Friday, May 25, 2012

May 25 - What's a Frugal




What's a Frugal?


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Come to think of it, what's a gourmet?


This Day In History
240 BC
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1738
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1878
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1925
John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1935
Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1953
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955
First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
1961
U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1962
The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1977
Star Wars is released in theaters.
2001
32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.


Famous Birthdays
1572
Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, German music patron and composer (d. 1632)
1803
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1878
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949)
1887
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1968)
1889
Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born American aviation designer (d. 1972)
1921
Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
1922
Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
1926
Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1927
Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
1929
Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
1936
Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1939
Ian McKellen, English actor
1944
Frank Oz, British-born American puppeteer and director
1967
Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1969
Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1976
Ethan Suplee, American actor
1978
Brian Urlacher, American football player

1 comment:

  1. He is so big! Didn't that go by quickly? And your coffee table looks so much like ours!

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