The "Memorial" in Memorial Day has been ignored by too many of us who
are beneficiaries of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. Often
we do not observe the day as it should be, a day where we actively
remember our ancestors, our family members, our loved ones, our
neighbors, and our friends who have given the ultimate sacrifice:
- by visiting cemeteries and placing flags or flowers on the graves of our fallen heroes.
- by visiting memorials.
- by flying the U.S. Flag at half-staff until noon.
- by flying the 'POW/MIA Flag' as well (Section 1082 of the 1998 Defense Authorization Act).
- by participating in a "National Moment of Remembrance": at 3 p.m. to pause and think upon the true meaning of the day, and for Taps to be played.
- by renewing a pledge to aid the widows, widowers, and orphans of our fallen dead, and to aid the disabled veterans.
Also, please consider adding your voice in support of the efforts to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day
back to May 30th (instead of "the last Monday in May"). This would help
greatly to return the solemn meaning back to the day, and to help
return minds and hearts to think upon the ultimate sacrifices made by
those in service to our country. Just one day out of the year to honor
our loved ones, our ancestors, our friends who died in conflicts and
wars -- not to honor war, but those that died in those conflicts and
wars.
2 popular varieties of this plant are 'Maid of Orleans' or 'Grand Duke of Tuscany.' What's the plant (common & scientific names, please)?
Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac). It has graceful, cascading stems & is treasured for its fragrant blooms. The Chinese use unopened flower buds to perfume tea, & the dainty white flowers are used for leis in Hawaii.
Keep these jasmines warm & give them at least 4 hours of bright sun daily. An east or west window is better than a south-facing one. Keep the soil most but not wet. To encourage blooms & good growth throughout the major flowering season (spring to late fall), feed the plants ever 2 weeks, alternating a high-nitrogen organic fertilizer such as fish emulsion with any all-purpose water-soluble blend that is recommended for flowering plants. In late fall, cut back on the feeding schedule. While the plant is having its winter rest, a half-strength dose of all-purpose plant food every 6 weeks is all it needs. To keep the plant shapely & free-flowering, prune back by about 1/3 in the early spring, before the start of the new trowing season.
Avoid multi-tasking if the task requires a high level of concentration, it's best to stay focused on that 1 task to ensure it's done right & on time.
In this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey
Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan
nightclub during World War II ... but he never expected Ilsa (Ingrid
Bergman) - the woman who broke his heart -- to walk through that door.
Ilsa hopes that with Rick's help, she and her fugitive husband (Paul
Henreid) can escape to America. But the spark that brought the lovers
together still burns brightly.
Comic Phil Hartman killed by wife (1998):
On this day in 1998, the comedian and actor Phil Hartman, famous for his work on Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio, is shot to death by his troubled wife, Brynn, in a murder-suicide. He was 49.
Born on September 24, 1948, in Ontario, Canada, Hartman was raised in Connecticut and Southern California, and later became an American citizen. Early on, he found work designing record album covers (he created the official logo for the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) but made the leap to acting in 1975 when he joined the L.A. improvisational acting group, the Groundlings. With his fellow Groundlings alum, Paul Reubens, Hartman wrote the screenplay for the successful comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985). Along with Reubens, Hartman had helped create the zany man-child character of Pee Wee Herman, though Reubens received most of the credit. From 1986 to 1990, Hartman portrayed Kap’n Karl on the Saturday morning children’s TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
Also in 1986, Hartman earned a spot on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. In his eight years on the show, Hartman became known for his spot-on impersonations of a variety of celebrities, notably President Bill Clinton. He also made frequent guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 1989, Hartman shared an Emmy Award for his writing contributions to Saturday Night Live. He went on to set a record for the most appearances (153) as one of the show’s regulars.
Hartman joined the cast of the TV sitcom NewsRadio in 1995. He played the egotistical anchorman of an AM radio news station in New York City through four seasons of the show’s five-year run. The ensemble cast also included Dave Foley, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick. Hartman also notably provided the voices for a number of characters, including the has-been actor Troy McClure and the incompetent lawyer Lionel Hurtz, on the acclaimed animated series The Simpsons. In addition to his TV work as an actor and pitchman (for MCI, McDonald’s and Cheetos, among others), Hartman appeared on the big screen in Blind Date (1987), Jingle All the Way (1996) and Small Soldiers, released after his death.
Off-screen, Hartman was popular among his Hollywood colleagues and known for being completely different from some of the more unlikable characters he had portrayed. The murder-suicide, which shocked fans and friends alike, occurred early on the morning of May 28, 1998, at the couple’s home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. According to news reports, Brynn, Hartman’s third wife (two previous marriages ended in divorce) had a history of drug and alcohol problems. The couple had two children.
