On this day in history.

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He's still living.

Some of the soccer team survived. I just wondered if he was one of them? Guess i will have to research it myself! You are such a good teacher I take advantage of that?


Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa

 

[J. A.]

Some of the soccer team survived. I just wondered if he was one of them? Guess i will have to research it myself! You are such a good teacher I take advantage of that? Peace begins with a smile. M Teresa

I couldn't find anything, sorry!

 

[J. A.]

October 25, 1838: Georges Bizet, French composer, is born.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bizet

 

[zstairlessone]

Some of the soccer team survived. I just wondered if he was one of them? Guess i will have to research it myself! You are such a good teacher I take advantage of that?

Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa

You may be thinking of the rugby team from Uruguay that crashed into the Andes mountains back in the early 1970's. Piers Paul Read wrote a book about it after interviewing the survivors. It is an amazing read, no pun intended - I have a copy from a few years ago. Turns out I flew from Chile to Argentina, in an old propeller plane, across the same path when I was younger after rebuilding a special needs school that the rugby team flew. When I arrived back home a very good friend of the family pointed this out, but I had never heard of the accident so I looked it up in the library and found the book.

Piers Paul Read also wrote a very good book about the Chernobyl accident - Ablaze (along with more Non-Fiction and Fiction titles)

 

[zstairlessone]

Oops, the book about the rugby team is "Alive"

 

[zstairlessone]

Oh no

The team did not fly the school we rebuilt, that is why I was down there - to rebuild it, the flight back went over the same pass they took and we were not very far above the mountain when we did it, I don't think our plane would have crossed if the pass was 100 to 200 feet higher.

I am glad I didn't know the story until after.

 

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Oh no

The team did not fly the school we rebuilt, that is why I was down there - to rebuild it, the flight back went over the same pass they took and we were not very far above the mountain when we did it, I don't think our plane would have crossed if the pass was 100 to 200 feet higher.

I am glad I didn't know the story until after.

Are you talking about the soccer team crashing in the Andes? The film doc. Is mesmerizing and astonishing!


Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa
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Oops, the book about the rugby team is "Alive"

Thanks for the name of the book as well as the author, i kept wanting to say rugby team when I was writing that post but they are so big on soccer down there that I second guessed myself out of the correct sport. If you ever get a chance to see the doc. I know you won't be disappointed. Truly an amazing story! I am glad you didn't know it when you flew over it as much as you are! It would be so hard not to search it out while flying over and yet so morbid too! Unless you blessed them as you were going over that pass, that would ease things a bit! Do you have a feeling one way or another about how they survived? I don't and if i had been one of the one's who died, I would be happy knowing I helped save my friends.


Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa
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[zstairlessone]

Today, 58 years ago (1955) Bill Gates was born.

Edit:



How did he ever get out?

 

[J. A.]

For mathematicians:

October 29, 1675: Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (&int as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral

 

[zstairlessone]

In 1953, President Eisenhower approved top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, to increase the United States'arsenal of nuclear weapons to counter the Communist threat of the Cold War.

Edit: with Ike's signature we increased our nuclear arsenal from around 1000 weapons in 1953 to over 18,000 by the time he left office in 1961.

 

[J. A.]

October 30, 1944: Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

 

[J. A.]

November 2, 2000: The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.

 

[J. A.]

November 4, 1922: In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

 

[zstairlessone]

In 1952 UNIVAC was used to predict the outcome of the presidential election between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson (who was favored in the polls).



Remington Rand's Harold E Sweeney and J Presper Eckert demonstrate UNIVAC for Walter Cronkite (L-R).


This was, I believe, the 5th UNIVAC built and was owned by the old AEC. They predicted the election as a publicity stunt.

How did UNIVAC do? The prediction was Eisenhower 438 - Stevenson 93 and the actual results were 442 to 89 within 1% of the prediction.