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Sunday, October 22, 2006


10/22/06
Well, I sent in an application to UC today and then I was going to post here but my computer shut down automatically on me. So here I am with not much to say or do. Oh well. Hope you had a good weekend. Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
... that Katsu! is a shout used in Zen Buddhism to induce enlightenment, as well as in the martial arts to focus one's energy?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1383 - In Portugal, a period of civil war and anarchy began when King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1844 - Millerites and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by preacher William Miller.
1924 - Toastmasters International was founded.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced on television that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1999 - Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Portrait of American photographer Dorothea Lange atop a Ford Model B car in 1936. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs, such as Migrant Mother, humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

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