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On This Date the Game Is Afoot! Happy Birthday! Quote of The THE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 On This Date 1535 – Jacques Cartier’s men Quote of the Day experienced the effects of scurvy, due to lack of vitamin C in their diet. The “There’s a thin line between to Iroquois showed them how to make laugh with and to laugh at.” cedar tea as a cure. ~ Richard Pryor, comedian 1887 – The very first Sherlock Holmes mystery appeared when the story “A Study in Scarlet” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published. Happy Birthday! Richard Pryor (1940–2005) was a class clown in high school—a perfect beginning for someone who would become one of comedy’s most influential stars. His home life was 1929 – Edwin Lowe, a toy salesman, was attending a carnival in Jackson, far from perfect, and comedy and Alabama, when he noticed a popular acting were natural outlets for him. game called Beano. He made a few He did stand-up in New York City modifications, and bingo was born. and even opened for Bobby Darin in Las Vegas. Pryor The Game Is Afoot! was unafraid to push Which of these bad guys is not a the envelope, using nemesis of Sherlock Holmes? wit to explore race in America. He found A. Professor Moriarty stardom in the 1970s B. Irene Adler and ’80s. Although C. John Clay he was diagnosed with multiple D. Ernst Stavro Blofeld sclerosis in 1986, he continued to James Bond. James entertain and influenced an entire ANSWER: Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a nemesis of of nemesis a is Blofeld Stavro Ernst ANSWER: generation of young comedians. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) UESDAY ECEMBER T , D 1, 2020 Today is Rosa Parks Day. On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white rider. Her actions led to a bus boycott and the desegregation of the busing system. Root of the Matter You Are What You Eat Cute as a button Springfield, the capital of Illinois, is If someone calls you cute as a button, famous for its Horseshoe Sandwich, they are characterizing you as small created in 1928 at the Leland Hotel and adorable. Some believe by chef Joe Schweska and his that this expression did not assistant, Steve Tomko. It’s an start as a compliment. Cute open-faced sandwich of two thick is short for acute, and is also slices of Texas toast topped with a related to the French word aigu, which horseshoe-shaped slice of ham, was used to denote acute in the medical covered in french fries (known as the sense, as in need of urgent care. The “nails” of the horseshoe) and topped French word bouton referenced a spot off with Welsh rarebit sauce. Modern or pimple. The expression originated in versions of the sandwich substitute the 1800s, during the time of smallpox, hamburgers, pork tenderloin, or even measles, and mumps. Some linguists Buffalo chicken for the ham, but suggest that the original use of cute as plenty of Springfield eateries hold a button was a way of telling someone true to the original recipe. that they exhibited symptoms in need of immediate medical attention. Word Scramble U T V O D E Punny Business Showing deep Two blood cells met and fell in religious commitment DEVOUT love. Too bad it was all in vein. ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2020 On This Date 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Quote of the Day himself emperor of France at the “Fashion goes with the feeling Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. of the moment. It’s related Then he turned and crowned his to movies, to art, to young wife, Josephine, as empress. people’s taste.” 1901 – King Camp Gillette sold his first disposable safety razor blades. ~ Gianni Versace, designer Happy Birthday! Gianni Versace (1946–1997) launched 1933 – The movie Dancing Lady his first clothing line in Milan, Italy, premiered, featuring Fred Astaire in in 1978. His mother was in the his first on-screen dancing role and dressmaking business, so he was slapstick comedians Ted Healy and taught fashion and design from a His Stooges, a trio that would later young age. The influential designer become the Three Stooges. was unafraid to use cutting-edge manufacturing techniques and unique 1960 – Louis Leakey discovered materials like aluminum mesh. In 1989, a 1.4 million-year-old skeleton in Versace debuted his first couture Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, that helped collection and went on to draw the prove that humans evolved in Africa. praise of fashion- Three’s a Crowd forward celebrities such as Madonna, How many “stooges” actually Elton John, and performed as the Three Stooges? Princess Diana. Joe DeRita, and Joe Besser Besser Joe and DeRita, Joe Versace was only Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Curly Fine, Larry Howard, Shemp Howard, 50 years old when he ANSWER: Six in total: Moe Howard, Curly Curly Howard, Moe total: in Six ANSWER: was killed in Miami. