NOVEMBER 13 — 1945 Truman announces State of Israel; 1966 Bingham Canyon Mine becomes a historic monument; 2016 Gregory Foster breaks recrord for eating most Carolina Reaper chiles in one minute; 2017 RIP Arcturus the 30 lb. cat
NOVEMBER 13
1945 – Truman announces inquiry into state of Israel.
…This prompted the question, was Haberdasher Harry a Zionist? No. He wasn’t. President Harry Truman was actually in favor of the Morrison-Grady plan, which would establish a federated Palestine with autonomous Jewish and Arab regions. On the other hand, after seeing the destruction in Nazi concentration camps after WWII, because he was a human being, he sympathized with the Jews and felt they should have their own state. Putting a Jewish state in Arabsville is like putting a kitten in a cave full of bears. O is tit? The Arabs sure never think so, Arabs believe that’s not a kitty cat that’s a lion! So how’s this going to work politically? It won’t. It never has. But Truman became a modern day Cyrus; the Persian king who overthrew the Babylonians in 593BCE and helped the Jews, who were being imprisoned in Babylon, to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple.
An autonomous state for Jews in Palestine? Good luck. American Jews angrily denounced the Morrison-Grady plan, which threatened Truman’s chances of reelection especially in New York. So how could Truman get the Jews and Palestine’s to live side-by-side, especially when the Jews would take 80%of the area?
As Truman said so himself, Jesus Christ couldn’t please the Zionists when he was here on earth, so how could anyone expect that I would have any luck? Good question. Combine with Osama Bin Laden’s 1996 fatwa against the American crusaders, and peace is no longer an option. Truman had other reasons to be very cautious about how to handle this, since there was a fear that Middle East and its much needed oil supply would side with the communists in the Soviet Union. On November 13, 1945, Truman announced the establishment of a panel of inquiry to look into this Jewish state. Probably not because he was a Zionist, but because he was a politician in the end. In Mcarthyism news…
1953 – Robin Hood gets banned
…from an Indiana school for being a communist. The Sheriff of Nottingham had no idea that Robin Hood was a communist this whole time and was livid. Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission orchestrated the Green Feather movement, which quietly tacked green leather to every bulletin board on the Indiana University campus. Boy don’t mess with her or she’ll….she’ll.
Why she’ll do something bad! Because not only did Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor he wore a green feather in his hat. Hence the Green Feather movement. She also attacked Quakers since they didn’t fight wars. Look, everyone just calm down. Good grief. The Red Scare, everyone. That’s how life was in American during the 1950s and 60s.
2001 – happy birthday Moziah Bridges, the kid who owns MosBows.
He started his company at nine years old, because I needed an accessory to help me look sharp, but didn’t see anything out there that fit my style or personality. His website continues: So, with the help of my granny, I started making my own bow ties. I never imagined the baby business I started at my grandmother’s kitchen table in South Memphis would one day be an internationally recognized brand. Oh, you mean the NBA? This young man’s business took off as it became featured with Oprah’s magazine O, plus publicity from Vogue, then an appearance on TV show Shark Tank, yeah that should get your business going.
But when Russel Westbrook from the Oklahoma City Thunder showed up in one of Mo’s Bows, it was on for the little guy. My dream is to become a fashion mogul. When I graduate high school in 2020 I plan to go to college and study fashion design. I’m living proof that you can be anything you want – at any age.
1966 — Bingham Canyon Mine becomes a historic monument in Utah.
You want some copper for your speakers? Assuming they’re not Bluetooth, you’ll find plenty of copper here. Actually over 19 million tons, Bingham in the Oquirrh Mountains in Salt Lake County is the world’s largest man-made excavation. The operations that run this place are so gigantic that the electric shovels can be seen from space while extracting nearly a hundred tons of copper in one scoop. The trucks used to haul it makes us look like we’re in giant-ville, and the sheer amount size of it could hold some 9 million people. Rock on!
1809 – Happy Birthday John Dahlgren, US navy officer who founder of the US Navy’s Ordinance Department, made the Dahlgren-cannon. 1913 – Mary Phelps Jacob from New York State. She invented the modern day bra. In her case, her boobs were so big she needed boulder holders. At any rate, her idea, born out of necessity, started with two pocket handkerchiefs and pink ribbon pinned together.
2016 — Gregory Foster sets the record for most Carolina Reaper
Chiles eaten in one minute. You gotta be careful with this stuff. The Carolina Reaper, which originates out of Rock Hill South Carolina, has been known to constrict veins in the brain and cause headaches that feel like thunderclaps. The method used to determine the hot of the chili is registered in SHU, or the Scoville Heat Unit.
Pepperhead.com has determined the Carolina Reaper to have an SHU of 2.2M, more than the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the Pot Douglah, Pot PrimoTrinidad Scorpion Butch, and all the others. On this day in 2016, the Puckerbutt Pepper Company put on an reaper eating challenge, and Gregory Foster took the glory after hauling in 120 grams of that inferno. Glad I didn’t have to share the bathroom with him that night!
2002 – Ross Ward, who turned the Old West into Tinkertown, passes away.
In Sandia Park, New Mexico, Ward starting making miniature carved wooden figures and displaying them in a traveling exhibit, going to county fairs and such. But now it’s become a life of its own, in a town of its own. Tinkertown’s 22-room museum hosts really cool Wild West wonders He got his influence way back in junior high by carving circus performers. And why not. Circus performers defy both lions and gravity, and the American Wild West had the best travelling circus performers.
What started out in the early 80s was a one-bedroom museum, which since has turned into a giant roadside attraction that’s visited by 20,000 people every year. The website compares it to Grandma Prisby’s Bottle Village in California and Reveran Howard’s Finster’s Paradise Gardens in Georgia, For kicks and 25 centsm, Esmeralda the Fortune Teller will predict your destiny. If you don’t like what the Great Esmeralda says, you can get serenaded by Otto the One-man Band. By the way, one of the 22 rooms contains 50,000 glass bottles.
Check it out.