Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
Bolesław I Chrobry was crowned the first King of Poland today (1025). Also, the cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica was laid (1506), Martin Luther refused to recant during his trial at the Diet of Worms (1521), the Boston Revolt overthrew the Anglican rule of Edmund Andros (1689), Spain’s Real Academia de la Historia was established (1738), 60 British soldiers and an estimated 30 family members and crewmen died when a troop ferry capsized near the North Sea port of Harwich (1807), the University of Alabama was founded (1831), Allan Kardec published Le Livre des Esprits, the beginning of spiritualism in France (1857), 99 people died as an F4 tornado struck Marshfield, Missouri (1880), Victoria granted a royal charter to the St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association (1899), at least 800 people died as a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Guatemala’s Chiapas region (1902), an estimated 3425 people died as a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck San Francisco (1906), Jeanne d’Arc was beatified (1909), the RMS Carpathia arrived in New York City with 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic (1912), Yankee Stadium opened (1923), Simon and Schuster published the first crossword puzzle book, complete with an attached pencil (1924), Detroit sports fans celebrated their first Champions Day (1936), the Doolittle Raid struck Tokyo and other Japanese cities (1942), decoded radio signals allowed U.S. fighter pilots to assassinate Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville Island (1943), the International Court of Justice convened for the first time at The Hague (1946), the first Asian-African Conference opened in Bandung, Indonesia (1955), poet Ezra Pound was released after 12½ years in custody at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C. (1958), representatives of 60 nations signed the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), Canaan Banana was inaugurated as the first President of the new Republic of Zimbabwe (1980), the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings began what would be the longest baseball game in professional history, with 32 innings played in into the wee hours of the morning and the final inning played on June 23rd (1981), 63 people were killed as a suicide bomber struck the U.S. Embassy in Beirut (1983), 106 people were killed when Israeli troops shelled a United Nations refugee camp near Qana, Lebanon (1996), the the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Gonzales v. Carhart, on the same day 198 people were killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq (2007), and 27 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Baghdad café (2013). And 16 people died in an avalanche on Mount Everest (2014).
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Yesterday on Campus
Things We Did This Week – Share your stories of political activism!
Mixed Nuts – United Does It Again, plus Other Stuff
Midday Matinee – Linda Lee with Trump Toilet Paper
Campus Question – Did any of the new polls surprise you?
Today on Campus
Mixed Nuts – Georgia Special Election, plus Other Stuff
Tuesday’s Tale – Undeath Row
Campus Question at 6pm ET
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Photo Credit: RavenWhimsy (Tumblr)
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Good morning, BPI! It’s currently a clear and chilly 29 degrees here. We’re supposed to be in the lower 50’s today, and should be the last day below freezing at night for a while. The lakes are finally clearing – or are clear – of ice. It’s pretty amazing at how fast that happens. Last Friday, one of the local lakes was frozen over with just a hint of clearing near the outlet, yesterday it was completely clear of ice. So, it looks like I may actually be able to make it to the field in another week or so.
Any news on the road maintenance project?
No, but that likely won’t get started until this summer. Then again, it was supposed to start last fall. (sigh)
Brrrr……..
Do you drive into camp? Do you have 4 wheel drive? I hope you can get in.
Do you have a wench on the 4 wheel drive vehicle?
Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Sunny day at 54 degrees. The high of 71 degrees and low tomorrow of 48 degrees is on 5 degrees above average. We may get back to average tomorrow before more warm weather..
British Prime Minister Theresa May stunned her country Tuesday by
calling for a snap general election to be held in less than two months’
time. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/british-prime-minister-theresa-may-calls-snap-election-n747681?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw
Makes me wish we had shorter elections.
“If all your prayers were answered, and all your hopes and dreams came true, would the whole world change, or just yours?”
I will be pondering this all day. Deep question.
🙂
Good morning!
Clouds, of course, and 56 degrees… Didn’t have a plan for yesterday. Hoed the raised beds where PW had thinned and weeded. We sorta complement each other, like Jack and Mrs. Spratt… Most of the time… A contemporary of Heavy Metal Girl’s came by to fish for bait fish, although he didn’t have much luck we sure had a nice conversation. I good guy for sure! After lunch and a quick nap, wound up cutting firewood. There was one more little jag in that pie and I just couldn’t see piling it up with the Komatsu and burning decent firewood as waste. I reckon there’s still some good stuff in there, but I have wrested about 95% out and we’re gonna have to call it good enough…
I am surprised at how the newly cleared area is drying. I guess I’ll get rolling on that in a week or so, see what is what. When I look at it from the north, my regular vantage point, I wish there was more territory cleared off. When I walk over there and look north, toward my regular area, it looks huge, plenty of room. IDK… I have learned that the time to correct a mistake is immediately upon discovery. In the long run, it’s much easier and decidedly less stressful. OTOH if there’s enough room now for what I want to accomplish, why open up more? I will be re-routing the drainage, “playing God,” my neighbor calls it. 🙂 He has done lots of it! I am thinking some contemplative walks combined with picking up sticks and roots might do the trick… Maybe a glass or three of our homemade wine?
Hoping all are well. I called my recently widowed buddy yesterday, invited him to lunch, but he was out running errands. Sometimes you can get credit for being a nice guy W/O doing too much of anything, eh?
Best, G
If I was standing at your front door and looking at the garden, what direction would I be facing? I am trying to imagine what you are working on.
You’d be looking west… We took out trees on the west, far side of the garden.
Good Morning. More rain and a high of 66. Things are really starting to green up and the trees have that pale green of leaves beginning. I have decided not to return as a campground host this summer. It was a tough decision for me but I was relieved once I made it. I love being with my granddaughter and helping the kids save day care money. I also think that the alone time in the woods might be more depressing than invigorating. I will take each of the oldest three on a long weekend in the RV. I think this is a good change.
I looked forward to your campground host stories, Linda. But what’s best for you is criteria.
Yup! Time with the grandkiddos is well-spent!
Agreed!
My dtr, S-I-L and grandkids surprised us with an unexpected visit this past weekend. That was fun. I was out when they showed up and got a text message from dtr asking what I was doing (testing a new 3 Wood and 5 Wood, what else). She texted bck to say that they were hanging out and that Zach was watching the NBA playoffs — she included a picture of Zach standing next to our TV screen. Wait! What! By the time I got home the game boards were out and a plan to dye Easter Eggs was being hatched. Things change when they’re around.
Sounds like fun times. Good that Ms. LI Mike was home to start.
Good times!
I guess it’s time to get busy…