The_Kitchen_Guy
11-04-2009, 12:06 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 65 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 1939, at the National Auto Show in Chicago, a Packard automobile featured the first air conditioning unit in an automobile. The innovation created a stir and a lot of interest, but the price was well out of the range of the typical automobile buyer. (Air conditioning was a $274 option on the Packard, already one of the priciest automobiles in the marketplace.) It was not until the 1970's that air conditioning started to become a regular feature on most automobiles because, once people had an air conditioned car, they never wanted to give it up.
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Packard/1936Packard-V12-Formal-Sedan.jpg
...in 1922, an archaeologist from Great Britain, Howard Carter and his crew, discovered a step that led them to the yet undiscovered, tomb of 18 year old King Tutankhamen. The interior of the tomb was intact, rare for the tombs in the area, as most had been raided over the centuries. While thousands of objects were recovered from the tomb, the most astounding was a stone sarcophagu that contained three nested coffins, the last being solid gold and containing the mummy of King Tut, the boy-king, preserved for more than 3,000 years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Egypt.KV62.01.jpg
King Tutankhamen's tomb. Those panels read:
"The queen
Of hearts
Now loves the knave
King Tut
Ran out of
Burma Shave."
...in 1956, in a story that sounds eerilly too familiar to current events, the Soviet Union sent armored troops into Budapest to crush weeks of protests and faltering political controls. Beginning as a student protest on October 23, Hungarian protesters demanded a more democratic government and freedom from the iron rule of the Soviets. The students were fired upon by the government-controlled police and once the word spread, militias sprang up all over Hungary. As a result, the puppet government fell and rebels demanded a more democratic government. The Soviets installed Imre Nagy to run the country. He restored the peace and asked the Soviets to withdraw, which they did. Nagy then tried to abolish the one-party system and announced Hungary would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. In response, the Soviets invaded and, despite great efforts by the rebels, killed thousands of Hungarians. Nagy was taken into custody and executed. Discussion about the rebellion was supressed for decades, but after the Soviet Union collapsed, discussion has been intense. October 23 is now a national holiday.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/88/1956_hungarians_stalin_head.jpg/300px-1956_hungarians_stalin_head.jpg
Hungarian rebels pose with the desecrated
statue of Joseph Stalin, pulled down during the
rebellion of 1956.
...in 1979, students who were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, seizing the complex and taking 90 Americans hostage. The deposed Shah of Iran was scheduled to undergo medical treatment in the United States, and the radical Islamic fundamentalists were enragaed over the reports of the Shah's treatment. They threatened to start murdering the hostages if the Shah entered the US or if there was any rescue attempt. President Jimmy Carter botched negotiations from day one, the Iranian leader resigned and the Ayatollah Khomeini took control of the country, as well as control of the hostages. 14 days after seizing the embassy, the Ayatollah released non-American captives, along with female and minority Americans, using them as propaganda tools as the oppressed people in the United States. Years later, the Ayatollah said in his memoirs that once no Cruise missiles landed in Tehran, he knew he had President Carter by the bal...well...he knew he was in control. He played the American press like a violin and continued to make President Carter look like the weak and ineffective leader that he was. Carter ordered an ill-conceived and poorly executed rescue on April 24, 1980, that cost eight American soldiers their lives with no hostages rescued because the mission never came close to Tehran. The Shah died in Egypt, but the crisis continued because Khomeini, and not Carter, was in control. When Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 election, it was obvious there was a new sheriff coming to town, one with far more brass than the previous one. Khomeini decided negotiation with Reagan, through Algerian intermediaries, was better than risking the consequences with an unknown quantity. Within minutes of Reagan's innauguration, the hostages were on a plane out of Iran and on their way home, ending their 444 day ordeal. Jimmy Carter, in a rather audacious move, met the hostages in West Germany to welcome them home.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Ahmadinejad_alleged.JPG
Iranian militants parade an American hostage
before the Iranian media. This image of a historical
event is used here for educational purposes only and
may not be reproduced.
