The_Kitchen_Guy
11-03-2009, 12:03 AM
If you don't open this one, you're missing something interesting about the shoes you might be wearing, and an important history lesson. 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 76p 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 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet received Top-Secret Order Number 1: The United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is to be bombed in 34 days. The order also said harbors at Mayala, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines would also be bombed. The thought was that with the American navy severely damaged, the Japanese Navy could act with impunity in the Pacific. It was also believed that with the Americans facing conflict in Europe that a favorable peace would be negotiable. Admiral Yamamoto, who masterminded the strategy, feared the Americans would react in just the opposite way, and with their superior industrial might, could crush the Empire. He is reported to have said about the strategy planed for December 7, "I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success." The decisive Battle of Midway, that turned the tide against the Japanese Navy, ended on June 7, 1941, exactly six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Admiral Hara Tadaichi summed up the Japanese result by saying, "We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/727px-Pearl_Harbor_looking_southwes.jpg
Pearl Harbor was a peaceful looking place
on October 30, 1941. Did anyone know what
was lurking in the future? Conspiracy theorists
claim the Roosevelt Administration knew that
Secret Order No. 1 had been issued.
...in 1900, Adolph "Adi" Dassler was born in Hersongenaurach, Bavaria. He trained as a cobbler and in 1924, he and his older brother, Rudolph, began to make sports shoes at the Gebruder Dassler Schufabrik. At the 1928 Olympics, Dassler supplied track shoes to several athletes, setting up for international expansion. In 1936, he supplied shoes to Jesse Owens, the first African-American to receive corporate sponsorship. With the rise of Hitler to power in the 1930s, the brothers joined the Nazi Party. Rudi was the zealot, Adi joined just to be able to continue to sell shoes. Rudi was drafted and captured by the Allies while Adi continued to make boots for the Wehrmacht. Rudi was suspected of being part of the SS, which he blamed on Adi. It opened a rift between them that never healed. In 1948, Rudi left the company to found Puma. Adi renamed the company adidas, specifically using all lowercase letters. His son, Horst Dassler, founded Arena, maker of swimming equipment.
http://www.funnypictures.net.au/images/corocodile-or-alligator-converse-funny-shoes1.jpg (http://www.funnypictures.net.au/2008-02/)
What started out as reinforcement for track shoes
became the familiar adidas logo, three stripes. The trademark
is so fiercely protected that it cannot even be used for
educational purposes. As a result, the logo was removed
from this post under threa...well...it was removed.
...in 1981, relief pitcher, Rollie Fingers won the Cy Young award for the Milwaukee Brewers. Fingers has 341 career saves and, with fellow reliever Dennis Eckersley, is in the Hall of Fame. He has slipped to eigth on the all-time saves list and will probably slip further. In the heady days when Fingers and Eckersley were relieving, a relief pitcher was usually asked to come into the game and pitch two or three innings to save a game. Today, a closer comes into the game to pitch the 9th inning, or less, to earn a save. Had Fingers been used that way, he says he "...could have had 650 or 700 saves." He's probably right. Just one year later...
...in 1982, Pete Vuckovitch won the Cy Young Award for the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers lost the world series to St. Louis in a heartbreaking 7th game.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/Sports/FINGERS85LEAF-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/Sports/3025786780_cc888799c5_o.jpg
Rollie Fingers and Pete Vuckovich.
Vuckovich's shoes don't match. Hmmm.
...in 1931, from Washington, D.C., President Herbert Hoover turned a golden key that rang bells in Detroit, Michigan USA and Windsor, Ontario Canada, signaling the opening the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. It was the first international tunnel constructed for vehicular traffic (two railroad tunnels preceded it.) It was constructed by digging a trench in the river bottom and a giant tube was floated on the river's surface, then sunk into the trench. Even though it is 75 feet below the river bottom, a no-anchor zone is strictly enforced. The tunnel also served as a freeway for illegal liquor to be smuggled into the dry United States, still under the Volstead Act. The tunnel was opened a year ahead of schedule and cost $23 million. It is 5,160 feet long and can handle up to 2,000 cars per hour. Motorcycles are prohibited. Today, the tunnel is operated by a corporation that is a joint venture between Detroit and Windsor, and it remains a vital international transportation link.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/DWTunnel.JPG/250px-DWTunnel.JPG
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is
one of two ways to cross the
Detroit River. The other is the
Ambassador Bridge (http://bridgehunter.com/mi/wayne/ambassador/), opened in 1928.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/DetroitWindsorTunnelbordercrossing.jpg/120px-DetroitWindsorTunnelbordercrossing.jpg
You actually travel south from Detroit
to cross into Windsor, Ontario,
America's northern neighbor.
...in 1862, Dr. Richard Gatling received a patent for a machine gun. He sincerely believed that the weapon, that fired an astounding 200 rounds per minute, would threaten to cause so much carnage that it would end the Civil War. Modern Gattling guns are capable of firing 3900 rounds per minute - that's 65 shots per second. Dr. Gatling also patented a rice planting device that became a successful wheat drill, but Dr. Gatling is best remembered for the awful weapon that bears his name.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Gatling_gun.jpg/180px-Gatling_gun.jpg
An 1876 version of Dr. Gatling's
invention, on display at the
Fort Laramie Museum.
