The Daily Dose/July 30, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Friends, Leading Off will run intermittently for the near future.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow gets a new sprinkler. Today’s Diary.
It was put into immediate use at The Shire, on the front lawn facing Main Street…There are controls for both length and width that are easy to use and, get this, an on/off valve so you can make adjustments “in the field” without getting soaked…The only fly in the ointment is the new sprinkler moves at a slower rate than the old one did and I’m not bright enuff to figure out if this means I need to water for a shorter or longer period to time to get the same coverage.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 762 – The city of Baghdad is founded, its construction commissioned by a caliph named Al-Mansur on the Tigris River in the heart of what was then Mesopotamia. Baghdad initially was round and walled and today has a population of 8.1 million and is the second-largest city in the Arab world behind Cairo and is the fourth-largest in the Middle East. Residents of Baghdad are known as Baghdadis.
In 1908 – A team lead by driver George Shuster of the US wins the first around the world automobile race in Paris. The race – held in an era where roads were primative or non-existent – started with six teams and went through San Francisco, Alaska, Japan and then Asia and Europe. The Americans were actually the second team to make Paris, but the Germans were penalized 30 days for not following the prescribed route. It remains the longest motorsport race ever.
In 1977 – Fleetwood Mac is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the twelfth of 31 non-consecutive weeks with Rumours. The album produced four chart singles, including the #1 hit Dreams, was Billboard’s biggest album of 1977 and its third-biggest of 1978. The album has made Billboard’s year-end charts several times since including a #53 ranking last year and its worldwide sales are estimated at 40 million copies.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Each people is, I believe, inclined to believe it is the purpose of history, that all that has happened is leading to now, to this world, to this country. Few see ourselves as fleeting phantoms on a much wider screen, or that our great cities may someday be dug from the ruins…
Louis L’Amour
The Education of a Wandering Man
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Doors had one #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, Waiting for the Sun, which spent four non-consecutive weeks at #1 in 1968.
Today’s Stumper
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When did Baghdad become the capital of Iraq? – Answer next time!
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