January 29, 2019
Hello readers, many thanks for stopping by this morning.
Today in the Almanac we have The Raven and the Rubik’s Cube headlining On This Date, Top of the Charts is from 1994 and Barry Manilow provides the ballast for Philosophy 101 with a quote about believing in yourself.
THE DAILY ALMANAC
On This Date:
In 1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror. The Raven is about a raven who visits a distraught lover and follows the gentleman’s fall into madness. It made Poe famous but did not bring much financial success and while The Raven’s place in history remains the topic of some discussion, it remains one of the planet’s most famous poems.
In 1980 – The infernal Rubik’s Cube makes its international debut in London. The standard 3×3 cube has, more or less, 43 quintillion goddamn possible combinations and remains one of the most popular, not to mention frustrating, toys in history. It has become so popular it even has its own international governing body for contests and the acknowledgment of records, the World Cube Association.
Top of the Charts
#1 songs on this date in 1994:
Hot 100 – All For Love – Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting (2nd of three weeks)
Soul Chart – Cry For You…Jodeci (2nd of three weeks)
Country Chart – Live Until I Die…Clay Walker (only week)
Album Chart – Music Box…Mariah Carey (6th of eight non-consecutive weeks)
– Chart data courtesy of Billboard.
Numbers Racket
10,632: the continuous number of days the US has been at war.
21.965: the number of dollars, in trillions, of America’s national debt. – Source: usdebtclock.org
649: days until Election Day 2020.
Philosophy 101
I believed in what I did so much, I couldn’t believe there were people who couldn’t hear it.
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an interesting person to utter something like this. A critical and commercial success like few others, Manilow was also one of those artists it was popular for certain people to say they didn’t like. Not everyone heard Barry’s voice.
We must believe in what we are doing. There is no substitute for this because no one, no one, will believe in us like we do. Your mother and a good spouse will try, but no one has the vision for your life and how your time must be spent than you do. And this is true for whatever you may be doing in this life. A carpenter must put his heart and soul into every project. A writer must believe in every word they put down, that they are saying what they feel must be said every time they sit down to ply their trade.
When we believe in what we do because it is coming from the very depths of our being, the very core of what we are about, good things will follow. Not everyone on the planet may hear our voice, but that’s their loss. As long as we hear our voice, that we are on our path and living the life we were meant to live, that is all that matters.
Thank you for reading. We will see you again tomorrow.
xoxoxo
Kaitlyn