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On This Date
1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper
“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”
was first published.
The treatise contained the famous equation E=mc².
1908 – Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile left his factory in Detroit. The Piquette Avenue Plant is now operated as a museum, and its collection of antique cars includes a Model T built there in 1908.
1954 – The Tonight Show debuted on television.
1993 – David Munday of Ontario, Canada, survived going over Niagara Falls for a second time.
Daily Trivia
A popular urban legend claims that the word nasty originates from
Thomas Nast’s last name, due to the harsh tone of his cartoons.
Actually, the word nasty has origins in French and Dutch
and has been in use for hundreds of years.
Happy Birthday!
Will Sampson (1933–1987) was a Indigenous actor, painter, and rodeo performer of Muscogee heritage.
Sampson was recruited to acting after years on the rodeo circuit, where he specialized in bronco busting.
He had a commanding presence with his lanky six-foot seven-inch frame.
Sampson ultimately worked on multiple films, but his most prominent roles were as Chief Bromden alongside Jack Nicholson’s Randle McMurphy in the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and as Crazy Horse in The White Buffalo.
Quote of the Day
“Listen to the wind; it talks.
Listen to the silence; it speaks.
Listen to your heart; it knows.”
~ Indigenous proverb
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
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What Am I?
4,000 years ago, amongst primitive humans, I was at my simplest—
nothing more than a bamboo stick or hazel shoot with a horsehair line.
Today, I am at my most advanced, made from carbon fiber, magnesium alloy, graphite, boron, or fiberglass.
No matter my construction, my use has always been the same throughout the millennia. In the heat or cold, on the water or along the coastline, I am an essential tool for survival. And the tales of my use have always been prone to exaggeration. What am I?
Centennial Memories
On this day 100 years ago, the Chicago Fire Department announced that neither Mrs. Catherine O’Leary nor her cow started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
That same year, a reporter for the Chicago Republican
newspaper also admitted to fabricating the story of Mrs. O’Leary’s arsonist
cow. Despite these exonerations, the legend of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow persisted. In 1997, another investigation confirmed O’Leary’s innocence, going so far as to suggest that a man named
“Peg Leg” Sullivan started the blaze with a careless toss of a match. The evidence prompted the Chicago City Council to exonerate Mrs. O’Leary and her cow a second time.
Punny Business
Broken puppets for sale!
No strings attached.
On this day
in 1903, the Fast Mail train number 97 crashed in Virginia while traveling too fast in an attempt to stay on schedule. The train wreck inspired the famous and often-covered country ballad “Wreck of the Old 97.”M
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