We have two lives,and the second begins when we realize we only have one.......Confucius
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“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”......Confucius
“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”
On this day oct 13,2010
2010: Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground
The last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground for more than two months at a caved-in mine in northern Chile, are rescued. The miners survived longer than anyone else trapped underground in recorded history.
sameez1 wrote:
We have two lives,and the second begins when we realize we only have one.......Confucius
Interesting....
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
Oct 13, 2018
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breakingbad12 wrote:
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
Wow, is that a genuine quote? I think that I should send my sisters some flowers. I'm going to do that.
I always start the day by reading this thread cos you guys are funny!
Heather_Stephens wrote:
breakingbad12 wrote:
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
Anne Frank
Wow, is that a genuine quote? I think that I should send my sisters some flowers. I'm going to do that.
I always start the day by reading this thread cos you guys are funny!
I think that quote sold a lot of flowers over the years. Glad you read it, join us heather ,you are more than welcome here
On this day oct 14,1947
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.
For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart. All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane, nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis,” was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet.
Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of brigadier general.
On this day Oct15,1969
National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations are conducted across the United States involving hundreds of thousands of people. The National Moratorium was an effort by David Hawk and Sam Brown, two antiwar activists, to forge a broad-based movement against the Vietnam War. The organization initially focused its effort on 300 college campuses, but the idea soon grew and spread beyond the colleges and universities. Hawk and Brown were assisted by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which was instrumental in organizing the nation-wide protest.
One of the largest demonstrations occurred when 100,000 people converged on the Boston Common, but demonstrations nationwide also included smaller rallies, marches, and prayer vigils. The demonstrations involved a broad spectrum of the population, including those who had already participated in antiwar demonstrations and many who had never before raised their voices against the war. The protest, as a nationally coordinated antiwar demonstration, was considered unprecedented; Walter Cronkite called it “historic in its scope. Never before had so many demonstrated their hope for peace.
- People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- Doing nothing is hard, you never know when you're done.
- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure.
I don't know how to act my age because I've never been this old before
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff
Carl Sagan
Yeah we are collapsing star cocktails.