Nevada Becomes The 36th State
On this day in history, Nevada became the 36th state.
Nevada is the seventh-largest state in area, and geographically covers the Mojave Desert in the south to the Great Basin in the north. About 86% of the state’s land is owned by the U.S federal government under various jurisdictions both civilian and military. As of 2006, there were about 2.6 million residents, with over 85% of the population residing in the metropolitan areas around Las Vegas and Reno. The state is well known for its easy marriage and divorce proceedings, legalization of gambling and, in a few counties, legalized brothels.
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Local residents - particularly natives of the state - resent hearing Nevada’s name pronounced differently in the national media, a problem that has crystallized with increased coverage of the state following the 2008 Presidential Primary Elections.
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In 1938, seventy years ago, listeners panicked thinking the Earth was being invaded by Martians when Orson Welles performed his dramatization of “The War of the Worlds”.
The story is set in the early twentieth century, and begins with the unnamed narrator, a writer of speculative scientific articles, visiting an observatory in Ottershaw on the invitation of a “well-known astronomer” named Ogilvy. There he witnesses an explosion on the surface of the planet Mars, one of a series of such events that arouses much interest in the scientific community. An unspecified time later, a “meteor” is seen landing on Horsell Common, near London. The narrator’s home is close by, and he is among the first to discover the object is a space-going artificial cylinder launched from Mars. The cylinder opens, disgorging the Martians: bulky, tentacled creatures that begin setting up strange machinery in the cylinder’s impact crater. A human deputation moves towards the crater and is incinerated by an invisible ray of heat.
I bet many people were checking their life insurance rates and making sure their policies were up to date too.
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Thirty-four years ago today, Rhoda finally married Joe.
I know, it took her forever, but she finally did it. Have you ever watched old shows to check out the ancient lighting fixtures? My wife watches old movies just to see the costume designs and the sets. The she gets hungry for eggs, because if you notice, they are always eating eggs when they sit down at the table.
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On this day in 1965, the Gateway Arch was completed.
The Gateway Arch, also known as the Gateway to the West, is an integral part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and the iconic image of St. Louis, Missouri. It was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947. It stands 630 feet (192 m) tall, and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base, making it the tallest monument in the United States. Construction of the arch started on February 12, 1963 and was completed on October 28, 1965. The monument opened to the public on July 24, 1967.
I wonder if they sell snowglobes, pencils, and promotional bags with images of the arch on it? I know they sell them with images of other significant memorials and monuments. How would you put that on something though? An arched pencil? A snowglobe with the arch climbing out above it? I’ve never seen it in person, but I’ve heard it’s quite impressive and you can see it for miles.
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The other one was “Peter, Paul and Mary”. When I listen to my iPod, I love it when my PPM songs come on. They are one of the best from their day, and I am sure many engagement rings were purchased after people heard a few of their songs.
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Then again, maybe not. I’m sure there were better things on television back then. Weren’t there?
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On this day in 1945, the United Nations was created. From wikipedia:
The UN was founded as a successor to the League of Nations, which was widely considered to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body, as it had been unable to prevent World War II. The term “United Nations” was first used by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt,[2] in the 1942 Declaration by United Nations, which united the Allied countries of WWII under the Atlantic Charter, and soon became a term widely used to refer to them. Declarations signed at wartime Allied conferences in 1943 espoused the idea of the UN, and in 1944, representatives of the major Allied powers met to elaborate on the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference.[3] Those and later talks outlined the organization’s proposed purposes, membership, organs, and ideals in regards to peace, security, and cooperation.
On 25 April 1945, the UN Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco, attended by 50 governments and a number of non-governmental organizations involved in drafting the Charter of the United Nations. The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945 upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council — France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and the Security Council, took place in London in January 1946.
Representative members showed up from everywhere. I wonder if people from Scandinavia were wearing parkas, and if others were wearing boots from UGG Australia?
And the world has never been the same.
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