These are the links that were the first headline on cliffdweller.com during the month of December 2004.
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- Dec 1, 2004: OMG! I'm eating way too many of these!
Delicious and Nutritious - Dec 2, 2004: On this day in 1697 my namesake was first dedicated.
December 2, 1697: St Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is dedicated. It replaced a medieval cathedral at the site that had burned in the Great Fire of 1666. - Dec 3, 2004: More work on Cliffdweller: These rotating headlines are now kept in digest form in the blog.
I think it's significant that November 2004's first headline was about Godzilla and November 2004's last headline was about King Kong. I didn't plan that, but things do just work out sometimes. - Dec 4, 2004: 59 years ago today, the U.S. Senate approves U.S. participation in United Nations.
In an overwhelming vote of 65 to 7, the U.S. Senate approves full U.S. participation in the United Nations. The United Nations had officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, when its charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of other signatories. Senate approval meant the U.S. could join most of the world's nations in the international organization, which aimed to arbitrate differences between countries and stem military aggression. - Dec 5, 2004: Today is General George Custer's Birthday.
He'd be 165 years old today, if he hadn't died that day at the hands of the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. - Dec 7, 2004: This day in 1973, The Treasury Department requested standby authority to make aluminum one-cent coins. Today in 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed.
The Battleship USS Arizona where 1140 men lost their lives as casualties of war (photo from 1997) - Dec 8, 2004: Put on your thinking cap.
An article from the BBC News: 'Brainwave' cap controls computer – A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. - Dec 10, 2004: On this day in 1817, Mississippi became the 20th state to join the United States of America.
The state takes its name from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary. The name itself probably comes from Native American words with various spellings that mean "large waters" or "father of the waters." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Magnolia State and the Hospitality State. If you are from Mississippi, but only if you are from there, you are allowed to call it "Missippi". - Dec 11, 2004: Fifty-Eight years ago today, UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was founded. Then 8 years later in 1954, The American Nuclear Society took it's first bow.
There is irony here, but I leave it up to the you, gentle reader, to find it. - Dec 14, 2004: Amundsen Reaches South Pole! Um, that's today's headline from 1911.
Today seems special since I can find an event to post that includes both Norway and Antarctica, both of which have photosets on Cliffdweller.
Leave it to the Norwegians to know how to conquer the cold and get to the South Pole first!
- Dec 15, 2004: Happy 217th Birthday to the Bill of Rights!
Following ratification by the state of Virginia, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, become the law of the land on this day in 1791. Let's hope they stay in effect for at least another 217 years. - Dec 16, 2004: Bush plans for shutdown of GPS network during crisis.
Wow, I know it wouldn't be a decision made lightly, but why doens't he also turn off the phone service and cut all electricity so the terrorists in the USA can't use those either. - Dec 18, 2004: Slavery was abolished in America, finally, on this day in 1865.
Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." - Dec 19, 2004: Nice. From Sunday's CNN Headlines: Schwarzenegger urges GOP left turn.
Arnold can kiss the support of his party goodbye… - Dec 23, 2004: The Crisis – A famous essay from one of our founding fathers.
I know my soul has been tried lately. - Dec 24, 2004: This is my first xmas eve in my new house, I'll sit up all night waiting for Santa.
I hope the fat man doesn't destroy my chimney after his raindeer pound their hooves all over my roof. - Dec 25, 2004: What was it the crippled boy said? Oh yeah, God bless us, every one. Merry Christmas.
The show I saw at Stanford years ago was excellent, I'm sure this version is good too. - Dec 28, 2004: From Fortune.com: Why There's No Escaping the Blog.
This is an article about the history and the future of blogging. Maybe I'm just a nerd, but I found it informative and interesting. - Dec 30, 2004: This coming Saturday, Bimbo will pass into her 18th year on this planet. How many human years is that?
Veterinarians have come up with a more realistic comparison between human and dog years. Survey says that makes her around the same age as an 88 year old woman. - Dec 31, 2004: In the ABBA song Happy New Year, one lyric asks "Who can say where we'll be in the end of '89?"
When I was in high school back in 1980 listening to this song, I always thought that 9 years away was a long way. Now it’s 2004. Who can say where we’ll be in the end of two-thousand-nine?
