I can only try

How about …????? ????? ????

(Can the thread title be changed to “Sukkos Zemiros”, to avoid confusion?)

Edited: Thank you!

Sept. 23 historic events

1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion USD, is lost at sea off Land’s End. (Treasure hunt, anyone?)

1779 American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships. (It was at this battle that John Paul Jones uttered his famous quote “I have not yet begun to fight!” Although the Bonhomme Richard was so badly damaged it later sank, the Americans defeated and boarded the British warship Serapis. )

1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1846 Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1941 World War II: The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. (The evil of the Nazis YM”S and its scope is incomprehensible, even today.)

1942 World War II: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.

1952 Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech as he denied allegations of improper campaign financing. (Nixon’s touching speech about “his little dog Checkers, that his daughters loved” worked, and he remained on the ticket.)

1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait. (Iraq later followed thru on their threats. B”H there was only one direct casualty of Iraqui scuds in Israel, although others suffocated when they incorrectly put on their gas masks.)

1999 NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. (Incredible as it sounds, the Orbiter was lost because of a simple standard-metric error, that sent the spacecraft into the Martian atmosphere, where it burned up.)

1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history since 1960. (This is the only Jet crash in Qantas’s history. They have had crashes, including fatal ones, on propeller-driven planes.)

2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released. (Good job, guys. Thanks!)

2004 At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne.

NY Mom-

mepal-

Thank you.

Honestly, I self-grade today’s submission at “C” level 🙂

Sept. 21 historic events

1780 American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

1792 The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.

1938 a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives. (If such a hurricane would strike nowadays, lower Manhattan would be have devastating floods, including building basements and subway tunnels.)

1942 On Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.

1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

1942 The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. (The long-range B-29 devastated Tokyo and other Japanese cities later in the war, burning large sections of the mostly wood-building-constructed cities to the ground in fire-bomb raids. The fires were so massive and hot that they caused powerful winds. The only two nuclear bombs to be used in war were dropped by B-29s.)

1964 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. (This plane never went into full production . One of the two prototype planes crashed during a publicity-photo flight, killing a crew member as well as the pilot of the fighter it collided with.)

1977 President Jimmy Carter’s budget director, Bert Lance, resigned amid controversy over past business and banking practices.

1999 A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,400 people.

2001 Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

2002 Angelo Buono Jr., the Hillside Strangler whose murder spree terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in prison at age 67.

2003 NASA’s Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year exploration of the solar system’s largest planet and its moons.

2008 Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Sept. 19 historic events

1777 American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.

1796 President George Washington’s farewell address was published. In it, America’s first chief executive advised, “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”

1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.

1881 President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. (Botched medical care after the shooting led to his death. This included the failure of a metal-detector to find the bullet – no one thought to move Garfield off of the metal-springed bed he was lying on.)

1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.

1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.

1942 Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by the German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. ( He was one of the famous Axis propogandists who used to broadcast regularly to Alied troops. Others included Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally.)

1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test.

1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.

1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.

1982 Emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorous or sarcastic computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal “smiley face.” 🙂

1985 The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives and destroyed 400 buildings.

1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto. (This led directly to the capture of the unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, when his brother recognized his writing style and turned him in. As part of his brother’s deal with the government, Kaczynski didn’t face the death-penalty for his crimes.)

2001 The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

2002 President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to “use all means,” including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.

2008 Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration asked Congress for $700 billion to buy up troubled mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions. (TARP – Troubled Assets Relief Program – was a classic bait-and-switch according to many of its critics.)

(anon for this-

Your comments are appreciated, because:

1) It means someone actually reads this 🙂

2) It keeps me on my toes re: factuality

3) I enjoy debate

Please keep it up)

YW Moderator-72-

Thank you and all the other staffers for your efforts in putting together and maintaining this site.

It is truly enjoyable and often helpful to have an area where all and sundry can discuss, debate, get help, and get advice on various topics in a frum environment.

Thank you to the many posters as well, for providing an eye-opening range of perspectives, backgrounds and opinions. It is nice to see how often people take the time to share their expertise in a particular area, or sometimes cheer up someone who can use some chizuk.

May we all be zocha to have a kesiva vachasima tova and a gut gebentcht yor.

A600KiloBear-

Keep cool (literally) 🙂

modernorthodox-

My prior post references the subject of Hakoras Hatov, not specific people.

The names I gave were in regards to that point, since many people have strong negative feeling toward one or more of them.

This is not an expression of personal opinion about any individual.

Hakoras Hatov includes recognition and gratitude towards people whose politics, lifestyle or actions we may personally detest.

YW Moderator-26-

Thank you.

I have opinions re: the “other” discussion, but:

1) Agreed – this is not the place.

2) Erev-erev Rosh Hashana I am afraid of saying somthing that could cause the wrong type of machlokes.

anon for this-

This will require some detective work.

