The_Kitchen_Guy
10-21-2009, 12:12 AM
There were no new developments in Paige's case yesterday. No news, no new developments.
In news of Candles for Paige (http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Paige) we had 39 candles as of this post. Remember, candles go out after 48 hours so keep lighting candles for Paige, her family and her three children.
Instructions for lighting candles for Paige are in the Missing thread, in this post (http://www.chefsuccess.com/f18/one-our-own-missing-22516/index254.html#post470298).
On This Day In History...
...in 1797, the USS Constitution was launched in Boston Harbor. The 44 gun frigate was built to fight the Barbary pirates. ("...to the shores of Tripoli," as the Marines Hymn says.) In the War of 1812, witnesses said British cannonballs bounced off the side of the ship, earning the lasting name of Old Ironsides. She was retired from duty in 1855, but remained commissioned as a training vessel, and today is the oldest commissioned warship in the US Navy, if not in the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/USS_Constitution_1997.jpg/300px-USS_Constitution_1997.jpg
USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" Massachusetts Bay, July 1997
...in 1959, an executive order was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower that transferred Wehrner von Braun from the Army to the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Von Braun grew up in Germany and became interested in rocketry and space travel as a teenager. While studying physics, he also toyed with rockets and caught the eye of the German military. Eventually, they had von Braun lead a military rocket unit where he developed the A-4 rocket, capable of hitting targets more than 200 miles away. The A04 was renamed the V-2, the V for the German word that meant "vengence." The rockets were dropped on London and caused much damage but the rockets came too late in the war to make a difference. Von Braun and his team fled the advancing Russian army in order to surrender to the US Army along with train cars full of rocket parts. After performing research at Fort Bliss in Texas, the team moved to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Redstone rocket was developed for the American space program. NASA built the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center on the arsenal, right around von Braun's office. (Which is now on display at the NASA museum in Huntsville.) Von Braun's giant Saturn V rockets took 27 Americans to the moon, 12 who walked on the surface.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wernher_von_Braun.jpg/250px-Wernher_von_Braun.jpg
Dr. Wehrner von Braun (1912-1977) in his
Marshall Space Flight Center Office, Huntsville, Alabama.
Behind him is an array of models of rockets designed by
Dr. von Braun and his staff in Alabama.
...in 1956, a popular Hollywood couple gave birth to a girl who would grow up to be a princess. Actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher named the girl Carrie. She would grow up to play a jilted lover with revenge on her mind in The Blues Brothers but would find her signature role in the Star Wars franchise as Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher also wrote two books, Postcards from the Edge and Surrender the Pink.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Princess_leia_film.jpg/140px-Princess_leia_film.jpg
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa
in Star Wars: A New Hope with
the signature "Cinnamon Bun" hairstyle.
...in 1897, the University of Chicago dedicated the Yerkes Observatory, which would become the seat of modern astrophysics. It all began in 1892, when the new Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, George Ellery Hale, heard of two perfect, 42 inch "blanks" of glass while on vacation. The blanks were made to be ground into lenses for the largest refracting telecope in the world, if a suitable observatory could be found for such a telescope. The blanks were ordered for an observatory to be built for USC but the funding disappeared. Hale hurried back to Chicago to set the wheels in motion to aquire the blanks. The blanks were aquired, the telescope was built and displayed at the Columbian Exposition, ahown below, in Chicago in 1893. (The same one where Pabst won it's famous blue ribbon.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/1893-scope.jpg
A site was chosen on the shores of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Charles T. Yerkes, a railroad tycoon from Chicago (he built the El system and finished "The Tube" in London) donated the money to build an observatory to house the massive telescope. (The dome rides on trolley wheels.) Yerkes hired Henry Ives Cobb to design the building. It took four years to build the massive facility which, at the time, was way out in the boonies. Today, it is surrounded by growth and development, all sources of light pollution, but the 111 year old observatory continues to lead in research and development.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/40inchtour.jpg
In 1893, the telescope was,
and today remains, the largest
refracting telescope in the world.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/aerial1.gif
You can read more about this fascinating facility at the Yerkes Observatory (http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/) website.
...in 1965, chemist Robert Burns Woodward was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry. I tired to do some research in order to better describe exactly why he was awarded the prize. After reading quite a bit, I don't really know much more than I did before I started to read about him.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Woodwardcis-hydroxylation.jpg
Oh, admit it. You don't, either.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EDT.
