Facts

Facts that show just how far the human race has come           

 

  

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The Carpenter ... Thx Judi C!

  The Carpenter

> Once upon a time, two brothers
> who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the
> first serious rift in 40 years of farming side-by-side,
> sharing machinery and trading labor and goods as needed
> without a hitch.   Then the long
> collaboration fell apart. It began with a small
> misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference and
> finally, it exploded into an exchange of bitter words
> followed by weeks of silence.   One morning there
> was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a man
> with a carpenter's toolbox. "I 'm looking for a
> few days' work," he said. "Perhaps you would
> have a few small jobs here and there I could help with?
> Could I help you?"   "Yes,"
> said the older brother. "I do have a job for you. Look
> across the creek at that farm. That's my neighbor. In
> fact, it's my younger brother! Last week there was a
> meadow between us. He recently took his bulldozer to the
> river levee and now there is a creek between us.  Well,
> he may have done this to spite me, but I'll do him one
> better. See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to
> build me a fence an 8-foot fence -- so I won't need to
> see his place or his face anymore."   The carpenter said,
> "I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails
> and the post-hole digger and I'll be able to do a job
> that pleases you."   The older brother
> had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the
> materials ready and then he was off for the day. The
> carpenter worked hard all that day -- measuring, sawing and
> nailing. About sunset when the farmer returned, the
> carpenter had just finished his job.
> The farmer's eyes opened wide, his
> jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all.
>   It was a bridge .. A bridge that stretched from one side of the creek to the
> other! A fine piece of work, handrails and all! And the
> neighbor, his younger brother, was coming toward them, his
> hand outstretched..   "You are quite
> a fellow to build this bridge after all I've said and
> done."   The two brothers
> stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in
> middle, taking each other's hand. They turned to see the
> carpenter hoist his toolbox onto his shoulder.   "No, wait!
> Stay a few days. I've a lot of other projects for
> you," said the older brother.
> "I'd love to stay
> on," the carpenter said, "but I have many more
> bridges to build.”   Remember This ...       God
> won't ask what kind of car you drove, but He'll ask
> how many people you helped get where they needed to go.
>   God won't ask the square footage of your house, but He'll ask how many
> people you welcomed into your home.   God won't ask
> about the clothes you had in your closet, but He'll ask
> how many you helped to clothe.    God won't ask how
> many friends you had, but He'll ask how many people to
> whom you were a friend.   God won't ask in
> what neighborhood you lived, but He'll ask how you
> treated your neighbors.   God won't ask
> about the color of your skin, but He'll ask about the
> content of your character.   God won't ask why
> it took you so long to seek Salvation, but He'll
> lovingly take you to your mansion in Heaven, and not to the
> gates of hell.  

A short walk the president should take ... THX RAMEY H!

Listen and watch that short video, very interesting.

THIS IS REALLY NEAT BE SURE TO WATCH THIS TODAY .. UNDER 3 MINUTES .. ALL THE WAY TO THE END. YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID. 

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He kew under the Eiffel Tower in Paris and shot down the German pilot ... Died at 92 , reported Jan 3, 2014 ... Thx Ramey H!

Bill Overstreet, Famed WWII Fighter Pilot, Dies At 92

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World War II fighter pilot William Overstreet Jr. passed away Sunday. He was 92. Overstreet gained fame for flying beneath the Eiffel Tower's arches during the war in pursuit of a German aircraft.

