DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate Carousel Day
When we think of carousels, we think of the beautifully designed horses, with golden metal poles mounted down the center and accompanied by circus music. Since the early 1800’s , carousels are all about the children, laughing as they go round and round and have been a huge part of American history.
While there are many designs to carousels, the idea of a carousel has been around for centuries before America even existed. So, to observe the fine-tuned history of carousels, Carousel Day is a day just for that! So strap in and enjoy the ride on an American pastime.
History of Carousel Day
One of the first conceptual design for a carousel was in in 500 A.D. in the Byzantine Empire, which depicts baskets, carrying riders, suspended from a central pole. Then, In the 1840s, Franz Wiesenoffer created the first merry-go-round in the United States in Hessville, Ohio.
Then, Bette Largent, President of the National Carousel Association, and carousel historian, Ronald Hopkins founded National Merry-Go-Round Day in 2014. Also called Carousel Day, it was formed to honor William Schneider of Davenport, Iowa who, due to patenting the carousel in 1871, is considered the official inventor of the modern carousel by the U.S. Patent Office.
The National Carousel Association, operating since 1973, aims to keep carousels running and preserve their history in the United States. Since then, the NCA tracks the history of carousels all around the United States in its census. The NCA is a non-profit organization and accepts donations to help keep carousel history alive.
The NCA also has a census, a giant data collection of carousels all over North America, keeping track of vintage and modern carousels, as well as repairing old carousels to keep them functioning. Every year, the NCA hosts a convention called The New England Carousel Revolution, where people travel around in buses all over the New England area to check out vintage carousels in parks, museums, and boardwalks.
Word of the Day
Siberia
Russian soldiers guarding Siberian exiles
MEANING:
noun: An undesirable or isolated location assigned to those who have fallen out of favor or are being disciplined.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Siberia, a vast region of central and eastern Russia, used as a place of exile by Russia under the tsars and by the USSR. Earliest documented use: 1841. Also: gulag.
USAGE:
“The balcony, once a Siberia for diners without boldfaced names, could become a desired location.”
Florence Fabricant; Everything’s Up to Date (for 1958, That Is); The New York Times; Apr 26, 2017.
Florence Fabricant; Everything’s Up to Date (for 1958, That Is); The New York Times; Apr 26, 2017.
Idiom of the Day
Smash hit -
Meaning - Refers to music, films which are very successful.
Example - His music became a smash hit in a week's time.
This Day in History
1850 - In Worcester, MA, Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
1939 - W2XBS TV in New York City presented the first musical comedy seen on TV. The show was "Topsy and Eva."
1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.
1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.
1966 - The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" was released.
1975 - "A Chorus Line" debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1978 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Red) broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1998 - The USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy.
2010 - WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, July 25
You have a wonderful sense of fun and a way with words. Playful, unique, and respectable all at once, you can be well-liked, and more so as you mature, probably because you retain a youthful playfulness throughout life. Even so, there is an element of mystery surrounding you, and others might sense that there is more to you than meets the eye. You do have a developed spiritual side that is not always obvious. Certainly, you are an idealist and prefer to see the best in people, which of course can also lead to some ups and downs or disappointments in your social or love life. Even so, you are not one to become bitter. Famous people born today
1844 Thomas Eakins, American artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1916)
1884 Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy who identified "Peking Man", born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1934)
1914 Woody Strode, African American football player and actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1994)
1920 Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, born in London (d. 1958)
1923 Estelle Getty, American actress (The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace), born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
1954 Walter Payton, American Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears, 9-time Pro Bowl), born in Columbia, Mississippi (d. 1999)
1967 Matt LeBlanc, American actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends), born in Newton, Massachusetts
READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Fact of The Day:
On July 18 in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, was nominated for an unprecedented third term.
Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. Roosevelt served as President between March 4, 1933 and April 12, 1945, a total of 4,422 days. FDR, as he was often called, led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal.
2.
