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Today is Day 5 of 2024
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love
gave to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten
lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids
a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five
golden rings.
Four colly birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle
doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Twelfth Day Eve, or Epiphany Eve
Feast day of St Edward the Confessor marking his death in 1066.
1757
French King
Louis XV
survives an assassination attempt by Robert-
François Damiens.
Damiens will be the the last person to be
executed in France by drawing and quartering, which was then the
punishment used for regicides.
1879
Song writer
and vaudevillian Jack
Norworth born in Philadelphia.
He wrote the lyrics for Take Me
Out to the Ballgame even though he had never been to a game.
1900
Surrealist
painter Yves Tanguy
born in Paris.
1914 
Actor George Reeves known
best for his TV portrayal of Superman, born in Woolstock, Iowa.
1923
Legendary
music producer of Sun records Sam Phillips born in
Florence, Alabama.
1926
Poet W. D. Snodgrass
born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1930
Mao Tse-tung writes
“A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”.
1931
Actor Robert Duvall
(played Boo Radley in To Kill a
Mockingbird) born in San Diego, California.
1932
Writer Umberto Eco (The Name of the
Rose) born in Alessandria, Italy.
1933
Construction
of the Golden
Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940
Comedy writer
Michael
O'Donoghue (National
Lampoon) born in Sauquoit, New York.
1941
Japanese film
director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki (Princess
Mononoke) born in Tokyo, Japan.
1945
Japanese
pilots receive the first orders to become Kamikaze which translates
into “Divine Wind”
- after a legendary typhoon that
spoiled the Mogol emperor Kubla Khan's invasion
of Japan in 1281.
1953
The play Waiting for
Godot by Samuel
Beckett is performed for the first time at the Théâtre de Babylone,
Paris.
1956
Elvis Presley
records “Heartbreak
Hotel”.
2005
The dwarf
planet Eris is discovered.
This lead to the International
Astronomical Union to define the term planet and to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Still Life with Red Yucca.
Taken on 20220105.
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photo for a larger view.
Photo available Here
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Proverb:
If it's a goose, it should be fat. ~ Hungarian Proverb
