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On This Date
1718 – The English pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina.
1963 – American President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
1977 – Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York and Europe.
1990 – Margaret Hilda Thatcher announced she would resign from her position as England’s prime minister. She had been named prime minister in 1979, and no other prime minister in the 20th century held the post longer.
Daily Trivia
The strawberry is the only fruit with seeds on the outside
of the skin. A strawberry has approximately 200 seeds.
Happy Birthday!
Billie Jean King, born in 1943, is a former professional tennis player who won an astounding 39 Grand Slam titles in singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. King was raised in an athletic family—her dad was a basketball player, her mom a swimmer, and her brother was a Major League Baseball pitcher. She started out playing softball before switching to tennis in her teens. In 1967, King became the top-ranked women’s tennis player. Her exhibition match victory against Bobby Riggs, who had repeatedly challenged her to a game, is chronicled in the 2017 film Battle of the Sexes.
Quote of the Day
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
~ Billie Jean King
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021
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Think-tionary
meliorism
A. The belief that the world can be made better by human effort
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B. Purposefully moving employees to positions where they have little responsibility and no influence
When Was It?
It was during this year that Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
George Washington received an honorary degree from Harvard University. The term “cocktail” was first used in a barroom. In Russia, the Bolshoi Theatre Company staged its first opera season, and the day after Christmas, Washington famously crossed the Delaware River. When was it?
Root of the Matter
The whole nine yards
To go the whole nine yards means to do your best or utmost. Some think this phrase comes from World War II, where fighter pilots were given nine yards of ammunition. When the nine yards were up, they were on their own. Others think this has to do with the amount of concrete that fits in a fully loaded concrete truck.
Others believe that it refers to journalism. To tell the whole six yards of a story means to get the truth from all angles. The six yards was then exaggerated to nine.
On this day
in 1869, the Cutty Sark clipper ship was launched off Dumbarton, Scotland. The Cutty Sark was one of the last clipper ships to be built and, due to innovation in materials and design, was one of the fastest.Buy a Vowel _ V _ R Z _ _ L _ _ S
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