My Daily Bread Crumbs 08 Jan

Entry posted by sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 180 January 9, 2022

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January 8th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

(click on the day for details)

Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
Christian feast day:
- Abo of Tiflis
- Apollinaris Claudius
- Blessed Eurosia Fabris
- Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
- Gudula
- Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Lawrence Giustiniani
- Lucian of Beauvais
- Maximus of Pavia
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)
- Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)
- Severinus of Noricum
- Thorfinn of Hamar
- January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
Typing Day (International observance)

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

National Argyle Day

Fun Observances

Earth's Rotation Day

January 8 is Earth’s Rotation Day. The day commemorates when French Physicist, Leon Foucault, demonstrated the Earth rotates on its axis in 1851.

To prove his theory, Foucault suspended a lead-filled brass sphere, now called the Foucault Pendulum from the top of the Pantheon in Paris.

He showed that the plane of the swing of the pendulum rotated relative to the Earth’s rotation. You can now see the Foucault Pendulum demonstrating the rotation of the Earth in science museums around the world.

How to Celebrate?

Visit your local space and science museum to learn more about the Earth’s rotation and what effect it has on humans.
If you have kids, what about making a model of the Earth and the Sun with them, so that they can learn more about the Earth’s rotation?

Did You Know…

...that the speed of the Earth's rotation can change from day to day and from year to year?

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I said, "I love you so much. I could never live without you."

My girlfriend giggled and asked, "Is that you talking or the beer?"

I said, "It's me talking to the beer..."

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This man was really lonely, so he posted an ad on a popular website. The ad said, simply: "Wife wanted."

He was surprised the next morning to find he had over a hundred replies in his inbox.

Unfortunately, they all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

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A husband and wife had been married for 60 years and had no  secrets except for one: The woman kept in her closet a shoe box that  she forbade her husband from ever opening. But when she was on her deathbed—and with her blessing—he opened the box and found a  crocheted doll and $95,000 in cash.

“My mother told me that the secret to a happy marriage was to never  argue,” she explained. “Instead, I should keep quiet and crochet a doll.”

Her husband was touched. Only one doll was in the box—that meant she’d been angry with him only once in 60 years.

“But what about all this money?” he asked.

“Oh,” she said, “that’s the money  I made from selling the dolls.”