Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy signed the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte today (911). Also, a coalition from Flemish cities defeated France in the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302), Zheng He and a fleet of 317 ships set sail from Suzhou, China on a journey of exploration that would take them to Thailand, India, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa (1405), Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII (1533), Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland (1576), Samuel de Champlain returned to Québec (1616), Pluto passed inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time until 1979 (1735), a fire destroyed Halifax, Nova Scotia (1750), James Cook began his third voyage (1776), the U.S. took possession of Detroit under the Jay Treaty (1796), Jean-Louis Pons discovered his first comet (1801), Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in their infamous duel (1804), London’s Waterloo Station opened (1848), Tijuana, Mexico, was founded (1889), Kokichi Mikimoto extracted the first cultured pearl (1893), Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated motion pictures to scientists (1895), Babe Ruth made his Major League Baseball debut (1914), the Netherlands legislated the eight-hour workday with Sundays off (1919), former President Howard Taft was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the only American to hold both positions (1921), the Hollywood Bowl opened (1922), Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scored a world record 309 runs in one day en route to an individual record 334 innings in a single Test match (1930), New York City’s Triborough Bridge opened (1936), the SS Exodus left France for Palestine (1947), Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger gained independence, on the same day Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published (1960), Chile nationalized her copper mines (1971), the World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky began (1972), President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1977), 216 tourists died when a truck carrying liquid gas crashed and exploded at a campsite in Tarragona, Spain (1978), Skylab reentered the Earth’s atmosphere and burned over the Indian Ocean (1979), the Srebrenica Massacre began in Bosnia (1995), 209 people were killed in a series of bomb attacks on commuter trains in Mumbai, India (2006), and 13 people died when containers of artillery shells exploded after being stored in the sun for 2½ years at Cyprus’ Evangelos Florakis Naval Base (2011). And astronomers announced the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto (2012).
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Yesterday on Campus
Things We Did This Week – Share your stories of political activism!
Mixed Nuts – God-Prince and Russia, plus Other Stuff
Midday Matinee – Linda Lee with Normal? (Again)
Campus Question – With leaks about the God-Prince, were God-King’s aides trying to head off a more damaging story?
Today on Campus
Mixed Nuts – Collusion and Wealthcare
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 mostly cloudy 61 degrees here, and the prediction is for “scattered showers.” Which means I may get rained on, depending on where I am during the day. I’m out of the field starting today, and I’ll be on the road for most of the morning. I have to go get the last car repair (I hope) done, now that the part is in, and after that I’ll be doing some shopping to stock up again.
In other things around here, the rowboat that went under the dam and was stuck down the stream is now out of there and sitting in our back area. It has a few dents, and there’s a small crack which we can repair, but otherwise it’s in decent shape. No, we didn’t retrieve it. A group of campers surprised us when they came up with it yesterday afternoon. No, we didn’t ask them to, their explanation as to why they did it was… “we were bored.”
Bored or not, it was a nice thing to do. 🙂 I hope you enjoy your time out of the field. Fit in some relaxation if you can.
Campers can be so nice! Too bad the people that road the boat over the damn didn’t return it but I’m glad you got it back. Did they lose a deposit or anything?
Hope your car repair isn’t too bad.
A remarkable story coming out of Florida of all places. Beachgoers formed a human chain to save ten people drowning in a riptide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/11/a-riptide-swept-away-a-florida-family-then-beachgoers-formed-a-human-chain/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-chain%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.f6e5d34e8806
Just about every time I’m ready to give up on the human race, a bunch of people, or even an individual, will prove me wrong.
Hugggs and good morning!
Thanks for the link. It’s good to have the good things people do pointed out.
Good story, Winter!
Good Morning. I am taking my oldest granddaughter to the Guthrie Theater tonight for her birthday. We are both pretty excited about this outing. “Sunday in the Park with George” is a Sondheim musical. Maddie’s other grandma is coming here at 3 so I don’t have to worry about rush hour traffic. We are an example of it takes a village.
I wish there was a fast forward button on the Russia investigations. I also wish there was a cable channel that had cameras in the hearing rooms so I could check in periodically. Maybe the pace we have now is necessary to shift some Republican minds but it seems to me that an ostrich would be a better symbol than an elephant.
Peace
Love that Republican symbol change, Linda.
Ostrich, yup!
Two nights now we’ve enjoyed not only the incredible amount of loud thunder and bright lightning in the evening, but we’ve listened to that scary moment when you hear some of your in-house electrical lines crackle as the power goes out briefly.
So far no damage but it’s eerie.
That is scary. I assume you have the computers surge protected.
One thing I am glad I am not any longer — a commuter. Things have deteriorated mightily in the NYC region re rail travel. They have given a name to the infrastructure work going on at Penn Station: the summer from hell. Penn Station handles rail traffic from NJ and Amtrak and LI Railroad. The infrastructure work will lead to moderate improvements for Amtrak and NJ trains, nada for the LI commuter yet, and worse, many delays. Last Sunday’s Long Island Newsday devoted 4 pages discussing interim travel options while the work is being done. What a nightmare. No problem traveling in my Prius to local golf courses, though. I just have to hope they stay open.
We are in the early stages of light rail. Jesse Ventura championed it when he was governor. The Republicans hate it. The users love it. If their was a more expansive network, I’d be taking it tonight.
Has NY had more train crashes than normal?
Hot! Hot and dry! It’s 78 already/still and muggy too. We had agood unloading session at the fud (thanks Gary Larson) pantry yesterday. The truck was an hour and fifteen minutes late, but we found odd jobs to do, anyway I did. Bummed some spray paint and tape from the neighbor, painted an orange warning on a step nose. Cut trees out of the bushes, got a limb off the roof… We stopped for dinner at our usual spot, and for a change from salad, I had the hamburger “Special” it was delicious!
Piddled around out back in the late PM. It’s too hot for a lot of outside work. I am figuring to water this morning early… Hope all are well!
Best, G
Good morning! ::hugggggs::
A bright sunny morning at 74 degrees. High today 84 degrees low tomorrow 74 degrees. No rain again so I am watering my tomatoes every day.