On this day in 1701,Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit on the north side of the Detroit River. The settlement around it would grow into the city of Detroit.
The river flowing between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie was called by Le Détroit du Lac Érié by the French, meaning “The Strait of Lake Erie.” In 1698, Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, who had previously commanded Fort de Buade at Michilimackinac, proposed the establishment of a colony at Detroit. French families would be recruited as settlers, and the Indigenous tribes living near Michilimackinac would be encouraged to migrate to the area. The settlement would not only prevent English expansion into the Pays d’en Haut (Upper Country), but would also deter Iroquois aggression.
The Siege of the Fort at Detroit, depiction of the 1763 Siege of Fort Detroit by Frederic Remington.
Picky…
Ewoclem…
Or the tattoo artist…
Childrens Beer Garden…
American style health care…
Gentle…
The reptile world is active this summer…
On this day in 1993, UB40 started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. Elvis Presley had the first hit with the song, in 1961, Corey Hart was next up with a top 30 hit in 1987, and Hall and Oates recorded the song for 1990’s, The Last Temptation of Elvis charity album. UB40 originally covered the song for the Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack, but Bono’s version was chosen instead. Also on the same day UB40 went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Promises And Lies’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-ygY6oEdw
On this day in 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold it’s first car. In 1903. It was a two-cylinder, 8 horsepower vehicle, and the first one was sold to a Chicago dentist named Ernest Pfennig. The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory, with $28,000, equivalent to $980,000 in 2024, in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge, who later founded the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company. Henry Ford was 39 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which became one of the world’s largest and most profitable companies. It has been in continuous family control for over 100 years, and is one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world.
Nailed it!
She’s a Wifi hotspot???
Parenting…
Today is the birthday, in 1971, of Alison Krauss, bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She released her first solo album in 1987 and then was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station. Winner of 1996 Rolling Stone’s critic’s choice best country artist. Krauss recorded Raising Sand with Robert Plant in 2007 which was nominated for and won 5 Grammys at the 51st Grammy Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOLCLrqBn8
Today is the birthday, in 1844, of William Archibald Spooner, a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously.
He was educated at Oswestry School and New College, Oxford. Spooner remained at New College for more than sixty years, serving as fellow (1867), lecturer (1868), tutor (1869), dean (1876–1889) and warden (1903–1924). He lectured on ancient history, divinity and philosophy (especially on Aristotle’s ethics).
Spooner became famous for his manner of speaking, real or alleged “spoonerisms”, plays on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched. Spooner himself admitted to uttering “Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take” from the pulpit. Also attributed to him:
“It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” (…customary to kiss the bride)
“I am tired of addressing beery wenches” (weary benches)
“Mardon me padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?” (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?)
“You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad.” (You have missed all my history lectures, and were caught lighting a fire in the quad).
“You have tasted two worms” to a student who wasted two terms.
“You will leave by the next town drain” (You will leave by the next down train)
On his death, The Times recorded that “He was not afraid of conversation”.
Spooner as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1898
All 40!!
BADA BING!!!!!
I misspelled “I’m unstoppable,” and my phone autocorrected to “I’m unstable,” and honestly, that’s fair.
Old age teaches you to be efficient, resourceful, and strategic … like when you bend down to tie your shoe, you might as well see what else you can do while you’re down there.
I feel a whole lot more attractive at Walmart than I do at the gym. It’s all about picking the right crowd!
I will never understand how someone who saw him lie 30,573 times in the first term thought he would magically keep his promises in the second.
The reason the left was magically able to predict everything the tRUMP administration was going to do is by using deep knowledge created by being awake and alive at any point in the last 40 years.
Wanted: Someone to hand-feed me Doritos while I knit so my fingers don’t get orange. No weirdos.
If you’re ever lost in the woods, look for the North Star. Its twinkling will comfort you as you die.
Some people call it multitasking; I call it doing something else until I remember what I was going to do in the first place. (Bilbo)
BREAKING: Mike Johnson says God has anointed Trump and that Trump’s life is the “fruit of divine providence.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I came home and my dog peed a little because he was happy to see me. None of my friends pee when they see me. I’m surrounded by fakes.
Scientists in the 90s: We cloned a sheep and landed a robot on Mars! Scientists today: For the last time, the Earth is *round.*
Doctor: I’m just waiting for your X-ray. Her: But I’ve never dated anyone named Ray. Doctor: And we might do a brain scan.