Born on September 24, 1948, in Ontario, Canada, Hartman was raised in Connecticut and Southern California, and later became an American citizen. Early on, he found work designing record album covers (he created the official logo for the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) but made the leap to acting in 1975 when he joined the L.A. improvisational acting group, the Groundlings. With his fellow Groundlings alum, Paul Reubens, Hartman wrote the screenplay for the successful comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985). Along with Reubens, Hartman had helped create the zany man-child character of Pee Wee Herman, though Reubens received most of the credit. From 1986 to 1990, Hartman portrayed Kap’n Karl on the Saturday morning children’s TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
Also in 1986, Hartman earned a spot on the long-running NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. In his eight years on the show, Hartman became known for his spot-on impersonations of a variety of celebrities, notably President Bill Clinton. He also made frequent guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 1989, Hartman shared an Emmy Award for his writing contributions to Saturday Night Live. He went on to set a record for the most appearances (153) as one of the show’s regulars.
Hartman joined the cast of the TV sitcom NewsRadio in 1995. He played the egotistical anchorman of an AM radio news station in New York City through four seasons of the show’s five-year run. The ensemble cast also included Dave Foley, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick. Hartman also notably provided the voices for a number of characters, including the has-been actor Troy McClure and the incompetent lawyer Lionel Hurtz, on the acclaimed animated series The Simpsons. In addition to his TV work as an actor and pitchman (for MCI, McDonald’s and Cheetos, among others), Hartman appeared on the big screen in Blind Date (1987), Jingle All the Way (1996) and Small Soldiers, released after his death.
Off-screen, Hartman was popular among his Hollywood colleagues and known for being completely different from some of the more unlikable characters he had portrayed. The murder-suicide, which shocked fans and friends alike, occurred early on the morning of May 28, 1998, at the couple’s home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. According to news reports, Brynn, Hartman’s third wife (two previous marriages ended in divorce) had a history of drug and alcohol problems. The couple had two children.
Dogs named Barney, Bo, Miss Beazley, and Buddy have all been White House pets. Can you name their owners?
Barney and Miss Beazley/George W. Bush; Bo/Barack Obama; and Buddy/Bill Clinton.
Hollywood power couple welcomes child (2006):
On this day in 2006, in Swakopmund, Namibia, the actors
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcome the arrival of their first
biological child, a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.
Talented and famous, Jolie and Pitt were both fixtures on Hollywood’s A-list by the time they starred together as married assassins in the action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Rumors soon began flying that the two had begun an off-screen affair, and intensified after Pitt and his wife, Jennifer Aniston (most famous for her role on the long-running TV sitcom Friends), announced their separation in early 2005. That spring, Pitt and Jolie (who had previously been married to the actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton) were photographed on a beach in Africa, where Jolie was working as a representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Though Pitt and Jolie refused to publicly acknowledge their relationship, they fueled speculation throughout 2005, notably by posing in a photo spread for W magazine. The press dubbed the couple “Brangelina” and obsessively chronicled their every move, noting Pitt’s growing comfort with Jolie’s two adopted children, Maddox (from Cambodia) and Zahara (from Ethiopia). On January 11, 2006, Jolie announced she was pregnant with Pitt’s child; barely a week later, the news broke that Pitt had successfully adopted Maddox and Zahara, whose surnames were legally changed to Jolie-Pitt.
Jolie gave birth to little Shiloh by a scheduled caesarean section that May in Namibia, an African country that had come under intense media scrutiny since the celebrity power couple decided it would be the birthplace of their first biological child. Pitt and Jolie held a press conference days after the birth, stating that Shiloh would have a Namibian passport; they had earlier announced a donation of $300,000 to refurbish hospitals there. Jolie had reportedly been attracted to Namibia after filming the movie Beyond Borders (2003) and meeting with aid workers there.
Shiloh’s first baby pictures went for a then-record sum of more than $4.1 million for the U.S. rights (paid by People magazine, which ran the photos in their June 19, 2006, issue) and $3.5 million for the international rights (picked up by Hello!). Pitt and Jolie donated those profits to charity. In February 2007, Jolie generated controversy for telling British ELLE that little blonde Shiloh was, as a newborn, like “a blob” and saying that she feels “so much more for [Maddox and Zahara] because they’re survivors, they came through so much.” That March, Jolie and Pitt adopted another son, Pax Thien, from Vietnam. When Jolie and Pitt’s biological twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, arrived in July 2008, People paid $14 million--another record-breaking sum--for images that adorned its cover and a 19-page photo spread inside the magazine. As before, the money went to charity.
