Friday, November 8, 2013

Headed Home

    
 
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I will be heading back home this morning after two weeks out here in the scrubland with Eva.

Don't really have anything of interest to report at this time.

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Did you know that . . . ?

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

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HISTORICAL EVENT



On this day in 1960 John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president.
 
Kennedy claimed during the campaign that he looked forward to meeting the challenges facing the strongest nation in the Free World. He did not have long to wait before those challenges were upon him. During the first few months of the Kennedy presidency, Kennedy appeared overwhelmed, first by the catastrophic failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, then by a blustering Nikita Khrushchev during a summit meeting in Europe, and finally by the construction of the Berlin Wall.

JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

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WORD FOR TODAY

tenacious
adjective
1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive: a tenacious material.
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive: tenacious lint.
4. Tending to retain; retentive: a tenacious memory.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS


Patti Page
(Nov 8, 1927 – Jan 1, 2013)
Patti Page was an American singer and one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and sold over 100 million records. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page".



Esther Rolle
(Nov 8, 1920 – Nov 17, 1998)
Esther Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans on the CBS television sitcom Maude and its spin-off series Good Times.



Dania Ramirez
(born November 8, 1979)
Dania Ramirez is a Dominican American TV and film actress. She is recently known for playing Rosie in Devious Maids, Alex in Entourage, and Blanca during the last season of The Sopranos on television. She also played Callisto in the feature film X-Men: The Last Stand.



Mary Hart
(born November 8, 1950)
Mary Hart is an American television personality and was the long-running host of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program Entertainment Tonight from 1982 to 2011, which is the longest running entertainment magazine show of all time.

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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

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