SIDEBAR #51 - Arias/Alexander forum
- Thread starter KateB
- Start date
Welcome to Websleuths!
Click to learn how to make a missing person's thread
Click to learn how to make a missing person's thread
- Status
Spellbound
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2013
- Messages
- 19,026
- Reaction score
- 37,319
Niner, I am so very sorry about your brother. We are all with you in sending our comfort. :grouphug:
Spellbound
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2013
- Messages
- 19,026
- Reaction score
- 37,319
coffeejunkie
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 5
Niner, I have been thinking about you all day. I just wanted to add to my condolences that as difficult as it must be right now, in a way, I'm glad your brother didn't have to suffer a long, drawn-out ordeal. Likewise, for you and your siblings.
grammieto5
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2008
- Messages
- 4,369
- Reaction score
- 3,675
Aw Niner I am so sorry! Brothers are so special. I pray you have someone to hold your hand as you go through this journey; it will be a tough one. I hope you have wonderful happy memories, maybe in time you could share with us. Keep the Faith.
ILikeToBendPages
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2010
- Messages
- 29,160
- Reaction score
- 75,472
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
[video=youtube;wvUQcnfwUUM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wvUQcnfwUUM[/video]
[video=youtube;wvUQcnfwUUM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wvUQcnfwUUM[/video]
ILikeToBendPages
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2010
- Messages
- 29,160
- Reaction score
- 75,472
1981 - A 17-year-old shoots blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she was horseback riding in London.
[video=youtube;i5FD3-CsMbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i5FD3-CsMbc[/video]
(I wish I could find a YouTube for this one - 1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.)
[video=youtube;i5FD3-CsMbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i5FD3-CsMbc[/video]
(I wish I could find a YouTube for this one - 1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.)
ILikeToBendPages
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2010
- Messages
- 29,160
- Reaction score
- 75,472
2008 - Tim Russert, of Meet the Press fame, died suddenly of a heart attack. The popular US journalist had become famous for conducting probing interviews with presidents and those aspiring to be president, as well as addressing political news on a weekly basis with Meet the Press.
[video=youtube;wBddo1RGiJU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wBddo1RGiJU[/video]
I cried all week when he died.
[video=youtube;wBddo1RGiJU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wBddo1RGiJU[/video]
I cried all week when he died.
Another zipline death... made me come back here as a place that would understand why it so affected me.... and .. so sad..
http://abc7.com/news/12-year-old-north-carolina-girl-killed-in-zip-line-accident/782038/
http://abc7.com/news/12-year-old-north-carolina-girl-killed-in-zip-line-accident/782038/
coffeejunkie
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 5
Link: pic
coffeejunkie
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 5
FLAG DAY
Link: Pic
10 Facts About Flag Day
Want to learn more about the history of Flag Day? Here are 10 facts about the flag and its birthday to share with you.
1. Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the American flag by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777.
2. The American flag, as we know it today, consists of 13 horizontal red and white stripes, each representing the 13 original colonies of the United States, and a blue rectangle in the canton with 50 white, five-pointed stars representing the 50 states of the Union.
3. The 1777 resolution did not set the size or proportions of the flag, or even what shape the constellation of stars should be.As a result, flags of the era showed the constellation of stars in different arrangements, and flags were made with differing proportions. It was not until 1912 that the flags design was standardized.
4. A new star is added with the inclusion of every new state to the Union. The number of stars increased to 15 in 1795, 20 by 1818, and the trend continued. The 50th star was added with the inclusion of the state of Hawaii to the Union in 1959.
5. Until 1818, a new stripe was also added for each new state. The famous Star-Spangled Banner that inspired our national anthem had 15 stars and 15 stripes.
6. The first flag was not made by Betsy Ross. We do know that Ross was a seamstress and that she probably did sew American flags; she just didnt create the first one.
7. The flag got its nickname, Old Glory, from William Driver, a Massachusetts-born resident of Nashville, Tennessee who hid his homemade flag from Confederate troops, unfurling it again when the city came under the control of federal troops.
8. The Pledge of Allegiance was written not for Flag Day, but for Columbus Day.
9. Flag Day was founded by a school teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand, who began observing the day with his class at Stony Hill School in Waubeka, Wisconsin.
10. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation establishing June 14th as Flag Day on May 30, 1916.
Link: Pic
10 Facts About Flag Day
Want to learn more about the history of Flag Day? Here are 10 facts about the flag and its birthday to share with you.
1. Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the American flag by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777.
2. The American flag, as we know it today, consists of 13 horizontal red and white stripes, each representing the 13 original colonies of the United States, and a blue rectangle in the canton with 50 white, five-pointed stars representing the 50 states of the Union.
3. The 1777 resolution did not set the size or proportions of the flag, or even what shape the constellation of stars should be.As a result, flags of the era showed the constellation of stars in different arrangements, and flags were made with differing proportions. It was not until 1912 that the flags design was standardized.
4. A new star is added with the inclusion of every new state to the Union. The number of stars increased to 15 in 1795, 20 by 1818, and the trend continued. The 50th star was added with the inclusion of the state of Hawaii to the Union in 1959.
5. Until 1818, a new stripe was also added for each new state. The famous Star-Spangled Banner that inspired our national anthem had 15 stars and 15 stripes.
6. The first flag was not made by Betsy Ross. We do know that Ross was a seamstress and that she probably did sew American flags; she just didnt create the first one.
7. The flag got its nickname, Old Glory, from William Driver, a Massachusetts-born resident of Nashville, Tennessee who hid his homemade flag from Confederate troops, unfurling it again when the city came under the control of federal troops.
8. The Pledge of Allegiance was written not for Flag Day, but for Columbus Day.
9. Flag Day was founded by a school teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand, who began observing the day with his class at Stony Hill School in Waubeka, Wisconsin.
10. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation establishing June 14th as Flag Day on May 30, 1916.
coffeejunkie
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 5
Interesting Fun Trivia Facts
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression!
The petals of the world's largest flower are 1.5 feet long.
The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
Fun Chocolate Facts
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The Snickers bar was named after a horse the Mars family owned.
The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression!
The petals of the world's largest flower are 1.5 feet long.
The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
Fun Chocolate Facts
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The Snickers bar was named after a horse the Mars family owned.
The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
I always liked this song years ago, but Mongo Jerry had sideburns for days!!!
cj ~ I am not at all fond of this fact > The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it
I hope I don't remember that every time I eat a candy bar! It would be great for people on diets though :smile:
Geez back in my 20's I would eat the whole 1 lb. bag by myself! > To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field
I hope I don't remember that every time I eat a candy bar! It would be great for people on diets though :smile:
Geez back in my 20's I would eat the whole 1 lb. bag by myself! > To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field
coffeejunkie
New Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2015
- Messages
- 3,169
- Reaction score
- 5
I'm sorry!! But, they are chocolate covered legs
LOL at you eating the whole lb. bag. I know, I kinda went; "huh"? "No way"! heehee- Status