FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 21 April 2004

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

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From the Radixionary

JUBILEE

2 a : a special anniversary; especially : a 50th anniversary b : a celebration of such an anniversary

We are counting Pancakes

23 April 2003

30 April 2003

7 May 2003

14 May 2003

21 May 2003

We are counting cards.

28 May 2003

4 June 2003

Samurai Golf

11 June 2003

18 June 2003

Pancakes in Space

10

25 June 2003

Chinese Pancakes

2 July 2003

9 July 2003

16 July 2004

About a hundred dollars

23 July 2003

Here is your waffles on Wednesdays

30 July 2004

" Waiter, there is a Burka Man in my pancakes."

6 August 2003

13 August 2003

20 August 2003

27 August 2003

3 September 2003

10 September 2002

17 September 2004

24 September 2004

Hey, watch me pull a pancake out of my hat.

1 October 2004

8 October 2004

15 October 2003

22 October 2003

WELKIN

The sky; heaven; the firmament

We don’t use this much nowadays—dictionaries usually tag it as archaic or literary—except in the set phrase make the welkin ring, meaning to make a very loud sound. What supposedly rings in this situation is the vault of heaven, the bowl of the sky. In older cosmology this was thought to be one of a set of real crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if you made enough noise. The word comes from the Old English wolcen, a cloud, related to the Dutch wolk and German Wolke. Very early on, for example in the epic poem Beowulf of about the eighth century AD, the phrase under wolcen meant under the sky or under heaven (the bard used the plural, wolcnum, but it’s the same word). Ever since, it has had a strong literary or poetic connection. It appears often in Shakespeare and also in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: “This day in mirth and revel to dispend, / Till on the welkin shone the starres bright”. In 1739, a book with the title Hymns and Sacred Poems introduced one for Christmas written by Charles Wesley that began: “Hark! how all the welkin rings, / Glory to the King of kings”. If that seems a little familiar, it is because 15 years later it reappeared as “Hark! the herald-angels sing / Glory to the new born king”.

29 October 2004

The Greatest.

ALI.

Clay comes out to meet Liston
And Liston starts to retreat
If Liston goes back any further
He'll end up in a ringside seat.
Clay swings with a left,
Clay swings with a right,
Look at young Cassius
Carry the fight.
Liston keeps backing
But there's not enough room
It's a matter of time.
There, Clay lowers the boom.
Now Clay swings with a right,
What a beautiful swing,
And the punch raises the bear,
Clear out of the ring.
Liston is still rising
And the ref wears a frown,
For he can't start counting,
Till Sonny comes down.
Now Liston disappears from view.
The crowd is getting frantic,
But our radar stations have picked him up.
He's somewhere over the Atlantic.
Who would have thought
When they came to the fight
That they'd witness the launching
Of a human satellite?
Yes, the crowd did not dream
When they laid down their money
That they would see
A total eclipse of the Sonny!
I am the greatest!

Cassius Clay before the first Liston-bout\

5 November 2004

Would you like some Quarks with your pancakes?

12 November 2003

19 November 2003

26 November 2003

1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto

3 December 2003

1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

10 December 2003

Happy Birthday

Arthur Fiedler 1896

A one an a two.....Oh, that was Lawrence Welk, never mind...

17 December 2004

A pancake kitchen in Iraq

24 December 2003

I'm the pancake man,
    And I do, when I can,
Eat pancakes by the score;
    I bake them brown,
    And swallow them down,
And loudly call for more.

    I'll lay my stakes
    That a million cakes
I can eat between two naps;
    Then call for more,
    A million and four,
Or a million and five, perhaps.

    It makes me fat,
    And more than that,
I'm jolly through and through;
    I've been known to laugh
    For a year and a half,^___
Or why not call it two

    Oh, I long for a cake
    As big as they make,^___
Say, fifty townships wide;
    I would handle it quite
    At a single bite
And stow it away inside.

^___John Edward Everett

31 December 2003

7 January 2004

The poet is unknown. It is inscribed on the monument to the Pacific War Dead, in Corregidor, Philippines. Each May 6th, the sun is in such a position that it's rays fall into the center of the monument, exactly at noon.

14 January 2004

Pancqkes build character

21 January 2004

28 January 2004

4 February 2004

11 February 2004

18 February 2004

24 February 2004

3 March 2004

Golden Mean

24 March 2004

31 March 2004

7 April 2004

Pancakes for breakfast, and your Canteen entertainment.

14 April 2004

$A good knowledge of math can encompass a lot, and help with a circular pancake.$

Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 21:
1488 Ulrich von Hutten German poet/humanist/patriot
1619 John A van Riebeeck colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1729 Catharina II the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96)
1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1775 Alexander Anderson US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1803 Levin Minn Powell Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1809 Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Secretary of State (Confederacy)
1816 Charlotte Brontë Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall Confederate Army, died in 1874
1834 William Rufus Terrill Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1838 John Muir US, naturalist (discovered glaciers in High Sierras)
1849 Oskar Hertwig Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1864 Max Weber German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1892 ? 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1905 Edmund G "Pat" Brown (Governor-Democrat-CA)
1911 Leonard Warren New York NY, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) died on stage
1913 Choh Hao Li biochemist professor (isolated growth hormones)
1913 Norman Parkinson England, fashion photographer (Harper's Bazaar)
1915 Anthony Quinn Chihuahua México, actor (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 Frick [W Groebli] Swiss clown (Frick & Frack)
1924 Ira Louvin Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1930 Don Tyson founder, Tyson Foods)
1935 Charles Grodin Pittsburgh PA, actor (Beethoven, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1937 Charles Lee Herron Kentucky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
1939 Ernie Maresca singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
1942 Bobby McClure US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing)
1947 Iggy Pop [James Newell Osterberg] Ypsilanti MI, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1948 Gary A Condit (Representative-Democrat-CA)
1951 Tony Danza Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
1958 Andie [Rosalie Anderson] MacDowell Gaffney SC, actress (Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Greystoke)
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin Russia, Major/cosmonaut
1963 John Cameron Mitchell El Paso TX, actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand)
1971 Samantha Druce youngest woman to swim the English Channel

