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

Pancakes on Wednesdays

These pancakes make me curiouser and curiouser

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Wednesday October 8, 2003

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

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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?

Happy Birthday

Eddie Rickenbacker 1890

I am an excellent Aviator.

LOST AT SEA - THE RESCUE OF EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Happy Birthday

Juan Peron 1895

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

Don't cry for me Argentina.

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

Happy Birthday

Paul Hogan 1939

Blueberry Whole-Wheat Pancakes with Blueberry Syrup.

Happy Birthday

David Carradine 1940

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

Happy Birthday

Chevy Chase 1943

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.

Happy Birthday

Sigourney Weaver 1949

Would you like some salt with your pancakes?

Happy Birthday

Matt Damon 1970

About a hundred dollars

Silver dollar pancakes

Have you got change for a hundred pancakes?

Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the World Trade Center

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,"

I want you to play with my pancakes.

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

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

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.

I am an excellent driver

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

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.

When x is real, one-sided limits (restricting x>p or x<p) are sometimes useful. Infinite limits, as x approaches + or - infinity, are also possible. In higher dimensions we might talk about x approaching infinity in any direction.

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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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on October 08:
1810 James Wilson Marshall, discoverer of gold in California.
1869 J Frank Duryea inventor (1st auto built & operated in the US)
1872 John Cowper Powys British writer (Wood & Stone)
1873 Ejnar Hertzsprung Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1890 Eddie Rickenbacker aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
1895 Juan Per¢n Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
1895 King Zog I of Albania (1928-1939)
1897 Rouben Mamoulian movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause)
1903 Lina Radke Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
1909 Bill Hewitt NFL end (Chicago Bears, Phila Eagles)
1916 Spark Matsunaga (D-Ha-Sen)
1917 Danny Murtaugh baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1920 Frank Herbert sci-fi writer (Dune)
1920 Maxie Herber Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 Ron Randell Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera)
1924 Arkady Vorobyev Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1927 Gigi Durston Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 Torbj”rn Falkanger Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
1930 James Olsen actor (Andromeda Strain, The Spell)
1930 Toru Takemitsu Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1934 J Carter Brown Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
1936 David Carradine Hollywood, actor (Kung-Fu, Boxcar Bertha, Young Guns)
1936 Rona Barrett NYC, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show)
1938 Penny Pitou US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
1939 Paul Hogan Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee)
1941 Jesse Jackson (D) clergyman/presidential candidate
1943 Chevy Chase NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
1946 Aleksandr Gorshlov ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1948 Sarah Purcell Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
1949 Sigourney [Susan Alexandra] Weaver LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
1950 Robert "Kool" Bell rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1951 Johnny Ramone LI, rock guitarist (Road to Ruin)
1955 Bill Elliott auto racer (Daytona-1978)
1956 Scott Michael Pellaton barefoot water ski champ
1956 Stephanie Zimbalist NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial)
1957 James DePaiva actor (Max-One Life to Live)
1959 Tony Eason football quarterback (New England Patriots)
1979 [Gregory] Chad Petree Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)

Deaths which occurred on October 08:
0705 Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
1793 John Hancock, US merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce 14th president of US, dies in Concord, NH
1944 Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican politician, dies
1964 Dr Charles Hodge NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1967 Clement R Attlee, premier of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1969 Eduardo Ciannelli actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1978 Karl Swenson actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70
1982 Fernando Lamas actor/director, dies at 67 of cancer
1983 Joan Hackett actress, dies of cancer at 49
1984 Frederick Brisson producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 Leon Klinghoffer hijackers of Achille Lauro, throw him off the boat
1992 Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1963 DENTON MANUEL R. KERRVILLE TX.
[ACFT CRASH AFT AIR COLLISION]
1963 RITCHEY LUTHER E. JR. MANSFIELD OH.
[ACFT CRASH AFT AIR COLLISION]
1963 WADSWORTH DEAN AMICK CLARENDON TX.
[ACFT BROKE UP CRASH EXPLODED, REMAINS IDENTIFIED O4/16/99]
1966 FELDHAUS JOHN ANTHONY LAWRENCEBURG TN.
1966 WOMACK SAMMIE N. FARMVILLE VA.
[02/23/67 RELEASED, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 GUERRA RAUL A. LOS ANGELES CA.
[CRASH SITE CONFIRMED NO RECOV POSS]
1967 PINEAU ROLAND R. BERKLEY MI.
[CRASH SITE CONFIRMED NO RECOV POSS]
1967 ROGGOW NORMAN L. AURELIA IA.
[CRASH SITE CONFIRMED NO RECOV POSS]
1967 WOLFE DONALD F. HARDIN MT.
[CRASH SITE CONFIRMED NO RECOV POSS]
1967 ZISSU ANDREW G. NEW YORK NY.
[CRASH SITE CONFIRMED NO RECOV POSS]
1969 ALTIZER ALBERT H. SQUIRE WV.
1969 WATKINS ROBERT J. JR. FORT MEADE MD.
1970 OTT WILLIAM A. LIVERMORE CA.
1970 SHAY DONALD E. JR. LINTHICUM HEIGHTS MD.

