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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

International Left-Handers Day! Celebrate with me!

Today is known as International Left Handers Day (and yes it's also the day after Mrs. BA's birthday).  It's also the middle of "SAA Week" here in Washington DC, the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists is underway.

The Brave Astronaut is left handed, and despite my urgings, thought I was going to get SoBA to be a lefty, but that doesn't look like it will come to pass.  But here's a list of 59 others that "if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, then they (we) are in their right minds!"
  1. Robert De Niro - "are you talking to me?"
  2. Angelina Jolie
  3. Prince William
  4. Robert Redford
  5. Sarah Jessica Parker
  6. Barack Obama - the last several presidents have been left handed.
  7. Keanu Reeves
  8. Jerry Seinfeld
  9. Nicole Kidman
  10. Julia Roberts
  11. Bill Clinton - see?
  12. Lady Gaga
  13. Seth Rogan
  14. Mary-Kate Olsen
  15. Owen Wilson
  16. Bruce Willis
  17. Lisa Kudrow
  18. Morgan Freeman
  19. Diane Keaton
  20. Mark Wahlberg
  21. Tom Cruise
  22. Tim Allen
  23. Matthew Broderick - so if both he and Sarah are lefties, what about their kids?
  24. Justin Bieber
  25. Oprah Winfrey
  26. John Slattery
  27. Ben Stiller
  28. Emma Thompson
  29. Paul McCartney
  30. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  31. Jay Leno
  32. Demi Moore - sigh.
  33. Prince Charles - sure there's a father-one, see #3
  34. Celine Dion
  35. Bill Gates
  36. Martina McBride
  37. Drew Carey - there's a lot of funny on this list.  I'm pretty funny.
  38. Matt Lauer
  39. Whoopi Goldberg
  40. Richard Simmons
  41. Jon Stewart
  42. Goldie Hawn
  43. Ron Perlman - The Beast!
  44. Pierce Brosnan
  45. Teri Hatcher
  46. Kevin Richardson
  47. Dan Aykroyd
  48. David Bowie 
  49. Spike Lee
  50. January Jones - so should Roger and Betty have a thing?
  51. Eminem
  52. Ashley Tisdale
  53. Dennis Quaid
  54. Ed O'Neill
  55. A.J. McLean
  56. Niall Horan
  57. Greg Kinnear
  58. David Letterman
  59. Jim Carrey
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Oklahoma - #46, November 16, 1907

First of all, a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to all those out there in the United States.  The Brave Astronaut clan is likely sitting down to our Thanksgiving feast at the beach.  I hope wherever you are, you are enjoying good food, friends and family.  Now on to today's State of the Union - we are down to the final five!


We have arrived at the final five states of the Union (to date) and the first of the states to be admitted in the 20th Century.  When the area was still a territory, on April 22, 1889, the first day homesteading was permitted, 50,000 people swarmed into the area. Those who tried to beat the noon starting gun were called “Sooners,” hence the state's nickname.


In April 1995, the state capital, Oklahoma City, was the site of the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history, when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, killing 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh was sentenced to death and executed in June 2001 and Nichols was sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

The current Governor of Oklahoma is Republican Mary Fallin. Both Senators for the Sooner State are Republicans, Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn. The Oklahoma Congressional delegation has five members, which is also now completely Republican after the retirement of the 2nd District's Dan Boren.

Facts
Links
Prominent Oklahomans - (here's a few lists to peruse, one and two - a lot of astronauts from Oklahoma!)

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