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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021 On This Date 1957 – The Wham-O Company Quote of the Day produced the first Frisbee. In the “I can always remember the 1960s, the company dances, even from shows came out with a $119 I did 40 years ago.” do-it-yourself bomb shelter. In addition, the ~ Gwen Verdon company introduced the Hula-Hoop, Slip ’N Slide, Super Ball, Happy Birthday! and Trac Ball. Gwen Verdon (1925–2000) was an 1979 – The YMCA filed a copyright acclaimed Broadway actress and infringement suit against the Village dancer who won four Tony Awards People for its song “Y.M.C.A.” for her work. The iconic redhead The suit was settled out of court, was an influential muse of legendary and the Association subsequently director-choreographer Bob Fosse, said that it celebrated the song’s who was also her positive message. second husband. Movie Quiz Verdon’s mother put her in ballet What 1933 movie has the Q: classes at age three word soup in its title? to combat leg A: Duck Soup, starring the Marx deformities caused Brothers. Filled with zany antics by a case of rickets as a toddler. She that the Marx Brothers did so more than overcame her physical well, the movie is famous for its challenges, becoming a celebrated hilarious, much-copied battle scene. dancer on stage and screen. Among Groucho plays the incompetent her many accomplishments, Verdon King of Freedonia, who wages war originated the roles of Lola in Damn on a neighboring country. Yankees and Roxie Hart in Chicago.

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To welcome the month of Ramadan, Antwerp, Belgium, hosts the Antwerp Indonesians play a unique form of World Diamond Centre, home to soccer known as fireball soccer. For the world’s major diamond mining the ball, a coconut is companies and their vaults. It was here drained of its milk and that Leonardo Notarbartolo rented an soaked in kerosene for office, posing as an Italian diamond days. Players coat their merchant, but spent many months legs and bare feet in planning a robbery that has been called non-flammable salts and spices. The “the heist of the century.” In 2003, ritual fasting and prayer of Ramadan Notarbartolo’s gang, known as the are believed to instill players with School of Turin, was able to penetrate the courage to kick the burning an “impenetrable” vault and steal over fireball with their bare feet. Playing $100 million worth of diamonds, gold, the game without hesitation or fear is and jewelry. Notarbartolo was caught a testament to the spirit of the player, and sent to jail for 10 years, but the loot a spirit strengthened by the rituals of has never been recovered. Ramadan and by the trial of fire. Buy a Vowel Who Said So?

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