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
We end this hour with a remembrance of a daring World War II flight that lifted the spirits of the French people and of the humble man who flew it. In 1944, American fighter pilot William Overstreet of the 357th Fighter Group was on a mission in Nazi-occupied territory. Flying his P-51 Mustang, Overstreet was escorting American bombers through France when a dogfight broke out. Overstreet broke away to pursue an enemy German plane.
PASTOR JEFF CLEMMONS: It started at 30,000 feet.
CORNISH: That's Pastor Jeff Clemmons, a combat veteran of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps and a close friend of William Overstreet.
CLEMMONS: This was a half-hour dogfight which would end up going through the streets of Paris and conclude itself through a pursuit through the Eiffel Tower where Bill shot down the German pilot.
CORNISH: Yes, you heard that right, from the stratosphere, down through the arches of the Eiffel Tower. Here's how Overstreet himself described the chase in an interview posted online.
WILLIAM OVERSTREET: He figured I'd try to get around and he'd have time to get away. He was wrong. I was right behind him, right under the Eiffel Tower with him. And when he pulled up, I did get him. But that's a huge space. That's not close at all. It's plenty of room to go under the Eiffel Tower. But it makes a good story.
(LAUGHTER)
CORNISH: More like a great one. Clemmons says the pursuit inspired thousands of people below who witnessed the feat.
CLEMMONS: The Paris citizenry actually rose up in defiance of the Germans for a period of three days, celebrating that victory. And they knew the Germans would lose the war.
CORNISH: The French people never forgot Overstreet's courage. In 2009, France presented William Overstreet with that country's highest award, the Legion of Honor. Clemmons tells us that Overstreet was a very modest man. He accepted the medal in memory of servicemen who died in the war.
CLEMMONS: Bill was selfless. He was authentic. He knew who he was. I was there when he died. I felt his last heartbeat. We will never see the likes of these men again.
CORNISH: World War II veteran William Overstreet passed away in Roanoke, Virginia this past Sunday. He was 92 years old.

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History of the car radio ... Thx Ramey H!

HISTORY OF THE CAR RADIO   Seems like cars have always had radios, but they didn't.   Here's the story: One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset.   It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car. Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy during World War I) and it wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car.   But it wasn't easy: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference,   making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running.   One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference.   When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago ..   There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery eliminator", a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current.   But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.   Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it.   He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker.   Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard.   Good idea, but it didn't work – Half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.)   Galvin didn't give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention.   Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked -- He got enough orders to put the radio into production. WHAT'S IN A NAME That first production model was called the 5T71.   Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names - Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest.   Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it theMotorola.   But even with the name change, the radio still had problems: When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.)   In 1930, it took two men several days to put in a car radio -- The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna.   These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them.   The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions. Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression – Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory.   In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores.   By then the price of the radio, with installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947.)   In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts.   In 1940 he developed the first handheld two-way radio -- The Handy-Talkie – for the U. S. Army. A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II.   In 1947 they came out with the first television for   under $200.   In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 came the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon.   In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone.   Today Motorola is one of the largest cell phone manufacturers in the world.   And it all started with the car radio. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO the two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car?   Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.   Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually, air-conditioning. Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that.   But what he's really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)     Sometimes it is fun to find out how some of the many things that we take for granted actually came into being!   AND   It all started with a woman's suggestion!!

All about balls ... Thx Jackie B and Alan O PHS 55

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INTERESTING OBSERVATION



















































1. The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.
































2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.






























3. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.































4. The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.
































5. The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.
































And...















6. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.


THE amazing facts are,
















The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
































There must be a boat load of people in Washington playing marbles.

Great quotes from great coaches ... Thx Ramey H!

 

Do they make these type of coaches anymore?

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football."

John Heisman

 

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

Bear Bryant / Alabama

 

 

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!"

 

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

 

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.  That costs money, and we don't have any."

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

 

"After you retire, there's only one big event left, and I ain't ready for that."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

 

 

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." 

Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

 

 

"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath / Alabama

 

 

"Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

 

 

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

 

 

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."

Woody Hayes / Ohio State

 

 

"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation.  I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."

Bob Devaney / Nebraska

 

 

"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."

Wally Butts / Georgia

 

 

"I never graduated from Iowa.  But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."

Alex Karras / Iowa

 

 

"My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor."

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

 

"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

 

 

"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."

Shug Jordan / Auburn

 

 

"They cut us up like boarding house pie, and that's real small pieces."

Darrell Royal / Texas

 

 

"They whipped us like a tied up goat."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 

 

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me.  "He said, "Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren't any good."

Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

 

 

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

 

 

"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport.  Dancing IS a contact sport."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

 

 

USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was, "All those who need showers, take them."

John McKay / USC

 

 

"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."

Murray Warmath / Minnesota

 

 

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.  To be a back, you only have to be dumb."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

 

"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 

 

"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking."

John McKay / USC

 

 

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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