The Daily Dose/June 12, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off is on hiatus.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow mows the lawn. Today’s Diary.
…there was still plenty of daylite and we seemed to recall hearing rain would be starting Monday and while it wasn’t forecasted to be a constant deluge, it would be off and on most of the week which would probably eliminate Thursday’s planned mowing.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1550 – The city of Helsinki – then in Sweden, now in Finland – is founded by King Gustav I. Gustav was looking for a harbor, but Helsinki’s was too shallow for commercial shipping and the city remained small until its importance in naval defense grew. Helsinki began to grow after being named Finland’s capital in 1812, though growth has never been particularly quick there. Today it is Finland’s largest city, with an urban population of 1.5 million.
In 1922 – The St Louis Cardinals establish a new major league record for most consecutive hits in a 14-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cardinals had ten consecutive hits in the sixth inning, scoring seven runs, with one out coming on a single trying to be extended into a double and on a caught stealing. Research into whose record the Cardinals broke was inconclusive and the record is now twelve consecutive hits, done three times, most recently by the Boston Red Sox in 2018.
In 2010 – Miranda Lambert is at #1 on Billboard’s country chart – then and now known as the Hot Country Songs chart – for the first of four consecutive weeks with The House That Built Me. It was the first of six country #1s for Lambert and her first of 17 Top 10 songs. The song also peaked at #28 on the Hot 100, was Billboard’s 11th-biggest country song of the year, and its 38th-biggest of the decade.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
KC & the Sunshine Band had four #1s on Billboard’s soul chart between 1977-79.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What are the northern and southernmost capitals in Europe? – Answer next time!
