January 20, 2009 – 12:42 pm
Here is the 10 Things you never knew about the US Presidential Inauguration.
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 in 1937. Before that, Inauguration Day was March 4.
2. George Washington delivered the shortest inauguration speech in history-at only 135 words-during his second inauguration in 1793
3. James Buchanan’s inauguration in 1857 was the first to be photographed.
4. African-Americans first marched in the inaugural parade at Abraham Lincoln’s second swearing in 1865.
5. Women participated for the first time in an inaugural parade during Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration in 1917.
December 24, 2008 – 9:48 pm
The Noche Buena on Christmas Eve, wherein the whole family members eat together of a sumptuous Filipino meal by twelve midnight, called noche buena. This usually comes after the entire family has attended a late evening mass or church service about an hour or so before midnight.
August 8, 2008 – 8:42 am
It’s been a long time since my last post about some Geek Trivia and since this is the triple eight dates which some Chinese say is a lucky day on almost everything, the wedding bell is a non-stop sounds ringing on your ears the whole day today why not make some eight (8) trivia that [...]
April 10, 2008 – 8:30 am
Somewhere in Vancouver (Canada), Waldo is hiding on a rooftop waiting to be found. A Vancouver (Canada) local artist Melanie Coles started the creation of a 16-metre tall painting of the main character in popular children’s book “Where’s Waldo” to be the focus of a citywide search using Google Earth. If everything goes as planned, [...]
March 28, 2008 – 1:01 pm
In a fast few weeks I feel a bit environmental concern, type of things. And now most of the news on TV and newspapers is all about the worldwide event that will gonna happen this coming March 29, 2008, The “Earth Hour” where participants will be going to turn-off their electricity consumption, not just the lights between 8:00pm to 9:00pm to conserve power and to lower our carbon footprints. So as I sign up and join the events I’m going to turn-off all the electrical Equipments in my house and stay at the backyards and play with my son. So I guess it’s not just conserving electricity but at the same time spend some quality time for your family. Actually here in Vancouver most of the Restaurant offer a candle light dinner for their customers, which is cool and sweet. And I guess it was also a big savings for your wallet having a candle light dinner date in a not so expensive restaurant, instead in Fine Dining big time restaurant.
