Kermit

Kermit, the son of a president, namely Teddy Rosevelt, shot himself dead, he committed suicide in Alaska. 

I read before about Teddy going to Brazil to complete that journey in the Amazon forest and how he was injured, he almost died.  I had not known that his son Kermit went with him.  Interesting it should have been seeing his father in that condition and almost dead.  

Teddy’s children had cool names, Kermit, Quentin, Archibald   

World Cup Semi Finals

World Cup Semi Finals

The semi-finals of the prestigious World Cup have the following match-ups:

Brazil vs Germany 

&

Argentina vs Holland 

These will be exciting games. 

   Brazil

   Germany

   Argentina

   Holland

Hopefully you will make time to watch these games.  

Sincerely, 

World Cup Balls

World Cup Balls

   1974

   1978

   1982

   1986

   1990

   1994

   1998

   2002

   2006

   2010

I saw these balls displayed at Sport Check, west Edmonton mall location.  

Enjoy, 

Ben

Out of the way, Uruguay

Out of the way, Uruguay

I wanted to write about the South American country of Uruguay today. 

Does anyone know why it is called Uruguay? 

how the country declared independence from the European Powers? 

when was the independence?

and finally, what is the capital city?

Here are the answers to the above questions, however first, let me elaborate a bit.  

Uruguay has the neighbours of Brazil and Argentina; and is surrounded on two sides by river, and the third side by the Atlantic Ocean. 

The river of 'Río de la Plata', which is one of the widest rivers in the world is located on the north. 

The 'Río Uruguay' is on the west of the beautiful country. 

And finally, the Atlantic Ocean borders the country to the east. 

The main port and capital city is Montevideo; which was founded in 1726.

The name 'Uruguay' originates from the river mentioned above.  Its etymology derives from a 'Guaraní Indian' word meaning "the river of shellfish". 

Never been to Uruguay yet, but I will definitely make it out to this 'out of the way' country soon. 

Thank you for reading. 

2014 World Cup Draw

2014 World Cup Draw

The FIFA 2014 World Cup, will be played in Brazil in June of 2014.  The Final Draw for setting up of the 'Groups' for this tournament will take place at the city of Costa do Sauipe, which is near the city of Salvador, in Brazil. 

The 'Draw' will be completed on December 6, 2013.  

The 'Pots' are listed below, and the way it works is like this.  

There will be 1 country picked per pot, to form 8 groups of 4 teams.  A look at the Pots, shows that there will be interesting and difficult match-ups  lurking for us viewers.  

Pot 1: Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay and Switzerland.

Pot 2: USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan, Iran, South Korea and Australia.

Pot 3: Chile, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, France

Pot 4: Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Russia.

I'm looking forward to the draw and finally, the World Cup. 

Happy viewing to everyone in the World.