The Daily Dose/August 14, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is running intermittently for the time being.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s back in the gym for the first time on Friday morning in a couple of months. Today’s Diary.
There was a Sunday Yapper sighting, too…I was in my usual back hot spring when he waddled out and headed to his usual spot in the heart spring…Sometimes in these circumstances ol’ Sparrow’s been known to make his way to the heart spring to see what was shaking with the Sunday Yapper, but not this time…There was a fair size crowd in there already and they were yapping before the Sunday Yapper’s arrival and after a few minutes, a spot check showed everyone was yapping their brains out and it would have been one big headache to sort thru everything.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 2015 – The US Embassy in Havana re-opens for the first time in 54 years after full diplomatic relations with Cuba had been reestablished the month before. Official diplomatic relations had been severed in 1961 by President Dwight Eisenhower following the Cuban Revolution and most US personnel were removed from the embassy following allegations of sonic attacks in 2017. Currently, there is not a US ambassador to Cuba, the remaining US delegation being led by a charge d’affaires.
In 1937 – The Detroit Tigers establish a modern major league record for most runs scored in a doubleheader in 16-1 and 20-7 wins over the St Louis Browns. The Tigers had 40 hits and eight home runs on the day and research into whose record they broke was inconclusive. The modern major league record is now 39 done by the Texas Rangers in 2007 and the all-time major league mark for runs in a doubleheader is 43 done by the Boston Beaneaters, now the Atlanta Braves, in 1894.
In 1982 – Survivor is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth of six consecutive weeks with Eye of the Tiger. The song went to #1 in eight other countries including South Africa, Norway and Great Britain, was Billboard’s second biggest song of the year, its fourth-biggest of the decade and ranked 26th on its 60th Anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. It was their second of eight Top 40 hits, their first of five Top 10 hits and remains their only #1 song.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produces ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace, and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol I: Our Oriental Heritage
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Approximately 49.3 million Americans currently receive Social Security retirement benefits.
Today’s Stumper
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