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Episode 794: Set Phasers to ‘Mild Inconvenience’

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  • Email about cursive from Lisa

    • Hello gents.

    I started out as a preschool/prek teacher  teaching Littles how to write their names. Cursive was originally used in the Quill and ink pot days so you could write without lifting the quill too often it was also too increase speed and to be stylized in Victorian times. 

    Because if your think about it things were much prettier back in those times. Smellier but Fancier of course. 

    Catch ya on the next podcast.

    On This Day In History for January 14, 2026

    This is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining in 2026.

    • It was on this date in 1899, that RMS Oceanic, the largest ship afloat since SS Great Eastern, was launched.
    • January 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition made landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
    • On January 14, 1952, NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuted, with host Dave Garroway.
    • 72 years ago today, The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
    • Also on January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

      • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

      • German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer, Johann Matthias Hase, born on this date in 1684.
      • Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French sailor, explorer, and politician was born on that same date in 1705.
      • Polish mathematician and academic, Hugo Steinhaus was born 139 years ago today.
      • Mark Goodson, the American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right was born 111 years ago today.
      • American director, producer, and screenwriter, Steven Soderbergh, born on this date in 1963.
      • Also turning 57 today is American actor, director, and producer Jason Bateman.

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          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 14, 2026

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