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Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, July 24, 2022. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Leo. Some famous people born on this date include aviator Amelia Earhart, actors Chief Dan George and Dan Hedaya; authors Zelda Fitzgerald and John D. MacDonald; politician Bella Abzug, jazz musician Billy Taylor, comics Ruth Buzzi and Michael Richards; pianist Peter Serkin; actresses Lynda Carter, Elizabeth Moss and Anna Paquin; filmmaker Gus Van Sant, country star Pam Tillis, basketball player Karl Malone, baseball star Barry Bonds and zookeeper/environmentalist/actress Bindi Irwin.
Today’s Questions:
What color are your eyes?
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)?
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them?
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is?
Do you own binoculars or a telescope?
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937?
Today in History: 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf. 1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. 1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer. 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI. 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit. 1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk. 1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders. 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. 1847 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patents the rotary-type printing press. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley. 1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War. 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. 1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". 1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. 1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it takes effect in September, 1923. 1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. 1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. 1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers. 1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109ºF (43ºC) in Chicago and 104ºF (40ºC) in Milwaukee. 1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys." 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate". 1963 – The ship Bluenose II is launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol. 1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap. 1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); this statement angers the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. 1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. 1977 – End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. 1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level. 1983 – George Brett, playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". 1987 – U.S. supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker. 1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbs Mt. Fuji. Crooks becomes the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak. 1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. 2012 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
Word of the Day: vitiate/ˈviSHēˌāt/ verb
FORMAL
· spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
"development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population"
· destroy or impair the legal validity of.
"the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant"
Quote of the Day:
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
- Amelia Earhart
Today Is:
International Self-Care Day
Amelia Earhart Day
National Cousins Day
Parents Day
Moon Landing Day
Pioneer Day
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is? No.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope? Binoculars.
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937? She ran out of fuel and dumped into the ocean.
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)? Around 6 but they are not all usable. Just haven't thrown out some old ones. I have discovered I need to wear glasses to be able to see well enough to fix frames on whatever current glasses I am wearing. Keep one old pair in the car in addition to sunglasses.
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them? progressive lens glasses and sunglasses. Have been wearing corrective lenses (hard contacts, soft contacts, glasses) since I was 9. Didn't do well with either type of contact lens.
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Yes but didn't know that was the name of it. Were you able to see the hidden images? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye Sometimes
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is? Not personally. John13 has said he was color blind.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope? No. Use my cameras' zoom in lieu of binoculars.
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937? After she robbed a bank and took off in her airplane, she and her navigator landed on a deserted island and opened a resort-type hotel and casino.
Today’s Questions:
What color are your eyes? Brown
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)? About a half dozen reading glasses and a couple pairs of sunglasses(and sometimes I can't find any of them!)
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them? Reading glasses of late
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Were you able to see the hidden images? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye No
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is? The Doctor told my husband that he was, but he claims that he isn't, so.....
Do you own binoculars or a telescope? Not anymore (unless they are in one of the boxes in the attic)
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937? Her plane crashed and she perished....I think at Sea (although one TV show was once saying that they think they found evidence of her having landed on some deserted island...not sure if that had any validity.
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)?
Four. By law I have to have a spare pair of prescription glasses available in the car, so there are cheap ones in one, and an older pair in another. I also have presription sunglasses.
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them?
Prescription glasses ever since I was about four years old. I was once asked by an optician if I had to wear glasses all the time, to which I replied, no- only when I want to see.
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Were you able to see the hidden images? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye
Hmm- not sure I have come across this.
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is?
I am not, though I do know one or two who are.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope?
Binoculars, mainly for enjoying the views across our valley, and for bird watching, though I am not one of those avid bird watching crowd.
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937?
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is?
------ I disagree with otherrs on blue/green
Do you own binoculars or a telescope?
------- Binocs, I wear them out with usage.
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937?
----- Personally, I threw a phonrebook on the porch of her childhood home in Kansas. That was like kind of a mini-pilgrimage. I guess they probably crashed.
Today’s Questions:
What color are your eyes?
brown
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)?
2
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them?
yup. trifocals. Since I was 12. Tried contacts a few times. Prefer glasses.
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Were you able to see the hidden images? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye
not a book but I've seen various single pages. No, the images remained hidden.
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is?
no and yes.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope?
not any more.
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937?
Probably crash landed in the sea. Unless the aliens got her.
Today’s Questions:
What color are your eyes?………….. Dark brown.
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)?………… 6 maybe 7
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? ……………Prescription glasses
How long have you been wearing them?……………..Early teens
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is?…………..No. Yes.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope?………….Binoculars
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937?………………Shot down or crashed when something went wrong with the plane.
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)? - Two, one progressive transitions, one a back up regular (w/o automatic for sun glare).
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them? - Prescription for the last 31 years. Failed routine eye test for the DMV / MVA.
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Were you able to see the hidden images? - Always did poorly on those tests going back to when I was a child.
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is? - I am and it's been a major drag on my life. I can tell some colors but failed every color test I ever took. An example is I cannot tell the difference between a yellow light and a red light as they look exactly the same to me. Green I can faintly see... The rep colors for the rep totals here are mostly a blur and can only tell a couple of shades.
Do you own binoculars or a telescope? - No
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937? - Ran out of fuel or another malfunction.
How many pairs of glasses do you own (including sunglasses)?Seven
Do you wear prescription glasses or contact lenses? How long have you been wearing them? Prescription glasses--late 40's for close up reading, early 60's for long distance. Bifocals now. Just a pain needing to wear glasses...
Have you ever looked at a Magic Eye book? Were you able to see the hidden images? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye Yes and yes. They were popular when my sons were growing up.
Are you color blind, or do you know someone who is? I am not, only person I know that is color blind is John13
Do you own binoculars or a telescope? Binoculars
Today is Amelia Earhart’s birthday. Do you have any opinion on what may have happened when she and her navigator disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937? Have no idea, interesting mystery.
Today in History:
Thanks for the History lesson Bay--always interesting to read.
Today Is:
International Self-Care Day
Amelia Earhart Day
National Cousins Day
Parents Day
Moon Landing Day
Pioneer Day
It is just too HOT...dreading leaving my room. Have a great day!
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