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Well it’s back and it sure is going to be a while before the fall again, summers here. Time to forget about all your worries and head for the beaches for the weathers hot and the best way to beat it is to get wet with splashing your pals at the beach under the hot summer sun. More time with your family and not enough time to do all the things you want to do with them. So enjoy this summer while it last because before you know it, it’ll already be fall.

So far the Tampa Bay Rays have been 1st place this whole season and been playing some good games but their fans won’t support them. It’s just confusing, where are the rays getting their encouragement? Would encouragement make you play better and with out cheers the rays can still play just fine. The rays are continuing their streak with going on ahead with no fan support.

Kids all over the place are obsessed with silly bands and they have very many silly bands. when in my opinion they’re just shaped rubber bands, everyone else seems to take a liking towards the silly bands. People may have up 2 as much as 20 or more bands on their arms at a time and love to trade them with others. I know that lots of people like the silly bands, but I’m not going to catch on with it.

When I was watching t.v. late at night yesterday, I happened to be flipping the channels at I saw the 10 o’clock news but it wasn’t the news that was on, it was a long overtime baseball game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was bottom of the 16th inning and I notice it was a tie game, 0 – 0.

It just so happened to catch my attention of watching a late overtime game and seeing that the game time was a whole 6 hours and a half before it ended. While I was watching the announcers had told us 3 things you could do in under 3 hours, fly from Miami to Seattle, cook a 12 – 18 lbs turkey, and watch the 6 last episodes of 24.

The game finally got a score in the 19th inning one for each team and then in the 20th, the Mets score again and win the game it was a long game, sort of like 3 games for the price of one!

Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum, Orlando, Florida

The place had so many artifacts from the past and not so long ago. There were people tall like Robert Wadlow who was and will be the tallest person who ever lived that was 8′ 11″ and Robert Earl Hughes who had the biggest waist ever which was 9′ 1″. People who could do interesting things, people who were unusual, etc.

There are many other Ripley’s Believe it or Not museums all around the world. You should visit one when you have the chance.

German engine designer and automobile engineer Karl Benz Invented the first practical automobile in 1885. His Father died when Karl was only 2 years old and before his father’s death, his last name was Vaillant but changed it to Benz after his father’s death. He had lived his life in near poverty with only his mother to support him and help him get a good education from school. Benz originally focused his studies on locksmithing and eventually followed his father’s footsteps.  

On September 30, 1860, at age fifteen, he passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, which he subsequently attended. Benz was graduated July 9, 1864 at nineteen. During those years, while riding his bicycle, he envisioned concepts for a vehicle which would later become the horseless carriage. Benz generally was regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz.

The popular story about this first long distance automobile trip is that, supposedly without the knowledge of her husband, on the morning of August 5, 1888, Bertha Benz took this vehicle on a 106 km (65 mile) trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother, taking her sons Eugen and Richard with her. In addition to having to locate fuel at pharmacies on the way, she also overcame various technical and mechanical problems and finally arrived at nightfall, announcing the achievement to Karl by telegram. It had been her intention to demonstrate the feasibility of using her husband’s invention for travel and to obtain publicity that would make more people aware of it.

Benz’s Model 3 made its wide-scale debut to the world in the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, and about twenty-five Motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.

Today when I went to a baseball game here in St. Petersburg, FL, I was at the Tropicana Stadium and the home team was the Rays playing against the away team, the Orioles. It was the top of the 2nd inning and one of the Orioles was up at bat. The Rays pitcher throws the ball and the batter hits a home run along the 3rd baseline.

We all know people try to get a home run ball after it’s hit for a souvenir, well this one person gets the ball and everyone around them was shouting “Throw the ball back!”  After a moment’s quick hesitation, they threw the ball back onto the field. Right at that moment, people around the stadium were cheering for their “Heroic actions” one could say.

Did you know that Rene Laennec, a French doctor, invented the stethoscope? It’s a device for listening to the sound of a person’s heart beating or of somebody breathing. It quickly became an important medical instrument. A lot of people wonder why it seems doctors keep them so cold too!

When I was out around the town today, I was quite hungry and wanted to have something to eat so I went in the drive-thru for Mcdonalds. I went up to the ordering machine and ordered 1 Oreo mcflurry and 1 hot fudge sundae, but my order didn’t show up on the screen so Iwas wondering if something was wrong with it since orders usually come up on the screen. And when I drove up to the pick up window, I got my Oreo mcflurry and they gave me an m & m mcflurry too. I asked about my hot fudge sundae and they noticed they forgot it, so they made me a hot fudge sundae and Igot to keep the m & m mcflurry for free!

Did you know that around 12,000 b.c. wolves were the first animals to be domesticated, or tamed? They helped people to hunt for food. These tamed wolves were the ancestors of today’s dogs.