International Coffee Day - October 1, 2018

DIANE'S CORNER ... 

Celebrate International Coffee Day

Coffee in the morning; coffee and a catch up with old friends; going for coffee with your new hot date – we drink coffee morning, day and night with friends, business associates and lovers. You have only to walk down the nearest high street and note the number of coffee chains to realize the extent of our love affair with our favorite caffeinated beverage.

Whether you favor espresso, americanos, lattes or cappuccinos; iced, decaf, instant or filter – Coffee Day is the day to savor and appreciate your beverage, and maybe even pick one up for free at certain chains in the USA.

Coffee Day also marks the long history of the drink: the properties of coffee beans are thought to have first been discovered in Ethiopia. The beans are actually the pits found in the coffee berry or cherry. The story goes that a 9^th century goat herder noticed their stimulating effects on his goats and began experimenting.

Coffee drinking was originally popularized in the Arab world from around the 15^th century spreading across Asia then to Italy and across Europe and to the Americas – and finally to your coffee cup.

Today, coffee is one of the world’s biggest crops so buying ethically grown coffee is all the more important – be sure to be selective in buying your cup of coffee and supporting ethical trade.

So when you drink your cup of coffee today, inhale its aroma, taste its dark and full-bodied flavor, think about its story – but most of all enjoy.

Word of the Day

proscribe
Definition:	(verb) Command against.
Synonyms:	disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, veto, interdict
Usage:	They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.

Idiom of the Day

scare (someone) silly  — To shock or frighten someone very suddenly and/or severely. (Hyperbolically alludes to frightening someone so severely as to cause him or her to lose his or her mind.)

This Day in History

Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company Is Founded (1847)

Siemens AG is Europe's largest engineering conglomerate. It was originally founded to build telegraph installations, but under Werner Siemens and his three brothers, it expanded to produce cables, telephones, electric power, and electric lighting. The company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe, followed by the monumental Indo-European telegraph line that stretched from Calcutta, India, to London, England. 

Bonnie Parker (1910)

Bonnie Parker was the female half of the notorious Depression-era criminal duo "Bonnie and Clyde." She met Clyde Barrow in 1930 and soon became his lover as well as his partner in crime. In 1932, the pair began a 21-month crime spree—which ended when they were killed in a police ambush—that involved robberies, shootouts, and murders. Their activities were widely publicized, and they soon became America's most famous and romanticized outlaws.

International Day of Older Persons

The United Nations General Assembly decided to set aside October 1 as International Day for the Elderly in 1990 (later designated as the International Day of Older Persons). By designating a day when governments are supposed to focus on what they can do to provide for the elderly, the U.N. hopes not only to forestall problems related to the aging of the population but to focus attention on the promise that a maturing population holds for social undertakings. The United Nations also set aside the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons.

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1880 - Thomas Edison began the commercial production of electric lamps at Edison Lamp Works in Menlo Park. 

1903 - The first modern World Series took place between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates. 

1903 - Pianist Vladmir Horowitz was born in Berdichev, Russia. 

1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850. 

1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States. 

1961 - Roger Maris (New York Yankees) hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60. 

1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host. 

1969 - "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released in the U.S. It was released a week earlier in England. 


1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL. 

1977 - Elton John became the first rock & roller to be honored in New York City's Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame. 


1980 - Robert Redford became the first male to appear alone on the cover of "Ladies' Home Journal." He was the only male to achieve this in 97 years. 

1994 - The National Hockey League (NHL) team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days. 

John Fogerty received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

2009 - In the United Arab Emirates, the exterior construction of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper was completed. 



DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, October 1

You are a success-oriented, charming, and personally powerful individual. You are at your best when you are in control, your own boss, or working on your own. However, you get along with others and have the necessary "people skills" to do so, although occasionally your impatience comes through! You are proud and not always willing to ask for help. You are willing to work hard for what you want, and you generally appear to be confident. You have a good head for business, and you are also quick to respond to changes. Famous people born today:

1910 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw of Bonnie and Clyde fame, born in Rowena, Texas (d. 1934)

1924 Jimmy Carter, American politician, 39th US President (D) (1977-81), born in Plains, Georgia

1930 Richard Harris, Irish actor (Man Called Horse) and singer (MacArthur Park), born in Limerick, Ireland (d. 2002)

1935 Julie Andrews, British actress and singer(Sound of Music, Mary Poppins), born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

1956 Theresa May, British Prime Minister(Conservative: 2016-), born in Eastbourne, England

1963 Mark McGwire, American MLB 1st baseman, coach (12-time All Star, Oakland A's, St. Louis Cardinals), born in Pomona, California

READERS INFO

1.

1942 -

Little Golden Books were first released in stores. These distinctive children's books have since sold more than a billion copies worldwide. The idea for the series came from Georges Duplaix who wanted to create a more affordable children's book. The original 12 Little Golden Books were comprised of several very popular books including: Three Little Kittens, The Little Red Hen and The Poky Little Puppy. The various titles were written and illustrated by several different authors and illustrators. Each book was designed to be easily held by children, featured a gold binding, and sold for 25 cents (when they were first released). The books were available for purchase in department stores. By February of 1943, 1.5 million copies of the books had been sold. Little Golden Books celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2017.

Among the original 12 books, The Poky Little Puppy, written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren, and The Little Red Hen, illustrated by Rudolf Freund, have both been on the best-sellers list.

2.
To be refurbished: Resort where Dirty Dancing was filmed -

  
The Catskill Resort Hotel pool before.      
   

 How the Catskill Resort Hotel pool looks today.      
     
   

In its glory days, Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel outside Liberty, N.Y., was a glamorous vacation scene frequented by celebrities. Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth 
Taylor got married there, and it was the inspiration for the fictional resort in Dirty Dancing, the iconic 1987 movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

Now the owner of the non-operational hotel has applied for state funds to clean up the acres of contaminated ruins and recreate a grand resort on the grounds, according to the New York Times. For the new Grossinger’s, developer Louis Cappelli of Westchester, N.Y. told the Times he imagines a golf course, yoga classes and chalets — not the 

bungalows where Baby and Johnny danced in Dirty Dancing and had the time of their lives.

3.

BEGINNING OF A LONGGGGGGGGGG RUN - 

 
Groucho Marx (left) introducing Johnny Carson on his first night as host of ‘The Tonight Show’. 

 
On this day in 1962, Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.

John William Carson  (Oct. 23, 1925 – Jan. 23, 2005)

Pictures of the day


Renée Adorée (30 Sept 1898 – 5 Oct 1933) was a French actress. Born into a family of circus performers in Lille, France, she performed regularly with her parents as a child. Having made a reputation in France, England, and Australia for her dancing skills, she went to New York City in 1919, where she was cast in musicals including Oh, Uncle, Oh, What a Girl, and Dancer. In 1920, she appeared in her first film, Raoul Walsh's The Strongest, as the lead character. She went on to star in several silent films in the early 1920s, including Reginald Barker's The Eternal Struggle, which established her as a Hollywood star. The biggest role of her career was as Melisande in 1925's melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade opposite John Gilbert. It became one of MGM's all-time biggest hits and a film that historians rank as one of the best of the silent era. She continued making films into the 1930s including two with all-talking roles, but developed tuberculosis and died in 1933.

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