ParaCalendar for Aug 10

[Jamie McKittrick]

>From Wikipedia:
Queen Victoria [...] sent a telegram of congratulation to President James
Buchanan [...] and expressed a hope that it would prove "an additional link
between the nations whose friendship is founded on their common interest
and reciprocal esteem." The President responded that, "it is a triumph more
glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by
conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic telegraph, under the
blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship
between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine
Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout
the world." The messages were hard to decipher – Queen Victoria's message
of 98 words took *sixteen hours* to send.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable#cite_note-bbc-saw-2-11>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:00 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From yesterday's Paracultural Calendar's Walden (1854) to today's
> anniversary of the Cable's completion (1866):
>
> "We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some
> weeks nearer to the new, but perchance the first news that will leak
> through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess
> Adelaide has the whooping cough."
>
> I need a drop of something to cut the phlegm.
>
> 2015-08-10 17:51 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> <http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1133327!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/390-sam10n-635x390-victims.jpg>
>>
>> On this day in *1755*, under the orders of *Charles Lawrence*, the
>> British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the
>> Thirteen Colonies.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in the year *1866*, the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - one
>> of mankind's greatest technological triumphs - is finally completed. Once
>> he's announced this milestone to the American people, President *James
>> Buchanan* proceeds to spend the rest of the day masturbating furiously
>> while engaging in "morse-code-sex" with *Queen Victoria*.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1948*, the TV show *Candid Camera* makes its television
>> debut after being on radio for a year as *Candid Microphone*. Hardly
>> seems possible, does it?
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1977*, in Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee *David
>> Berkowitz* – better known as the *Son of Sam* – is arrested for a series
>> of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1981*, the severed head of six-year-old *Adam Walsh* is
>> found by two fishermen in a Florida canal. The rest of Adam’s body was
>> never recovered. Adam’s kidnapping and murder - possibly by serial killer *Otis
>> Toole* - inspired the creation of the television series *America's Most
>> Wanted*, which was hosted by Adam’s father, *John Walsh*, for over two
>> decades.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1987*, the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks through
>> the elusive *2,600 point* ceiling for the first time ever. Of course,
>> what goes up must eventually come down, and if shit keeps hitting fan, we
>> may well live to see 2,600 again. My advice for riding out the coming
>> storm? Sink all your capital in ammunition, gas generators and
>> out-of-the-way real estate.
>>
>
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