Doc you gonna play anymore or just "shock and awe" thread-start???
RULES for APRIL will continue the same with the addition of one rule:
--1 parlay (2 teamer) per week by each pundit, but no greater then -250 in any leg--
--2 Plays per day Max. 1 Unit each or
--Can double up on one play for 2 units
--Moneylines, sides, totals, teasers, and props!!
*Post odds and book please!
***No lines before Midnight EST please***
(playing for the same 2 prizes as in March, 1st and 2nd place)
Pundit Progress thru Apr 24th
GLTA :toast:
TODAY:
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
WE’RE ON THE MAP DAY
When you are taking a trip and following a map, you take the word of the cartographer that the map names are accurate. Things were pretty much the same on this day in 1507. That’s when mapmaker and geographer Martin Waldseemuller of Germany explained why the world map he was making would show the new world as ‘Amerige’ (the land of Amerigo).
In his book, Cosmographiae Introductio, he wrote, “Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why any one should justly object to calling this part Amerige, i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.”
And so, Waldseemuller printed one thousand maps with Amerige printed on the part of the world we now call South America. He was obviously talking about the explorations of Amerigo Vespucci; not learning of Columbus’ discovery until several years later (news traveled quite slowly in those days); and he, obviously, never had any discussions with the Incas. They might have had a few different suggestions as to what to call the land where they lived.
1954 - The prototype manufacture of a new solar battery was announced by the Bell Laboratories in New York City.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to traffic, saving shippers millions of dollars. By going from the sea to the Great Lakes across upstate New York, folks no longer had to ship goods the long, costly over land.
BDAYS:
1906 - William J. Brennan Jr.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: authored more than 1,200 opinions, including many landmarks: free press [New York Times v. Sullivan], women’s rights [Frontiero v. Richardson], reapportionment [Baker v. Carr], civil rights [Cooper v. Aaron, Green v. County School Board]; died July 24, 1997
1908 - Edward R. (Roscoe) Murrow
newsman: You are There, Person to Person; former head U.S. Information Agency; died Apr 27, 1965
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald
Grammy Award-winning singer [12]: Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home, Mack the Knife, A-Tisket, A-Tasket; died June 15, 1996
1932 - Meadowlark (George) Lemon
basketball: Harlem Globetrotters
1940 - Al (Alfredo James) Pacino
Academy Award-winning actor: Scent of a Woman [1992]; Scarface, Serpico, The Godfather, Dick Tracy; Tony Award-winning actor: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie [1969], The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel [1977]
1966 - Isabelle Pasco
France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
RULES for APRIL will continue the same with the addition of one rule:
--1 parlay (2 teamer) per week by each pundit, but no greater then -250 in any leg--
--2 Plays per day Max. 1 Unit each or
--Can double up on one play for 2 units
--Moneylines, sides, totals, teasers, and props!!
*Post odds and book please!
***No lines before Midnight EST please***
(playing for the same 2 prizes as in March, 1st and 2nd place)
Pundit Progress thru Apr 24th
GLTA :toast:
TODAY:
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
WE’RE ON THE MAP DAY
When you are taking a trip and following a map, you take the word of the cartographer that the map names are accurate. Things were pretty much the same on this day in 1507. That’s when mapmaker and geographer Martin Waldseemuller of Germany explained why the world map he was making would show the new world as ‘Amerige’ (the land of Amerigo).
In his book, Cosmographiae Introductio, he wrote, “Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why any one should justly object to calling this part Amerige, i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.”
And so, Waldseemuller printed one thousand maps with Amerige printed on the part of the world we now call South America. He was obviously talking about the explorations of Amerigo Vespucci; not learning of Columbus’ discovery until several years later (news traveled quite slowly in those days); and he, obviously, never had any discussions with the Incas. They might have had a few different suggestions as to what to call the land where they lived.
1954 - The prototype manufacture of a new solar battery was announced by the Bell Laboratories in New York City.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to traffic, saving shippers millions of dollars. By going from the sea to the Great Lakes across upstate New York, folks no longer had to ship goods the long, costly over land.
BDAYS:
1906 - William J. Brennan Jr.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: authored more than 1,200 opinions, including many landmarks: free press [New York Times v. Sullivan], women’s rights [Frontiero v. Richardson], reapportionment [Baker v. Carr], civil rights [Cooper v. Aaron, Green v. County School Board]; died July 24, 1997
1908 - Edward R. (Roscoe) Murrow
newsman: You are There, Person to Person; former head U.S. Information Agency; died Apr 27, 1965
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald
Grammy Award-winning singer [12]: Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home, Mack the Knife, A-Tisket, A-Tasket; died June 15, 1996
1932 - Meadowlark (George) Lemon
basketball: Harlem Globetrotters
1940 - Al (Alfredo James) Pacino
Academy Award-winning actor: Scent of a Woman [1992]; Scarface, Serpico, The Godfather, Dick Tracy; Tony Award-winning actor: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie [1969], The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel [1977]
1966 - Isabelle Pasco
France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
