Pilates to start the week! Strengthen those core muscles! or just lay on the floor and wave your legs around.
Ephesians chapter 3 - A prayer for the Ephesians, and you and I. God gives you so much more, even more then what you ask for. Praise God from who all blessings flow!
On this day:
2004 - I worked for that guy for almost 20 years and every beginning of summer we went through the same ritual. The AC for the office would never work the first time you turned it on. They were up on the roof of the two story building. It was my fault, because I was supposed to leave the bathroom door open 6" for ventilation and that's why it wouldn't work. I wonder if it works now? The company would come and charge it and clean it, there were 3 units, but if the door had been left open they would have worked.
1924 - "Jelly-Roll Blues" was recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and his band.
This nugget is for Blake. 1958 -
Jerry Lee Lewis took out a full-page ad in
Billboard Magazine to explain about his second divorce and third marriage to his 14 year old cousin Myra.
This is for you Don, remember?
Parenting - What parent lets their 14 year old daughter marry an old rock star? OH! They probably needed the money?
Book Club -- Still Mornings on Horseback. I am saddlesore.
Abidjan -
Colonial era[edit]
Abidjan was originally a small fishing village. In 1896, following a series of deadly
yellow fever epidemics, the French colonists who first settled in Bassam decided to move to a safer place. They located in the current location of Abidjan in 1898, and in 1903 it received town status.
[15] Their movement was followed by the colonial government created in 1899, although nearby
Bingerville became capital of the French colony from 1900 until 1934.
The future Abidjan, situated on the edge of the
lagoon n'doupé ("the lagoon in hot water, "future "Ébrié Lagoon"), offered more space and greater opportunities for trade expansion. The wharf in Petit Bassam (now
Port-Bouet) south of the town, quickly overtook in importance the wharf of
Grand-Bassam, hitherto the main economic access to the colony. In 1904, the rail terminus was located in the
Port-Bouet area of Abidjan.
[15] From 1904, when
Bingerville was not yet complete, Abidjan became the main economic hub of the colony of Ivory Coast and a prime channel for distributing products to the European hinterland, particularly through the Lebanese community which was increasingly important.
Henri Terrasson de Fougères became governor of French Sudan in 1924, and remained the governor until his death in 1931. One of the main streets of Abidjan still bears his name.
In 1931, Plateau and what became
Treichville were connected approximately at the position of the bridge Houphouet Boigny by a floating bridge. That year, it was first addressed as the streets of Abidjan. It temporarily held the name in 1964, under the leadership of Mayor Konan Kanga, completed by the Americans in 1993.
Abidjan became the third capital of Ivory Coast, after
Grand-Bassam and
Bingerville in 1934.
[15] Several villages in Tchaman were then deserted. It is particularly Adjame ("center" in Tchaman), located at the north of the Plateau, which is still the leader of the Tchaman community.
South of the Plateau district (the current central district of the city of Abidjan), the village of
Dugbeo was moved across the lagoon to Anoumabo, "the forest of fruit bats", which became the neighborhood of
Treichville (now Commikro). This area was thus renamed in 1934 in honour of
Marcel Treich-Laplénie (1860–1890), the first explorer of Ivory Coast and its first colonial administrator, considered its founder. Instead of Dugbeyo, is the current Treich Laplénie Avenue, the bus station and water lagoon buses in Plateau, and the Avenue
Charles de Gaulle (commonly called Rue du Commerce).
The city was laid out like the usual colonial towns as a
grid plan.
Le Plateau ("m'brato" in Tchaman) was inhabited by settlers. In the north, the city was inhabited by the colonized. The two zones were separated by the
Gallieni Military Barracks, instead of the current courthouse.
Near the port and along a petanque, originally named Boulevard de Marseille, facetious settlers who had "borrowed" a street sign of a famous street of Marseille renamed the street Canebière, a sand track. This is the legend behind the first Blohorn oil mills, in
Cocody. A racetrack was built in the south of the city that never stops growing.
Le Plateau in the 1940s, the hotel grew and became Bardon Park Hotel, the first air-conditioned hotel working in
francophone Africa.
Abidjan's lagoon became connected to the sea once the 15m deep
Vridi Canal was completed in 1950.
[15] Soon Abidjan would become the financial center of West Africa. In 1958, the first bridge to connect
Petit-Bassam Island with the mainland was completed.
[15] Here is some history, please note that this is a French speaking country, I hear even the fruit bats speak French.!
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable!
