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January 12, 2015
★~Today’s Quote: The Fifth Hammer Doesn’t contribute Beauty and Magic by fitting in. The Fifth Hammer Makes A Difference By Standing Out – Seth Godin.
★~ Curried Chicken Day:
Curried chicken is a popular dish in Asia, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean. The word “curry” is an anglicized version of the Tamil word “kari,” which means “stir-fried.”
While we usually associate curried chicken with a hot Indian dish served over rice, there are many other recipes that call for both key ingredients. In England, curried chicken salad is called Coronation Chicken. Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume created the dish for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation banquet in 1953. It has been a popular sandwich filling ever since.
★~ Feast of the Fabulous Wild Man Day:
two of my favorite Donut snarfing wild men
Dionysus, a Greek god born from the thigh of Zeus is often celebrated in January. He is the god of wine and drunken revelry, a patron of the theater and an agricultural/fertility god in Greek mythology. Some consider him one of the original wild men. So, men, drink up, feast and be merry in the spirit of Dionysus, just keep in mind that while Dionysus was considered wild he was never considered wise.
★~ Marzipan Day:
Marzipan, is a sweet creation primarily consisting of sugar and ground almonds. Predominantly used by pasty chefs as coating on cakes, it is also widely available as small edible sweets. It can also be used to make cupcakes! Cupcakes by Gracie Cakes.
Chocolate Marzipan Sugar Cookies
★~ Today in History:
♥~1904 – Henry Ford sets a land-speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Michigan‘s Lake St. Clair. He was driving a four-wheel vehicle, dubbed the “999,” with a wooden chassis but no body or hood. Ford’s record was broken within a month at Ormond Beach, Florida, by a driver named William K. Vanderbilt; even so, the publicity surrounding Ford’s achievement was valuable to the auto pioneer, who in June of the previous year had incorporated the Ford Motor Company, which would eventually go on to become one of America’s Big Three automakers.
♥~ 1773 – The first public museum was organized — in Charleston, South Carolina.
♥~ 1921 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge, was elected the first commissioner of baseball and for 23 years, was the commissioner of bats, balls, diamonds, and all things related to baseball in the US.
♥~ 1949 – The Chicago-based children’s show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, made its national debut on NBC-TV. Fran Allison was hostess. The show was phenomenally successful.
♥~ 1966 – Batman premiered on ABC. For most of its three years on the air, “Batman” was seen twice a week, with a story beginning on the Wednesday episode and building to a cliff-hanger ending to be resolved on Thursday, “same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.” Many stories began with Bruce Wayne/Batman (Adam West) receiving his assignment over the “Batphone” from Police Commissioner Gordon of Gotham City.
♥~ 1971 – All In the Family Based on the success of the British comedy “Till Death Us Do Part,” Norman Lear created CBS’s controversial sitcom “All in the Family.” The series was the first of its kind to realistically portray the prevailing issues and taboos of its time with a wickedly humorous bent.
♥~ 1981 – Dynasty Premiere: The oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) prepares to marry his former secretary, the beautiful and innocent Krystle (Linda Evans), in the three-hour television movie that kicked off the prime-time ABC soap opera.
♥~ 1991 – Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 became the first album to generate seven top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 (four went to number one). Love Will Never Do (Without You) reached #4 this day and it hit #1 the following week.
♥~ 1999 – Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball was sold at auction in New York for three million to an anonymous bidder. It was the most money ever paid for a sports artifact. McGwire’s ball was retrieved Sep 27, 1998 by 26-year-old research scientist Philip Ozersky, who had been attending the game with a group of office friends from Washington University in St. Louis when the ball came flying at him.
♥~ 2013 – ‘Python Challenge’ in Florida. 800 people began month-long python hunt in an effort to deal with an infestation of Burmese pythons that were eating their way through a fragile ecosystem. Roughly 2,050 pythons have been harvested in Florida since 2000.
★~Born Today:
♥~ 1876 – Jack London (John Chaney) author: The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild, White Fang; died Nov 22, 1916
♥~ 1951 – Kirstie Alley Emmy Award-winning actress: Cheers [1991]; Look Who’s Talking
♥~ 1951 – Rush Limbaugh (Rush Hudson Limbaugh III) right-wing radio talk show host: The Rush Limbaugh Show
♥~ 1952 – Ricky Van Shelton, Country singer
♥~ 1954 – Howard Stern, Radio talk show host. Larry David Interview on The Howard Stern Show 01/07/2015
♥~ 1964 – Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO
♥~ 1992 – HAL 9000, computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, “born” Urbana, IL.
Today’s Gallimaufry:
A fun way to great Monday…
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The week has begun! I’m ready! Are you with me? Then lets get out there and melt some faces! Or something like that.
Odd Loves Company!
Love your inspirational quote ! 😀
Me too. Especially the melting faces part 😀
El Morno Queen you reign again. Happy Birthday Hal. One of my favorite movies back in the day.
I enjoy a curry dish. Might have to have Chinese this week.
Off to melt some faces. Have a good one.
Thank you Sir Mike. I like curry too especially in pilaf. My sweet Mom makes a wonderful pilaf. Chinese is always good.
Melt away.
Ooh, I do love that quote — makes me feel all capable and strong and stuff! Are you going to include a Quote of the Day in El Morno this year??
Donuts. Now you’ve got me craving one. Curry? Not so much.
Darling panda. Dallas loves snow, too, but we don’t have much more than a dusting (a dusting with ice on top of it!)
Me too. I’ll always have todays quote and will try to include the GRR quotes when I find them. Funny I felt the same way when I read it – all capable and strong.
The snow has been on the light side compared to last year. We want to try sledding with one of campers so we are looking forward to some “big snow” as Cole use to say when he was a pup.
Donuts…mmmmm.
A big fan of the original campy Batman.
I’ll take my chicken prepared differently……grilled. A cupcake would be great!
I, too, like the quote today.
Grilled is good along side a cupcake. I’m glad you like the go get um quote!