The mighty swordfish has few predators to worry about in the wild. Except for the seldom seen penfish, which is said to be even mightier.
Chicken lips went to HR and complained. Now we can’t use nicknames at work anymore.
Soup is really the ideal food because no one can ask you for a piece.
I tried to call the Werner Ladder Company. But it just rung and rung and rung.
What happens when a farmer runs out of manure on his farm? He has to make doo.
I crashed my bike in 1973 and scraped my knee. I didn’t have internet then, so I’m telling you now.
Today I’m going to be sensible and behave myself. Stop laughing! It could happen!
What is a four-letter word with a small laugh in the middle? It really is.
I was bored, so I put a pregnancy test kit box in the trash at work.
The Queen forced Prince Andrew out of public life for his association with Epstein. MAGA elected Trump President. Twice.
When I woke up this morning, my wife was cooking breakfast in nothing but a T-shirt. When she saw me, she said she needed me to have sex with her right now. I was surprised but happy to oblige. After I asked what that was all about. She said, “The timer broke and there was a minute left on the eggs.”
My doctor was amazed by my level of fitness. Actually, what he said was, “I could have sworn you would be dead by now.”
I said to my therapist, “I’ve been feeling ultra paranoid lately”. He said, “Well, you looked perfectly relaxed in your bath this morning”.
I’m a multitasker. I can listen, ignore, and forget all at the same time!
Think I’m gonna miss this one…
Today is the birthday, in 1947,of Don Henley, singer, songwriter, and drummer with the Eagles, who had the 1977 US No.1 & UK No.8 single ‘Hotel California’, plus 5 US No.1 albums. The Eagles ‘Greatest Hits 1971-1975’ is the second biggest selling album in the world with sales over 30m. Henley had the 1985 solo US No.5 & UK No.12 single ‘The Boys of Summer’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxQXKO194XM
Today is Marine Day, a public holiday in Japan. Also known as Ocean Day, Sea Day or ‘Umi no hi’, it is a day for the island nation of Japan to show appreciation for the seas and oceans.
Marine Memorial Day was established in 1941 to mark the anniversary of the 1876 return of the Meiji Emperor to the Port of Yokohama, on the two-masted topsail schooner Meiji-Maru, from a tour of the Tohoku and Hokkaido regions, in the northeast of the country.
In celebration of Marine Day, all the national aquariums organize special events, water sports competitions, water shows, and cultural activities relating to the sea take place. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force fully dress their ships with flags and banners to mark the occasion.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai’s most famous print, the first in the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1829–1832
Today is the birthday, in 1931, of American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson. He is best known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s ‘The Pink Panther Theme’, as well as playing on innumerable records by Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson and Bobby Vee. This isn’t him, but a great rendition…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_uqv5GNNw
On this day in 1898, Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie discovered the element Polonium when it was extracted from the uranium ore pitchblende. Polonium was named after Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s homeland of Poland, which at the time was partitioned between three countries.
Polonium is a rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, Due to the short half-life of all its isotopes, its natural occurrence is limited to tiny traces of the fleeting polonium-210 (with a half-life of 138 days) in uranium ores, as it is the penultimate daughter of natural uranium-238. Though two longer-lived isotopes exist (polonium-209 with a half-life of 124 years and polonium-208 with a half-life of 2.898 years), they are much more difficult to produce.
Polonium has few applications, and those are related to its radioactivity: heaters in space probes, antistatic devices, sources of neutrons and alpha particles, and poison. It is extremely dangerous to humans.
The cause of the 2006 death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian FSB agent who had defected to the United Kingdom in 2001, was identified to be poisoning with a lethal dose of 210Po; it was subsequently determined that the 210Po had probably been deliberately administered to him by two Russian ex-security agents.
Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide. Most of this polonium is derived from lead-210 deposited on tobacco leaves from the atmosphere; the lead-210 is a product of radon-222 gas, much of which appears to originate from the decay of radium-226 from fertilizers applied to the tobacco soils.
Marie Curie
Having a worse day than you…
Hmmm…
‘All you can eat’…
Those Brits…
Today is the birthday, in 1945, of Danny McCullock, guitarist in The Animals who had the 1964 UK & US No.1 single ‘House Of The Rising Sun’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-43lLKaqBQ
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