Did you know …
That another year, calendar and solar, has completed? It’s true! Congratulations if you’ve survived to see 2014, and, if not, please leave a comment about what it’s like to be a ghost!
Are you familiar with the character of Baby New Year? As it happens BNY was “invented” by the physicist Robert Goddard. On New Year’s Eve 1901 in Boston, Goddard observed a naked adult man with dwarfism in the process of kicking his (the man’s) elderly father into the street. According to Goddard, the man with dwarfism was smoking a cigar, and his father was wrapped in a sheet. (The relationship of father/son was one assumed by Goddard.) Goddard felt that the incident was worthy of the local news, and attempted to contact them with the anecdote. Being a functional illiterate, however, Goddard was only able to convey the story through a drawing, and the paper’s editors believed that it was some sort of metaphorical cartoon and published it as such. The rest is history.
Happy new year!
PS—The old man was later found dead in the street where Goddard and the short man had left him. But I guess that’s the circle of life!
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