Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Yesterday I remembered: The day before our wedding way back when.
Today I remembered: The day of our wedding. She was 21. So was I, just not quite.
Today I also remembered: Solomon Headings and the Rush Limbaugh Show arrived.
What have Ruby and I done so far today that’s out of the ordinary? Read it all
That’s quite the quote, eh?
The you in it was a very famous person.
And he signed his agreement with the accusation on this day: June 22.
See 1633 below…but let’s not get any further ahead of ourselves! Read it all
Are you bound?
Chains. How effectively they keep prisoners secured. Rattled by hapless captives, their oppressive clanking echoes through history and literature. But the most oppressive chains produce neither clank nor rattle. I have in mind chains such as bitterness, anger, fear, suspicion, self, and habits. Read it all
On January 21.
A small step for a baby.
A giant leap for Christianity.
An historical surge forward…though it really was backing up…to find truth. Read it all
33 — Jesus Christ ascended back into heaven. (Possible date)
1607 –- Jamestown (Virginia USA) is settled as an English colony.
1643 -– Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. (No way he was old enough to know better.)
1787 — Delegates congregate in Philadelphia. Mission: crank out the US Constitution.
1796 — Edward Jenner (a doctor, I hope) administers the first smallpox vaccination (and I doubt it was on an animal guinea pig).
1804 –- The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1897 — Marconi makes the first communication by wireless telegraph. (I don’t know what he said. Nor do I know what his message was.)
1939 –- Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – Holland (aka the Netherlands) surrenders to Germany.
1948 – After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regain their homeland when Israel is declared to be an independent state. The neighboring Arab countries “celebrate” by immediately launching military strikes.
1950 – American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot writes in his journal: “To believe is to act as though a thing were so. Merely saying a thing is so is no proof of my believing it.”
1955 – Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, establish the Warsaw Pact.
1970 – The US launches its Skylab space station into orbit.
1975 — The US military raids a Cambodian island and recaptures the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (I remember listening about it on the radio.) As it turned out, about 40 military men lost their lives in the operation — which freed 40 crew members of the Mayaguez.
2001 — The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that federal law makes no exceptions for people to use marijuana for medical purposes.
2008 — The Obama Interior Department declares the polar bear a threatened species (because of the loss of Arctic sea ice — a global warming thing, no doubt).
2018 — The US inaugurates its new embassy in Jerusalem (the first country to move its embassy there from Tel Aviv).
Source: Wikipedia
It was a busy day — a second gained here, a day lost there, a blue moon eclipsed over this way, an evil empire ditched (perhaps), a now-evil light bulb lit, a quad of Beatles on the way out, a state divided in the East, and thus goes a busy day in history (which is alleged to repeat itself, you know).
1384 — John Wycliffe (the Morning Star of the Reformation) dies.
1695 — A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. Coming soon to a window near you? Read it all
