Pete doesn't have to be back to work until Wednesday, so we leave here Monday, get back Tuesday, sleep, & then it's back to the normal routine. I think we'll be back here sooner than later, in fact I may be coming back by myself before Pete & Kyle can get our of school & work again. It was great to see family again, but there are some gifts I wish they had kept to themselves ... like this cold I now have that's got every muscle in my body stiff & sore, the cough that just rumbles but I can't actually expel anything, the high fever ... that's it, I'm allergic to family. LOL! Just kidding! Maybe. ;) Mom made bacon & eggs for everyone yesterday so I started off with more breakfast than I'm used to. I texted Josh the chores & finally heard back from him & he says all chores have been getting done & pets are there & doing well. I tweeted from my phone just to make sure it still works (I don't use that app much), showered & then went out for the day. Andrew, Erin, Eve, Kyle, Pete, & I all went to Friendly's (FRIBBLES!) & then Eve, Kyle, Pete & I took a walk on the beach for a while, then we stopped at DQ for SOFT CHOCOLATE ice cream. Something they only seem to have on the east coast. Also, a large chocolate cone is HUGE. In Texas, a large cone is literally the equivalent of a small here. Everything is bigger in Texas MY ASS! While we were out the FD got toned out to a fire alarm. When we got back, I went straight to bed. This cold is really kicking my butt hard. I slept for an hour, woke up for 15 minutes, slept for an hour, woke up for 15 minutes ... all evening. Today I'm staying awake a little longer at a clip, but still tired & wanting to go back to sleep soon. After we got back last night the most I was able to do was check Twitter in between sleeping, but that was it. This isn't the regular cold ... this could quite possibly be the flu or one hell of a serious cold if that's all it is. Not many things have me bedridden. We woke up this morning to some really bad news & that's why I may be back here sooner rather than later. Family medical stuff. :( Makes my possible flu seem like nothing. Everything is relative. I'm lucky to only have the flu ... I'm hugging a box of Kleenex & feeling lucky. Andrew & Erin are coming in a little bit to pick up Eve & Kyle & spend the day together. Kyle has hardly spent much time with his big brother.
9 killed in a stampede outside a hip-hop celebrity basketball game (1991):
"It doesn't take an Einstein to know that young
people attending a rap concert...who have paid as much as $20 a ticket,
would not be very happy and easy to control if they were unable to gain
admission to the event because it was oversold." Those were the words of
Judge Louis C. Benza of the New York
State Court of Claims in sorting out the question of civil liability
for one of the worst music-related tragedies in recent American history.
Judge Benza's 73-page decision, issued seven years after nine young
people died in a crowd stampede on this day in 1991, placed 50 percent
of the blame for those deaths on the venue's owner, the City University
of New York, and 50 percent on the event's promoters, rapper Dwight
"Heavy D" Myers and the then largely unknown hip-hop impresario Sean
"Puff Daddy" Combs.
The event in question was billed as the first annual "Heavy D and Puff Daddy Celebrity Charity Basketball Game," a fundraising event for AIDS charities. Its draw, however, had little to do with basketball and everything to do with the scheduled participation of major music celebrities from the world of early 1990s hip-hop and R&B: Heavy D, Run-DMC, Big Daddy Kane, Ed Lover, Jodeci, Boyz II Men and Michael Bivins of Bell Biv DeVoe. While Sean Combs would later claim that no more than 2,150 tickets were sold to the event in the 2,730-capacity Nat Holman Gymnasium at City College, that account came under dispute in the event's aftermath. Regardless of how many tickets were sold, however, what is clear is that an overflow crowd of at least 3,000 would-be attendees had gathered outside the building's 138th Street entrance, and that the crowd had grown restless and unruly as the event's scheduled 6:00 p.m. starting time came and went.
Shortly after 6:00 p.m., according to eyewitness accounts, the crowd outside broke at least one of the glass doors separating them from the building lobby. Despite the presence of at least 66 New York City Police officers, 38 City College campus-security officers and 20 private security guards hired by the event's promoters, the crowd was able to surge through those doors and rush into the building shortly after 7:00 p.m., when the event finally got underway. Once inside the lobby, the crowd rushed down a short set of stairs leading to the gymnasium. At the bottom of those stairs, however, were four swinging doors—three of them closed—that opened not into the gymnasium, but into the stairwell. While the 3,000-strong crowd surged forward obliviously, those people who reached the stairwell first were caught in a crush that would leave eight dead on the scene and 29 others injured, one of whom would later die of her injuries at St. Luke's Hospital.
During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped, exposing a land bridge between what 2 countries?
A. Australia & New Zealand
B. Japan & China
C. Alaska & Siberia
D. Mexico & Cuba
Galvanize:
1: To stimulate with an electric current. 2: To excite or be excited as if by an electric shock. 3: To coat (iron or steel) with zinc.
"The Russians launched a satellite into space, & the sudden realization that we were falling behind galvanized Americans ..."
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician & physicist who, in the 1770s, studied the electrical nature of nerve impulses by applying electrical stimulation to frogs' leg muscles, causing them to contract. Although Galvani's theory that animal tissue contained an innate electrical impulse was disproven, the Italian word galvanismo came to describe a current of electricity, especially when produced by chemical action. English-speakers borrowed the word as "galvanism" in 1797; the verb "galvanize" was introduced in 1802. In 1853, Charlotte Bronte used the verb figuratively in her novel Villette: "Her approach always galvanized him to new & spasmodic life." Today, "galvanize" also means to cover metal with zinc or a zinc alloy to protect from rust (as in galvanized carpentry nails).
