Morning Update, October 29, 2009

The_Kitchen_Guy

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

In news of Candles for Paige we had 49 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 1929, Black Tueday struck Wall Street as 16,410,030 shares were traded. Billions of dollars were lost, thousands of investors were ruined when margins were called in. Stock tickers were behind by hours because of the sheer volume of trading. Ruined brokers jumped from windows. While the previous record trading day, October 24 (Black Thursday) and the following Black Tuesday did not cause the depression, in fact, the stock market began to recover the following week but it did accelerate the collapse of the world economy, already failing since the end of World War I. While numerous FDR programs were launched to cure the ills of the depression, none of them really had an effect. It took the ultimate consumer, World War II, to finally end the Great Depression.


Crowds began to gather on
Wall Street after the crash. No
one was jumping out of
windows - yet.

...in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was executed by beheading in London. The favorite of Queen Elizabeth had led three expeditions to America. He made the first English settlement in the new world in 1587, at Roanoke. When he married one of Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting, he fell out of her favor and was arrested. He bought his freedom and led an expedition to mine gold along the Orinoco River in South America, which failed. Meanwhile, Elizabeth passed on and King James I had him arrested and beheaded as an enemy of the crown. One cannot help but wonder if he was cremated and put into a can.


RING! "Tobacco shop, may I help you?"
"Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can?"
"Why, yes, we do!"
"Doncha think ya outta let him out?" (phone slams)

...in 1901, an obscure Polish laborer, Leon Czolgosz, was executed for the assassination of President William McKinley. Czolgosz shot McKinley on September 6 at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. The unrepentent laborer said he shot McKinley because he was the corrupt head of a corrupt government. His last words before being electrocuted were, "I killed the president because he was the enemy of the good people—the working people." Thomas Edison was reported to have filmed the execution.


Leon Czolgosz in a 1900 photo.

...in 1954, the last Hudson was produced before the venerable marque became just another automotive memory. Joseph L. Hudson, of Hudson Department Store fame, bankrolled former Olds associates who began building automobiles in 1909. Although the Hudson was never a top seller, Hudson did make a number of innovations, including dual brakes and a self starter. During the depression years, Hudson began an involvement with racing. Hudson Essex-Terraplane automobiles set records in economy runs, hill climbs and other timed events. After World War II, Hudson introduced a new design concept called the Monobuilt design, combining the frame and body into what was called "step-down." The concept lowered the car's center of gravity significantly, allowing the Hudson Hornet to corner better than competitors. Hudson dominated stock car races for the three years in the 1952-1954 seasons. (Paul Newman voiced the Hudson Hornet in the animated film Cars.) The racing record did not help sales, and Hudson-Essex-Terraplane merged with Nash-Kelvinator to form American Motors in 1954.


1948 Hudson Commodore, an example of the
Monobuilt step-down chassis.

...in 1777, the President of the Continental Congress, one John Hancock, resigned his position in order to return to Massachussets and take care of his health issues. Hancock is best remembered for his bold signiture on hte Declaration of Independence, resulting in the slang term for one's signiture as "Your John Hancock." In addition to his term as President of the Continental Congress, he was also the first, and a two term governor or Massachussets. Little known is that Hancock was the wealthiest man in New England, and as a true patriot, risked his life and his entire fortune by signing the document. After signing it, regarding te bounty that had been placed on his head, he said, "The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward."



...in 1957, Dan Castellaneta was born. "DOH!"



That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EDT.

chefann

Excellent.

baychef

Bumping for the afternoon!