Good morning! It's a beautiful Christmas Eve morning. The ground is frosted, the sky is pale gold. It's going to be mostly clear and cold.
It's been a very busy week, right up to last night. We went to a friend's house to exchange gifts and have supper. It was a delightful evening ... and then I came home and got busy. I didn't do everything I had wanted to; but, I got the "important" stuff done. :)
As soon as I get off work today, we're headed east to our son's home for the holiday weekend. I will have limited computer access ... so I will post if I can. And if I can't .... I hope every single one of my readers and your families have a wonderful, warm, safe Christmas!
There are17 hours (7:00 am EST) left until Christmas!!
Today is "Christmas Eve" ... "Independence Day (Libya)".
Quotes of the Day:
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"
-- Victor Hugo
Today in history:
In 1871, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" premiered in Cairo. It had been commissioned to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal.
In 1906, Reginald A. Fessenden, a Canadian-born radio inventor, broadcast the first musical program, accompanying on violin a female singer's "O Holy Night," from Brant Rock, Mass. He discovered the superheterodyne principle, the basis for all modern radio receivers.
In 1914, the World War I "Christmas truce" began.
In 1990, the bells of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow rang to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the death of Lenin.
Today's birthdays include:
- English King John I in 1167
- American diplomat Silas Deane in 1737
- Physician and chemist Benjamin Rush in 1745
- Frontiersman Christopher Kit Carson in 1809
- English physicist and inventor James Prescott Joule in 1818
- Film director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) in 1888
- Composer Harry Warren (Lullaby of Broadway, Chattanooga Choo Choo) in 1893
- Industrialist, moviemaker and aviator Howard Hughes in 1905
- Actress Ava Gardner in 1922
- Author/director Nicholas Meyer in 1945
- Actor Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) in 1966
- Pop singer Ricky Martin in 1971
Everyone have a Great Thursday!
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