The_Kitchen_Guy
10-30-2009, 12:03 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 44 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 1938, Orsen Welles presented a radio drama on Mercury Theater on the Air on network radio. The radio drama was based on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds novel about a Martian invasion of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The show was presented as a news broadcast, and people who tuned in too late to hear the opening disclaimer, thought it was a real news broadcast and that Martians were, in fact, invading Earth. Contemporary estimates thought that nearly 2 million people heard the broadcast and believed it to be true, sparking panic across the country. Orson Welles was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin and had a thorough knowledge of Shakespeare before he went to high school. In 1937, he founded the Mercury Theater on the Air with John Houseman (probably best known for The Paper Chase.) His fictionalized story of a media tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, was the subect of his groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. The film was not well received by media tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, and it suffered at the box office. The film was hailed, though, for its innovative lighting and camera techniques, and it was voted the "Greatest Film" on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100 American Films of all time in 1998. But for Halloween, in 1938, Welles created panic throughout the United States.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Landingsite_statue.JPG/400px-Landingsite_statue.JPG
This monument was placed in 1998 to commemorate the location
of the "Martian landing" in Van Nest Park, Grover's Mill, NJ.
...in 1890, the foundation of the war on drugs was laid when Oakland, California enacted a law controlling the sale of opium, morphine and cocaine. The drugs had been legal as cures for any number of maladies and were often a component of patent medicines. (Coca-Cola was so named because a component of the original formula was, in fact, cocaine. It was removed from the formula in the 1880's.) Oakland was one of the first communities to pass criminal laws against the substances. In the latter part of the 19th Century, opium dens became quite commonplace. Polite society looked the other way but did look down upon addicts. The Harrison Act of 1914 was intended to slow the availability of drugs but had little effect. Recently Californa passed a law allowing the use of marijuana for (nod, nod, wink, wink) medicinal purposes.
...in 1972, an Illinois Central Railway express train collieded with a commuter train on right-of-way that is now an electrified Metra route. The engineer of the commuter train overshot the 27th Street Station and made the fateful decision to back up to the platform. When the train missed the station, it tripped signals that indicated it had cleared the station, opening the line to an express passenger train. At the time, ICRR passenger equipment was painted dark green, and in the foggy morning air, the express engineer never saw the stopped commuter train. His train slid into the rear car of the commuter train, known as "telescoping" because cars slide into other cars, much as tubes of a telescope slide together. 45 people were killed with 332 injured. As a result of the accident, all Chicago area passenger cars are now painted on the ends with orange and white stripes to improve visibility.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Rail/zusametra2.jpg
METRA trains are now painted with reflective strips to aid in visibility.
...in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was published in London. The popular book was published anonymously, and although a few members of high society figured out the identity of the author, most everyone else knew the book was written by a Lady. Jane Austen was born in 1775 into the family of a clergyman. She had seven siblings, and she was closest to to her older sister, Cassandra. Jane began writing at 12 and was a voracious reader. She hid her efforts from most of her friends, remained unmarried and died at the age of 42. She also published Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma.
http://www.digital-tv.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jane-austen.jpg
Jane Austen
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 44 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 1938, Orsen Welles presented a radio drama on Mercury Theater on the Air on network radio. The radio drama was based on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds novel about a Martian invasion of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. The show was presented as a news broadcast, and people who tuned in too late to hear the opening disclaimer, thought it was a real news broadcast and that Martians were, in fact, invading Earth. Contemporary estimates thought that nearly 2 million people heard the broadcast and believed it to be true, sparking panic across the country. Orson Welles was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin and had a thorough knowledge of Shakespeare before he went to high school. In 1937, he founded the Mercury Theater on the Air with John Houseman (probably best known for The Paper Chase.) His fictionalized story of a media tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, was the subect of his groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. The film was not well received by media tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, and it suffered at the box office. The film was hailed, though, for its innovative lighting and camera techniques, and it was voted the "Greatest Film" on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100 American Films of all time in 1998. But for Halloween, in 1938, Welles created panic throughout the United States.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Landingsite_statue.JPG/400px-Landingsite_statue.JPG
This monument was placed in 1998 to commemorate the location
of the "Martian landing" in Van Nest Park, Grover's Mill, NJ.
...in 1890, the foundation of the war on drugs was laid when Oakland, California enacted a law controlling the sale of opium, morphine and cocaine. The drugs had been legal as cures for any number of maladies and were often a component of patent medicines. (Coca-Cola was so named because a component of the original formula was, in fact, cocaine. It was removed from the formula in the 1880's.) Oakland was one of the first communities to pass criminal laws against the substances. In the latter part of the 19th Century, opium dens became quite commonplace. Polite society looked the other way but did look down upon addicts. The Harrison Act of 1914 was intended to slow the availability of drugs but had little effect. Recently Californa passed a law allowing the use of marijuana for (nod, nod, wink, wink) medicinal purposes.
...in 1972, an Illinois Central Railway express train collieded with a commuter train on right-of-way that is now an electrified Metra route. The engineer of the commuter train overshot the 27th Street Station and made the fateful decision to back up to the platform. When the train missed the station, it tripped signals that indicated it had cleared the station, opening the line to an express passenger train. At the time, ICRR passenger equipment was painted dark green, and in the foggy morning air, the express engineer never saw the stopped commuter train. His train slid into the rear car of the commuter train, known as "telescoping" because cars slide into other cars, much as tubes of a telescope slide together. 45 people were killed with 332 injured. As a result of the accident, all Chicago area passenger cars are now painted on the ends with orange and white stripes to improve visibility.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/Rail/zusametra2.jpg
METRA trains are now painted with reflective strips to aid in visibility.
...in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was published in London. The popular book was published anonymously, and although a few members of high society figured out the identity of the author, most everyone else knew the book was written by a Lady. Jane Austen was born in 1775 into the family of a clergyman. She had seven siblings, and she was closest to to her older sister, Cassandra. Jane began writing at 12 and was a voracious reader. She hid her efforts from most of her friends, remained unmarried and died at the age of 42. She also published Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma.
http://www.digital-tv.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jane-austen.jpg
Jane Austen
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EDT.