Can't start a fire, can't start a fire without a TRIVIA QUIZ!
Today is National Be Heard Day, a time for women, who are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, to find their voices and tell their stories.
Today is Baseball Hat Appreciation Day. I'm appreciative that after college all those guys who duct-taped their baseball hats threw them away :)
Today is Middle Name Pride Day. Well, except if you have a weird middle name, like your blogger over here!
The World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup begins today in Sweetwater, Texas. Yee-haw!
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. He envisioned it as a device that could make it possible to communicate with deaf people.
On this day in 1973, a new group, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, performed at Max’s Kansas City club in New York City. Columbia talent scout John Hammond was in the audience.
On this day in 1983, TNN, The Nashville Network, set a basic cable service record when it debuted to more than 7-million cable households with a 5-hour live show.
On this day in 1992, history’s largest crepe was baked and flipped in Bloemfontein, South Africa. It was 41 feet 2 inches in diameter, an inch and-a-half deep, and weighed 5,908 pounds.
On this day in 2001, a Kenyan businessman who lost his cell phone rang the number from his house telephone - and heard his German Shepherd ringing. Kamal Shah said he did not expect to hear the phone ringing inside his dog. The dog underwent surgery to remove the phone.
OK, so the trivia: what was first served for breakfast to patients at a Battle Creek, Michigan mental hospital on this day in 1897? Bonus points if you can name the doctor that served it.
Good luck :)
2 Comments:
OK I don't quite follow the logic... the telephone was supposed to be used to communicate with the deaf how exactly? Because I'm pretty sure if someone can't hear you when you're in the same room, sending your voice over a bunch of wires isn't really going to help...
And it's corn flakes! Dr. John Kellogg was the one who came up with the idea.
Kim, that was my thought exactly, unless it had something to do with transmitting sound through wires that were somehow connected to the eardrum or something. Who knows what that wacky Alexander Graham Bell was thinking???
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