In 2008, PETA proposed that Ben & Jerry's ice cream contain what instead of cow's milk?
A. Breast milk
B. Goat's milk
C. Horse's milk
D. Soy milk
Answer: A. Breast milk
Money follows your habits, your character, & your knowledge level. You can't stop that from happening. If you do poor people stuff, you get to be poor people whether you're rich or poor. Poor people stuff is the way people act in their decisions, emotional maturity, spiritual outlook & all of those things.
Today In History:
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The event in question was billed as the first annual "Heavy D and Puff Daddy Celebrity Charity Basketball Game," a fundraising event for AIDS charities. Its draw, however, had little to do with basketball and everything to do with the scheduled participation of major music celebrities from the world of early 1990s hip-hop and R&B: Heavy D, Run-DMC, Big Daddy Kane, Ed Lover, Jodeci, Boyz II Men and Michael Bivins of Bell Biv DeVoe. While Sean Combs would later claim that no more than 2,150 tickets were sold to the event in the 2,730-capacity Nat Holman Gymnasium at City College, that account came under dispute in the event's aftermath. Regardless of how many tickets were sold, however, what is clear is that an overflow crowd of at least 3,000 would-be attendees had gathered outside the building's 138th Street entrance, and that the crowd had grown restless and unruly as the event's scheduled 6:00 p.m. starting time came and went.
Shortly after 6:00 p.m., according to eyewitness accounts, the crowd outside broke at least one of the glass doors separating them from the building lobby. Despite the presence of at least 66 New York City Police officers, 38 City College campus-security officers and 20 private security guards hired by the event's promoters, the crowd was able to surge through those doors and rush into the building shortly after 7:00 p.m., when the event finally got underway. Once inside the lobby, the crowd rushed down a short set of stairs leading to the gymnasium. At the bottom of those stairs, however, were four swinging doors—three of them closed—that opened not into the gymnasium, but into the stairwell. While the 3,000-strong crowd surged forward obliviously, those people who reached the stairwell first were caught in a crush that would leave eight dead on the scene and 29 others injured, one of whom would later die of her injuries at St. Luke's Hospital.
During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped, exposing a land bridge between what 2 countries?
A. Australia & New Zealand
B. Japan & China
C. Alaska & Siberia
D. Mexico & Cuba
Galvanize:
1: To stimulate with an electric current. 2: To excite or be excited as if by an electric shock. 3: To coat (iron or steel) with zinc.
"The Russians launched a satellite into space, & the sudden realization that we were falling behind galvanized Americans ..."
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician & physicist who, in the 1770s, studied the electrical nature of nerve impulses by applying electrical stimulation to frogs' leg muscles, causing them to contract. Although Galvani's theory that animal tissue contained an innate electrical impulse was disproven, the Italian word galvanismo came to describe a current of electricity, especially when produced by chemical action. English-speakers borrowed the word as "galvanism" in 1797; the verb "galvanize" was introduced in 1802. In 1853, Charlotte Bronte used the verb figuratively in her novel Villette: "Her approach always galvanized him to new & spasmodic life." Today, "galvanize" also means to cover metal with zinc or a zinc alloy to protect from rust (as in galvanized carpentry nails).
In 2008, PETA proposed that Ben & Jerry's ice cream contain what instead of cow's milk?
A. Breast milk
B. Goat's milk
C. Horse's milk
D. Soy milk
Answer: A. Breast milk
Money follows your habits, your character, & your knowledge level. You can't stop that from happening. If you do poor people stuff, you get to be poor people whether you're rich or poor. Poor people stuff is the way people act in their decisions, emotional maturity, spiritual outlook & all of those things.
Today In History is the easiest/best way to get the history information you want when you want it.
----- ABOUT THE APP -----
We are dedicated to sharing world history, and personally significant "historical" information.
As soon as you open the application you are shown all the major events that happened on that day. Created for history, trivia, and knowledge lovers and also for fans of On This Day, This Day In, Today In pages.
----- TOP FEATURES -----
✔ Over 100k historical events.
✔ Several wikipedia links per entry
✔ Add your own events, share them with friends
✔ Share events via Twitter, Facebook, etc.
What legendary rock musician has an international airport that bears his name?
John Lennon. Liverpool Airport in Liverpool, England, the city of
Lennon’s birth, was officially renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport in
2002.
When in doubt about whether to tip, ask in advance. If a department store is scheduled to deliver a new sofa, call in advance & ask someone in the furniture department whether tipping is customary. In a hair salon, ask the receptionist. In some situations, leaving a tip could be seen as odd, even demeaning for some professionals. Taking the time to find out what's expected can spare you an embarrassing moment.
Which continent is the biggest?
A. North America
B. Africa
C. Asia
CBA. Africa straddles the equator & encompasses numerous climate areas; it's the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
Which part of the body contains the most bones?
A. Hand
B. Spine
C. Skull
Who is the only person prominently pictured on U.S. currency who wasn’t born in the continental United States?
You probably spent a lot of time decorating your home for the holidays so take the time to enjoy it. Don't feel rushed to take your holiday decorations down. Leave them up for a few more days or weeks & enjoy the holiday season.
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