April 12

April 12

St. Julius I, St. Damian, St Zeno (of anglers)

Big Wind Day, Russian Cosmonaut Day

Union Jack adopted as flag of Great Britain 1606

Yuri Gagarin 1^st man to orbit the Earth 1961

Caren and 7 other Vistas arrive in Chicago and meet their neighbors Jim Deignan and Frank McNutt  1966

  

Birthdays:

Henry Clay 1777

David Letterman 1947

Scott Turow 1949

Day of  Societal Awareness

Meditation:  Denial of what happens slows down the process of self discovery

It’s blowing a blizzard out there;
It’s snowing and freezing the air.
The world’s turning white,
So it’s winter, all right.
Just a shame that I’m no polar bear.

 

April 11

April 11

St. Leo the Great, St. Gemma Galgani ( of hospital pharmacists) St Godberta, (invoked against drought and plague), St. Stanislaus, (of Poland)

Barbershop Quartet Day, Eight Track Tape Day, National Submarine Day

Jackie Robinson became 1^st black major league baseball player 1947

Popeye first appeared in Hearst newspaper 1929

Dylan made 1^st appearance at Gerde’s Folk City 1961

 

Birthdays:

James Parkinson 1755

Joel Grey 1932

Day of  the Policy Makers

Meditation: If there is any hope for the world, it  can only be in small acts of personal kindness.

Them bluegrass performers sure quicken
Their pace with their pluckin’ and pickin’
When folks paddle by...
Ain’t got no idea why
It makes all o’ them city boys chicken.

 

April 10

April 10

St. Bademus, St. Fulbert, St Hedda

Golfers Day, National Siblings Day

Bananas first appeared in British stores 1633

U.S. Patent system began 1790

Safety pin patented in US  1849

  

Birthdays:

William Booth 1827

Joseph Pulitzer 1847

Paul Theroux 1941

Day of  Daring

Meditation: Simply seeing is an act of creation

His life was cartoonish, replete
With hilarious scenes of defeat.
When he tried to walk tall,
He would meet with a fall
From banana skins left in the street.

 

April 9th

April 9

St. Mary of Egypt, St Casilda( invoked against bad luck, sterility)

Dyngus Day (Look it up if you don’t know !)., Winston Churchill Day, Name Yourself Day

Louisiana claimed for France and named by Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle 1682

James Cook arrived in Botany Bat 1770

Concorde made 1^st test flight 1969

I know you are expecting pictures here but this is orientation week so until I get on some kind of schedule, some of these will just have to be pictureless....  cb

Birthdays:

Efrem Zimbalist 1889

Paul Robeson 1898

Hugh Hefner 1926

Day of  Excess

Meditation: There is always someone “ better”.

Fletcher Christian sent off William Bligh,
Without charts or a means of supply,
In a small open boat.
Forty-six days afloat!
But the blighter neglected to die.

unless otherwise noted the limericks are all from www.speedysnail.com/limerick

 

April 8

April 8

St. Walter of Pontnoise (of prisoners, vintners) St Dionysius (who to MY way of thinking should be the patron of vintners)

All is Ours Day, Draw a Picture of a Bird Day (http://www.dabday.com/)

Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain 1513

Great Western, 1^st transatlantic steamship set off on maiden voyage 1838

Louisiana became a state 1812

  

Birthdays:

Mary Pickford 1893

Ian Smith 1919

Julian Lennon 1963

Day of  Conscience

Meditation: I am a human being from the planet Earth

Bibliography: Name-ordered list
Of references; these can consist
Of articles, books,
And the like. (Well, it looks
Like we’re done, so let’s go and play whist.)----www.speedysnail.com

 

April 7

April   7

St. Francis Xavier, St John-Baptist de la Salle (of teachers)

No Housework Day  ,World Health Day,  Caramel Popcorn Day ,

1^st matches sold by their inventor in Stockton England 1827

Mt Vesuvius erupted 1906

Albert Fell secretly leased Teapot Dome oil reserves 1922

FTC voted to restructure & deregulate the telephone industry 1980

    

  

Birthdays:

Billie Holiday 1915

Ravi Shankar 1920

Francis Ford Coppola 1939

Day of Enthusiastic Belief

Meditation: A carpenter says. “measure twice- cut once”.(so do quilters)

Bhopal is in Madhya Pradesh;
It’s a city where memories are fresh
Of the havoc once wreaked
When some holding tanks leaked
And the culprits all prayed to Ganesh.  ....www.speedysnail.com/limericks

 

April 6

April 6

St. Sixtus, St. Celestine, St Notker Balbulus (invoked against stammering)

National Walk to Work Day, Plan Your Epitaph Day, Sorry Charlie Day.

Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church in NY 1830

1^st modern Olympic games in Athens 1896

U.S. raised mandatory retirement age from 65 to70  1978

Birthdays:

Harry Houdini 1874

James Watson 1928

Merle Haggard 1937

Day of  the Experimenter

Meditation: Nothing is insignificant

Those Olympian gods were a bore:
Zeus and Hera, and Artemis—snore!
They were far too abundant,
And now they’re redundant.
(Except Ares, the Greek god of war.) ...speedysnail.com