Hey it's only 22 days until Thanksgiving - time to get that list of things you have to be thankful for ready.
- News Update -
It's official, finally this age old question has been answered -
Castaways ate Dead Shipmates -
NY Post
Five starving castaways turned to cannibalism to survive a horrifying ordeal in the Caribbean.
After being adrift for two weeks, they began eating the remains of the 28 other migrants who died onboard a fishing boat bound from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.
"We cut from his leg and chest," Gregorio Maria Marizan said of the last shipmate who stopped breathing. "We cut little pieces and swallowed them like pills.
"It's like beef, almost the same," he said. "At the skin, there is like half an inch of yellow fat, then the fibers."
He and four others, including a woman, were the only survivors of the 33 Dominican migrants trying to make the short, treacherous passage to Puerto Rico aboard a tiny wooden fishing boat. Because the 160-mile trip was supposed to take just a few hours, they didn't bring any food.
But the voyage turned into a nightmare when both the boat's engines died and the captain disappeared.
The ship drifted for 15 days, and with their shipmates dying, feasting on their remains became more tempting for the others. "Imagine 15 days without food, without water. I'm a sailor, a fisherman - they were all yelling at me to do something," Marizan said.
"I always try to be prepared, so I had brought my knife along," he said. "We had nothing to eat. We had to eat him [the last to die], to save our lives."
The five were finally rescued Saturday, when they were spotted by a US Coast Guard helicopter crew and brought to the Turks and Caicos, where the woman died in a hospital.
Thousands of impoverished Dominicans make the dangerous journey each year to try to make a better life in Puerto Rico.
Now if only we can get on that whole chicken or the egg thing.
Today's Birthdays -
Joel McCrea (1905)
Roy Rogers (1911)
Ike Turner (1931)
Elke Sommer (1940)
Art Garfunkel (1941)
Sam Shepard (1943)
Tatum O'Neal (1963)
Here's your Today in History -
November 5, 1605 -
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, was a failed attempt by Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in a single attack by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening on this date. The conspirators had also planned to abduct the royal children, (who were Protestant) not present in Parliament, and incite a revolt in the Midlands. the conspirators were captured before the plot could take
place. They were all drawn and quartered.
On 5 November each year, people in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and regions celebrate the failure of the plot on what is known as Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night, Cracker Night or Plot Night by getting drunk and setting things on fire.
November 5, 1895 -
George B. Selden was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile, which he invented in 1877. The idea of a horseless carriage was in the air during George's youth, but its practicality was uncertain. In 1859, his father, Judge Henry R. Selden, a prominent Republican attorney, moved to Rochester, New York, where George briefly attended the University of Rochester before dropping out to enlist in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry, Union Army. This was not to the liking of his father who after pulling some strings and having some earnest discussions with his son managed to have him released from duty and enrolled in Yale. George did not do well at Yale in his law studies, preferring the technical studies offered by the Sheffield Scientific School, but did manage to finish his course of study and pass the New York bar 1871 and joined his father's practice. He married shortly thereafter to Clara Drake Woodruff, by whom he had 4 children. He continued his hobby of inventing in a workshop in his father's basement, inventing a typewriter and a hoop making machine.
Selden's father, Henry Selden, was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be Vice President, but he turned it down (and in light of Lincoln's assassination, Henry Selden would have otherwise been the next American President).
Who knew?
And so it goes
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