Happy Birthday William Woodsworth 1770 ![Who's poems of woods these are, I think I know.](http://poetryarchive.bravepages.com/images/wordsworth.jpg)
What Heavenly Smiles! What heavenly smiles! O Lady mine Through my very heart they shine; And, if my brow gives back their light, Do thou look gladly on the sight; As the clear Moon with modest pride Beholds her own bright beams. Reflected from the mountain's side And from the headlong streams. ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
Happy Birthday W.K. Kellogg 1860 The Canteen sponsor of the week; Fresh to you each morning, Straight from Battle Creek ![Kellog's pancakes, the best to you each morning.](http://www.globalindex.com/kellogg/portra~1.gif)
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Orbit ![Pancakes will make you fall high.](http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d286/images/orbit.jpg)
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Happy Birthday
Jersey Joe Walcott 1872
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- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Happy Birthday Irene Castle 1893 Irene was the first woman to BOB her hair. She and husband Vernon, invented social dancing Charleston, Turkey Trot, Vernon Walk and others.
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Happy Birthday Walter Winchell 1897 Upon his death in 1972, a front-page obituary in the New York Times eulogized Walter Winchell as "the countrys best-known, widely read journalist as well as its most influential." ![All Americans everywhere are hearing the real story about pancakes.](http://www.deandaviswrotethat.com/winchell.jpg)
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Conjunction The coincidence in right ascension of two celestial bodies (one of which is often the Sun). For example, when a planet is at the same right ascension as the Sun, it is said to be in conjunction. ![Pancakes and butter go together in conjunction.](http://www.venus-transit.de/VenusConjunction/conjunction.gif)
What else is the function of a Conjunction? ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
Happy Birthday Percy Faith 1908 ![Havin faith in pancakes, and you'll hear music.](http://www.offshoreechos.com/offshorethemes/Pictures/Faith.jpg)
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![Pancakes come in many forms, but on Wednesday, we celebrate them all.](http://www.xylemltd.com/images/flapjacks.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Billie Holiday 1915
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Happy Birthday James Garner 1928 ![Down in New orleans, living on Jacks and Queens. Pancakes is the lady that he loves the best.](http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/james-garner-n.jpg)
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"A guy calls his lawyer. He says, 'Can I ask you two questions?' Lawyer says, 'What's the second one?' " ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
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Happy Birthday David Frost 1939 ![](http://www.cjetech.co.uk/tvam/images/capt_david.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Francis Coppola 1939 ![We'll make them a Pancake that they cannot refuse.](http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/125/007_FVG07.jpg)
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Opposition The time when the Earth lies between a planet and the Sun, making the Sun and planet appear in opposite directions as viewed from the Earth. Oppositions are the best opportunities for observing superior planets because they are well away from the glare of the Sun, and closer to the Earth than usual.
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Happy Birthday
Jackie Chan 1954 ![I can mix it up and batter a few thugs until they are all flattened out.](http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc45.2002/szeto/imagesforsite/jackie-chan.jpg)
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Parallax Hold out a pencil at arm's length so that it covers your view of a more distant object. Now close each eye in turn. The pencil seems to move relative to the distant object when a different eye is closed. Each eye looks at the pencil from a slightly different direction. With both eyes open you get more visual clues as to how far away any object is. The following diagram shows the situation: ![Pancakes from any angle, are still a mighty fine treat for the eyes.](http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjp/p2d2.gif)
Your brain instinctively determines the object's distance from the slight change in direction (measured by the angle - P). This method of measuring distances is called PARALLAX. Parallax
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Happy Birthday Tony Dorsett 1954 We are counting yards. ![Pancakes always do a body good.](http://www.sportsattic.com/nflphoto/photos3/Dorsett,Tony7.jpg)
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![If you stare at the image, you'll see a batch of pancakes of different colors.](http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/glowingedges.gif)
Look into the center (white point) and stare for a while. How many colors can you see altogether in the object? You should see a purplish circle... and the 4 rotating 'wings' are tinted green. Make sure you always keep focused on the center. ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
Happy Birthday James "Buster" Douglas 1960
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Patient: "Nurse, I just swallowed my pillow!" Nurse: "How do you feel?" Patient: "A little down in the mouth"
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Apogee The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite most distant from the center of the earth. At apogee, a satellite travels more slowly than at any other point in its orbit. When viewed from the earth's surface, a satellite at or near apogee takes a long time to traverse the sky. In communications, apogee is the best time to access a satellite. ![The average distance between pancakes should be minimal.](http://sseforum.jpl.nasa.gov/images/dictionary-newperigee.gif)
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Happy Birthday Russell Crowe 1964
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Happy Birthday Victoria Adams Beckham (Spice Girls) 1975
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Today's Wednesday field trip takes us to perigee.
