Tuesday, August 29, 2006

7/29/06
Ah, we practiced the songs for our senior show and I might find the songs and get them up. Staying up again for Reds-Dodgers. Don't know if I can handle it.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Spanish used Puerto Rican masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?

TODAY IN HISTORY
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time.
1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
1484 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and costing over 115 billion dollars in damage.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding and wind over millions of years. Antelope Canyon is one of the best-known and most-photographed slot canyons in the world. The flash floods that created the canyon are a danger to tourists. Rain does not have to fall on or near the area for flash floods to whip through, as rain falling dozens of miles away 'upstream' of the canyons can funnel into them with little prior notice. On 12 August 1997, eleven tourists in Lower Antelope Canyon were killed by a flash flood. Very little rain fell at the site that day.
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Monday, August 28, 2006

8/28/06
Today seemed so long. Hopefully it's just Monday. Anyways, agian I'm staying up to watch the Reds, this time play the Dodgers. Hopefully, the Reds will win.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Haraldskaer Woman who lived in 540 BC is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet?

TODAY IN HISTORY
475 - Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
1565 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
1845 - The first issue of Scientific American was published.
1850 - The romantic opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner was first performed in Weimar, Germany.
1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.


Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. An estimated 200,000 to 500,000 people participated in the march, which featured Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was a major factor leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The march was also condemned by the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, who termed it the "farce on Washington".
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

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8/27/06
Sorry for not posting recently. Well the first football game was good both ways. I think our performance during half-time was better than people expected. And our football team broke an 8-game losing streak, winning 26-14. I mad at the IAU for demoting Pluto. Now I have to learn the planets all over again (not really).

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1776 - British forces led by William Howe defeated the Continental Army under George Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
1896 - Zanzibar surrendered within an hour after the Anglo-Zanzibar War broke out.
1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, was signed by 60 nations.
1939 - Experimental jetplane Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power.
1985 - The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Greylag Goose (Anser anser) is the ancestor of domesticated geese in Europe and North America. This species is one of the last to migrate and it is thought that the English name signifies late, meaning that they lagged behind the other geese when they left for their northern breeding quarters.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

FOR THOSE WHO CARE
My schedule
1-Physics
2-Study Hall
3-French 2
4-Government
5-Pre-Calc
6-Gothic Literature
7-Band (best period so far, I've already been to 20 classes)
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I just discovered that the comments work again for me. YEA!
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Sorry for not posting recently. I really haven't done much. School started today and I'm staying up to watch the Reds and SF Giants which the game starts at 10:15. Not much going on. First football game tomorrow and the band will probably have louder appaulse than the FB team. I'm so tired right now but I'm trying to stay up through 9 innings.
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Monday, August 21, 2006

8/21/06

Are you are Reds fan yet?

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Banderia Prutenorum is a 15th century manuscript by Jan D³ugosz, describing banners collected by Polish forces after their defeat of the Teutonic Order forces in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 AD?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1772 - A bloodless coup led by Gustav III was completed with the adoption of a new Instrument of Government.
1831 - Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia.
1911 - Mona Lisa, an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan was carried out in response to the Axe Murder Incident in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, almost triggering a second Korean War.
1986 - A limnic eruption from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed up to 1,800 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby villages.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Lower Manhattan (seen here from the Staten Island Ferry) is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan includes City Hall, the Municipal Building, the Financial District and the site of the World Trade Center. This is also the earliest area settled by Europeans, and is one of the few areas of Manhattan that does not have its streets arranged in a strict grid pattern.
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

8/20/06
It's my brother's birthday and I don't even know if he knows. I might go up to the car wash just to see how things are going.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE ON MYOTAKU ARE ROOTING FOR THE REDS


DID YOU KNOWW...
...that voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?

TODAY IN HISTORY
636 - Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid took control of Syria and Palestine in the Battle of Yarmouk, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 - Bulgarians led by Tsar Simeon I drove the Byzantines out of Thrace with a decisive victory in the Battle of Anchialus.
1882 - The "1812 Overture," an orchestral work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was first performed at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
1968 - At least 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, abruptly ending a period of political liberalization known as "Prague Spring".
1991 - Estonia regained its independence in the Singing Revolution, breaking away from the Soviet Union.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A specimen from the "hybrid zone" of the Leaf Green Tree Frog (Litoria phyllochroa) and the Southern Leaf Green Tree Frog (L. nudidigitus), showing physical characteristics of both species. These small stream-dwelling frogs (averaging only 40mm in length), are native to eastern Australia and occur together south of Sydney. The two species are differentiated only by distribution, call and slight differences in flank markings.
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Saturday, August 19, 2006

THIS IS CREEPY

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