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Tip for today: I like this blog! Each article on the front page shows
the first couple of inches. Therefore it shows several articles this way, allowing you to
surf down through the titles and click on the one you want to read further. They keep you up-to-date with posts about new information that's now on the web, what's available on their website and articles of other relevance as well.
The layout is clean, inviting
and easy to navigate. The side bar gives other links that you can click on and
visit. This blog, of course, is associated to the website of the same name and
a lot of “commercializing” is done. But that can be to your advantage if they
are offering something you need.
There is no rhyme or reason to
timing of their postings. They are irregular from 2 a day, to gaps of 6 weeks
or more. However don’t let that dissuade you. They have good articles and even
the older ones are still useful to browse.
Today in
History
917 A Byzantine
counter-offensive is routed by Syeon at Anchialus ,
Bulgaria .
1619 The first group of
twenty Africans is brought to Jamestown ,
Virginia .
John Milton |
1667 John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve.
1741Danish navigator Vitus
Jonas Bering, commisioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting
Asia and North America, discovers America .
1794 American General
"Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats the Ohio
Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Northwest
territory , ending Indian resistance in the area.
1847 General Winfield Scott
wins the battle of Churubusco on his drive to Mexico City .
1904 Dublin 's Abbey Theatre is founded, an
outgrowth of the Irish Literary Theatre founded in 1899 by William Butler Yeats
and Lady Gregory.
1908 The American Great White
Fleet arrives in Sydney , Australia , to a warm welcome.
1913 700 feet above Buc,
France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an
airplane and land safely.
1914 Russia wins an early victory over Germany at
Gumbinnen.
Murder of Leon Trotsky |
1940 Radar is used for the
first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain. Also on this day, in a
radio broadcast, Winston Churchill makes his famous homage to the Royal Air
Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many
to so few."
1941 Adolf Hitler authorizes
the development of the V-2 missile.
1944 United States and British forces close the
pincers on German units in the Falaise-Argentan pocket in France .
1956 USSR publicly
acknowledges it tested a hydrogen bomb eight days earlier.
1955 Hundreds killed in
anti-French rioting in Morocco
and Algeria .
1960 USSR recovers 2
dogs, Belka and Strelka, the first animals to be launched into orbit and
returned alive (Sputnik 5).
1961 East Germany begins erecting a wall along
western border to replace barbed wire put up Aug 13; US 1st Battle Group, 18th
Infantry Division arrives in West Berlin .
1964 US President
Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty
measure totaling nearly $1 billion, as part of his War on Poverty.
1968 Some 650,000 Warsaw Pact
troops invade Czechoslovakia
to quell reformers there.
1971 The Cambodian military
launches a series of operations against the Khmer Rouge.
Pres. Gerald Ford |
1978 NASA launches Viking 1;
with Viking 2, launched a few days later, provided high-resolution mapping of
Mars, revolutionizing existing views of the planets.
1979 The Penmanshiel
Diversion on the the East Coast Main Line rail route between England and
Scotland opens, replacing the 134-year-old Penmanshiel Tunnel that had
collapsed in March.
1980 UN Security Council
condemns Israel 's
declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital; vote is 14-0, with US
abstaining.
1982 A multinational force
including 800 US Marines lands in Beirut ,
Lebanon , to
oversee Palestinan withdrawal during the Lebanese Civil War.
1986 Part-time mail carrier
Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 fellow workers killing 14 at Edmond
Okla. , the first mass shooting by an
individual in an office environment in the US . His actions give rise to the
phrase "going postal," for sudden violent outbursts.
1990 Iraq moves
Western hostages to military installations to use them as human shields against
air attacks by a US-led multinational coalition.
1991 After an attempted coup
in the Soviet Union, Estonia
declares independence from the USSR .
1993 Secret negotiations in Norway lead to
agreement on the Oslo Peace Accords, an attempt to resolve the ongoing
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
White Buffalo (Not Albino) |
1994 Miracle, the Sacred
White Buffalo, born on Heider Farm near Janesville ,
Wisc. The first white (not albino) buffalo born since 1933, she was a important
religious symbol for many US and Canadian Indian tribes.
1998 The Supreme Court of Canada rules Quebec
cannot legally secede from Canada
without the federal government's approval.
1998 US launches cruise
missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected
chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 A group of Iraqis
opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein seize the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin ; after five hours
they release their hostages and surrender.
Birthdays today:
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd
President of the United
States and grandson of President William
Henry Harrison
1890 H.P. Lovecraft, author of
horror tales; created the Cthulhu mythos
1905 Jack Teagarden, jazz
trombonist
1941 Slobodan Milocevic,
President of Serbia (1989–1997) and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(1997–2000); tried by UN's International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes but
died before trial concluded
1942 Isaac Hayes, composer,
musician, actor, voice-over actor; co-wrote "Soul Man," won Academy
Award for his composition "Theme from Shaft."
1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime
Minster of India
1952 John Hiatt,
singer/songwriter ("Have a Little Faith in Me")
1958 Patricia Rozema, film
director, screenwriter (Mansfield
Park )
1974 Amy Adams ,
actress; multiple nominations for Academy Awards, Golden Globe and BAFTA awards
(Enchanted, The Fighter)
Procrustes
PRONUNCIATION:
(pro-KRUS-teez)
MEANING:
noun: A person imposing conformity
without concern for individuality.
ETYMOLOGY:
After
Procrustes, a giant in Greek mythology, who stretched or cut his victims to
make them fit his bed. He was killed by Theseus. From Greek Procroustes
(stretcher). The word is more often used in its adjective form procrustean. Earliest
documented use: 1581.
USAGE:
"But
is not almost every man a Procrustes? We have not the power of showing our
cruelty exactly in the same method, but actuated by the like spirit, we abridge
of their liberty, and torment by scorn, all who either fall short, or exceed
the usual standard."
Sarah Scott; Millennium Hall; Broadview Press; 1995.
Sarah Scott; Millennium Hall; Broadview Press; 1995.
Quote for
the day:
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The
greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)
August
is Sandwich Month
Today’s
Recipe
Monte Cristo Sandwich
Ingredients
2
slices bread
1
teaspoon mayonnaise
1
teaspoon prepared mustard
2
slices cooked ham
2 slices cooked turkey meat
1 slice Swiss cheese
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
Directions
Spread
bread with mayonnaise and mustard. Alternate ham, Swiss and turkey slices on
bread.
Beat
egg and milk in a small bowl. Coat the sandwich with the egg and milk mixture.
Heat a greased skillet over medium heat, brown the sandwich on both sides.
Serve hot.
[Bloggers note: I have seen these served with powdered sugar sprinkled on them and raspberry jam served on the side, as seen in the picture.]
ENJOY!
Now You Know!
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