Thirsty Thursday it is. I am drinking GSD Blend today and am currently on French Press number 2. Today I chatted about a “celeberity” I sat next to, a conversation I had with Kori about Joe Biden and “Are the storms getting more frequent and severe?” Leading off with The Perfect Cup question “WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU SPENT MORE TIME DOING FIVE YEARS AGO?” followed by This Day In History prepared by Pip over at Ducktioncups.com. (now with Wiki Links Below)
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Good morning humans, fire up that breakfast bowl and get the day started!
Get that GSD Blend in your system, STAT!
A Pip’s precursor- Mother’s day is this Sunday. Prepare accordingly.
Happy Thursday May 11th and here’s some history nugs to tip you into Friday.
1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft
of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
While moving $28k in gold & silver coins through the Arizona Territory,
Major Wham with 11 Buffalo Soldiers are ambushed, injuring 8 of the soldiers.
With the injuries forcing a ‘strategic withdrawal’, that ‘booty’ went the way of the bandits.
—let’s check out the scoreboard—
2 soldiers (Sgt Brown & Cprl Mays) awarded Medal of Honor
8 soldiers received a Certificate of Merit.
-meanwhile-
11 men from a nearby Mormon community of Pima were arrested.
8 men sent to trial.
all ‘bandits’ were found not guilty.
-Final score-
Gold & silver coins were never recovered.
Pip’s notes- (snickers) Major Wham… hehe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham_Paymaster_robbery
1997 – chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch,
becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
Pip’s notes- (Robot voice) Greetings, Professor Falcon… Would you like to play a game?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
…. the last 6 entries in Wiki are about atomic tests, an earthquake,
and 4 wiki-noted events that total over 200 human passings.
Pip’s notes- hug your people. Just sayin’
Happy Birthdays –
1875 – Harriet QUIMBY, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)
April 16th, 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
Although Quimby lived only to the age of 37, she influenced women in aviation.
She and Charles F. Willard died while flying her brand-new Bleriot monoplane.
The 2-seater plane unexpectedly pitched downward while at 1,000 ft, ejecting both.
The monoplane glided down and landed in some mud.
Pip’s notes – “anyone can skydive at least once”…
Pip’s side note- it was a 2-seater monoplane. Mono = 1, yes? 2-seater plane…
(pop-culture reference brewing)
“The Lone Rangers? That’s original. How can you pluralize “Lone Ranger”?”
Wiki link- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic
and hypersonic airflow. The human-defined threshold of outer space is called the
“Kármán line” in recognition of his work.
Pip’s notes – I also believe in a KARMA line…. wait, oops, wrong on my end.
Karman, not Karma… a dude could get the two names confused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n
1905 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004)
De Baissac was one of the first SOE female agents to be parachuted into occupied France in 1942.
Lise de Baissac had frequent encounters with German soldiers in the heavily
militarized region in which she worked, but she eluded capture.
She was awarded several gallantry awards after the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_de_Baissac
Passings – This one is a toss up-
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist
Pip’s notes- the first Bob Marley lyrics in my head are “Who’s got the herb??”…..
It should have been “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley
1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 11/20/1900)
Pip’s notes- A phone in a watch?! Who would want something like that…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gould
Holidays – Nothing to see here, move along…
Well, humans, that wraps up the wiki nugs.
Ask your smartwatch to play Marley’s “3 little birds”.
Happy day that ends in the letter Y & Go do stuff