11.11.2023. We will have to wait 8 years to get a 5th one into the day’s name. I look forward to it. I’ve already outlived the average male in America who has a life expectancy of 73.5 years. Might as well keep going as long as I can. If I lived in Canada, who has a life expectancy of 80 years, I’d have a better statistical chance at a longer life. According to the Stoic Philosophers, it’s not how long you live but how well you live and I’m doing my best in that regard. Today is Fancy Rat & Mouse Day, Armistice Day, Bonaza Bottler Day, Death / Duty Day, National Sundae Day, Pocky Day, Red Lipstick Day, Single’s Day, and Wine Tourism Day. On this day in 1400 the Sack of Aleppo took place when Timur (Mongol) and his army destroyed the city of Aleppo and killed most of its inhabitants. Timur ordered a pyramid built outside the city walls with the skulls of 20,000 people. Yikes!! On this day in 1647 Massachusetts passed the 1st compulsory school attendance law in America. On this day in 1918 the armistice ending WWI was signed. Hostilities ended at 11am (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). On this day in 1921 President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. On this day in 1926 U.S. Route 66 was established from Chicago to Santa Monica CA (2,448 miles). On this day in 1933 the Great Black Blizzard, the first of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips though South Dakota. This is the day in 1957 that “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis was released by Sun Records. It sold a million copies in the 1st 10 days. Today’s quotes come from the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky who wrote “Crime and Punishment” and “The Brothers Karamazov”. Fyodor observed “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” “I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.” “A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.” “Right attitudes produce right action.” “You can be sincere and still be stupid.” I like that one. It’s a good place to end. Abide.
