The Daily Dose/October 18, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow observes the first snow on the mountain of the season. Today’s Diary.
The big news – and it’s huge, tho inevitable – is there was the first snow on the mountain when we left GH…As noted, it’s been a warm fall and it’s pretty late for the first mountain snow…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1386 – Heidelberg University, the oldest university in Germany, holds its first lecture. Permission for the university had been granted by Pope Urban VI the previous year, it was the third university in the Holy Roman Empire, and remains the 15th-oldest university in the world. At the time, Heidelberg was the capital of the Electorate of Palatinate, has been coeducational since 1899, and has had 33 Nobel Prize winners.
In 1991 – Rhode Island and Maine establish a new NCAA record for the longest game in a 58-55 Rhode Island win in six overtimes. The game had been tied at 21 after four quarters, with the Rams getting a touchdown on their final possession after Maine had scored a field goal on theirs. Research into whose record the teams broke was inconclusive, and the mark is now nine overtimes, when Illinois defeated Penn State 20-17 in 2021.
In 1974 – Bachman-Turner Overdrive is at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for the only week with Not Fragile. It was the first of nine chart albums for the group, their second of three Top 10s and remains their only #1. The album also went #1 in their native Canada, peaked at #12 in Great Britain, and produced two chart singles including the #1 You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
To succeed, they had to be awed by the magnitude of the task and be humbled, not assertive.
Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain ended the American Revolution.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was Billboard’s #1 album of 1974? – Answer next time!
