Nov 4


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Nov. 4, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 308
86004:   H 67° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  87mi.  Nearest lightning:  1207mi
Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  8mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1975]   Record Low: -1°[1922]
Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation;
it means understanding that something is what it is
and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
~ Michael J Fox

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11
World Origami Days

1-7
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link  
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link  
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week
World Communication Week

2-6
National Patient Accessibility Week

Observances for Today

International Stress Awareness Day  Link 
King Tut Day
National Chicken Lady Day
National Candy Day  
Link
National Easy-Bake Oven Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Not too cold last night and has warmed up nicely. Just had to deal with the pine needles on my deck and on the front walk.

I figured out my problem with the APS website…I usually use Chrome but also have Edge. When I was on Edge this morning, I tried the link and everything worked just fine. Crazy, but now I know that I used the same amount of electricity in Oct 2018 as I did in 2019. Both years I used more than in September of the year.

I watched the Sunday morning news shows. I wish all the shows would give a 3-minute summary of the weeks impeachment news, then spend the rest of the time talking about other news. I’m getting very burned out. I doubt that it is going to happen and the only way it will end is with the 2020 elections…over a year away. The more the Dems stay in the news, the less chance he will be defeated and the country will probably move way to the right. The only way is a campaign to get the liberals to vote in 2020.

Samantha Bee did an interesting segment of advertising on the internet machine. When there is a pharmaceutical commercial advertisement on TV or radio, it is required by law to list side effects. When an actor is used in an insurance advertisement it has to state that in the commercial. However; when someone on Social Media talks about the same products, they don’t have to say if they are being paid by the company that makes the product nor do they have to list side effects. Just another reason not to trust social media.  

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

The most impressive boundary’s not a wall.
It’s not a manufactured thing at all.
Moving towards it won’t reduce the gap
and nothing marks its presence on a map.

Historical Events

1667 (Earthquake) Shamakhi (now Azerbaijan) estimated 80,000 people killed.

1841 - First wagon train arrived in California. They left Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841.

1846 - The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire.

1873 - A patent (#144,182) for a gold crown was issued to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on "artificial crowns for teeth".

1879 - James Jacob Ritty and his brother John invented the first cash register, to stop the stealing by his bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant saloon in Dayton, Ohio.

1904 - First stadium built specifically for football opened (Harvard Stadium). Officially, when referring to more than one stadium, they should be called 'stadia.' But 'stadiums' works too.

1914 - Vogue held the first model show ("Fashion Fete" in New York City), although individual American stores had shown models wearing the latest fashions since the early 1900s.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established by Adolf Hitler

1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings, by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.

1939 - First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) was exhibited, Chicago, Ill. The A/C option was available for $274 until 1941. WW II stopped production of many luxury items. It wasn't until 1953 that air conditioning was commercially available in cars again.

1946 - UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was founded.

1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature

1948 - TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."

1952 - The United States government established the National Security Agency, or NSA.

1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII

1960 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

1970 Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov forms Human Rights Committee


1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seized the US embassy, took 90 hostages (444 days) in the "Iran hostage crisis".


1979 - Blockbuster film Jaws was shown on TV for the first time, on ABC. Originally released in 1975, it was the first modern day "blockbuster." When released, critic Roger Ebert called it "a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into human beings".


2008 - Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.

2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women


2018 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd fastest men's time in history; Kenya's Mary Keitany captures her 4th women's NYC crown in 2:22:48

Birthdays Today

@92 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, and producer
(died in 2009)

@90 – Doris Roberts, American actress
(died in 2016)

@85 – Art Carney, American actor
(died in 2003)

82 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer

79 – Delbert McClinton, American Singer/Songwriter

73 – Laura Bush, American educator and librarian,
45th First Lady of the United States

69 – Markie Post, American actress (Night Court)

59 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress

58 – Ralph Macchio, American actor (Karate Kid)

58 – Jeff Probst, American TV host and producer

@55 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter
(died in 1935; plane crash)

50 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer and actor

50 – Mathew McConaughey, actor

@42 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer
(died in 1989; HIV/AIDS)

Puzzle answer:

The horizon.


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