Interrogatories
Last week when I asked about places that no longer exist that you’d like to visit, the Library of Alexandria was the most frequent answer. So, IF you could visit it, and IF you were able to read the contents, what section of the library would you head for first?
What is your favorite internet search engine. Why?
What is your favorite online photo upload site? Why?
Licorice: A good thing or a bad thing (the black stuff, the red vines are not really licorice)?
The Twitter Emitter
WE HATE THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE AND WILL RAISE HOLY HELL IF IT ISN'T IMPLEMENTED ON TIME! #tcot
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 23, 2013
Since bigots don't engage in any useful pursuits, they tend to have lots of free time.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) October 23, 2013
I feel guilty whenever I have to evict a cat from my lap.
— Unstable Isotope (@UnstableIsotope) October 23, 2013
Market Place interviews lady upset her ins is being cancelled. Not so upset that she bothered to look at exchange to see if better offer.
— Teresa (@TeresaKopec) October 23, 2013
You can lead @chucktodd to the Press Room, wrap a fact in some bacon, shove it in his mouth & stroke his throat and he still spits it out.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) October 23, 2013
It was brilliant of #Obama to schedule the World Series to distract from the http://t.co/hlT3Yk48m6 launch.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) October 23, 2013
Ted Cruz: "The GOP has a much better plan for healthcare than Obamacare. It's called Wishful Thinking."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) October 23, 2013
Remember to celebrate Nancy Grace's birthday by being enraged about everything to the point where everyone around you is uncomfortable.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 24, 2013
Republicans seem so butthurt. Thankfully, Obamacare covers that.
— phive (@phive0phor) October 24, 2013
All these revelations about Dick Cheney's heart problems show how dangerously close America came to having Bush in charge.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 24, 2013
The Yankees are trending and "Suck" is not. Twitter might have a virus.
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) October 24, 2013
On This Day
In 1947, Walt Disney appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and cheerfully reeled of names of his employees that he suspected of being dirty commies.
In 2002, the Beltway Sniper attacks came to a definite end when police arrested John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.
In 2003, the last of the existing supersonic jets, or Concordes, landed for the very last time in London. They were done in by a number of things – poor fuel efficiency, safety concerns after the one and only crash, and Airbus announcing that they would no longer maintain the aircraft (among other things).
In 2007, Facebook turned down Google and got into bed with Microsoft, selling them a 1.6% stake for $240 million.
Born on This Day
1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and replace her with her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. (d. 1586)
1607 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1796 – David Roberts, Scottish painter specializing in archaological sites (d. 1864)
1820 – Eugène Fromentin, French orientalist painter (d. 1876)
1830 – Marianne North, English painter (d. 1890)
1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American adventurer (d. 1921) (went over Niagara Falls in a barrel)
1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919)
1843 – Henryk Hector Siemiradzki, Polish painter (d. 1902)
1854 – Gunnar-Fredrik Berndtson, Swedish-Finnish painter and illustrator (d. 1895)
1858 – Bertalan Karlovszky, Hungarian painter (d. 1939)
1868 – Charles Edwin Conder, English painter (d. 1909)
1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress (d. 1976)
1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1911 – Sonny Terry, American harmonica player (d. 1986)
1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1933 – Reginald Kray (d. 2000) and Ronald Kray, legendary English gangsters (d. 1995)
1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones)
1943 – Corky Siegel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Siegel-Schwall Band)
1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Harper’s Bizarre)
1945 – Anthony Christian, English painter
1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (d. 1993)
1952 – Jane Fancher, American fantasy writer
1956 – Jeff Merkley, American Senator (D-OR)
1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass guitarist (Primal Scream)
Died on This Day
1537 – Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
1667 – Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
1684 – Gerrit Battem, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
1888 – François Musin, Belgian painter (b. 1820)
1895 – Meijer de Haan, Dutch painter (b. 1852)
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1901 – James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born U.S. cow and landscape painter (b. 1828)
1917 – James Carroll Beckwith, U.S. painter (b. 1852)
1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
1926 – Charles Marion Russell, U.S. painter specializing in Western scenes (b. 1864)
1928 – Arthur Bowen Davies, U.S. painter (b. 1862)
1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919)
1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
Today is
United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
World Development Information Day
Food Day
National Bologna Day
Good and Plenty Day
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