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FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 18th 2017
"You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure?"
For Club Meeting, December 14, 2017
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Frederick Case, Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Charles Johnson, Gary Nelson, Charles Walts, David Chandler, Beverly Crumley, Garry White, Francis Mendez, John Polk, Gary Strunk, McBride Wilson. (16)
This last week's Big Bucks winner was Ted Breihan, and to everyone's surprise, he wasn't there. He very seldom misses. Sorry Ted, but next time is not until next year.
Last Week's Program!
Charles Walts, absolutely stunned our club last Thursday as he told of his endeavors and successes following his retirement from the military. After retiring, Charles served seven years as the Information Technology Strategic and Disaster Recovery Planner. In other words, how do companies, survive after or during or plan ahead of a disaster. In other words, what do you do if a disaster happens, not afterwards, but before, and sometimes during. Planning is a key ingredient. He developed more than 300 business and governmental agency continuity and disaster recovering plans for not just the United States, but also Canada, China, Japan, and Puerto Rico. Thank you Charles and thank you Rob Martin for bringing him.
Our Program for Thursday, December 21st will be a Round Table at Grins. NOTICE THOUGH! We will not meet on the 28th, as Grins is doing some remodeling. So enjoy yourselves on that day
Great Turnout for Award ceremony last Friday.
At last Thursday's club meeting, when it was announced about Terrific Kid's award ceremony, only four persons raised their hands and said they would be there to help hand out the donated gifts to those very special Terrific Kids. On Friday, though, as miracles do happen, 11 of our Kiwanis members showed up. It was a great turnout, the children were overwhelmed for the special recognition they were given, and thanks to all of the community businesses that provided the special gifts that our Kiwanis members helped put in each child's sack, along with their Certification of Recognition as a special Terrific Kid. Those 11 members that help make this a special time for kids, parents and grandparents were: Randy Cook, Pam Cook, Del Brown, Chester Banks, John Polk, Kelli Whigham, Charles Johnson, David Chandler, Cynthia Bentley, Doug Balkman, and Frederick Case.
"BIRTHDAYS DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2017
DECEMBER 26........LON SHELL
Week December 15th to December 21
December 15, 1791 - - The Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution) became effective following ratification by Virginia.
December 16 1944 - - American big bandleader Glenn Miller disappeared in a small plane over the English Channel and was presumably killed. Best remembered for Moonlight Serenade and In the Mood.
December 17, 1903 - - After three years of experimentation, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered, controlled airplane flights. They made four flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the longest lasting about a minute.
December 18, 1956 - - Japan was admitted to the United Nations.
December 19, 1998 - - The House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton, approving two out of four Articles of Impeachment, charging Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
December 20, 1606 - - The Virginia Company expedition to America began as three small ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, departed London under the command of Captain Christopher Newport. In May 107, the royally chartered company established the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown (Virginia).
"Trivia is Always Right for the Curious!"
1..........Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute!
2..........At the height of its power, in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves!
3..........Canada declared beauty contest cancelled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women!
4..........Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890!
5..........Emperor Nero's lust for excess was most evident in his elaborate parties. According to the ancient writer Seutonius, Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea had a circular main dining room with a roof that revolved day and night, in time with the sky. In what remains of the palace today, there is a large octagonal room with a domed ceiling that some believe is this dining room. The octagonal room has a large dome with an oculus in the middle. It predates the Pantheon - - and was probably the inspiration for it. The architects of the Domus Aurea developed an innovative mechanism cranked by slaves, that made the ceiling underneath this dome revolve like the heavens. While the ceiling revolved, perfume was sprayed from the ceiling and rose petals were dropped on the diners. Legend has it there so many rose petals falling at one dinner that one of the guests was asphyxiated!
6..........For decades after Emperor Nero's death, people all over the Roman empire claimed to have spotted him. Several men even claimed to be him, and started popular movements to be reinstated as emperor. Because of his notoriety and the questionable circumstances under which he died (he purportedly stabbed himself to death in hiding outside of Rome). Nero was the Elvis Presley of ancient Rome!
