Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s
genealogy blog
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.
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.
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what we are doing here, or if any of the posts have been helpful, or if you
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Today
in History
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii , Stabiae, Herculaneum
and other smaller settlements.
Mt Vesuvius |
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 |
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 |
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).
1960 Calvin
"Cal" Ripken, Jr., shortstop and third baseman for Baltimore Orioles
(1981–2001) who broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played.
Cal Ripken, Jr. |
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 |
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.
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
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!
Now You Know!
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