Morning update, July 3, 2009

chefann

KG is away from his computer, and asked me to post the update for him.

There were no new developments in Paige's case yesterday. No news, no new developments.

In news of Candles for Paige we had 58 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.

On This Day In History...

...in 1863, July 3 was the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. General Lee's Army of the Northern Virginia had failed in attacking General George Meade's Army of the Potomac on the left and right at Culp's Hill and Little Round Top. The Union army was not moved from their positions, so on the third day, he attacked the center. Cannonade was intense from both sides. At 3 PM, General George Pickett led 15,000 men into no man's land, only to find that Lee's bombardment had failed. In less than an hour, 7,000 Confederate troops were either dead or captured. It was the turning point of the war, Lee retreated south, thus ending the last Confederate foray into Union territory.


The Battle of Gettysburg by
Currier & Ives

...in 1978, Ernest Breech passed away in Royal Oak, Michigan at the age of 81. In 1946, Breech became the vice president of the ailing Ford Motor Company and began trimming the fat. He took over the chairmanship of Ford in 1955. The company had been reeling since the unexpected death of Edsel Ford in 1943, when Henry Ford II was pulled from the Navy to take over the colossus his grandfather had built. When Breech took over, Ford was hemorrhaging money. He instituted a modern management model and when he left Ford in 1960, the company was earning $500 million a year.


Ernest Breech rose to fame at GM as a
trouble shooter that couldn't resist a challenge.
He caught the eye of a young and inexperienced
Henry Ford II, who lured Breech away from GM
to tackle the ailing Ford Motor Company in 1946.

...in 1971, Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris. Morrison's band, The Doors was named after Aldous Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception. (Look it up for a surprise that isn't much of a surprise.) Their most famous hit was their first, Light My Fire, in 1967.


Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

...in 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army for the Revolutionary War.


General George Washington

That's it. That's all we know as of 6:52 AM, EDT.

raebates

Thanks for filling in, Ann.

chefann

I can't take any credit. KG emailed me the text, so all I had to do was check the candle count and post it.

Flamingo

You did a great job...I just love reading this stuff... Where does he come up with it all???>?

legacypc46

Not to start a trend, but here's another book recommendation. I had to read it for a college course and put it off until the last possible weekend (of course). I just didn't think I'd be interested in it...but then I started it around 7:00pm and got hooked. I read it straight thru, finishing at some ridiculous hour in the middle of the night.

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. It's a historical novel about the Battle of Gettyburg. It won the 1974 Pulitzer for Fiction.

Thanks Ann for covering in for KG!

The_Kitchen_Guy

When you steal from one source, it's called "plagiarism."

When you steal from many, it's called "research."

I do a lot of, um, research.