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E-Bulletin for August 5th, 2018 (Issue 264)
"He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning."(Confucius, c. 500 B.C.)
Attendance on August 1, 2019
Doug Balkman, Chester Banks, Del Brown, Randy Cook, Charles Johnson, Moe Johnson, Gary Nelson, John Roppolo. Charles Walts, Ted Breihan, Andrew Gary, John Polk, Merwin Richards, Glen Rydl, Ronda Young, Tim Tippetts (16)....(Guests: Ken & Robbie Downing - former member)
"Here is the list of Greeters for the month of August, 2019
August 1, 2019..........Andrew Gary
August 8, 2019...........Charles Walts
August 15, 2019.........Merwin Richards
August 22, 2019.........Rhonda White
August 29, 2019.........Tim Tippitt
From August 2nd to August 8th
August 2, 1923 - - President Warren G. Harding died suddenly in a hotel in San Francisco while on a Western speaking tour. His administration had been tainted by the Teapot Dome political; scandal and his sudden death many unfounded rumors. He was succeeded the next day by Calvin Coolidge.
August 3, 1492 - - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Marie. Seeking a westerly route to the Far East, he instead landed on October 12th in the Bahamas, thinking it was an outlying Japanese island.
August 4, 1964 - - Three young civil rights workers, James Chany, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were found murdered and buried in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had disappeared on June 21 after being detained by Neshoba County police on charges of speeding. They were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to increase black voter registration. When their car was found burned on June 23, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBI to search for the men.
August 5, 1583 - - The first British colony in North America was founded by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a British navigator and explorer. He sighted the Newfoundland coast and took possession of the area around St. John's harbour in the name of the Queen. He was later lost at sea in a storm off the Azores on his return trip to England.
August 6 - 10, 1787 - - The Great Debate occurred during the Constitutional Convention. Outcomes included the establishment of a four-year term of office for the President, granting Congress the right to regulate foreign trade and interstate commerce, and the appointment of a committee to prepare a final draft of the Constitution.
August 7, 1964 - - Following an attack on two U.S. Destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam, the U.S. Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, granting President Lyndon B. Johnson authority 'to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.'
August 8, 1945 - - Soviet Russia declared war on Japan and sent troops into Japanese-held Manchuria.
Happy Day to these whose birthdays or in the month of August
August 10 ...............Beverly Crumley
August 21................Glen Rydl
August 28................Pam Cook
Anniversaries celebrated in August
…….Lon & Phylis Shell..........August 18
......McBride & Elsie Wilson.........August 31th
The Program coming up this coming Thursday
The program for this coming week will be brought by Tim Tippett. He will be bringing Elton D. Fite, Jr., Director, CLUB Programs and Operations at Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Texas.
Today, thousands of boys & girls from low-income neighborhoods benefit from the programs and services designed by local clubs specifically to help them grow in all aspects of life.
The programs provide strong moral guidance, positive role models and life-changing educational programs designed to save kids from lives of crime and failure. Boys & Girls Club of South Central Texas is an organization that stands for traditional values, while providing progressive programs that address the problems faced by the youth of today.
Have You Ever Heard the Phrase, "Ring Around the Rosie...?
"Every child has happily joined hands with friends and recited the familiar nursery rhyme, 'Ring around a rosie, a pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.' Few people realize to what this seemingly happy little rhyme actually refers.
This nursery rhyme began about 1347 and derives from the not-s-delightful Black Plague, which killed over twenty five million people in the fourteenth century. The 'ring around a rosie' refers to the round, red rash that is the first symptom of the disease. The practice of carrying flowers and placing them around an infected person for protection is described in the phrase, 'a pocket full of posies.' 'Ashes' is a corruption or imitation of the sneezing sounds made by the infected person. Finally, 'we all fall down' describes the many dead resulting from the disease."-(Myth Information' by J.Allen Varasdi)
"Midnight, Mississippi"
"This small farming town was named following a poker game in the late 1800's. One lucky farmer won the land during a high-stakes contest and exclaimed, 'Well, boys. It's midnight, and that's exactly what I'm going to call the land I just won. Let's quit.' And the name has stuck ever since.
"Know Your Presidents"
"The period during James Monroe's administrative from 1817-1825 was known as the Era of Good Feeling. Thus Monroe is most popularly known as the Era of Good Feeling President"
""A small town's only barber was known for his arrogant, negative attitude. When one of his customers mentioned he's be going to Rome on vacation and hoped to meet the pope, the barber's reaction was typical. 'You?' he said. 'Meet the pope? Don't make me laugh! The pope sees kings and presidents. What would he want with you?'
A month later, the man returned for another haircut. 'How was Rome?' asked the barber. 'Great! I saw the pope!' 'From St. Peter's Square, I suppose, with the rest of the crowd,' said the barber.
'Yes, but then two guards came up, said the pope wanted to meet me, and took me right into his private apartment in the Vatican.'
'Really?' the barber asked. 'What did he say?'
'He said, 'Who gave you that lousy haircut?'"
History of the Rhode Island State Flag
"Rhode Island's official flag was adopted in 1897. the flag is white, fringed with yellow on three sides. A yellow anchor is circled by 13 yellow stars (the stars symbolize the original 13 colonies) A blue ribbon is under the anchor and reads, "HOPE"
"Oh Well!!!!!
1...…….If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?
2..........Why do flamingoes stand on only one leg?
3...........If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?
4...........If a pig is sold to the pawn shop, is it a ham-hock?
5...........If a pizza place sells pizza by the slice, is there a guy in the back tossing a triangle in the air?
6...........Why do people go to the unemployment office to find a job?
7...........If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, is a proverb a word used in place of a verb?
8...........Why do pigs have curly tails?
9...........If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
10..........Why do the signs that say 'Slow Children' have a picture of a running child?
Here's Some more 'Myth Information"
"What is the largest animal?....a Dinosaur? No! Dinosaur's were not the largest animals that ever lived on earth. That distinction belongs to the blue whale, which is still found throughout the oceans of the world.
The largest individual animal known to have ever existed was a blue whale found near Antartica in the early 1900s. It was 124 feet long and weighed about 170 tons, or as much as 2,300 persons. In comparison, the largest dinosaurs to have ever lived were the Diplodocus (ninety feet) and Brontosaurus (sixty-five feet). The most famous dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus, was a mere forty feet in length. At birth, a baby blue is twenty feet long and gains about two hundred pounds a day during its first year. A fully grown blue whale is so large that an elephant could walk into its open jaw, and a basketball could pass through its largest arteries. Yet, a blue whale's heart beats just nine times a minute. Blue whales often grow to one hundred feet in length.
For its size, the blue whale has no teeth and is the personification of the gentle giant. Although the world's largest animal, it feeds on one of the smallest of all living things, microscopic plankton and krill, by sucking in and straining huge amounts of water containing these organisms.
Because of overhunting in the past, the blue whale is now approaching extinction. (Myth Information by J.Allen Varasdi)
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Happy Day to these whose birthdays or in the month of August
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"Oh Well!!!!!