Dear
Friends and Schoolmates,
Today theme is
simply the natural choice for today.
BONUS -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU -
Johnny Horton - Sink the Bismarck!
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_the_Bismark_%28song%29:
| "Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the Bismarck") is a
song, written by
country music singer
Johnny Horton and
Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the
German
battleship
Bismarck in May 1941, during
World War II. Horton released this song in 1960, where it reached #3
on the charts. Bismark is a common misspelling of the German battleship
and
Otto von Bismarck. The song's title was corrected for later releases
of the song. It was inspired by the 1960 movie
Sink the Bismarck!. While the song was used in U.S. theater
trailers for the film, it was not used in the film itself. |
HOMEWORK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood_%2851%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck
HEALTH UPDATE:
From Butch Ragland ('63) of CO -
05/22/16, 10:44 AM:
| Good morning to all of you. In answer
to several emails; I am still in UCCS Memorial Hospital due to
congestive heart failure but told I am improving. Thanks to family and
friends for your prayers.
Thanks so much for
letter us know, Butch!
We're keeping you in
our prayers, and hope you're better soon!
http://www.nnhs65.com/requests-prayers.html |
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today
to
Zoe Pappas Marcopoulds ('57)
AND Betsy Wilson Ellis ('57)!
Happy Birthday tomorrow
to
The late
Edna Martin Clemence ('57)
(deceased 04 Nov 2009)!
Happy Birthday this
week to:
26 -
Stacy Dorn Davis ('64) of VA;
27 - Mary Johnson Weaver ('57);
29 -
Donna Chadwell Nunemaker ('64) of VA and FL AND
Dee Hodges Bartram ('66) of VA;
30 -
Mickey Spivey ('65) of FL
AND
Chuck Jones ('66) of Northern VA;
31 - Calmet Sawyer ('57) AND
JoAnn Houston Parrott ('61) of NC AND
Edna
Whitcomb Harrison ('65) of VA AND
Kathy Reece Burke (Warwick HS - '72)!
Many Happy Returns to You All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
THIS DAY IN WWII:
May 24, 1941 - In the
Battle of the Atlantic, the
German Battleship Bismarck sank the then pride of the
Royal Navy,
HMS Hood. Of the 1,418 crew, only three men (Ted
Briggs (1923–2008),
Robert Ernest Tilburn (1921–1995) and
William John Dundas (1921–1965) survived;[32]
they were rescued about two and a half hours after the sinking by the
destroyer
HMS Electra.
May 24, 1943 -
Holocaust:
Josef Mengele, known as "the Angel of Death," became the chief
medical officer of the
Auschwitz
concentration camp.
May 24, 1943 - German Admiral Dönitz ordered a halt to sub
warfare due to heavy losses to the Axis since March.
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THIS
DAY IN 1966:
Tuesday, May 24, 1966 - Footballer, manager, and actor
Eric Cantona was born Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona in
Marseille,
France.
Tuesday, May 24, 1966 -
Race car driver and sportscaster
Ricky Craven was born Richard Allen Craven in
Newburgh, Maine.
Tuesday, May 24, 1966 -
Lawyer and politician
Russell
Kun was born Russell Effaney Kun in
Nauru. |
From
My Sister-in-Law, Ramona Harty (Jackson HS, MO - '75) of MO -
05/20/15:
| “No
one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
-
Charles Dickens
(07
Feb 1812 - 09 June 1870) |
Thanks so
much, Monie!
From Joan
Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA - 05/23/16 - "
MONEY BAGS
":
Think this has been around
before, but I'd forgotten most of it!!
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Glass takes one million years to
decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an
infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the
ground for thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one
end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human
body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and
newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost
every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61
percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke
unless it's heated above 450F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not
the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in
the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the
hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air
density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal
of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song
Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the
disease it was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is
why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when
knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you
can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. (How do they know
that?) The first sense lost is sight.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per
hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth Each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than
15,000 meters.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy .
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they
could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge
down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess
fuel are needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the
elements.
And last but not least:
This is called 'Money Bags'. So send this on to at least 5 friends and
money will arrive in 5 days.
Based on Chinese Feng Shui, the one who does not pass this on will have
money troubles for the rest of the year. Superstitious or not, I passed
this along because it is interesting information……And …… I ain't taking
any chances.
HA!
Thanks so much, Joan!
We're passing it on to
more than 600 people here, so we should be covered!
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“Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean
the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet
solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,'
which has something to do with flowers.”
-
Eugene Ormandy,
conductor
(18 Nov 1899 - 12 Mar
1985) |
From My Husband,
Paul Harty (Bardolph HS, IL - '61) of NC - 04/29/16 - "Photos Without Words" (#24 in a Series of 30):
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Sometimes Photos Need No Words
INDEED!
Thanks, Haul Party!
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BONUS SINK KNIT PATTERN:
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Everything But The Kitchen Sink Hat - "This hat is
double layered so as to be non-itchy (cotton/modal inner layer)
and warm (wool/alpaca outer layer) with earflaps. It includes a
ponytail slot to tame your hair, and a brim to shade your eyes.
You can button the ponytail slot closed and flip up the brim if
preferred. The following techniques are used: knit, purl,
increasing, decreasing, short rows, knitting flat, and knitting
in the round." - $1.99
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