Deaths which occurred on April 21:
1073 Alexander II [Anselmo da Baggio] Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 Anselmus philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 Pierre Abélard French philosopher (Sic et Non, Héloïse), dies at 62
1509 Henry VII 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1552 Peter Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz] German astronomer, dies at 50
1574 Cosimo de Medici Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1730 Jan Palfijn Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1910 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding CT at 74
1918 "Red Baron" [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI at 25
1946 John M Keynes English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1961 James Melton opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1962 Frederick Handley Page designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1965 Edward V Appleton English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1971 François "Doc" Duvalier dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1973 Ursula Jeans [McMinn] actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1983 Walter Slezak actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80
1992 Robert Harris murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39
1992 Vladimir K Romanov Grand Duke/Russian pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev President of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies at 52
1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1997 Andres Rodriguez Paraguayan President (1989-93), dies
1997 Diosdado Macapagal Philippine President (1961-65), dies

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 AUSTIN ELLIS E.---VERMONTVILLE MI.
1966 KELLER JACK E.---CHICAGO IL.
1967 HAMILTON ROGER DALE---BALTIMORE MD.
1967 HASENBACH PAUL A.---FREEBURG MO.
[DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN]
1967 MANGINO THOMAS A.---ALLIANCE OH.
[DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN]
1967 NIDDS DANIEL R.---WEST ISLIP NY.
[DISAPPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN]
1967 WINTERS DAVID M.---DELPHIA CA.
[DISAPEARED WHILE ON SAMPAN]
1968 CREAMER JAMES E.---NORTH BRANFORD CT.
1968 JOHNSON FRANKIE B. JR.---FOUNTAIN INN SC.
1968 JAMERSON LARRY C.---ROSMAN NC.
1968 LINK ROBERT C.---WASHINGTON DC.
1968 MAC KEDANZ LYLE E.---HUTCHINSON MN.
1968 OLSEN FLOYD W.---WHEATON IL.
1968 SPINDLER JOHN GATES---ST LOUIS MO.
1970 WHEELER EUGENE L.---ASHVILLE OH.
[VOICE CONTACT, IN SHOOTOUT]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0753 -BC- Traditional date of the foundation of Rome
0953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1453 Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1521 Battle at Villalar Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1526 Battle at Panipat Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1689 William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1785 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from México
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi River, Rock Island IL-Davenport IA
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver CO
1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1884 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1904 Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz México, stay 6 months
1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
1934 Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays American League record 117th cons errorless game
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
1945 Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold in US
1952 BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1959 Alf Dean (using a rod and reel) hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" great white shark (largest fish ever caught on a rod)
1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
1961 French army revolts in Algeria
1963 Dr Michael Ellis De Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1967 Los Angeles Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
1969 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49
1971 Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explore Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1977 Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
1981 US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1985 Bomb attack in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona)
1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds.....nothing, zip zilch, nada.
1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1995 FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Belize, Hong Kong : Queen's Birthday
Brazil : Tiradentes Day/Día de Tiradentes/Brasilia Day (1789, 1960)
Indonesia : Kartini Day
Israel : Deliverance from Egypt
Taiwan : Death of Chiang Kai-shek/Tomb Sweeping Day (non leap years)
Texas : San Jacinto Day (1836)
US : Astronomy Week (Day 4)
US : National Lingerie Week (Day 4)

Religious Observances
Ancient Rome : Parilia, honoring Pales, protector of flocks & herds
Denmark : Common Prayer
Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican : St Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, confessor/doctor

Religious History
1649 The Toleration Act was passed by the Maryland Assembly. It protected Roman Catholics within the American colony against Protestant harassment, which had been rising as Oliver Cromwell's power in England increased.
1783 Birth of English churchman and hymnwriter Reginald Heber. Heber published his first hymn at 28, and among his best remembered today are: "Holy, Holy, Holy," "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" and "From Greenland's Icy Mountains."
1828 English churchman John Henry Newman wrote in a letter to his sister: 'May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.'
1878 Leo XIII published the encyclical, "Inscrutabili dei consilio." It outlined a program of reconciling the Catholic Church with modern civilization, many of its details reversing policies of his predecessor, Pius IX.
1897 Birth of A. W. Tozer, one of the most popular and influential pastors to come out of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. Tozer was also a prolific writer, and his best- known publications include "The Pursuit of God" (1948) and "The Root of Righteousness" (1955).

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our change."

Martha Stewart's Way vs. The Real Woman's Way...
Martha's Way #2: To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
Real Woman's Way #2: Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a year.

New State Slogans...
New Jersey: You lookin' at my plates?

Male Language Patterns...
"I got a lot done." REALLLY MEANS,
"I found 'Waldo' in almost every picture."

Female Language Patterns...
"I'm getting more exercise lately. Haven't you noticed my trim figure honey?" REALLY MEANS,
"There's a new giant mall that just opened. Give me the gold card or I'll make your life hell."

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