Thursday, November 7th. Day 312 of 2024
It’s Men Make Dinner Day !
1874: The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly
1893: The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote
1908: Butch Cassisdy and the Sundance Kid (The real ones) are killed in Bolivia
1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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1973: New Jersey became the first state to permit girls to play on Little League Baseball teams
1994: WXYC , the University of North Carolina’s campus Radio Station, became the first station to stream audio on the internet. Good idea to stream audio from a Radio Station !
In the News: The vote county in this year’s election confirmed as most in Alex. County history…Alexander County Offices and Taylorsville Town Hall will close Monday for Veterans Day…Fatal motorcycle crash in Caldwell County…Hiddenite man jailed…Hickory woman sentenced to Alexander County Jail…Two arrested after big cocaine haul in Iredell County
Weather: Partly Sunny and 78 today
Sports: Carter says Ashe County will be a tough-go Friday night…Iredell-Statesville Schools add more security measure at athletic events…Is Girl’s Flag Football coming to a high-school near you ?…Panthers name Young the starter in Germany…Good one tonight, Bengals vrs Ravens…Hornets win with put-back at buzzer
Happy Birthday: Jim Kaat, Johnny Rivers, Joni Mitchell, David Petraeus, Lindsay Czarniak
Pizza and Ballots https://apnews.com/article/montana-polls-line-vote-wait-election-3deba0e2b7c8aac854140da425d94cd9
Haven’t heard from Joe trying to order Pizza in months…
Word of the Day: quid pro quo [kwid proh kwoh ] Something that is given or taken in return for something else. Latin, meaning literally “what for what, something for something.” “In politics nobody does something for nothing: there’s always a quid pro quo involved.”
Billy Graham