7..........From the Middle Ages up until the end of the 19th century, barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting, wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originated in the Middle Ages, when it was a staff the patient would grip while the barber bled the patient!
8...........In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan!
9...........In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls - to 12!
10..........In 1947, Toys for Tots started making the holidays a little happier for children by organizing its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters!
"A Clunking Sound!" (E-Gads, this one is pathetic!)
A car mechanic received a repair order that read: 'Check for clunking sound when going around corners' So he took it out on a test drive and, sure enough, whenever he went round a corner, he heard a clunk. However he quickly located the problem and returned the repair order to the service manager with the notation: "Removed bowling ball from trunk, clunking has stopped!"
"To Stick (or stand) to one's guns!
"To persevere in one's course despite obstacles; to hold out for, or insist on, a desired course; to maintain one's position. Obviously, the origin is military, pertaining to any commander who is determine to maintain a present position in the face of heavy attack by an enemy. As such, it could have been said of any determined leader since the invention of the gun. Curiously, however, our figurative usage traces back little more than a century, the earliest being found in Samuel Warren's popular farcical novel, Ten Thousand a Year (1839), in which the timorous character, Mr. Titmouse, in an argument, "though greatly alarmed," is said to have 'stood to his gun pretty steadily."
"Ivory Soap advertises its product as 99 and 44/100 percent pure - - 99 and 44/100 percent What? And what is the Impure 56/100 percent of Ivory Soap?
" Proctor and Gamble, in the late nineteenth century, sold many products made of fats, such as candles and lard oil, as well as soap. Ivory Soap was originally marketed as a laundry soap, but the company was smart enough to realize its product's potential as a cosmetic soap. the only problem was that most consumers were buying Castile soaps (hard soap made out of olive oil and sodium hydroxide) and considered laundry soap inappropriate for their personal grooming.
In order to convince consumers that its soap was wholesome, P&G employed an independent scientific consultant in NYC to determine exactly what a pure soap was. The answer: a pure soap should consist of nothing but fatty acids and alkali, anything else was foreign and superfluous.
Sample of Ivory Soap were sent to the same chemist for analysis. Much of the manufacturer's surprise, Ivory, by the consultants' definition, was "purer than the completing castile soaps - - containing only 0.56 percent 'impurities'. The impurities then and now were rather innocent.
The first Ivory advertisement was placed in a religious weekly, The Independent, on December 21, 1881. Proctor & Gamble decided to emphasize the positive, and right away hammered at their product's advantages. Ivory Soap was trumpeted as '99 and 44/100 percent pure, a rare advertising slogan in that it has lasted longer than a century"
"America the Beautiful.....'Tennessee'"
1..........The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Museum located on the campus of Murray State University!
2..........The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May!
3..........Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville!
4..........The first Miss America from Kentucky is Heather Renee French. She was crowned September 18, 1999!
5..........Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy were born. They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart!
6..........The town of Corbin was the birthplace of old time movie star Arthur Lake whose real surname was Silverlake. He played the role of Dagwood in the "Blondie" films of the 1930's and '40's. Lake's parents were trapeze artists billed as The Flying Silverlakes!
7..........Teacher Mary S. Wilson held the first observance of Mother's Day in Henderson in 1887. It was made a national holiday in 1916!
8..........Post-It-Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana. The exact number made annually of these popular notes is a trade secret!
9..........Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Their son, Isaac is buried at Blue Licks Battlefield near Carlisle, where he was killed in the last battle of the Revolutionary War fought in Kentucky.
10.........The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883.
America the Beautiful...."Kentucky"....
Kentucky is beautiful all around but Mammoth Cave National Park has the longest cave system known in the world. Since the 1972 unification Mammoth Cave with the even-longer system under Flint Ridge to the north, the official name has been the Mammoth-Flint Cave system. The park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981, and an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990.
The park's 52,830 acres are located primarily in Edmonson County with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County. It is centered on the Green River, with a tributary, the Nolin River, feeding into the Green just inside the park. With 412 miles of surveyed passageways Mammoth Cave is by far the world's longest known cave system
"You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure?"
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