Dec 15



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Dec. 15, 2019 Week: 51 Day: 349
86004:   H 46° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Nearest lightning:  2011mi
Nearest active fire:  267mi.  
Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  20mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 63°[1929]   Record Low: -14°[1931]
Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure
and therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them
many things which older people miss.”
Black Elk
~ Native American Proverb

Random Tidbits

Africa is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres

As you already know, planet Earth is divided into four hemispheres: north, south, east, and west. But only one of the seven continents can lay claim to being located in all four, and that's Africa.

Observances This Week

3-24
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling  Link

10-17
Human Rights Week

14-1/5
Christmas Bird Count Week Link 

14-28
Halcyon Days 
(Always 7 days before and 7 days after the Winter Solstice)

15-21
Gluten-free Baking Week Link 

Observances for Today

Cat Herders Day  Link
International Tea Day 
 Link
National Lemon Cupcake Day
National Cupcake Day
National Gingerbread Latte Day
National Wear Your Pearls Day Link
Zamenhof Day (Esperato Literature Day) 
Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I ran to the bookstore for some Christmas gifts. Found what I needed. B&N has changed a lot over the last few years but still has good prices and good selection.

NPR had a good story this morning on the American Prairie Project in Montana, about 40 miles from Lewiston. Hoping to have buffalo, better grasses, and almost no people living in the area. It will be about the size of the Serengeti if all goes according to plan.  Farmers and ranchers aren’t very happy, but environmentalists think is great. My great uncle grew wheat, hay, and raised cattle on the other side of that huge state. I can see both sides of the controversy.

Got my local paper stopped, I hope, for my upcoming trip. The USPS site wasn’t working so I’ll try that one again tomorrow.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

If you threw a yellow hat with a red ribbon into the Black Sea, what would it become?

Historical Events

1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope

1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution

1827 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, the School Committee voted to require, effective 1 Mar 1828, that public school students show that they had been vaccinated against smallpox prior to school entrance. Certificates to the board of health were to be issued where necessary for free vaccination. This initiative came just three decades after Edward Jenner's discovery of a method to immunize against smallpox. The state of Massachusetts passed the first school vaccination law in 1855, followed by New York (1862) and Connecticut (1872).

1836 - A fire destroyed the US Patent Office, erasing the records of most of the first 9,957 US patents' records.

1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death

1890 - Native American Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) was shot and killed by Indian police over a political misunderstanding.

1933 - The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.

1939 - Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

1944 - Bandleader Glenn Miller's plane disappeared over the English Channel. One of the largest pop stars of his day, he was the first of many who died in an airplane mishap.

1951 - #1 Hit: Eddy Howard – It’s No Sin

1954 - Davy Crockett, starring Fess Parker, premiered. It was the first mini-series, lasting 5 episodes.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel

1970 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully landed on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

1973 - The American Psychiatric Association voted 13-0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.


1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

1979 Chris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit

1989 - Driving Miss Daisy debuted in theaters.

1993 – Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson, opened in theaters.

2000 - What Women Want, Dude Where's My Car and Chocolat debuted in theaters.

2000 - Chernobyl nuclear plant was officially, permanently shut down in Ukraine, after the April 26, 1986 disaster.

2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean

2011 Former French President Jacques Chirac is convicted of diverting public funds, receives a two-year suspended prison sentence


2018 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announces establishment of independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, splitting from Russian Orthodox

2018 Egyptian Archaeologists announce discovery of 4,400 year old tomb of Fifth Dynasty priest in Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo
Birthdays Today

@85 - Tim Conway, American comedian and actor
     (died in 2019)

@83 - J. Paul Getty, American-English businessman, founder ofGetty Oil
     (died in 1976)


@81 - Kurt Schaffenberger, German-American comic book illustrator: Capt. Marvel
     (died in 2002)

79 - Dave Clark, English drummer

@78 - Uziel "Uzi" Gal
(Hebrew: עוזיאל "עוזי" גל, born Gotthard Glas),
     German/Isreali inventor of the Uzi submachine gun
     (died in 2002; cancer)

73 - Carmine Appice, American drummer; songwriter (Vanilla Fudge)

70 - Don Johnson, American actor

56 - Helen Slater, American actress (Supergirl)

40 - Adam Brody, American actor

@30 - Nero, Roman emperor (died in 68; suicide)

Puzzle answer:

Wet, because it fell into the water.



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