The_Kitchen_Guy
11-07-2009, 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 53 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 1874, the Republican Party was represented in a Thomas Nast cartoon as an elephant. The cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly as were most Nast cartoons. The image stuck, and to this day, the elephant is the symbol of the party. (Nast drew a similar cartoon depicting a jackass kicking a dead lion. The jackass represented Democrat interests and it soon became the symbol for the Democrat party. That cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly in the January 19, 1870 issue.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/NastRepublicanElephant.jpg/800px-NastRepublicanElephant.jpg
...in 1917, the Bolshevek Revolution began as Vladamir Lenin's forces overthrew the Czarist government of Russia. (Apparently, they wanted change, too, and look what they got!)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Lenin.jpg/225px-Lenin.jpg
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(1870 - 1924)
...in 1991, Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced his retirement from the NBA. The startling news came in the middle of what would become a Hall of Fame career, but even moreso because he announced that he was HIV Positive. In 13 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson amassed impressive statistics, including five NBA World Championships. Today, he is a successful businessman and advocate for AIDS survivors. He is proof that AIDS is not a death sentence as it once was, but a manageable condition.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Earvin_%22Magic%22_Johnson_on_%2707.jpg/200px-Earvin_%22Magic%22_Johnson_on_%2707.jpg
Earvin "Magic" Johnson ca. 2007
(1959 - )
...in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, popularly known as Gallopin' Gertie, collapsed. It opened to great fanfare in 1940, but a critical design flaw led to the nickname and the eventual failure. It was the third longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened, but the winds in the Tacoma Narrows happened to reach the natural frequency of the bridge, causing it to sway at first, then dance in a perfect sine wave. The last car on the bridge was that of Leonard Cotsworth, the copy editor of the Tacoma News-Tribune. In a famous film of the collapse, Cotsworth can be seen struggling to walk back to the end of the bridge, while his daughter's black cocker spaniel stayed in the car and refused to come out. The dog was the only fatality in the collapse.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/TacomaNarrowsBridgeCollapse_in_color.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw)
Oops. Click on the photo to watch the dramatic video of
the collapse of Gallopin' Gertie.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/TopViewNarrows.jpg/250px-TopViewNarrows.jpg
Today, two spans carry traffic across the narrows. The replacement for
Gallopin' Gertie took until 1950 to build because of steel shortages during
World War II and was promptly dubbed Sturdy Gertie. By 2000, the bridge was
not sufficient to carry the traffic load, so a second span was added. Sturdy Gertie
now carries westbound traffic while the new span, that opened in 2007, carries
eastbound traffic.
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 53 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 1874, the Republican Party was represented in a Thomas Nast cartoon as an elephant. The cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly as were most Nast cartoons. The image stuck, and to this day, the elephant is the symbol of the party. (Nast drew a similar cartoon depicting a jackass kicking a dead lion. The jackass represented Democrat interests and it soon became the symbol for the Democrat party. That cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly in the January 19, 1870 issue.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/NastRepublicanElephant.jpg/800px-NastRepublicanElephant.jpg
...in 1917, the Bolshevek Revolution began as Vladamir Lenin's forces overthrew the Czarist government of Russia. (Apparently, they wanted change, too, and look what they got!)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Lenin.jpg/225px-Lenin.jpg
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(1870 - 1924)
...in 1991, Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced his retirement from the NBA. The startling news came in the middle of what would become a Hall of Fame career, but even moreso because he announced that he was HIV Positive. In 13 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson amassed impressive statistics, including five NBA World Championships. Today, he is a successful businessman and advocate for AIDS survivors. He is proof that AIDS is not a death sentence as it once was, but a manageable condition.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Earvin_%22Magic%22_Johnson_on_%2707.jpg/200px-Earvin_%22Magic%22_Johnson_on_%2707.jpg
Earvin "Magic" Johnson ca. 2007
(1959 - )
...in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, popularly known as Gallopin' Gertie, collapsed. It opened to great fanfare in 1940, but a critical design flaw led to the nickname and the eventual failure. It was the third longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened, but the winds in the Tacoma Narrows happened to reach the natural frequency of the bridge, causing it to sway at first, then dance in a perfect sine wave. The last car on the bridge was that of Leonard Cotsworth, the copy editor of the Tacoma News-Tribune. In a famous film of the collapse, Cotsworth can be seen struggling to walk back to the end of the bridge, while his daughter's black cocker spaniel stayed in the car and refused to come out. The dog was the only fatality in the collapse.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/TacomaNarrowsBridgeCollapse_in_color.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw)
Oops. Click on the photo to watch the dramatic video of
the collapse of Gallopin' Gertie.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/TopViewNarrows.jpg/250px-TopViewNarrows.jpg
Today, two spans carry traffic across the narrows. The replacement for
Gallopin' Gertie took until 1950 to build because of steel shortages during
World War II and was promptly dubbed Sturdy Gertie. By 2000, the bridge was
not sufficient to carry the traffic load, so a second span was added. Sturdy Gertie
now carries westbound traffic while the new span, that opened in 2007, carries
eastbound traffic.
That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EST.