TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today I have for you some fun facts on the service organization known as Rotary Clubs. I never realized that these clubs were located all over the world. Their stated purpose, according to an entry on Wikipedia, is "to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world." Let's learn some more facts about this great organization!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

HINT: (1910-2010), American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood."


RANDOM TIDBITS
On February 23, 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Chicago for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting. A second club was formed in San Francisco in 1908, and soon after, clubs began to pop up across North America.

On August 1, 1912, the Rotary Club of London became the first club chartered outside of North America. The Rotary Club of Dublin, Ireland, had been organized earlier, but didn't receive its charter until 1 May 1913.

Paul Harris was elected as first president of the National Association of Rotary Clubs (which later became Rotary International) in 1910, and is the only president to have served two terms.

In 1929, The Rotary Foundation gave its first gift, 500 dollars, to the International Society for Crippled Children (later Easter Seals), which was founded in 1921 by Rotarian Edgar F. Allen, of the Rotary Club of Elyria, Ohio.

Rotary's first convention in Asia was held in Tokyo in 1961. Among the record-setting 23,366 paid and unpaid registrants was the emperor of Japan.

The largest convention to date, based on the number of paid registrants, was the Rotary centennial convention, held in Chicago in 2005.

(Facts from rotary.org)


VIDEO CLIP
Bono - World AIDS Day
Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2 is very outspoken on many fronts. Watch his public service announcement for World AIDS Day.

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Below the floor
A spider creeps,
Some people sleep down here.
Even though it can be dark
Movement is detected.
Enter, please come on down and
Never have any fear.
Tell me, what is this place?

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

ANSWER: John Wooden.

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