The Daily Dose/July 29, 2022
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow cooks a steak. Today’s Diary.
The steak turned out wonderfully, tho based on the amount of smoke in the kitchen, that wasn’t always a given…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 615 – Pakal, 12, ascends the throne of Palenque, a Mayan state in what is now northern Chiapas state in Mexico. Pakal reigned for 68 years, still the sixth-longest verified monarchial reign ever and the longest ever in the Americas. Palenque flourished until the 8th century and was taken over by the jungle, though it was later excavated and restored. Pakal’s tomb was opened in 1952, his skeleton still in his coffin.
In 1989 – Javier Sotomayor of Cuba establishes a new world record in the high jump at the Central American and Caribbean Track and Field Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sotomayor jumped 8 feet, 0 inches to break the record of 7 feet, 11.5 inches he had established in Spain in 1988 and the mark stood until he jumped 8 feet, one-quarter inch in Spain in 1993, a record which still stands. This was the first time the high jump world record had been broken on American soil since 1977, when Vladimir Yashchenko broke the record in Richmond, Virginia.
In 1995 – TLC is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth of seven consecutive weeks with Waterfalls. The song also went to #1 in Switzerland and New Zealand, at #4 in Great Britain and on Billboard’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s second biggest song of the year. It was the seventh of twelve Top 40 hits for the group, their sixth of nine Top 10 hits, and was their second of four #1 songs. The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
That is always best which gives me to myself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Harvard Divinity School address
7/15/1838
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Between 1983 and 1989, the only one of Earl Thomas Conley’s 17 country hits that did not go to #1 was Too Many Times with Anita Pointer, which peaked at #2.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the last American to hold the high jump world record? – Answer next time!