Talented and famous, Jolie and Pitt were both fixtures on Hollywood’s A-list by the time they starred together as married assassins in the action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Rumors soon began flying that the two had begun an off-screen affair, and intensified after Pitt and his wife, Jennifer Aniston (most famous for her role on the long-running TV sitcom Friends), announced their separation in early 2005. That spring, Pitt and Jolie (who had previously been married to the actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton) were photographed on a beach in Africa, where Jolie was working as a representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Though Pitt and Jolie refused to publicly acknowledge their relationship, they fueled speculation throughout 2005, notably by posing in a photo spread for W magazine. The press dubbed the couple “Brangelina” and obsessively chronicled their every move, noting Pitt’s growing comfort with Jolie’s two adopted children, Maddox (from Cambodia) and Zahara (from Ethiopia). On January 11, 2006, Jolie announced she was pregnant with Pitt’s child; barely a week later, the news broke that Pitt had successfully adopted Maddox and Zahara, whose surnames were legally changed to Jolie-Pitt.
Jolie gave birth to little Shiloh by a scheduled caesarean section that May in Namibia, an African country that had come under intense media scrutiny since the celebrity power couple decided it would be the birthplace of their first biological child. Pitt and Jolie held a press conference days after the birth, stating that Shiloh would have a Namibian passport; they had earlier announced a donation of $300,000 to refurbish hospitals there. Jolie had reportedly been attracted to Namibia after filming the movie Beyond Borders (2003) and meeting with aid workers there.
Shiloh’s first baby pictures went for a then-record sum of more than $4.1 million for the U.S. rights (paid by People magazine, which ran the photos in their June 19, 2006, issue) and $3.5 million for the international rights (picked up by Hello!). Pitt and Jolie donated those profits to charity. In February 2007, Jolie generated controversy for telling British ELLE that little blonde Shiloh was, as a newborn, like “a blob” and saying that she feels “so much more for [Maddox and Zahara] because they’re survivors, they came through so much.” That March, Jolie and Pitt adopted another son, Pax Thien, from Vietnam. When Jolie and Pitt’s biological twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, arrived in July 2008, People paid $14 million--another record-breaking sum--for images that adorned its cover and a 19-page photo spread inside the magazine. As before, the money went to charity.
How many steps are taken by the soldier guarding the Tomb of the
Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery each time he marches past the
white marble sarcophagus?
If you look back through the Bible, you'll find that many of the major characters were very wealthy people who understood they weren't the owners of the money & wealth. They understood that their job was to manage these things properly for God's glory.
Leaves of this curious plant from Brazil fall into 2 categories: those with brown blotches called rabbit tracks, which turn dark green with age; those with a herringbone pattern of prominent red veins; & those with black-green leaves & silvery veins. What is it?
Mars Odyssey discovers signs of ice deposits on Mars. Ray Bradbury blushes. (2002)
Reading the hardback edition of Gone with the Wind counts as a weight-lifting exercise.
Retinol creams:
The off-the-shelf products put smoother skin literally at your fingertips.
Valorous:
Valiant
Audie Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1945 for valorous & heroic acts that saved his company in the face of a fierce German assault.
If you're boldly seeking synonyms for "valorous," consider "courageous," "intrepid," "dauntless," "doughty," "bold," or just plain "brave" - all of which mean "having or showing no fear when faced with danger or difficulty." "Brave" is the most straightforward of these, implying a lack of fear in alarming or difficult circumstances. "Courageous" carries a sense of stout-hearted resolution in the face of danger, & "intrepid" suggests downright daring in confronting peril. "Dauntless" suggests determination & resolution despite danger, & "doughty" means both "fearless" & "resolute," but with a touch of humor. "Bold" may also indicate a forward or defiant tendency to thrust oneself into dangerous situations. "Valorous" has the distinction of suggesting illustrious bravery & has an archaic or romantic ring.
What 2 families of famous athletes have had 3 members pictured on Sports Illustrated covers?
Football’s Manning family—father Archie, and sons Peyton and Eli; and baseball’s Ripken family—father Cal Sr., and sons Cal Jr. and Billy.
Football’s Manning family—father Archie, and sons Peyton and Eli; and baseball’s Ripken family—father Cal Sr., and sons Cal Jr. and Billy.
Whenever 2 people come together & their behavior affects 1 another, you have etiquette. Etiquette isn't some rigid code of manners, it's simply how persons' lives touch one another.
Which river contributes most, 2nd most, & 3rd most to the Mississippi?
A. The Missouri
B. The Arkansas
C. The Ohio
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