Finally starting to learn how to do this "blog" stuff. This will start out as a place to just B.S. about things that interest me and maybe others. Comments are certainly welcome.

Today's Jumble:

MUGAT = GAMUT
ELLAD = LADLE
FRIVED = FERVID
RAYPOD = PARODY

CIRCLED LETTERS = ATLDEFEIAOD

WHEN HER HUSBAND WANTED TO TAKE A HOT-AIR BALLOON RIDE HE - - -
"FLOATED THE IDEA"

Today is International Panic Day.

This day in history:
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1812 - War of 1812: the U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1858 - Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.