1978 -
1850 - In Worcester, MA, Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
1978 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Red) broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1998 - The USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy.
2010 - WikiLeaks leaked to the public more than 90,000 internal reports involving the U.S.-led War in Afghanistan from 2004-2010.
DAILY SQU-EEK
1954 Walter Payton, American Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Chicago Bears, 9-time Pro Bowl), born in Columbia, Mississippi (d. 1999)
On July 18 in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, was nominated for an unprecedented third term.
Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. Roosevelt served as President between March 4, 1933 and April 12, 1945, a total of 4,422 days. FDR, as he was often called, led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal.
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England on this day in 1978. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
Louise Brown with her parents.
3.
Boston French Film Festival 2019
Jul 11 - 28, 2019 | Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|465 Huntington Ave
Now one of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s most popular annual film festivals, the Boston French Film Festival urges cinephiles and amateurs alike to gain a deeper understanding of the unique history and culture of The Hexagon through the power of film. Each year, a handpicked selection of the best new cinema France has to offer is paired with craft beers and premium wines as crowds gather to watch, discuss, and reflect.
further information: The Boston French Film Festival
4.
Stockton Folk Dance Camp 2019
Jul 28 - Aug 4, 2019 | Stockton, CA
University of the Pacific|3601 Pacific Avenue
The annual Stockton Folk Dance Camp in Stockton, California, celebrates many forms of cultural dance from around the globe. Held over two sessions across a couple weeks, the movement extravaganza features Scottish, Croatian, Congolese, German, Albanian and many other folkloric dance workshops and performances
further information: Attend — Stockton Folk Dance Camp
5.
Nisei Week Japanese Festival 2019
Aug 10 - 18, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
Nisei Week Japanese Festival has origins dating back to the Great Depression when it was started to brighten Little Tokyo, a Japanese American hub in Los Angeles. The festival still brings joy to Little Tokyo in the present day with several days of cultural events and entertainment celebrating Japanese heritage. Special events include a fashion show inspired by styles from the Orient, taiko drummers, martial arts displays, dancing, music, a parade, car show and more. There’s also a Coronation Ball, arts and crafts, games and showcases of Japanese pop culture. Come hungry to the World Gyoza Eating Championship, or enjoy the other authentic culinary offerings available throughout the festival.
Canis Major (Latin for 'greater dog') is a constellation in the southern hemisphere's summer sky and the northern hemisphere's winter sky. In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations and is counted among the 88 modern constellations. Along with Canis Minor, it is commonly represented as following the constellation of Orion, the hunter, through the skies. The Milky Way passes through Canis Major. Several open clusters lie within its borders, including M41, which covers an area around the same size as the full moon. Canis Major contains Sirius, also known as the "dog star", the brightest star in the night sky and one of the closest stars to Earth. The other bright stars in the constellation are much farther away but very luminous. At magnitude 1.5, Epsilon Canis Majoris (Adhara) appears as the second brightest star of the constellation and is the brightest source of extreme ultraviolet radiation in the night sky. Next in brightness are the yellow-white supergiant Delta (Wezen), at magnitude 1.8, the blue-white giant Beta (Mirzam), at magnitude 2.0 and the blue-white supergiant Eta (Aludra), at magnitude 2.4. The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is one of the largest known stars, while the neutron star RX J0720.4−3125 has a radius of a mere 5 km (3 mi). This illustration, which also features the constellations Lepus, Columba Noachi (now Columba) and Cela Sculptoris (now Caelum), was produced around 1823 and comes from Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards.
OLD AND YOUNG
This photo was taken in a small village in Wuyuan, China. It estimates that there are about 250 million countryside people living in the big cities. Many young people are making money in the cities, leaving their parents and kids at their hometown.
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Daisy Dress
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CROCKPOT RECIPE
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SWEETS
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CHILDREN'S CORNER ... crafts
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PUZZLE
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SUDOKU ... easy
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (25 Jul 1902-1983)
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