Interrogatories
What is your favorite book that you HAD to read for school?
Are you a poetry person? Who is your favorite poet?
Who do you think (living person) should get a Nobel Prize?
Do you know the Dewey Decimal System?
The Twitter Emitter
Run a multimillion dollar company when I could be getting $4 a day for doing nothing? Are you smoking dust? I have a refrigerator!
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 9, 2013
RGIII Was Leading Until The 4th Quarter, Then He Stopped Leading, He Should Lead More #RonFournierSports
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 9, 2013
New jobs report exceeds expectations and unemployment down. Finally, something the media won't blame on Obama.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 9, 2013
The Senate may have to work weekends to get their job done this year. But wouldn't they work harder if we stopped paying them, Rand Paul?
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 9, 2013
Compromise defense bill advances after Democrats agree to GOP demand that "Merry Christmas" be painted on more than 5,000 nuclear warheads
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 9, 2013
If only all Muslims would convert to Christianity. Then we'd only have to be afraid of most of them because they're brown.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) December 9, 2013
Sarah Palin and Macaulay Culkin are trending. One is famous for their role as a child left behind by grownups, the other is Macaulay Culkin.
— DC Debbie (@DCdebbie) December 9, 2013
On This Day
In 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state.
In 1868, near London’s Westminster Palace, the very first traffic lights were installed. I haven’t found when the first ever traffic ticket was issued.
In 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was first published.
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize (the Peace Prize).
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
In 1976, the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. I guess they couldn’t agree on a shorter title.
In 1978, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were awarded a shared Nobel Peace Prize.
Born on This Day
1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
1613 – Isaac van Oosten, Flemish landscape painter (d. 1661
1654 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter (d. 1719)
1691 – Cornelis Pronk, Dutch etcher, porcelain designer (d. 1759)
1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer in the education of the deaf. (d. 1852)
1807 – Niels Simonsen, Danish orientalist painter (d. 1885)
1815 – Francesco Bergamini, Italian painter (d. 1883)
1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian and inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. (d. 1931)
1859 – Peder Mork Mønsted, Danish painter (d. 1941)
1867 – Ker-Xavier Roussel, French Nabi painter (d. 1944)
1870 – Adolf Loos, influential Austrian architect (d. 1933)
1870 – Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Polish painter (d. 1936)
1884 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1886 – Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975)
1886 – Victor McLaglen, British actor who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1935 for his role as Gypo Nolan in “The Informer.”
1903 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
1907 – Rumer Godden, English writer whose novels I highly recommend. (d. 1998)
1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
1941 – Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
1952 – Susan Dey, American actress
1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
1960 – Sir Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
1964 – Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1965 – J Mascis, American musician
1972 – Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 – Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
Died on This Day
1475 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (b. 1397)
1630 – Orazio Riminaldi, Italian painter (b. 1586)
1761 – Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter (b. 1704)
1763 – George van der Mijn, Dutch painter (d. 1726)
1880 – Theodor Leopold Weller, German painter (b. 1802)
1884 – Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter (b. 1848)
1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor, Nobel Prize founder (b. 1833)
1910 – Seymour Joseph Guy, English/U.S. genre and portrait painter (b. 1824)
1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1868)
1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and illustrator (b. 1868)
1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
1967 – Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1912)
1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901)
1991 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
Today is
Shareware Day
Day of the Horse
Human Rights Day
National Lager Day
Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales
Dewey Decimal System Day
Nobel Prize Day
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