A month of Sundays would, technically, mean a period of 30 to 31 weeks. Used to denote a long period of time or something that will never occur. From times when amusement, commerce and other activities were restricted or banned on the Sabbath, a month of Sundays suggested a long, endlessly dreary period of time.
“The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar.” history.com
Birthdays
1820: Florence Nightingale
1828: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti
1918: Mary Kay Ash
1925: Yogi Berra*
1935: George Carlin*
1948: Steve Winwood
1959: Ving Rhames
1968: Tony Hawk
1968: Catherine Tate
1975: Jonah Tali Lomu
1978: Wilfred Le Bouthillier*
1981: Rami Malek 1981
* featured
Yogi[isms]
It ain’t over till it’s over.
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
You can observe a lot by just watching.
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
The future ain’t what it used to be.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
History Bytes
1997: Australian, 22 year old Susie Maroney, is the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida
1995: Dow Jones reaches new record high of 4430.59
1991: a new cancer drug, produced from the bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest, is announced
1986: unpaced and unaided by wind, Fred Markham pedals a bicycle at 65 miles per hour on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California
1978: Commerce Department announces the addition of male hurricane names
1938: Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1926: Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1908: Nathan Stubbfield files a patent for wireless radio broadcasting
1792: toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1777: first advertisement in America for ice cream by Philip Lenzi in the New York Gazette
observances:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sketches
musical highlight
Wilfred Le Bouthillier is an Acadian singer from the town of Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
comedy highlight
May 12, 2019 at 10:18 pm
I’m sitting here — laughing my butt off – I love George Carlin … and so, clearly, this was well before my time, but had me just in stitches …. so “realistic” …
these Month of Sunday posts are just wonderful – filled with all kinds of interesting etc.
– thank you for sharing them – taking the time to compile and put it together … I find them marvelous. :D
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