This may be one of those days in which you don’t feel like doing anything and you can’t force yourself. While you’re out you’ll shop just enough to take care of essentials, and at home you’ll probably veg out in front of the TV. Don’t feel any guilt over it. We all need days like this. Take it easy, relax, and you’ll be your old self again tomorrow.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
In ancient Rome, a chariot race was held in the Field of Mars on October 15. After the race was over, the right-hand horse of the winning chariot was killed as a sacrifice to Mars. There was a fight between the inhabitants of two different quarters of the city to see who could seize the head and place it in a designated spot. As soon as the tail was cut off, it was rushed to the king’s hearth so that the blood would fall on the hearth. The rest of the blood was preserved until April 21, when it was mixed in a special ceremony and given to shepherds to burn to purify their flocks. More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
An Italian physicist and mathematician, Torricelli served as secretary to Galileo during the last three months of Galileo’s life. Two years later, pursuing a suggestion by Galileo, he filled a glass tube with mercury and inverted the tube into a dish. He noted that some of the mercury did not flow out and that the space above the mercury was a vacuum. He concluded that the variation of the height of the mercury from day to day was caused by changes in atmospheric pressure. What had he invented? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
This Day in History:
Graf Zeppelin Completes Its First Transatlantic Flight (1928)
The Graf Zeppelin was a German, hydrogen-filled, passenger airship—the largest built up to that time. It inaugurated transatlantic flight service in 1928, making its first crossing in 111 hours. During its years of service, it completed 590 flights, including 64 to South America, two to the Middle East, and one around-the-world tour. It was retired from service in 1937, when the Hindenburg disaster brought an end to commercial zeppelin travel. Why was the airship destroyed during WWII? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat captain and folk hero who became famous for his sea rescues of nearly 500 shipwrecked victims. His life-saving career began in 1872 while he was captain of his own boat. While at sea, he saved all 25 crew members of the ship Australia from drowning. He later joined a Dutch lifeboat society as a volunteer and saved hundreds of people during dozens of rescue operations over three decades. How did Rijkers get the nickname Opa, which means “Grandpa”? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain
I’ve lived a life that’s full I’ve traveled each and every highway But more, much more than this I did it my way
Regrets, I’ve had a few But then again, too few to mention I did what I had to do And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course Each careful step along the byway And more, much more than this I did it my way
Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew When I bit off more than I could chew But through it all, when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out I faced it all and I stood tall And did it my way
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried I’ve had my fill my share of losing And now, as tears subside I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that And may I say – not in a shy way Oh no, oh no, not me I did it my way
For what is a man, what has he got If not himself, then he has naught To say the things he truly feels And not the words of one who kneels The record shows I took the blows And did it my way
Strangers in the night Exchanging glances Wondering in the night What were the chances We’d be sharing love Before the night was through? Something in your eyes Was so inviting Something in your smile Was so exciting Something in my heart told me I must have you
Strangers in the night, two lonely people We were strangers in the night Up to the moment when we said our first hello Little did we know Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away And ever since that night We’ve been together Lovers at first sight In love forever It turned out so right For strangers in the night
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away Ever since that night We’ve been together Lovers at first sight In love forever It turned out so right For strangers in the night
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