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Today is National Radio Day. How many radios are in your home? One.
What is the oldest item of clothing that you own? Do you still wear it? A winter coat from 1994-95. Made in Germany. I got it from a thrift shop so it was not new but it looked like new. Yes, I still wear it once every 4-5 years, it looks very much the same.
What is at least one thing that you are really good at? Listening.
Are you still in touch with any friends from your school days? Yes, a few.
What do you miss the most about being a child? My maternal grandmother.
Today’s Questions:
Today is National Radio Day. How many radios are in your home? Was going to say none...but then there is still an old clock radio alarm clock in the one bedroom. And the Google Home Assistant thing can play radio.
What is the oldest item of clothing that you own? IDK...Wedding Dress maybe.
Do you still wear it? LOL, no.
What is at least one thing that you are really good at? Sleeping.
Are you still in touch with any friends from your school days? No
What do you miss the most about being a child? The fun, the adventure, playing outside with my friends all day, riding bikes etc.
Welcome to Questions of the Day for Sunday, August 20, 2023. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Leo. Some notable people born on this date include philosopher Paul Tillich, authors H.P. Lovecraft and Jacqueline Susann, architect Eero Saarinen, boxing promoter Don King, musicians Isaac Hayes, Robert Plant and John Hiatt; journalist Connie Chung, TV personality Al Roker and actresses Joan Allen, Amy Adams and Demi Lovato.
Today’s Questions:
Today is National Radio Day. How many radios are in your home? total of four
What is the oldest item of clothing that you own? Do you still wear it?oshkosh bib overalls, had them for a few decades.
What is at least one thing that you are really good at?oversleeping!
Are you still in touch with any friends from your school days?sadly they have all passed on-stayed in contact for 50 years plus, total of 11 people.
What do you miss the most about being a child?little League baseball, Boy Scouts, going on scavenger hunts as a kid, going out trick or treating. Sadly in a lot of areas that's a thing of the past.
Today in History: 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. 1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy. 1648 – Battle of Lens: An outnumbered and hastily assembled French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, decisively defeats a Spanish army led by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria near Lens in the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years' War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October that year. 1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida. 1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that becomes Tucson, Arizona. 1794 – Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. 1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. 1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia. 1905 – Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organization, in Tokyo, Japan. 1914 – World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium. 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. 1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio 1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established. 1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez. 1940 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day. 1940 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few". 1944 – World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp. 1949 – Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People's Republic. 1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. 1968 – Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. 1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. 1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed. 1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. 1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. 2014 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day. 2020 – Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Word of the Day: fungible \FUN-juh-bul\ adjective
· (of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
"it is by no means the world's only fungible commodity"
· something (as money or a commodity) one part or quantity of which can be substituted for another of equal value in paying a debt or settling an account. Oil, wheat, and lumber are fungible commodities.
Quote of the Day:
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
- H. P. Lovecraft
Today Is:
World Mosquito Day
International Day of Medical Transporters
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
National Accessible Air Travel Day
National Radio Day
Today’s Questions:
Today is National Radio Day. How many radios are in your home? None
What is the oldest item of clothing that you own? Do you still wear it? 10yo dress shirt. No.
What is at least one thing that you are really good at? Math.
Are you still in touch with any friends from your school days? No.
What do you miss the most about being a child? Not knowing how much life sucks.
Today’s Questions:
Today is National Radio Day. How many radios are in your home? At least six. One is a 1946 Philco tabletop that belonged to Mr. Bay's parents. It still works.
What is the oldest item of clothing that you own? Do you still wear it? I have a black silk cape and bonnet that belonged to my great-grandmother, but I've never worn it. The oldest item of mine that I still own is an alpaca poncho from 1968. I don't wear it anymore but can't bear to get rid of it.
What is at least one thing that you are really good at? Baking cookies Spelling Writing
Are you still in touch with any friends from your school days? Yes, two from my high school. They live far away, so we keep in touch via Facebook and Christmas cards.
What do you miss the most about being a child? Being able to eat anything I like without worrying about calories or nutrition. Playing on the swings, slides and monkey bars Trick or treating
Looking forward to the holidays instead of seeing them as extra work, hassle and expense.
Thanks to everyone for your answers.
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