Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 10, the 41st day of 2014 and there are 324 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the work pleasure of having fun for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
I hope every one notices my strike out above, (work); It dawned on me that doing ANYTHING for our Lord is fun, not work. I may be old and slow, but at least I finally caught up with that error I was making every day!!!
P.S. – Happy National Umbrella Day ! (Don’t ask me, I got it off TV and that means it’s gotta be true; RIGHT?)
So, What Happened Today In 1763 ?
The French and Indian War, ‘The Seven Years War’, ends
The Seven Years’ War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain.
In the early 1750s, France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought the country into armed conflict with the British colonies. In 1756, the British formally declared war against France.
In the first year of the war, the British suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the French and their broad network of Native American alliances. However, in 1757, British Prime Minister William Pitt (the older) recognized the potential of imperial expansion that would come out of victory against the French and borrowed heavily to fund an expanded war effort. Pitt financed Prussia’s struggle against France and her allies in Europe and reimbursed the colonies for the raising of armies in North America. By 1760, the French had been expelled from Canada, and by 1763 all of France’s allies in Europe had either made a separate peace with Prussia or had been defeated. In addition, Spanish attempts to aid France in the Americas had failed, and France also suffered defeats against British forces in India.
The Seven Years’ War ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in February 1763. In the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas. The treaty ensured the colonial and maritime supremacy of Britain and strengthened the 13 American colonies by removing their European rivals to the north and the south. Fifteen years later, French bitterness over the loss of most of their colonial empire contributed to their intervention in the American Revolution on the side of the Patriots.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 10 In History:
1799 – In the American Revolutionary War at the battle for Carr’s Fort, a force of more than 340 men from the South Carolina and Georgia militias, led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia, attack a group of approximately 200 Loyalists under the command of Colonel John Hamilton at Robert Carr’s Fort, in Wilkes County, Georgia where they quickly take the upper hand against the Loyalists;
1846 – Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had been persecuted for their beliefs ever since Joseph Smith founded the church in New York in 1830. Smith’s claim to be a modern-day prophet of God and his acceptance of polygamy proved controversial wherever the Mormons attempted to settle;
1861 – Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi who served as U.S. secretary of war in the 1850s, receives word he has been selected president of the new Confederate States of America. Delegates at the Confederacy’s constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama, chose him for the job. Davis remained president of the Confederacy until its government was dissolved on May 5, 1865. Less than a week later, he was captured by the Union and jailed for two years. He died at age 81 in New Orleans in 1889;
1870 – The City of Anaheim, California is incorporated for the first time;
1915 – During World War I, President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans;
1916 – Prior to America’s entry into World War I, as a result of bitter disagreements with President Woodrow Wilson over America’s national defense strategies, Lindley M. Garrison resigns his position as the United States secretary of war on this day in 1916. After the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, Garrison clashed repeatedly with many in the Wilson administration, including the president himself, who regarded the secretary as notably hawkish with respect to America’s national defense;
1923 – ‘Ink Paste’ is first manufactured by Standard Ink Company;
1934 – First Jewish immigrant ship breaks the English Blockade in Palestine;
1940 – “In The Mood” by Glenn Miller hits #1 … Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xPXwkWVEIIw;
(Back from the days you could listen to music, enjoy music without having to bang your head into the wall and actually dance to it as well!!!)
1942 – In World War II, a Japanese submarine launches a brutal attack on Midway, a coral atoll used as a U.S. Navy base. It was the fourth bombing of the atoll by Japanese ships since December 7. The capture of Midway was an important part of the broader Japanese strategy of trying to create a defensive line across the Pacific Ocean. Occupying Midway would also mean depriving the United States of a submarine base and would provide the perfect launching pad for an all-out assault on Hawaii. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack and commander-in-chief of the Japanese combined fleet, knew that only the utter destruction of U.S. naval capacity would ensure Japanese free reign in the Pacific. Yamamoto persevered with an elaborate warship operation, called Mi, launched in June, but the Battle of Midway was a disaster for Japan, and was the turning point for ultimate American victory in the Pacific;
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the Rosa Parks incident;
1962 – Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane in 1960, is released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. The exchange concluded one of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War;
1964 – Australian destroyer Voyager and aircraft carrier Melbourne collide sinking the Voyager;
1965 – Viet Cong guerrillas blow up the U.S. barracks at Qui Nhon, 75 miles east of Pleiku on the central coast, with a 100-pound explosive charge under the building. A total of 23 U.S. personnel were killed, as well as two Viet Cong. In response to the attack, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a retaliatory air strike operation on North Vietnam called Flaming Dart II. Johnson hoped that quick and effective retaliation would persuade the North Vietnamese to cease their attacks in South Vietnam. Unfortunately, Operation Flaming Dart did not have the desired effect. The attack on Qui Nhon was only the latest in a series of communist attacks on U.S. installations, and Flaming Dart II had very little effect;
1968 – U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming won America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France;
1970 – An avalanche crashes down on a ski resort in Val d’Isere, France, killing 42 people, mostly young skiers. This disaster was the worst such incident in French history;
1971 – During the Vietnam War, four journalists die in a South Vietnamese helicopter operating in Laos. The journalists had been covering Operation Lam Son 719, a limited attack into Laos by South Vietnamese forces, when their helicopter crashed;
1989 – Ronald H. Brown, a former Supreme Court lawyer and leader of the National Urban League, is elected chairman of the Democratic Party National Committee. He was the first African-American to hold the top position in a major political party in the United States;
1992 – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, accused of raping 18-year-old beauty-pageant contestant Desiree Washington, is found guilty by an Indiana jury. The following month, Tyson was given a 10-year prison sentence, with four years suspended;
1996 – After three hours, world chess champion Gary Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize;
2009 – U.S. and Russian communication satellites collided in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !!!
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
– Frederick Douglass – (Could someone let Washington D.C. know about this!!!)
Today’s Thought For The Day:
Today’s Inspirational Video:
A MUST WATCH – 5-yr-old piano player – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiFlbuYPcqk&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Somewhere In Greece
Today’s Internet Proverb:
You can’t teach a new mouse old clicks.
Today’s Picture Taken With Impeccable Timing:
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? – – He’s all right now!
Today’s ‘Dog’s Dear God”:
Dear God: If a Dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad Dog?
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
– Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
Today’s ‘Love Is’ Picture:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In California – It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
Today’s ‘I Fixed It Honey’:
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
On any important truth the devil tries to get you to stop too short, or go too far.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
The Long Black Train – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PyRZTAmcW7c
Today’s Funny:
‘THE RIB’
In Sunday School,they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings.
Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs.
Later in the week, his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, ‘Johnny what is the matter?’
Little Johnny responded, ‘I have a pain in my side.
I think I’m going to have a wife.’
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
– 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Dear Loving Heavenly Father God, thank you so much for your demonstration of love in Jesus. Help me to love as he did – selflessly, sacrificially, and consistently so others may know of your love through my actions. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
Now, Off For Today’s Nap:
So, Until Tomorrow – America, BLESS GOD !!!
