a two-week period of calm and tranquility, dating to ancient times when the fabled halcyon bird calmed the wind and waves.
Today is also Opposites Attract Day.
History 101: 56 years ago today, a teenager who’d played less than twenty games of baseball in his life was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers – Leftie pitcher Sandy Koufax would go on to win over a hundred and fifty games.
Music History 101: November 14, 1977 – the sale of polyester suits skyrocketed after a movie premiered in New York City. The movie starred John Travolta: "Saturday Night Fever" (Night Fever)
The 101 number one song of the day took only three weeks to get to the top where it stayed for over 7 weeks which was the longest duration for a Motown song to date. Plus, the same song had gotten to number two just a fairly short time before In fact, a number of insiders were surprised that it was released as a single so soon after Gladys Knight and the Pips took it to the penultimate chart position the previous December. Interestingly enough, today’s featured artist had recorded his version before Gladys Knight but before that it was recorded by Smokey Robinson. In fact the song was covered by lots of others as well including the Isley Bros., Elton John, Ike and Tina Turner and Creedence Clearwater Revival to name just a few. But the version that rose all the way to number one on December 14, 1968 belonged to Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”
Scientists have discovered a caterpillar that whistles. It’s the walnut sphinx caterpillar. The caterpillar doesn’t have lips to whistle with – so it compresses its body –forcing air out of its sides – and producing a whistling noise. The scientists say the noise is to scare birds away that are about to eat them.
-And to annoy pretty girl caterpillars inching by…
A new study located the fattest places on earth – and the good news, the United States isn’t even in the top five. We’re sixth. The fattest place on earth is American Samoa – where 94% of the population is overweight. Then comes the tiny island nation of Kiribati, French Polynesia, Saudi Arabia is 73% overweight, Panama…and then the US – at 67% overweight.
Speaking of weight related issues, the President signed the Child Nutrition Bill into effect yesterday. The law will put more kids into school-based meal programs..and force those meals to be healthier.
-Well – Bush had ‘No Child Left Behind’. Obama’s would be – ‘No Child Left With A Big Behind.’
According to a new study…hiring managers would rather hire plain-looking women that don’t include their photos with their resumes. The better looking the woman – the less likely she is to be hired. However – it’s just the opposite with men…with the handsomer men more likely to be hired. Experts say for women – leave your photos off your resume and don’t include a photo on your public FaceBook profile.
-When did we start putting photos with our resumes?
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