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GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!![[Linked Image from dailydigitalphoto.com]](http://www.dailydigitalphoto.com/potd-images/potd/IMG_6588c5.jpg)
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY...
OCTOBER 24...
1788 - Poet Sarah Joseph Hale was born. She wrote the poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.
1929 - In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Thursday."
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened for traffic between New York and New Jersey.
1940 - In the U.S., the 40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet.
OCTOBER 25...
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent casualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
![[Linked Image from canalpatrimonio.com]](http://www.canalpatrimonio.com/imagftp/im1508121041638804366_picasso2.jpg) 1881 - The founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain.
1954 - A U.S. cabinet meeting was televised for the first time.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
OCTOBER 26...
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
OCTOBER 27...
1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America
1994 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history.
OCTOBER 28...
1636 - Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America.
1793 - Eli Whitney, of Georgia applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
OCTOBER 29...
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
OCTOBER 30...
1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK....
Julia Roberts 1967
Richard Dreyfuss 1947
Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1939
My daughter, Amy! Happy Birthday sweetheart.
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Congratulations to the San Francisco GIANTS for winning the NLW championships to play the Tejas Rangers in the World Series. ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/thumbs.gif)
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BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK....
Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1939
1939?! ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/icon_eek.gif)
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Ah, any day that begins with a sight of hummingbirds is a good day! Thank you, Olyve!
Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest disasters in world history.
In 1071, the forces of the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV fought the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert, north of Lake Van in present-day eastern Turkey.
Romanus IV was a competent general and was winning the battle, but suddenly he was treacherously deserted by the troops of the Dukas family and other elements of the plutocracy and entrenched bureaucracy of Constantinople (sound familiar?).
The Turks won the battle, which quickly led to their permanent conquest of most of Anatolia. This was the primary cause of the ill-fated Crusades; it led to the all but total annihilation of the Byzantine Empire by the treacherous forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204---how often the word "treachery" comes up in history! (The Pope censured the Crusaders, but took the loot which they gave him)
A fragment of the Byzantine Empire eventually reconstituted itself, but this last flickering ghost of the glory that was Greece was finally extinguished when the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453.
This opened the way for the Ottoman conquest of much of Europe and the establishment of one of the most retrogressive states in world history.
(Just think! in 1204, and probably in 1453, there were still complete copies of the poetry of Sappho, and the lost plays of the great Greek dramatists! What I wouldn't give for the two lost plays of the Prometheus trilogy!)
On this date, October 24, 1071, the treacherous Dukas family put their family puppet, the 12-year-old Michael VII Dukas on the throne of the Byzantine Empire, whose weak and corrupt government made it quite certain that the disaster of Manzikert could not be countered, and that the horrors which I have outlined above became inevitable.
A sad, sad day in history.
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1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded. But there were feminists long before.
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I love the hummimgbird picture and the candy corn/pumpkins!  I just bought some for all my nephews and neice for Halloween. Got out my witch hat for passing out candy. 
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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A fun opening.... Humming birds... They left Woodhaven a week ago. Toward the end if the season, we had 8 I think... Neighbors took their feeders down. I think mine go back to Texas, but theirs go all the way back to Chile. ![[Linked Image from i719.photobucket.com]](http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww195/itstarted/Steve_Trotters_1st_Barrel_small.jpg) 1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old. A Rhode Island bartender named Steven Trotter made the trip in a barrel wrapped in inner tubes. August 18th 1985. Steven was fined a total of $5,503.00 Steve lived in Barrington R.I. in the house next to my folks. Always lived on the edge. more here... did it again with his girlfriend. ummm went over the falls. ................................................. 1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000. First and last National project that finished ahead of schedule, and yeah!... under budget. A fascinating Story. We lived in Clifton Park NY, about 200 yard from the canal, back in 1978. ................................................... 1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company. Ummm... not quite... The first commercial oven yes... but they didn't make and market the first for home use until 1967. I questioned this because I was doing demonstrations of the Radar Range soon after it was introduced... sometime in late 1967. $650. The most fun a person could have and get paid for... Yes Ma'am... bake a potato in 4 minutes... boil water in a minute... explode a hotdog in 30 seconds... and ya say ya want something to dry your cat after his bath? Completely safe... four interlocks... Whoaaa!!! please don't stand so close....  ......................................................... Happy Birthday, Amy ... Halloween... Great timing 
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My daughter's birthday is October 30th...she turns 30. Happy Birthday, Honey!
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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Thanks y'all. That was a thrown together effort. We had a great time in Atlanta this weekend. Amy and her husband and her friends that they went out with (while we kept the grandkids) are hilarious and just fun all the way around. They went out for dinner and then went to the Clarmont Lounge!!!  I am so jealous I told her. She said....Mommy, you just want to do that because we didn't like it so much. Is that role reversal or what? The Clarmont is.... A major, long time dive bar. My ex took me there on our wedding night all those years ago.Do you think that should have been a warning sign to me?  My hummingbirds are gone for the winter too. I miss them. I'm glad y'all liked that photo. I did too. Here's one of mine from a couple of years ago. They buzz around my head when I'm reading on the back porch. Literally. I love my birds! ![[Linked Image from i239.photobucket.com]](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/melofga/DSC01975.jpg) edit.... I definitely plan to check out the Clarmont again after all these years. Yeeeehaaa... Rick, Grace still has what it takes.
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For the 2nd time since dad has lived here, he called San Francisco, "Frisco." I had to again (  ) explain to him that "Frisco" is a derogatory name for San Fransisco and people in NorCal don't like it. It also immediately identifies said person as being from "El Lay." Dad says: Everyone in El Lay says it. Me: I know - that's how we know you're from El Lay. Just don't say "Frisco" anymore and just say what the city is actually called: San Francisco Next time dad says "Frisco," I'll have a contingency of hairy-armpitted byker Lesbians deal with dad - and it wont be pretty. 
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