The Daily Dose/May 21, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow strongly suspects a coworker of violating the 2nd Commandment in Spanish. Today’s Diary.
He is stunned and mutters something that wasn’t immediately translatable into English but did sound like it invoked a Supreme Being and not in a manner consistent with praise, either.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1875 – The meter is established as an international standard of measure when 17 nations, including the US – sign the rather dull Meter Treaty in Paris. The actual distance of the meter didn’t change – it was still based on a platinum bar standard established in 1799 – and today is based on the length light travels in a vacuum. The meter was first defined after the French Revolution as “one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris”.
In 1978 – Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, wins the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Racecourse in Baltimore, defeating Alydar by a nose. Earlier, Affirmed won the Kentucky Derby and would later win the Belmont to become the eleventh Triple Crown winner. These remain the only Triple Crown race wins for Cauthen, who later rode in Europe for many years.
In 2006 – Tool is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the only week with 10,000 Days. It was the third of six chart albums for the group and their second of three #1s. The album went to #1 in ten other countries, including Greece and Norway, peaked at #4 in Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 31st-biggest album of the year. It produced three singles, including The Pot, which spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The last pope to use his baptismal name was Marcellus II in the 16th century.
Today’s Stumper
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How many feet are in a meter? – Answer next time!
