***********************************
"She invented what!?!"
"An Emergency Bra, it's a good support bra and you can take it off without removing your clothing, take it apart and reassemble it and each cup is a mask for personal protection with the straps holding it securely."
"Was this a pandemic thing?"
"No, she started working on it after she worked with Chernobyl victims and then saw 9/11 footage of people using rags and their own clothing to protect themselves when running through dust and ash, she started thinking about what kind of clothing could work to help people in such a situation and came up with it. This way in an emergency, you can have a protective mask without having to hold something to your face and she's even adapted it since and you can buy one with a radiation sensor or send them your favorite bras and they'll adapt them into Emergency Bras for you."
"Now I've heard everything!"
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Cup.
***********************************
While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
***********************************
It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
I love my turn
on the rocker horse,
I hold on tight,
brother pushes, of course.
Then we trade,
it's fair that way,
we ride our horse
for fun each day.
***********************************
Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful for inexpensive carnations in a vase on my kitchen windowsill. They are most cheerful.
***********************************
Today is:
Air Force Day -- Pakistan
Beer Lovers' Day -- ESPN began to broadcast on this day in 1979
Constitution Day -- Fiji
Feel the Love Day
Grandma Moses Day
Independence Day -- Brazil
Jeune Genevois -- Geneva, Switzerland (Genevan fast, dates back to the 16th century; now a flower and garden show also)
Lusaka Peace Agreement Day / Victory Day -- Mozambique
National Acorn Squash Day
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day -- US (by Senate proclamation in 2004)
National Napoleon Day (the dessert, not the general)
National Threatened Species Day -- Australia
Neither Snow Nor Rain Day -- celebrates the opening of the US Post Office in NYC on this day in 1914, which building has the famous inscription on it
Salami Day -- sponsored by salamiday.com
St. Cloud's Day (a/k/a Clodoald the Confessor; Patron of nail makers; St. Cloud, Minnesota)
St. Regina's Day (Patron of poor people, shepherdesses, torture victims)
Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day -- the internet has it out for us
Anniversary Today:
Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporate Google, 1998
Birthdays Today:
Evan Rachel Wood, 1987
Devon Sawa, 1978
Angela Gheorghiu, 1965
Michael Feinstein, 1956
Corbin Bernsen, 1954
Chrissie Hynde, 1951
Julie Cavner, 1951
Susan Blakely, 1950
Gloria Gaynor, 1949
Richard Roundtree, 1942
Cuneyt Arkin, 1937
John Phillip Law, 1937
Buddy Holly, 1936
Don Messick, 1927
Peter Lawford, 1923
Jacob Lawrence, 1917
Anthony Quayle, 1913
Elia Kazan, 1909
Michael E. DeBakey, 1908
Grandma Moses, 1860
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Flying Nun"(TV), 1967
"Truth or Consequences"(TV), 1950
Today in History:
Traditionally, the solar eclipse date that marks the birth of Heracles of Thebes (Latin Hercules), BC1251
The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem, 70
In the world's first submarine attack, the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor, 1776
The "Troy Post" of NY first uses "Uncle Sam" to refer to the US, 1813
Last hold-up of Jesse James, 1881
Edith Eleanor McLean becomes the first baby in the US to be put in an incubator for premature infants, 1888
The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol, 1901
Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft, 1909
The first day of the first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, NJ, 1921
Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of television in San Francisco, 1927
The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania, 1936
Integration begins in Washington, D.c. and Baltimore, MD public schools, 1954
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa, 1986
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, 1999
Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane, hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings, 2004
The first presidential election is held in Egypt, 2005
The US Government takes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage financing companies, 2008
Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels the Iranian diplomatic staff from their country, 2012
Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after the Liberal-National Coalition wins the election, 2013
Asteroid 2014RC makes a close approach to Earth, coming within 39,900km/24,800mi, 2014
British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under three feet of earth at Durrington Walls, 2015
The 15th Summer Paralympics opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
The Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface, 2019
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, 2021
The journal "Nature" publishes about the discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery, a 31,000-year-old skeleton with an amputated lower leg, found in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, 2022