Fun Friday!!!
On This Date In 1566 Antonio Ghislieri (Pius V) was elected Pope. Pope St. Pius V (17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardisation of the liturgy.
On This Date In 1781 The Battle of Mobile, a British attempt to recapture the town of Mobile (then in the British province of West Florida) from the Spanish during the American Revolutionary War, failed. The Spanish had previously captured Mobile in March 1780. On January 7, 1781, a British attack against a Spanish outpost on the east side of Mobile Bay was repulsed, and the German leader of the expedition was killed.
On This Date In 1918 Houdini performed his largest stage illusion, vanishing Jenny the elephant at New York's Hippodrome.
On This Date In 1943 Nikola Tesla died of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died with significant debts. Later that year the US Supreme Court upheld Tesla's patent number 645576 in a ruling that served as the basis for patented radio technology in the United States.
On This Date In 1945 Hitler agreed to withdraw forces from the Ardennes, including the SS panzer divisions, thus ending all offensive operations. Erasing the Bulge - The Allied counterattack, December 26 - January 25 was to be a success. read more: http://timelines.com/1945/1/7/hitler-agrees-to-withdraw-forces-from-the-ardennes
On This Date In 1955 "Bad Day At Black Rock" is released, a thriller film directed by John Sturges, and starring Spencer Tracy, that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. An excellent movie, in my opinion, giving us a salient message on racial prejudice.
On This Date In 1955 Famed contralto Marian Anderson made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was the first African American to perform with the company.
On This Date In 2002 Apple introduces a complete redesign of the iMac. All models feature a G4 processor and can burn CDs. The less expensive models have a 700 MHz G4, and the middle of the line has a Combo drive. The top-end iMac runs an 800 MHz G4 and has a SuperDrive so you can burn DVDs.
On This Date In 2005 the FDA approved Abraxis's Abraxane, a chemotherapy drug indicated for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Abraxane (paclitaxel) is a cancer (antineoplastic) medication, which interferes with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body.
On This Date In 2009 I broke my arm! In an icestorm!
On This Date In 2011 the first snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. is upon us!
Happy Birthday Kenny Loggins (1948), Erin Gray (1950), David Caruso (1956), Katie Couric (1957), Linda Kozlowski (1958), Nicolas Cage (1964), and Jason Taylor (1979).
RIP Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), St.Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879), Elena Ceausescu (1919-1989), Gerald Durrell (1925-1995), and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966-1999).
Courtesy YouTube:
Blast into Space, Spectacular Fall to Earth
Onboard cameras capture the amazing journey of Atlantis into space, and the dramatic return of the solid rocket boosters.
very funny pictures of what happens when our troops get bored....
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
From the poster: This is the final piece for my AS art course, a flipbook made entirely out of biro pens. It's something like 2100 pages long, and about 50 jotter books. I'd say I worked on and off it for roughly 3 weeks.
YouTube Rewind 2010: Year in Review
Re-watch the year's most popular videos and use the interactive timeline to see the moments that defined YouTube in 2010.
Quotes
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
Think on it, gather the courage to act on it, make it YOUR difference!
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