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) EDNESDAY ECEMBER W , D 2, 2020 Today is Safety Razor Day. On this day in 1901, inventor King Camp Gillette patented his disposable safety razor. Gillette wanted to do away with the hassle and expense of honing and stropping blades to keep them sharp. Who Am I? Only Human As a child, I fulfilled my Boy Scout Scientists studying the Y chromosome, photography merit badge by making the chromosome that creates a short film. I would spend the biological males, are quick to notice rest of my life making movies. I how small it is. It contains only directed Joan Crawford for a major 45 genes, compared to the almost Hollywood studio when I was just 1,000 genes on an X 21 years old. I would go on to chromosome. Scientists direct summer blockbusters about have determined that the sharks and dinosaurs, storied movie Y chromosome has shrunk over franchises about space heroes and millions of years, leading some to daring archaeologists, and historical wonder if Y chromosomes may dramas about war and slavery. Not disappear entirely. Are men in only have I won numerous awards but danger of going extinct? Other I might just be Hollywood’s most animals such as mole voles have famous director. Who am I? evolved to lose Y chromosomes, yet Spielberg Steven ANSWER: they still have males in the species. Scientists speculate that other genes will step in and do the job of Buy a Vowel determining sex. D _ B _ _ _ S Riddle Me This Unreliable or suspect What do you call a boomerang DUBIOUS ANSWER: ANSWER: that doesn’t work? stick A ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020 On This Date 1833 – The Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio, opened Quote of the Day as the first coeducational college. “I was always painfully shy 1921 – The Canadian Badminton so the attention didn’t Association was formed to serve as the main governing body of the sport really sit well.” in the country. ~ Heather Menzies, actress 1926 – English mystery novelist Happy Birthday! Agatha Christie disappeared from Heather Menzies (1949-2017) was her home. She was found 11 days born in Toronto. She moved to the later at the Swan Hydro Hotel. She US in 1960 and attended Hollywood did not remember how she got there. High School. Her film debut was 1997 – In Ottawa, representatives playing Louisa von from 121 countries signed the Ottawa Trapp in The Sound Treaty, prohibiting the manufacture of Music. She went and deployment of anti-personnel on to other movie land mines. The United States, China, and television roles, and Russia did not sign the treaty. notably as Jessica 6 in Logan’s Run. Jingle Bells She later worked to raise money Heather Menzies met her future for cancer research. Menzies was husband while making a TV married to actor Robert Urich and commercial. She and Robert Urich had three children. [After he died of played a bride and groom in the ad. cancer in 2002, she established the They were married for 27 years. Robert Urich Foundation.] ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) HURSDAY ECEMBER T , D 3, 2020 On this day in 1910, Freda Du Faur climbed Mount Cook in New Zealand. Du Faur would become one of mountaineering’s most accomplished and famous climbers, ascending many of New Zealand’s highest peaks. Wild Kingdom Eye in the Sky A unique breed of dog lives in the Phosphine, a chemical highlands of Papua, New Guinea. The that indicates the presence New Guinea singing dog was of life, has been found in considered extinct for 50 years until a the atmosphere of Venus. small population was rediscovered in Phosphine is not pleasant smelling, the wild. The species is known as the and on Earth it’s mostly found in “singing dog” due to its howling barks sewage plants, where it is associated and vocalizations that sound with microbes living in oxygen-poor remarkably like a humpback whale. environments. In fact, on Earth, The dogs’ joints and spines are so phosphine is only found in the flexible that they can jump and climb presence of life. So, does that mean like cats. In order to save the singing there is life on Venus? With average dogs, researchers hope to breed them temperatures of 800°F, and an acidic, with a similarly ancient and local dog hot, and dry environment, chances of species, the highland wild dog. life might be slim. But that hasn’t stopped government space agencies Word Wise from planning missions to the planet Which word is not like the others? within the decade.
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