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Happy Birthday William Woodsworth 1770 
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. 
Happy Birthday W.K. Kellogg 1860 The Canteen sponsor of the week; Fresh to you each morning, Straight from Battle Creek 
Orbit 
Happy Birthday
Jersey Joe Walcott 1872 
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
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. 
Happy Birthday Walter Winchell 1897 Upon his death in 1972, a front-page obituary in the New York Times eulogized Walter Winchell as "the country’s best-known, widely read journalist as well as its most influential." 
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. 
What else is the function of a Conjunction?
Happy Birthday Percy Faith 1908 
Happy Birthday Billie Holiday 1915 
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
Happy Birthday
James Garner 1928 
"A guy calls his lawyer. He says, 'Can I ask you two questions?'
Lawyer says, 'What's the second one?' "
Happy Birthday David Frost 1939 
Happy Birthday Francis Coppola 1939 
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. 
Happy Birthday
Jackie Chan 1954 
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: 
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 
Happy Birthday Tony Dorsett 1954 We are counting yards. 
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.
Happy Birthday James "Buster" Douglas 1960 
Patient: "Nurse, I just swallowed my pillow!"
Nurse: "How do you feel?"
Patient: "A little down in the mouth"
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. 
Happy Birthday
Russell Crowe 1964
Happy Birthday Victoria Adams Beckham (Spice Girls) 1975
Today's Wednesday field trip takes us to perigee.
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 
I am an excellent driver 
We are counting cards! 
On This Day 1652 - The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
On this Day 1798 - The territory of Mississippi was organized. 
Astronomical Unit 
On this Day 1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, TN. 
On this Day 1888 - P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time under the name "Collier’s." 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. 
On this Day 1914 - The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule Bill. 
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.
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 
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. 
On this Day 1945 - The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission. 
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. 
On this Day 1948 - The United Nations' World Health Organization began operations. 
On this Day 1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer. 
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. 
On this Day 1963 - Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life. 
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. 
Don't forget the Maple Syrup. 
Pancakes Wednesdays Definitely
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