1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:
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1939— Margaret Atwood is born.
Excerpt from The Writer's Almanac:
Years later, she wrote a novel about a dystopian future where the birthrate is declining and women called "handmaids" are kept as concubines by the elite members of a theocracy. To write the book, she harkened back to her graduate seminar, and used the setting, social structure, and prose style of Puritan Massachusetts. The Handmaid's Tale (1985) became a big best-seller. She said: "The thing to remember is that there is nothing new about the society depicted in The Handmaid's Tale except the time and place My book reflects the form and style of the early Puritan society and addresses the dynamics that bring about such a situation."
Her other novels include Cat's Eye (1988), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), and the trilogy Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013).
The MaddAddam trilogy and The Handmaid's Tale are often called dystopias, but Atwood calls them ustopias. She said: "Ustopia is a world I made up by combining utopia and dystopia — the imagined perfect society and its opposite — because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other. In addition to being, almost always, a mapped location, Ustopia is also a state of mind."
She said, "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Interesting. When I was working in a toy store during high school in 1969 for $1.40 an hour, it translates to $9.03 hour today.
and making $2.25 hr landscaping in 1972 works out to $12.70 hr today.
A hs friend in Calif in 1966 was getting $2.50 hr plus tips busing tables at the 5 Crowns (its still there) in Corona del Mar, Ca. That works out to $18.25 hr and gas was still 30¢ / gal which works out to $2.19 in today's dollars. That ratio is 8 to 1
Now yer lucky to get $10 hr doing anything menial and gas under $3.00 gal. This ratio is roughly 3.3 to 1
Interesting. When I was working in a toy store during high school in 1969 for $1.40 an hour, it translates to $9.03 hour today.
and making $2.25 hr landscaping in 1972 works out to $12.70 hr today.
A hs friend in Calif in 1966 was getting $2.50 hr plus tips busing tables at the 5 Crowns (its still there) in Corona del Mar, Ca. That works out to $18.25 hr and gas was still 30¢ / gal which works out to $2.19 in today's dollars. That ratio is 8 to 1
Now yer lucky to get $10 hr doing anything menial and gas under $3.00 gal. This ratio is roughly 3.3 to 1
1892 – William Heffelfinger (pictured) was paid $525 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player on record.
1892 – William Heffelfinger (pictured) was paid $525 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player on record.
1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
