The_Kitchen_Guy
11-02-2009, 12:04 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 wer 52p over 150 candles yesterday but we were at XXX as of this post. As always, a reminder that candles go out after 48 hours. Remember to keep lighting candles for Paige 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 1948, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. In those days, unlike today (nod, nod, wink, wink) the press was firmly in the tank for Thomas Dewey and all indication were that he would easily defeat the surprisingly unpopular Truman. He went on a last minute whistle stop campaign, projecting himself as an outsider with a do-nothing Congress. (You see, history does repeat itself!) Before all the votes were in, the Chicago Tibune printed an early edition with the banner headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. When the smoke cleared, Truman had won by a slim margin.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-01/34569547.jpg
"That ain't the way we heard it!"
...in 1920, KDKA radio in Pittsburgh became the first radio station to broadcast the results of the Presidential election between James M. Cox and Warren G. Harding. It represented the first major news broadcast via radio. By 1922, there were over 500 radio stations broadcasting and receivers began selling at quite a clip. A museum of radio is located in Ligonier, Indiana, between South Bend and Fort Wayne on the old Lincoln Highway. It's worth a stop to see what radio was like in those pioneer days.
(UPDATE: Sadly, the curator of the Radio Museum passed away in 2009. The collection has been sold and the museum is now closed.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/ihrp6m1.jpg
...in 1960, a court handed down a verdict of Not Guilty in the landmark obscenity case brought against Penguin Books for publishing an uncensored version of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover about the wife of a wealthy, paralyzed nobleman and the estate's gamekeeper. If was first published in Florence in 1928, Paris in 1929 and a censored version in London in 1932. In 1959, the full text was published in New York and London in 1960. Lawrence's titles included Sons and Lovers (an autobiographical novel) The Rainbow, The White Peacock and Women in Love. He died of tuberculosis, at the age of 44, in 1930. "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
...in 1912, the end of the Old West began when the enormous XIT Ranch, in the panhandle of Texas, sold its last head of cattle. The giant operation was the largest cattle ranch ever, owning over 3,000,000 acres spread over 9 counties. It was owned by a Chicago business syndicate, led by the Farwell Brothers, John V. and Charles B. Farwell, formed in 1885 to capitalize on the demand for western beef. The ranch also erected 325 windmills and built 100 dams. By 1905, as bonds (that had been sold to capitalize the venture) became due and the ranch still wasn't profitable, the land started to be subdivided and by 1912, the giant venture was out of the cattle business.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/XIT_cowboys.jpg
What ranch-hand cowboys really looked like - not the way Hollywood always portrays them.
...in 1993, Christie Todd Whitman was elected governor of New Jersey, the first woman to govern the state. She was the second woman in the United States, and first Republican woman, to defeat an incumbant governor. An enthusiast of Scottish Terriers, she sent a puppy, named Barney, to President and Laura Bush at the White House. Whitman was also the Administrator of the EPA in the Bush Administration from 2001 to 2003. Today she is a director of Texas Instruments and United Technologies. In her book, It's My Party, Too! she said, "The defining feature of the conservative viewpoint is a faith in the ability, and a respect for the right, of individuals to make their own decisions - economic, social, and spiritual - about their lives. The true conservative understands that government's track record in respecting individual rights is poor when it dictates individual choices."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Barney-20040908.jpg
Barney gives his first press briefing,
September 8, 2004. He was a gift to the
Bush family from Christine Todd Whitman.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/WhitmanChristineTodd.jpg
Christine Todd Whitman in
her Official Portrait from the EPA.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.
In news of Candles for Paige (http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Paige), we wer 52p over 150 candles yesterday but we were at XXX as of this post. As always, a reminder that candles go out after 48 hours. Remember to keep lighting candles for Paige 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 1948, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. In those days, unlike today (nod, nod, wink, wink) the press was firmly in the tank for Thomas Dewey and all indication were that he would easily defeat the surprisingly unpopular Truman. He went on a last minute whistle stop campaign, projecting himself as an outsider with a do-nothing Congress. (You see, history does repeat itself!) Before all the votes were in, the Chicago Tibune printed an early edition with the banner headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. When the smoke cleared, Truman had won by a slim margin.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-01/34569547.jpg
"That ain't the way we heard it!"
...in 1920, KDKA radio in Pittsburgh became the first radio station to broadcast the results of the Presidential election between James M. Cox and Warren G. Harding. It represented the first major news broadcast via radio. By 1922, there were over 500 radio stations broadcasting and receivers began selling at quite a clip. A museum of radio is located in Ligonier, Indiana, between South Bend and Fort Wayne on the old Lincoln Highway. It's worth a stop to see what radio was like in those pioneer days.
(UPDATE: Sadly, the curator of the Radio Museum passed away in 2009. The collection has been sold and the museum is now closed.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/ihrp6m1.jpg
...in 1960, a court handed down a verdict of Not Guilty in the landmark obscenity case brought against Penguin Books for publishing an uncensored version of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover about the wife of a wealthy, paralyzed nobleman and the estate's gamekeeper. If was first published in Florence in 1928, Paris in 1929 and a censored version in London in 1932. In 1959, the full text was published in New York and London in 1960. Lawrence's titles included Sons and Lovers (an autobiographical novel) The Rainbow, The White Peacock and Women in Love. He died of tuberculosis, at the age of 44, in 1930. "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
...in 1912, the end of the Old West began when the enormous XIT Ranch, in the panhandle of Texas, sold its last head of cattle. The giant operation was the largest cattle ranch ever, owning over 3,000,000 acres spread over 9 counties. It was owned by a Chicago business syndicate, led by the Farwell Brothers, John V. and Charles B. Farwell, formed in 1885 to capitalize on the demand for western beef. The ranch also erected 325 windmills and built 100 dams. By 1905, as bonds (that had been sold to capitalize the venture) became due and the ranch still wasn't profitable, the land started to be subdivided and by 1912, the giant venture was out of the cattle business.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/XIT_cowboys.jpg
What ranch-hand cowboys really looked like - not the way Hollywood always portrays them.
...in 1993, Christie Todd Whitman was elected governor of New Jersey, the first woman to govern the state. She was the second woman in the United States, and first Republican woman, to defeat an incumbant governor. An enthusiast of Scottish Terriers, she sent a puppy, named Barney, to President and Laura Bush at the White House. Whitman was also the Administrator of the EPA in the Bush Administration from 2001 to 2003. Today she is a director of Texas Instruments and United Technologies. In her book, It's My Party, Too! she said, "The defining feature of the conservative viewpoint is a faith in the ability, and a respect for the right, of individuals to make their own decisions - economic, social, and spiritual - about their lives. The true conservative understands that government's track record in respecting individual rights is poor when it dictates individual choices."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Barney-20040908.jpg
Barney gives his first press briefing,
September 8, 2004. He was a gift to the
Bush family from Christine Todd Whitman.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/WhitmanChristineTodd.jpg
Christine Todd Whitman in
her Official Portrait from the EPA.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.