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July 26 - Happy Birthday, FBI

   Posted on July 26, 2022     


This is an update of my post published on July 26, 2011:




The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created on this day in 1908. It is, in a way, the United States' national police department, because the FBI has jurisdiction in more than 200 categories of federal crime. The FBI also is the “intelligence agency” that gathers information from inside the country for the purposes of national security. 

(The CIA and NSA both operate as intelligence agencies involved with data gathering NOT inside the country, but instead around the world.)


Did you know that FBI is an abbreviation for “Federal Bureau of Investigation,” but it's not an acronym? An acronym is a word you can pronounce, with at least one vowel per syllable, created from initial letters or word parts. FBI is just the initial letters that we pronounce as letters; it would have to be pronounced something like “febbie” to be an acronym. Examples of acronyms are NASA (“National Aeronautics and Space Administration”) and scuba (“self-contained underwater breathing apparatus”).

But though FBI is not an acronym, the organization does feature a backronym. A backronym is a phrase created especially to start with certain letters; in other words, it is sort of the opposite of an acronym. The FBI's backronym is its motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.

You can see the motto in the little yellow ribbon in the FBI's logo. And on this statue and on FBI merch and and and...







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Anniversary of scientists getting their first look at a rock from the Moon





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April 6 – Radio Debuts

Posted on April 6, 2016

Remember when there was no internet, and there was no TV...only radio?

Yeah, neither do I! That was a looooong time ago!

But from around 1920 to around 1950, radio was one of the most important ways that people got information and entertainment. For a while there, radio was king.


During these decades, there were a lot of shows that people looked forward to and tuned into. Fictional radio shows told stories through dialogue and narration and music and sound effects.

On this date in 1931, Little Orphan Annie debuted on the NBC Blue radio network, and on this date in 1945, This Is Your FBI debuted on ABC radio. (Notice that NBC and ABC have both become big-time television networks in the U.S. Did you know that they started as radio broadcasting networks?)



Little Orphan Annie is probably familiar to you from the many movies called simply Annie. The adventures of the bold, curly-haired Annie and her dog Sandy started as a comic strip in 1924. The radio show was 15 minutes long. It was one of the first comic strips adapted to radio – and it was on the air for 12 years! Millions of listeners tuned in, and some of those listeners were little kids. Apparently there wasn't much in the way of radio programming for kids back then.

This Is Your FBI was a crime drama taken from the perspective of Special Agent Jim Taylor. I was surprised to read that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover allowed the producer-director to look at the actual FBI files and to base storylines on real cases!

Check out the shows here and here. And remember – these were cutting-edge technology at the time!


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Be sure to check out the story of Robert Garrett, pictured here. It's pretty strange and cool!





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July 26, 2011 - Happy Birthday, FBI!


The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created on this day in 1908. It is, in a way, the United States' national police department, because the FBI has jurisdiction in more than 200 categories of federal crime. The FBI also is the “intelligence agency” that gathers information from inside the country for the purposes of national security. (The CIA and NSA both operate as intelligence agencies involved with data gathering around the world.)

Did you know that FBI is an abbreviation for “Federal Bureau of Investigation,” but it's not an acronym? An acronym is a word you can pronounce, with at least one vowel per syllable, created from initial letters or word parts. FBI is just the initial letters that we pronounce as letters; it would have to be pronounced something like “febbie” to be an acronym. Examples of acronyms are NASA (“National Aeronautics and Space Administration”) and scuba (“self-contained underwater breathing apparatus”).

But though FBI is not an acronym, the organization does feature a backronym. A backronym is a phrase created especially to start with certain letters; in other words, it is sort of the opposite of an acronym. The FBI's backronym is its motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.

Play games on the official FBI website!  I just tried the first two slider puzzles—and they were difficult but fun!

Watch White Collar. This is one of my favorite shows right now; the USA network show features a white collar division of the FBI.  The show is in its third season, but we watched the first two seasons streaming and on DVDs from Netflix and loved them!

Many other television shows, including an old favorite, NUMB3RS, also deal with the FBI, but these shows are often more violent--the FBI, of course, does investigate murders and other violent crimes. White Collar is a lot less bloody because it's more about conmen and scam artists. You might, however, want to check the parental advisory.
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