The Progeny
Hols of the Day
Yes, it's a little late but then, who cares?
First of all, mention should be made that yesterday is the anniversary of when King Tut's tomb was discovered. This is probably not coincidental to the unveiling of the real King Tut's face on the news shows.
Most absurd quote I heard from a lady tourist, "He looks so good!"
It's my guess she'd indulged too much on November 2nd, which was National Deviled Egg Day.
At any rate, today is:
The birthday of both Art Garfunkle AND Paul Simon (hey, I listened to them when I was growing up...right along with Peter, Paul and Mary. It was what my oldest brother was listening to :-)
National Donut Day
Gunpowder Day
Guy Fawks Day
It helps to do a little reading on that last one, and then Gunpowder Day makes sense.
This day in history:
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956 Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
2007 Ma Hoyt goes grocery shopping for approximately the 1372nd time and forgets an item for the 1000th time.
2007 Jason Hoyt blogs about his computer competition experience
Ma's Quote of the Day:
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First of all, mention should be made that yesterday is the anniversary of when King Tut's tomb was discovered. This is probably not coincidental to the unveiling of the real King Tut's face on the news shows.
Most absurd quote I heard from a lady tourist, "He looks so good!"
It's my guess she'd indulged too much on November 2nd, which was National Deviled Egg Day.
At any rate, today is:
The birthday of both Art Garfunkle AND Paul Simon (hey, I listened to them when I was growing up...right along with Peter, Paul and Mary. It was what my oldest brother was listening to :-)
National Donut Day
Gunpowder Day
Guy Fawks Day
It helps to do a little reading on that last one, and then Gunpowder Day makes sense.
This day in history:
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1872 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956 Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
2007 Ma Hoyt goes grocery shopping for approximately the 1372nd time and forgets an item for the 1000th time.
2007 Jason Hoyt blogs about his computer competition experience
Ma's Quote of the Day:
"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."-- T. S. Eliot
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posted by Ma Hoyt | 6:52 PM
2 Comments:
It's hard to believe, but I don't think I ever knew anything about Susan B. Anthony.
Education begins when school is done....when one can read up on what one wants :-)
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