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 had 65 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 1939, at the National Auto Show in Chicago, a Packard automobile featured the first air conditioning unit in an automobile. The innovation created a stir and a lot of interest, but the price was well out of the range of the typical automobile buyer. (Air conditioning was a $274 option on the Packard, already one of the priciest automobiles in the marketplace.) It was not until the 1970's that air conditioning started to become a regular feature on most automobiles because, once people had an air conditioned car, they never wanted to give it up.
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Packard/1936Packard-V12-Formal-Sedan.jpg
...in 1922, an archaeologist from Great Britain, Howard Carter and his crew, discovered a step that led them to the yet undiscovered, tomb of 18 year old King Tutankhamen. The interior of the tomb was intact, rare for the tombs in the area, as most had been raided over the centuries. While thousands of objects were recovered from the tomb, the most astounding was a stone sarcophagu that contained three nested coffins, the last being solid gold and containing the mummy of King Tut, the boy-king, preserved for more than 3,000 years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Egypt.KV62.01.jpg
King Tutankhamen's tomb. Those panels read:
"The queen
Of hearts
Now loves the knave
King Tut
Ran out of
Burma Shave."
...in 1956, in a story that sounds eerilly too familiar to current events, the Soviet Union sent armored troops into Budapest to crush weeks of protests and faltering political controls. Beginning as a student protest on October 23, Hungarian protesters demanded a more democratic government and freedom from the iron rule of the Soviets. The students were fired upon by the government-controlled police and once the word spread, militias sprang up all over Hungary. As a result, the puppet government fell and rebels demanded a more democratic government. The Soviets installed Imre Nagy to run the country. He restored the peace and asked the Soviets to withdraw, which they did. Nagy then tried to abolish the one-party system and announced Hungary would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. In response, the Soviets invaded and, despite great efforts by the rebels, killed thousands of Hungarians. Nagy was taken into custody and executed. Discussion about the rebellion was supressed for decades, but after the Soviet Union collapsed, discussion has been intense. October 23 is now a national holiday.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/88/1956_hungarians_stalin_head.jpg/300px-1956_hungarians_stalin_head.jpg
Hungarian rebels pose with the desecrated
statue of Joseph Stalin, pulled down during the
rebellion of 1956.
...in 1979, students who were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, seizing the complex and taking 90 Americans hostage. The deposed Shah of Iran was scheduled to undergo medical treatment in the United States, and the radical Islamic fundamentalists were enragaed over the reports of the Shah's treatment. They threatened to start murdering the hostages if the Shah entered the US or if there was any rescue attempt. President Jimmy Carter botched negotiations from day one, the Iranian leader resigned and the Ayatollah Khomeini took control of the country, as well as control of the hostages. 14 days after seizing the embassy, the Ayatollah released non-American captives, along with female and minority Americans, using them as propaganda tools as the oppressed people in the United States. Years later, the Ayatollah said in his memoirs that once no Cruise missiles landed in Tehran, he knew he had President Carter by the bal...well...he knew he was in control. He played the American press like a violin and continued to make President Carter look like the weak and ineffective leader that he was. Carter ordered an ill-conceived and poorly executed rescue on April 24, 1980, that cost eight American soldiers their lives with no hostages rescued because the mission never came close to Tehran. The Shah died in Egypt, but the crisis continued because Khomeini, and not Carter, was in control. When Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 election, it was obvious there was a new sheriff coming to town, one with far more brass than the previous one. Khomeini decided negotiation with Reagan, through Algerian intermediaries, was better than risking the consequences with an unknown quantity. Within minutes of Reagan's innauguration, the hostages were on a plane out of Iran and on their way home, ending their 444 day ordeal. Jimmy Carter, in a rather audacious move, met the hostages in West Germany to welcome them home.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Ahmadinejad_alleged.JPG
Iranian militants parade an American hostage
before the Iranian media. This image of a historical
event is used here for educational purposes only and
may not be reproduced.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.