Sep 17


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Sept  17, 2018 Week: 38 \ Day: 260
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 
Wind:   14mph\Gusts: 0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1956]   Record Low: 27°[1903]
Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

     The best and most beautiful things in the world
     Cannot be seen or even touched—
     They must be felt with the heart
        Helen Keller

Harper’s Index

9/10
     Estimated portion of food-poisoning claims by British
     Tourists at Spanish hotels that are fraudulent

$70,000,000
     Amount such claims cost the Spanish tourism
     industry last year


Observances This Week

15-22  Farm Animal Awareness Week
Balance Awareness Week Link   
Build A Better Image Week
International Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week
National Indoor Plant Week
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Love Your Files Week Link  
National Singles Week
Tolkien Week

17-23  Constitution Week
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
Pollution Prevention Week Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week  

Observances for Today

Citizenship Day
Constitution Day 
Link
International Country Music Day Link
National Apple Dumpling Day
National Monte Cristo Day Link
Time's Up Day
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
Respect for The Aged Day  
Link


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1600’s                                         
1683 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

1700’s                                         
1787 The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention

1800’s                                         
1849 Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers

1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War 23,110 die in first battle on Union soil

1900’s                                         
1954 "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is published by Faber and Faber in London

1963 "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen premieres on ABC TV

1972 "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week

1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

1988 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea


My Rambling Thoughts
Smoky and smelly here at 7000’. There are two fires near Sedona that have now moved up onto the Mogollon Rim. There has been a little smoke around for a couple of days, but late yesterday and into today the smoke became very bothersome. It is a lightning caused fire and has been in rugged and steep areas, now that it is on the rim, they can now really deal with it.

As I was channel surfing I found the 1997 movie ‘Starship Troopers’. After watching about 15 minutes I decided this is the movie that gave 45 the idea of a space force. It was a little too campy for my taste, so I never finished it. In the part I watched, no one had bone spurs. But the soldiers were shooting nukes from shoulder-fired weapons on an enemy planet where they didn’t need to wear a space suit.

Decided it was time for a deep clean of the laundry room and downstairs’ bathroom. Glad it is now done.

Mary is IM-ing me and posting pics on her Italian adventure. Beautiful area she is in…Sassie di Matera, Italy.

No Broncos on TV but at half time, they need some energy. Cards are on TV and look like they forgot how to play football. Maybe the 2nd half will help both teams.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

80’s
@87Warren E Burger, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86) (d. 1995)

@84John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)

70’s
79David Souter, American retired 107th Supreme Court Justice (1990-2009), born in Melrose, Massachusetts

60’s
@66Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), born in La Junta Colorado (d. 2001) stroke

65Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People)

50’s
@54John Ritter, comedian, actor (d, 2003) aorta discection

40’s
47Bobby Lee, comedian, Mad TV

47Nate Berkus, Designer, TV host

20’s
@29Hank Williams, Sr. country singer (d. 1953) heart problem


Historical Obits Today

90’s
@922012 Russell E. Train, American environmentalist

70’s
@771996 Spiro Agnew, American politician (Vice President, 1969 until resignation over corruption allegations in 1973), leukemia

60’s
@62±1858 Dred Scott, US ex-slave who sought to sue for his freedom, TB

@611948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)

@601985 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, falling down the stairs

50’s
@561899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist, heart attack


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