![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif) ![Bacon tastes good with pancakes.](http://www.castbullet.com/cooking/phil/flap2.jpg)
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Parsec A parsec is the unit for expressing distances to stars and galaxies, used by professional astronomers. It represents the distance at which the radius of the Earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc; thus a star at a distance of one parsec would have a parallax of one second, and the distance of an object in parsecs is the reciprocal of its parallax in seconds of arc. 1 Parsec = 3.08568025 × 1016 meters ![Pancakes and parsecs, together with maple syrup.](http://www.eso.org/projects/vlti/instru/prima/images/gloss_parsec1.jpg)
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I am an excellent driver ![The race for the pancakes and the best formula is on.](http://www.globaldenso.com/motorsports/formula1/img/formula1.jpg)
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We are counting cards! ![A Royal Flush, yeah. its a winner.](http://www.tlcdoll.com/tlcimag/acc/a1552.gif)
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On This Day 1652 - The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa. ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
On this Day 1798 - The territory of Mississippi was organized.
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Astronomical Unit ![The sun always rises on a panckae Wednesday.](http://www.eng.ua.edu/~nova/images/pic38.gif)
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On this Day 1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, TN. ![There will always be pancakes.](http://www.cwbattlefields.com/bfpics/shilohpic2.jpg)
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On this Day 1888 - P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time under the name "Colliers." Peter Collier founded the periodical, Collier's Once a Week in April 1888. It was advertised as a magazine of "fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news". By 1892 it had a circulation of over 250,000 and was one of largest selling magazines in the United States. ![Pancakes Weekly was another famous periodical from the 19th century.](http://www.rowinghistory.net/images/Gallery/Colliers%201916.jpg)
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On this Day 1914 - The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule Bill. ![After a plate of Irish pancakes, and you'll not be needing any lucky charms..](http://www.esatclear.ie/~our_ireland/images/eire_map.gif)
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On this Day 1922 - U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming. The Teapot Dome scandal was also called the OIL RESERVES, or ELK HILLS, SCANDAL, in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall. After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921.
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On this Day 1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States. National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. The results of that experiment clearly indicate that it was a miserable failure on all counts. The evidence affirms sound economic theory, which predicts that prohibition of mutually beneficial exchanges is doomed to failure ![](/images/canteen/Canteen/titlejpg.gif)
On this Day 1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp. There are people whose abilities and energy take them far past any limitations life tries to place on them. Booker T. Washington was one of those people. He rose up from slavery and illiteracy to become the foremost educator and leader of black Americans at the turn of the century. !["I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.](http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/lgimage/btwstamp1.jpg)
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On this Day 1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the worlds largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission. ![](http://www.angelfire.com/fm/odyssey/yamato.jpg)
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On this Day 1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway. Adapted from two short stories by James Michener, South Pacific chronicles two love affairs. ![](http://civic.bev.net/sme/images/SME-1996-SouthPacific_Logo.jpg)
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On this Day 1948 - The United Nations' World Health Organization began operations. ![Pancakes, the cornerstone of a nutricious breakfast, and the key to good health.](http://www.palliativecourses.com/whologo.gif)
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On this Day 1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer. ![In the 1950's, people believed that someday, computers would be supersized.](http://goldenink.com/images/ibm701.jpg)
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On this Day 1963 - At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. I am an excellent driver. ![Jack would whack those drives flat as a pancake.](http://www.rkdatta.freeserve.co.uk/golf/nicklaus.jpg)
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On this Day 1963 - Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life. ![Wer'll see you on the other side Jo.](http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist5/travaux/biog/T/TITO.jpg)
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![Sometimes, when you don't get it about pancakes, consider yourself lost.](http://www.selfleadership.org/conference12/Lostan1.gif)
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On this Day 1970 - John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in "True Grit." He had been in over 200 films. ![Well there pilgrim. it is time to see if you have the stuff that real pancakes are made from.](http://www.555us.com/555va/220/22026/22026_true_grit_restaurant_005_p.jpg)
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Don't forget the Maple Syrup. ![The maple syrup always goes on the right.](http://www.ontariomaplesyrup.com/images/5b.jpg)
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Pancakes Wednesdays Definitely
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