Thor’s Day September 17
1787 – On this date, James Madison and the members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution. Although this occurred on a Monday, we still thought it was worth a mention.
1908 – On Thursday September 17th, an airplane piloted by Orville Wright crashed and mortally wounded Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge. This is the first airplane related fatality in known history.
1960 – The truth is that the writers of etaBlog are New York Mets fans. This accounts for John Franco being mentioned in the “On Thor’s Day” section of etaBlog. A native New Yorker, John Franco was born on September 17, 1960. Known for being one of the few pitchers in baseball to have thrown a screwball makes him one of our favorite relievers of all time! Let’s Go Mets!
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Honor Thy Father
We all enjoy feel good stories, challenges that ordinary people have overcome and events so earth shattering our lives have or will never be the same again.
In this week’s “Above and Beyond”, I have opted to post a very personal event as something out of the ordinary that changed many people’s lives.
In 1957 my father, born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies decided that he wanted a better existence for his family. He ventured to the U.S.A. to find work and search for a place he could make home. Unfortunately or fortunately he decided that Florida was not the place for him and he returned home. The following year he voyaged to the U.K. and for some reason, believed that this was the place he could put down roots.
Several decades later four generations of “Burtons” now exist, living quite happily in England. My father had to endure many years of hard labor and weather he wasn’t used to, so that his descendants could have an upbringing and life he was not initially privy to. He is a very proud man and living in a society where he was a pioneer of sorts, could not have been easy to say the least.
Accomplishments come in all shapes and forms, big and small. In my mind, his achievement may not have contributed to the salvation of mankind but it is just as vital to society. It is these small and generally over-looked events in history that make our world better and create a stronger and more diverse community for us all to share in.
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On Thor’s Day
Most people don’t know that the derivation of Thursday is from the Norse God, Thor – the God of Thunder. Thursday is the day of the week that our new stories will be published. This part of our site will be full of events, birthdays and any thunderous ideas occurring on that particular date in prior years.
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