USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 08 October 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix

[Radix]

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Pancakes on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pancakes on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 8, 2003

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Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

THAUMATURGY

The performance of miracles; magic.

Of all the words in English that refer to the making of magic, this is perhaps the most resonant. It doesn’t have the negative associations of words such as sorcery or necromancy because it referred originally to the production of wonders for positive ends rather than any intent to cause someone harm. The origin is the Greek word thaumatourgos, miracle working (from thauma, marvel, plus ergos, work). Though it’s not that common a word, it seems to have generated a surprisingly large set of derivatives since it first appeared in English in 1727. There are several words for a practitioner of thaumaturgy, including thaumaturge and thaumaturgist; another is thaumaturgus, which has been given to a number of Christian saints and others who are said to have performed wonders. The verb is thaumaturgise. The thaumatrope was a Victorian toy, a card with two different pictures on its back and front that magically combined into one when the card was rapidly spun. And aficionados of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels will know that the wizards of Unseen University invented a device with which to measure the intensity of a magic field—what would you call that but a thaumometer?

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Happy Birthday

Eddie Rickenbacker 1890

I am an excellent Aviator.

LOST AT SEA - THE RESCUE OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER

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Happy Birthday

Juan Peron 1895

"..the greatest Latin American leader of the 20th century,"

Don't cry for me Argentina.

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Fractals are those intriguing shapes that are characterized by self-similarity and based on mathematics.

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Happy Birthday

Paul Hogan 1939

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Blueberry Whole-Wheat Pancakes with Blueberry Syrup.

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Happy Birthday

David Carradine 1940

Oh oh, oh oh, David Carradine has two birthdays, oh oh.

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Happy Birthday

Chevy Chase 1943

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The Doppler Effect

A common example of the Doppler effect is listening to a speedy train or car honking its horn at you. While i'ts driving towards you, the tone seems higher and higher than its true tone. Only when it's right next to you can its true tone be heard. And as it moves farther away, the tone gets lower and lower. This is because as the train/car moves toward you, it is moving with the sound waves and compresses the waves. As it moves farther away from you, the waves are decompressed and the tone is lower.

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Happy Birthday

Sigourney Weaver 1949

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Would you like some salt with your pancakes?

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Happy Birthday

Matt Damon 1970

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About a hundred dollars

Silver dollar pancakes

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the World Trade Center

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We are counting cards.

On this day:

1987 - Chuck Berry was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1987 - The Chuck Berry biographical film "Hail, Hail Rock & Roll" premiered.

"Perhaps the most influential performer in the history of rock 'n' roll,"

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1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings.

 About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.

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1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

8 October 1915 : Enemy counter-attack

Noon German artillery opened a bombardment on the whole front between the Canal and Lens, increasing in intensity at 3.00pm. At around 4.00pm, their infantry attacked, between the Double Crassier and the Chalk Pit. On the Allied right, the shelling failed to sufficiently damage French wire, and the attack was halted with heavy loss. At the same hour, enemy bombers attacked from the Quarries and Fosse 8 against the forward British positions in Quarry Trench and Big Willie.

On the left of the Loos attack, the attack fell against the 2/Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1/Gloucesters and 1/9th King's of 1st Division, between the Loos-Puits 14 bis track, and North of the Chalk Pit. Despite heavy shellfire casualties among the defenders, British machine-guns destroyed the attack within 40 yards of the front line. On the Hohenzollern Redoubt front, the 2/Coldstream Guards repelled all attacks, as they were by now armed with many Mills bombs. The 3/Grebnadier Guards were pushed back some way, but eventually formed a block and then counterattacked (supported by two companies of the 1/Scots Guards and the bombers of the Irish Guards) recovered the lost trenches and caused heavy loss to the enemy.

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I am an excellent driver

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1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.

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1956 - Donald James Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.

We are counting baserunners.

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1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.

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Pancakes Wednesdays

Definitely

 

[Radix]

What are you doing?

[Radix]

Brat diva, you stole my post!

[LaDivaLoca]

AWESOME sunset, Tonk! Thank you guys.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

top of 3rd
0 outs
Cubs at bat
Cubs 6
Marlins 0

[LaDivaLoca]

ROTFLOL!!! And I wasn't even trying for it. *HUGS* as your consolation prize.

[LaDivaLoca]

Oh my! Now that shadow in the water does not look like a dolphin to me.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

End of 3rd inning
Cubs 8
Marlins 0

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

YOUR POST 200

[Radix]

Red Sox 2  Yankees 0

4th Inning

 

Lets go Sox!

 

 

[LaDivaLoca]

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

WOO HOO!
Go RED SOX!!!

[LaDivaLoca]

CB, RC has a compilation of reports with facts and figures. I'm pinging her to this so she can lead the way. You may want to be added to her ping list too because she is fantastic in updating everyone.

[Radix]

4 to zip now

[tomkow6]

End of 5

CUBS 11

Marlins 0

[Soaring Feather]

Good evening LaDiva.

Golf Tip #4, LOL.

How are you Diva?


August seems so very far away doesn't it?

[Soaring Feather]

Good evening Tonkin.

Thank you Military men and Canteen men for the lovely sunset.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great pictures today, Radix. Love the commentaries.

[Bethbg79]

You have FReepmail.:-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

[tomkow6]

End of 5 1/2

CUBS 11

Marlins 2