The Worlds Population was estimated at 4.4 billion.
The first first ever Cellular Mobile Phone was introduced.
Space Invaders appeared in arcades.
Average Income per year $17,000.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 63 cents
Dozen Eggs 48 Cents
After nearly 30 years The Volkswagen Beetle stops production having manufactured 20 million cars
Lesley Brown gave birth to the world’s first test tube baby delivered by Cesarean section in Oldham, England. Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards developed the process to conceive a child in a laboratory and then plant in a uterus to develop normally.
The introduction of bottled water was a big story as very few thought there was much chance of people buying in large quantities.
The comic strip character, Garfield, first appeared.
In the Movie Theaters: Greece, Saturday Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Popular Musicians
Bee Gees with ” Night Fever and Stayin Alive “
Paul McCartney and Wings
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
Rolling Stones
Commodores with ” Three Times a Lady “
Boomtown Rats
The TV show “Dallas” premiers on CBS.
Popular TV Programs
Happy Days
Little House on the Prairie
The Rockford Files
Good Morning America
Saturday Night Live
Wheel of Fortune
Charlie’s Angels
Quincy, M.E.
The Muppet Show
CHiPs
The Love Boat
Three’s Company
and…
Our very own Erica came into this world on July 20th, 1978! Happy Birthday Sweetheart!
Many left leaning environmentalist don’t like to admit the fact that our earth is pretty resilient! Way to go God!
Half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated Bikini Atoll, vast expanses of corals in the area seem to be flourishing once again, much to the surprise of scientists.
American government scientists detonated a hydrogen bomb on the tiny island (a part of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific) on March 1, 1954, and about 20 other nuclear tests were carried out on the atoll between 1946 and 1958.
The massive explosion vaporized everything on three islands in the atoll, raised water temperatures to 55,000 degrees and left a crater that was 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) wide and 240 feet (73 meters) deep.
A team of scientists recently led a diving expedition into Bravo Crater and found an unexpectedly thriving coral community.
“I didn’t know what to expect — some kind of moonscape perhaps. But it was incredible, huge matrices of branching Porites coral (up to 8 meters [25 feet] high) had established, creating a thriving coral reef habitat,” said study team member Zoe Richards of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University.
I’m definitely NOT left leaning in my politics, but I do support conservation and prudent environmentalism. I don’t think we should be going around nuking islands and evaporating oceans. However, I do think that we sometimes give ourselves too much credit for what impact we can have on God’s great creation.
Passion Week (also known as Holy Week) is the time from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday), so named because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross in order to pay for the sins of His people. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27; Mark chapters 11-15; Luke chapters 19-23; and John chapters 12-19. Passion Week begins with the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday on the back of a colt as prophesied in Zechariah 9:9.
It is referred to as “Passion Week” because in that time, Jesus Christ truly revealed His passion for us in what He willingly went through on our behalf.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, died Friday. He was 88.
The gangling New Zealander took his fame in stride, preferring to be called “Ed” and considering himself an “ordinary person with ordinary qualities.”
I am impressed and inspired by ordinary people who have a dream to accomplish something extraordinary, and the ability to turn that dream into a reality.
Dr. J. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80.
His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school’s football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.
“Today with his passing, the University of Florida lost a legend, lost one of its best friends and lost a creative genius,” said Dr. Edward Block, chairman of the department of medicine in the College of Medicine. “Losing any one of those is huge. When you lose all three in one person, it’s something you cannot recoup.”
Now sold in 80 countries in dozens of flavors, Gatorade was born thanks to a question from former Gators coach Dwayne Douglas, Cade said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press.
He asked, “Doctor, why don’t football players wee-wee after a game?”
“That question changed our lives,” Cade said.
Cade’s researchers determined a football player could lose as much as 18 pounds — 90 to 95 percent of it water — during the three hours it takes to play a game. Players sweated away sodium and chloride and lost plasma volume and blood volume.
Using their research — and about $43 in supplies — they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football. The first batch was not exactly a hit.
“It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,” said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.
“I guzzled it and I vomited,” Cade said.
The researchers added some sugar and some lemon juice to improve the taste. It was first tested on freshmen because coach Ray Graves didn’t want to hurt the varsity team. Eventually, however, the use of the sports beverage spread to the Gators, who enjoyed a winning record and were known as a “second-half team” by outlasting opponents.
After the Gators beat Georgia Tech 27-12 in the Orange Bowl in 1967, Tech coach Bobby Dodd told reporters his team lost because, “`We didn’t have Gatorade … that made the difference.”
Stokely-Van Camp obtained the licensing rights for Gatorade and began marketing it as the “beverage of champions.” PepsiCo Inc. now owns the brand, which has brought the university more than $150 million in royalties since 1973.
Cade said Stokely-Van Camp hated the name “Gatorade,” believing it was too parochial, but stuck with it after tests showed consumers liked the name.
In 1863, while America was embroiled in the midst of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, Abraham Lincoln wrote the proclamation for a national day of Thanksgiving.
“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.” — October 3, 1863 - Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln was a deeply devout and spiritual man. He believed in God, but his faith wasn’t cultural or philosophical. It was personal. There was always something in the way Lincoln lived and delved into politics that gave evidence of him treating faith as a way life not a political agenda. But, Lincoln brilliantly knew how to achieve politically what his faith dictated spiritually.
Just read what Lincoln wrote about to whom we were to give thanks:
“It has seemed to me fit and proper that they ['gracious gifts from God'] should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” — October 3, 1863 - Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln’s last proclamation for a national day of Thanksgiving would be April 11, 1865, four days before his assassination. But Lincoln had given this country a legacy of giving thanks to God.
There are those today that have created Thanksgiving in their own image - making the entire thing ego-centric / man-centered. However, we know from the facts of history that Thanksgiving has it’s roots in giving thanks to our Creator. I will do my best this Thanksgiving to look beyond man and seek to give thanks to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior for all he’s given and done.
We had french toast this morning with one of our best Chinese friends and the question of “why is it called ‘french’ toast” came up. This is what I found…
The most popular theory on the origin of French toast is that the recipe was created by a tavern owner in 1724 just outside Albany, New York. Supposedly, Joseph French, the restaurateur, listed the dish on his menu as ‘French Toast,’ named for himself. This is why the French in French toast is often capitalized.
Interesting! I guess the decision by some to call it “Freedom Toast” was made from a position of ignorance (in more ways than one!) since it has nothing to do with France!
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Passion Week (also known as Holy Week) is the time from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday), so named because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross in order to pay for the sins of His people. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27; Mark chapters 11-15; Luke chapters 19-23; and John chapters 12-19. Passion Week begins with the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday on the back of a colt as prophesied in Zechariah 9:9.
Dr. J. Robert Cade, who invented the 
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