Good Morning To All !
Today is November 30, the 334th day of 2013 and there are 31 days left this year.
It is yet another blessed day here in Albuquerque New Mexico where we’re expecting another beautiful day! Thanksgiving Day festivities are dissipating and folks are starting to get pumped up for the upcoming Christmas Holiday. My wife already has all the Thanksgiving decorations down and the living room is full of boxes of Christmas decorations to be broken out and put up. And, yes, I said Christmas, not the winter holiday! It is once again a blessing to be here in the work for our Lord at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Thankfully, the Black Friday shopping rush is hopefully starting to calm down and in response, all I can say is:
Or, as Pastor Dewey correctly posted before:
So, What Happened Today In 1835:
Samuel Clemens, later known as Mark Twin, is born in Florida, Missouri on this day in 1835.
Clemens was apprenticed to a printer at age 13 and later worked for his older brother, who established the Hannibal Journal. In 1857, the Keokuk Daily Post commissioned him to write a series of comic travel letters, but after writing five he decided to become a steamboat captain instead. He signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 and received his pilot’s license in 1859, when he was 23.
Clemens piloted boats for two years, until the Civil War halted steamboat traffic. During his time as a pilot, he picked up the term”Mark Twain,” a boatman’s call noting that the river was only two fathoms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation. When Clemens returned to writing in 1861, working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, he wrote a humorous travel letter signed by “Mark Twain” and continued to use the pseudonym for nearly 50 years.
In 1864, he moved to San Francisco to work as a reporter. There, he wrote the story that made him famous: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
In 1866, he traveled to Hawaii as a correspondent for the Sacramento Union. Next, he traveled the world writing accounts for papers in California and New York, which he later published the popular book The Innocents Abroad (1869). In 1870, Clemens married the daughter of a wealthy New York coal merchant and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, where he continued to write travel accounts and lecture. In 1875, his novel Tom Sawyer was published, followed by Life on the Mississippi (1883) and his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn (1885). Bad investments left Clemens bankrupt after the publication of Huckleberry Finn, but he won back his financial standing with his next three books–Pudd’Nhead Wilson (1894), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1895), and Following the Equator (1897). In 1903, he and his family moved to Italy, where his wife died. Her death left him sad and bitter, and his work, while still humorous, grew distinctly darker. He died in 1910.
Other memorable or Interesting Events On November 30:
306 – St. Marcellus I begins reign as Catholic Pope;
1016 – Cnut, (or Canute), King of Denmarkm claims the English Throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’;
1554 – England reconciles with Pope Julius III;
1648 – English parliamentary army captures King Charles I;
1700 – Turkey declares war on Russia;
1731 – Beijing hit by earthquake killing an estimated 100,000;
1776 – In the American Revolution, Admiral Howe and General William Howe, “the King’s Commissioners for restoring Peace”, issue a proclamation promising pardons to those that would desist from “Treasonable Actings & Doings”;
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence ending the Revolutionary War;
1864 – Confederate army of Tennessee suffers devastating defeat at Franklin Tennessee losing 6 Generals and a third of his troops;
1874 – Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire England;
1902 – Harvey “Kid Curry”, 2nd in command in Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch crew is sentenced to 20 years hard labor in Tennessee;
1939 – Soviet Red Army crosses Finnish border and bombs Helsinki;
1981 – U.S. & Soviet Union representatives open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces, talks lasted until Dec 17 but ended inconclusively;
1950 – President Harry S Truman announces he is prepared to use atomic weapons to achieve peace in Korea;
1954 – Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges becomes first human victim in modern history to be struck by a meteorite when it crashed through the roof of her house in Sylacaugh, Alabama, she was not permanently injured;
1966 – In Saigon, the South Vietnamese Assembly begins drafting articles for a new constitution which was approved on Dec 21st;
1989 – ‘America’s first female serial killer’, Aileen Wuornos, strikes in Florida, she would commit 7 murders over the year;
1993 – President Clinton signs the ‘Brady’ handgun control bill named after James Brady who was severely injured in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Brady was shot in the head in the attack;
1994 – The ship Achille Lauro sinks near Somalia; the ship was best known for an infamous incident in 1985 when it was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists who shot and killed American tourist Leon Klinghoffer;
2004 – Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after achieving a record 74 consecutive wins on the game show winning more than $2.5 million.
Today’s Silly Sign:
(on a repair shop door), We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work)
Today’s Thought For The Day:
Even in the most peaceful surroundings, the angry heart finds quarrel; however, Even in the most quarrelsome surroundings, the grateful heart finds peace.
Today’s Funny Fact:
A ‘JIFFY’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Today’s Silly Question:
Can you cry under water?
Today’s Witty:
I love deadlines, especially the ‘Whooshing’ sound they make as they go flying by!
Today’s Over Sixty One Liner:
Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either!
Today’s Did You Know:
“I AM” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Today’s Funny Puppy Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Picture:
Until Tomorrow – God Bless to All !!!