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 76p 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 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet received Top-Secret Order Number 1: The United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is to be bombed in 34 days. The order also said harbors at Mayala, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines would also be bombed. The thought was that with the American navy severely damaged, the Japanese Navy could act with impunity in the Pacific. It was also believed that with the Americans facing conflict in Europe that a favorable peace would be negotiable. Admiral Yamamoto, who masterminded the strategy, feared the Americans would react in just the opposite way, and with their superior industrial might, could crush the Empire. He is reported to have said about the strategy planed for December 7, "I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success." The decisive Battle of Midway, that turned the tide against the Japanese Navy, ended on June 7, 1941, exactly six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Admiral Hara Tadaichi summed up the Japanese result by saying, "We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/blog_references/727px-Pearl_Harbor_looking_southwes.jpg
Pearl Harbor was a peaceful looking place
on October 30, 1941. Did anyone know what
was lurking in the future? Conspiracy theorists
claim the Roosevelt Administration knew that
Secret Order No. 1 had been issued.
...in 1900, Adolph "Adi" Dassler was born in Hersongenaurach, Bavaria. He trained as a cobbler and in 1924, he and his older brother, Rudolph, began to make sports shoes at the Gebruder Dassler Schufabrik. At the 1928 Olympics, Dassler supplied track shoes to several athletes, setting up for international expansion. In 1936, he supplied shoes to Jesse Owens, the first African-American to receive corporate sponsorship. With the rise of Hitler to power in the 1930s, the brothers joined the Nazi Party. Rudi was the zealot, Adi joined just to be able to continue to sell shoes. Rudi was drafted and captured by the Allies while Adi continued to make boots for the Wehrmacht. Rudi was suspected of being part of the SS, which he blamed on Adi. It opened a rift between them that never healed. In 1948, Rudi left the company to found Puma. Adi renamed the company adidas, specifically using all lowercase letters. His son, Horst Dassler, founded Arena, maker of swimming equipment.
http://www.funnypictures.net.au/images/corocodile-or-alligator-converse-funny-shoes1.jpg (http://www.funnypictures.net.au/2008-02/)
What started out as reinforcement for track shoes
became the familiar adidas logo, three stripes. The trademark
is so fiercely protected that it cannot even be used for
educational purposes. As a result, the logo was removed
from this post under threa...well...it was removed.
...in 1981, relief pitcher, Rollie Fingers won the Cy Young award for the Milwaukee Brewers. Fingers has 341 career saves and, with fellow reliever Dennis Eckersley, is in the Hall of Fame. He has slipped to eigth on the all-time saves list and will probably slip further. In the heady days when Fingers and Eckersley were relieving, a relief pitcher was usually asked to come into the game and pitch two or three innings to save a game. Today, a closer comes into the game to pitch the 9th inning, or less, to earn a save. Had Fingers been used that way, he says he "...could have had 650 or 700 saves." He's probably right. Just one year later...
...in 1982, Pete Vuckovitch won the Cy Young Award for the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers lost the world series to St. Louis in a heartbreaking 7th game.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/Sports/FINGERS85LEAF-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/lugnuts/Sports/3025786780_cc888799c5_o.jpg
Rollie Fingers and Pete Vuckovich.
Vuckovich's shoes don't match. Hmmm.
...in 1931, from Washington, D.C., President Herbert Hoover turned a golden key that rang bells in Detroit, Michigan USA and Windsor, Ontario Canada, signaling the opening the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. It was the first international tunnel constructed for vehicular traffic (two railroad tunnels preceded it.) It was constructed by digging a trench in the river bottom and a giant tube was floated on the river's surface, then sunk into the trench. Even though it is 75 feet below the river bottom, a no-anchor zone is strictly enforced. The tunnel also served as a freeway for illegal liquor to be smuggled into the dry United States, still under the Volstead Act. The tunnel was opened a year ahead of schedule and cost $23 million. It is 5,160 feet long and can handle up to 2,000 cars per hour. Motorcycles are prohibited. Today, the tunnel is operated by a corporation that is a joint venture between Detroit and Windsor, and it remains a vital international transportation link.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/DWTunnel.JPG/250px-DWTunnel.JPG
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is
one of two ways to cross the
Detroit River. The other is the
Ambassador Bridge (http://bridgehunter.com/mi/wayne/ambassador/), opened in 1928.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/DetroitWindsorTunnelbordercrossing.jpg/120px-DetroitWindsorTunnelbordercrossing.jpg
You actually travel south from Detroit
to cross into Windsor, Ontario,
America's northern neighbor.
...in 1862, Dr. Richard Gatling received a patent for a machine gun. He sincerely believed that the weapon, that fired an astounding 200 rounds per minute, would threaten to cause so much carnage that it would end the Civil War. Modern Gattling guns are capable of firing 3900 rounds per minute - that's 65 shots per second. Dr. Gatling also patented a rice planting device that became a successful wheat drill, but Dr. Gatling is best remembered for the awful weapon that bears his name.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Gatling_gun.jpg/180px-Gatling_gun.jpg
An 1876 version of Dr. Gatling's
invention, on display at the
Fort Laramie Museum.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.