In news of Candles for Paige (http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Paige) we had 39 candles as of this post. Remember, candles go out after 48 hours so keep lighting candles for Paige, her family and her three children.
Instructions for lighting candles for Paige are in the Missing thread, in this post (http://www.chefsuccess.com/f18/one-our-own-missing-22516/index254.html#post470298).
On This Day In History...
...in 1797, the USS Constitution was launched in Boston Harbor. The 44 gun frigate was built to fight the Barbary pirates. ("...to the shores of Tripoli," as the Marines Hymn says.) In the War of 1812, witnesses said British cannonballs bounced off the side of the ship, earning the lasting name of Old Ironsides. She was retired from duty in 1855, but remained commissioned as a training vessel, and today is the oldest commissioned warship in the US Navy, if not in the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/USS_Constitution_1997.jpg/300px-USS_Constitution_1997.jpg
USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" Massachusetts Bay, July 1997
...in 1959, an executive order was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower that transferred Wehrner von Braun from the Army to the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Von Braun grew up in Germany and became interested in rocketry and space travel as a teenager. While studying physics, he also toyed with rockets and caught the eye of the German military. Eventually, they had von Braun lead a military rocket unit where he developed the A-4 rocket, capable of hitting targets more than 200 miles away. The A04 was renamed the V-2, the V for the German word that meant "vengence." The rockets were dropped on London and caused much damage but the rockets came too late in the war to make a difference. Von Braun and his team fled the advancing Russian army in order to surrender to the US Army along with train cars full of rocket parts. After performing research at Fort Bliss in Texas, the team moved to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Redstone rocket was developed for the American space program. NASA built the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center on the arsenal, right around von Braun's office. (Which is now on display at the NASA museum in Huntsville.) Von Braun's giant Saturn V rockets took 27 Americans to the moon, 12 who walked on the surface.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wernher_von_Braun.jpg/250px-Wernher_von_Braun.jpg
Dr. Wehrner von Braun (1912-1977) in his
Marshall Space Flight Center Office, Huntsville, Alabama.
Behind him is an array of models of rockets designed by
Dr. von Braun and his staff in Alabama.
...in 1956, a popular Hollywood couple gave birth to a girl who would grow up to be a princess. Actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher named the girl Carrie. She would grow up to play a jilted lover with revenge on her mind in The Blues Brothers but would find her signature role in the Star Wars franchise as Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher also wrote two books, Postcards from the Edge and Surrender the Pink.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Princess_leia_film.jpg/140px-Princess_leia_film.jpg
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa
in Star Wars: A New Hope with
the signature "Cinnamon Bun" hairstyle.
...in 1897, the University of Chicago dedicated the Yerkes Observatory, which would become the seat of modern astrophysics. It all began in 1892, when the new Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, George Ellery Hale, heard of two perfect, 42 inch "blanks" of glass while on vacation. The blanks were made to be ground into lenses for the largest refracting telecope in the world, if a suitable observatory could be found for such a telescope. The blanks were ordered for an observatory to be built for USC but the funding disappeared. Hale hurried back to Chicago to set the wheels in motion to aquire the blanks. The blanks were aquired, the telescope was built and displayed at the Columbian Exposition, ahown below, in Chicago in 1893. (The same one where Pabst won it's famous blue ribbon.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/1893-scope.jpg
A site was chosen on the shores of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Charles T. Yerkes, a railroad tycoon from Chicago (he built the El system and finished "The Tube" in London) donated the money to build an observatory to house the massive telescope. (The dome rides on trolley wheels.) Yerkes hired Henry Ives Cobb to design the building. It took four years to build the massive facility which, at the time, was way out in the boonies. Today, it is surrounded by growth and development, all sources of light pollution, but the 111 year old observatory continues to lead in research and development.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/40inchtour.jpg
In 1893, the telescope was,
and today remains, the largest
refracting telescope in the world.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Yerkes/aerial1.gif
You can read more about this fascinating facility at the Yerkes Observatory (http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/) website.
...in 1965, chemist Robert Burns Woodward was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry. I tired to do some research in order to better describe exactly why he was awarded the prize. After reading quite a bit, I don't really know much more than I did before I started to read about him.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Woodwardcis-hydroxylation.jpg
Oh, admit it. You don't, either.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EDT.