUNCIATION:

(par-uhs-THEE-zhuh, -zhee-)

MEANING:

noun: A sensation of pricking, tingling, burning, etc. on the skin.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek para- (at, beyond) + aisthesis (sensation or perception). Ultimately from the Indo-European root au- (to perceive) that also gave us audio, audience, audit, auditorium, anesthesia, aesthetic, anesthetic, esthesia, synesthesia, and obey. Earliest documented use: 1848.

USAGE:

"Cronk muttered to himself, wiggling his right foot in an effort to relieve the paresthesia."
Bruce Banta; A Dead Man's Chest; Xlibris; 2011.

Quote for the day:

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. -Don Marquis, humorist and poet (1878-1937)

August is Sandwich Month

Today’s Recipe







Peanut Butter/Apple Sandwich

Have you ever had a Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich? It is real popular in the south. This makes me think of the PBB sandwich. I like to take apple slices and dip them in peanut butter so I don’t know why I didn’t think of making them into sandwich. I think I will have to try this one. May be you will, too.

Ingredients:

1 apple

Peanut butter

Bread

Directions:

Cut, core and slice up the apple in thin slices. 1 apple may be enough for 2-4 sandwiches. Spread Peanut Butter fully over a slice of bread. Lay apple slices over the Peanut Butter. Put a thin layer of Peanut Butter on the second slice, cover the other half of the sandwich and cut it in half.

ENJOY!

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Jayne Shrimpton's blog

Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s genealogy blog

Jayne Shrimpton

Genealogy Tip for today:

“Hello, I'm Jayne Shrimpton, professional dress historian, picture specialist and 'photo detective'. This is where I blog about my work and favourite images.” 

This is Jayne’s comments on her blog under her own name. She is not a genealogist per se’ or at least her blog isn’t. However her work on photography and her expertise can be a huge asset on your work with ancestor pictures. She does reference “Who Do You Think You Are?” in her blogs so she does have an interest that ties in with genealogy. Her pictures alone tell us that.  

This blog, along with Photo Detective, are good references with helping you do the detective work you sometimes need to do in gleaning family history information from your photos. 

Give this a look-see and let me know what you think.

Today in History

1350 John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France.

Richard III

1485 Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses. [It was Richard III's bones that were recently discovered in England, buried under a present day parking lot.]

1642 Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham.

1717 The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans.

1777 With the approach of General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.

1849 The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies.

Mona Lisa

1911 The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913.

1922 Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush.

1942 Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe.

1945 Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.

1945 Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in repsonse to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh.

1952 Devil's Island's penal colony is permanently closed.

1956 Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco.

1962 OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth's novel, The Day of the Jackal.

1962 The world's first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.

Pope Paul VI

1968 First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota.

1969 Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages.

1971 Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power.

1971 FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ.

1972 International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country's racist policies.

1975 US president Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal.

President Ford avoids a second
assassination attempt

1983 Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos' reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport.

1989 First complete ring around Neptune discovered.

1995 During 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target.

2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building's lobby.

2005 Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3.

Birthdays today:

1647 Denis Papin, inventor of the pressure cooker

Claude Debussy at the piano

1862 Claude Debussy, composer of Clair de Lune

1880 George Herriman, cartoonist, creator of Krazy Kat

1891 Jacque Lipchitz, sculptor

1893 Dorothy Parker, poet, satirist and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table

1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader from 1977 to 1987, held nominal leadership position until his death in 1997.

1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer

1917 John Lee Hooker, blues singer and guitarist

Ray Bradbury

1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer whose works include Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

1934 H. Norman Schwarzkopf, American general and commander of the coalition forces during the Persian Gulf War

1935 Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Shipping News)

1938 Delmar Allen "Dale" Hawkins, pioneer rockabilly singer/songwriter ("Suzy Q").

1939 Valerie Harper, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)

0940 Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher.

1942 Kathy Lennon, singer, member of the Lennon Sisters

Kathy Lennon

1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist who helped develop the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.

1947 Donna Godchaux, singer with The Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band

1950 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney during the administration of Pres. George W. Bush; sentenced to 30 months for felony convictions, his sentence was commuted by Pres. Bush.

1968 Rich Lowry, editor of National Review

1970 Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host.

1986 Kelko Kitagawa, Japanese model and actress (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

Word for the day:

Medusa, a gorgon

gorgon

PRONUNCIATION:

(GOR-guhn)

MEANING:

noun: An ugly, repulsive, or terrifying woman.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes. From Greek gorgos (dreadful). Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE:

"Without warning, she fell to the floor in labor pains, screaming like a gorgon."
Douglas Coupland; Miss Wyoming; Random House; 2000.

Explore "gorgon" in the Visual Thesaurus.

Quote for the day:

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

August is Sandwich Month

Today’s Recipe

Graham Cracker Sandwich

Try this idea for giving kids some variety –

          Graham Crackers with peanut butter and sliced bananas in between, instead of bread.

Check out parenting.com for more ideas.

ENJOY!

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