It’s tasty Tuesday and man that FTO Blonde fits the bill. Today I talk about the water tower birds, an unemployment headline I saw and the neighbors garden. Leading off with The Perfect Cup Question “WOULD YOU RATHER BE: WORRIED and AWAKE or JOYFUL and ASLEEP?” Followed up by This Day In History prepared as always by Pip over at Ducktioncups.com.
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This Day In History prepared by Pip over at Ducktioncups.com SHOW THEM SOME LOVE FOLKS.
Good morning humans and welcome to the post-Monday meeting.
May 16th has a few nuggets to behold, check it out.
1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste,
who later becomes king of France.
Pip’s notes- ‘Teen marriage, (rolls eyes) am I right… hope they made it work…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient
generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
Pip’s notes- Time travel paradox Q.O.T.D. –
Who would you visit with a “modern recording device” for an interview? dudes like Tesla?
No time paradox effect, but a ‘today’ interview with anyone in past.
I’ll even say a fluent translator is present.. anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between
Idlewild Airport (now J.F.K. Int’l Airport) in NYC and Heathrow Airport in London.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser),
at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Kommie-fornia. (california)
Pip’s notes- Freakin’ laser beams, man!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Maiman
1975 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei
2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center
on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.
Mark Kelly served as the mission commander.
Pip’s notes- Ya’ll know who Mark is… the dude who tried to buy an AR-15, after being anti-AR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-134
Happy Birthdays –
1804 – Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)
Peabody embraced the premise that children’s play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
1888 – Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)
an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse
cine-micrography.
1923 – Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (d. 2014)
1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
(Pip throws in HEAT movie reference)
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter actress
1969 – Tucker Carlson, American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller
Pip’s notes- is this the dude that got fired from a news programming station?
Passings –
1861 – John Stevens Henslow, British priest, geologist and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (b. 1796)
1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
1956 – H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
1990 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)
1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter,
created The Muppets (b. 1936)
2008 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker, co-founded the Opus One Winery (b. 1913)
Pip’s notes- I only added dude because of his wiki pic. Big smiles. Cheers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mondavi
Holidays –
(religious stuff, meh)