On the other hand, I remember that after the deal was done there were several mentions in newspapers and editorials that this deal might be the thing that would result in Carter finally getting a Nobel prize.

Here is an excerpt from a George F. Will opinion piece that appeared in Newsweek on October 28, 2002 which appears to support Korea as a key factor:

A closer examination of the timing of events leads me to the following hypothesis:

The Korean agreement was a decisive factor in tipping the scales to finally give Carter the award. However, by the time the award was actually presented, Korea was clearly violating its agreement to not proceed with the development of nuclear weapons, and had been doing so from day one. Therefore, it would have been an embarrassment to mention it during the ceremony itself. Hence, its omission.

anon for this-

First of all, thank you for keeping me on my toes. If info is being fact-checked, it encourages accuracy and discourages sloppiness.

Most (if not all) of the blurbs added to the historical notes are based on the memory of yours truly.

Several op-eds at the time mentioned the Korean agreement as being a factor and/or being the factor that put Carter over the top and garnered him the award.

Sept. 17 historic events

1630 The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules”: the first known description of protozoa.

1787 The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1814 Francis Scott Key finishes his poem The Star-Spangled Banner.

1862 American Civil War: George B. McClellan’s Union forces halt the northward drive of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army’s invasion of Maryland in the single-day Battle of Antietam. With 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.

1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.

[more than any other WWI pilot], and was the leader of the feared “Flying Circus”. His less-well-known brother Lothar was also an ace with 40 shoot-downs credited.)

1939 World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

1944 World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden. (This unsuccessful attempt at ending WWII earlier than it did was detailed in the bestseller “A Bridge Too Far”.)

1948 The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.

1970 Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen. (This was the “Black September” that the terrorist group named themselves after.)

1976 The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1978 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

1980 After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gda?sk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

1992 Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the Iran-Contra scandal.

1999 President Bill Clinton lifted restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier. (North Korea won all sorts of goodies by promising to halt development on nuclear weapons. As we now know, reaped the rewards of those deals, while all the while they lied their heads off. They test detonated nuclear weapons beginning in 2006. Former U.S. President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, largely for his part in the nuclear negotiations with North Korea. Oops.)

2001 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

2004 Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Sept. 1-3 school siege in Beslan and other terrorist attacks in Russia that claimed more than 430 lives. (Thereby proving that Islamic terror and its accompanying inhuman cruelty cross ethnic and racial lines.)

2004 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run, joining Babe Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755) as the only players to reach the milestone. (Whoever said that cheaters never prosper?)

2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

Joseph-

“How was your B-I-L better able to understand?“

I have no idea, but I gratefully accepted his help.

Some people are just better at languages and/or deciphering accents.

I work with people who have Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Indian, Pakastini, Philipino, English, Irish, South African and many more accents, but this particular CSR was the champ as far as unintelligibility goes.

mepal-

Sorry, I don’t know how to disable a Dell’s “fn” key.

This is the type of thing that is manufacturer-specific and may even be model-specific.

A couple of suggestions:

1) Google “disable Fn key Dell laptop”. I tried this and a few links came up with suggestions. The very first link looked promising.

2) Call Dell. Their CSR’s are generally helpful, knowledgeable, and understandable.

plonisalmonis-

Great minds (you and “squeak”) think alike 🙂

Helping others find a job is a great chesed – I personally got more than one job from friends who recommended me for an opening.

plonisalmonis-

Tizku lemitzvos – this is a very nice idea for a thread.

Poster “squeak” started a similar thread a while back, here:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/how-can-we-help-people-who-need-jobs

Sept. 13 historic events

1759 During the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

1788 The United States’ Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country’s first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..

1814 The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.

1814 Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.

1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1948 Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1971 A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

1997 Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.

1998 Former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace died at age 79.

1999 A bomb blamed by authorities on Chechen rebels devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 124 people.

2000 Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets. Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.

2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.

2006 Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards died at age 73.

2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

Jax-

Oops.

Thank you for catching it.

If a mod would be so kind as to fix my date error, I’d appreciate it.

Please see this thread from last year: 9/11 Video

Dr. Pepper-

Ira Heller (and Agent Emes, Torah Tots, Ronnie Baras, according to the web site) is scheduled to perform at Hershey Park this Chol Hamoed Sukkos on Monday, October 5, as he has for the last couple of years that it was open on Chol Hamoed.

It’s a great family Sukkos trip, if you can make it.

Jax-

Thanks very much!

I wonder where “YW Moderator-39” is – we haven’t seen him post recently.

Bemused-

Your efforts at keeping conversations civil are noticed and appreciated.

Tizku lemitzvos.

Squeak-

Agreed.

This is quite likely due to the core mentchlichkeit most posters have.

Many of us know only our own communities and svivos, and may therefore find a differing opinion or kula/chumra extremely wrong and/or objectionable..

peachesncream-

sunflower-

Hello & welcome.

RoshYeshivah-

Jax-

moish01-

Hello & welcome back.