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

On this day...
451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
0876 Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
1690 Belgrade is retaken by the Turks
1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1871 The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O'Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire;
1775 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1818 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1822 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
1862 Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1886 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1919 Congress passed the Volstead Act named for Representative Andrew Volsted of Minnesota, it enforced the ban on the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.
1904 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1909 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 1st Balkan War begins
1915 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series (World Series #12) game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1918 Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1927 NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1928 Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1930 Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1935 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1939 Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1944 "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1951 Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1953 Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there - Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1955 Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect world series game, vs Brooklyn (World Series #53)
1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1959 LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57)
1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN
1962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1966 Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1968 U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Sealord, an attack on North Vietnamese supply lines and base areas
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 Ken Warby set the world water speed record at 319.627 mph
1978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph)
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1981 USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at the Meadowlands
1982 Poland bans Solidarity
1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1997 Three years after the death of longtime North Korean ruler Kim Il Sung, his son, Kim Jong Il, officially inherited his father's title of general secretary of the Communist Party.
2001 U.S. transport planes dropped 37,000 meals into areas of Afghanistan where it was feared mass starvation was imminent.
2001 Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security.

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

Western Samoa : White Sunday (2nd Sunday) (Sunday)
Canada : Thanksgiving Day (Monday)
Florida : Farmers' Day (1915) (Monday)
Hawaii : Discoverer's Day (Monday)
US : Columbus Day (1492) (Monday)
Virgin Is & Puerto Rico : Friendship Day (Monday)
National Chimney Sweep Week (Day 4)
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
National Pickled Pepper Week (Day 6)
Country Music Month
National Fish and Seafood Month!
National Sarcastics' Awareness Month

Religious Observances
Old Catholic : Feast of St Bridget, widow, patron of Sweden
Christian : Feast of St Keyne, virgin (6th century)
Feast of St. Thais (Greek Church).

Religious History
_451 The Council of Chalcedon opened, near Constantinople. Dealing mainly with the Eutychian Christological heresy, the council created a confession of faith which has ever since been regarded as the highest word in Early Christian orthodoxy.
1901 The American branch of Overseas Missionary Fellowship was chartered. Founded as the China Inland Mission in 1865 by missionary pioneer J. Hudson Taylor, OMF adopted its present name at its centenniel celebration in 1965.
1917 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was chartered in New Orleans by P. I. Lipsey. The school opened for its first classes in September 1918.
1924 In New York City, the National Lutheran Conference banned the playing of jazz music in the local churches.
1986 The first North American Congress on the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization opened in New Orleans. It drew 7,000 leaders from 40 denominations, and stressed the part which the charismatic experience plays in evangelization.

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

Thought for the day :
"The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we CAN imagine."

You Might Be a Criminal If...
You think your prison uniform brings out the blue in your eyes.

Murphys Law of the day...(Hellrung's Law)
If you wait, it will go away. (Shevelson's Extension: ... having done its damage.)
[Grelb's Addition: ... if it was bad, it will be back.]

It's a little known fact that...
In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression "mad as a hatter". The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.

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