Jul 22

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Jul. 22, 2019 Week: 30 \ Day: 203

86004:   H 87° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Nearest wildfire:  6mi. Nearest lightning:  297mi

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  21mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1996]   Record Low: 38°[1995]

Jul Averages: 82°\542° (8 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

If you think it's hard to meet new people,

try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Jack Lemmon

Observances This Week

6-28
Tour de France

18-25

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

20-24

National Scrabble Week Link 

20-28

National Moth Week Link

21-27

Captive Nations Week
International Lace Week  Link

National Independent Retailers Week Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week Link

RAGBRAI

Observances for Today

Casual Pi Day  (22/7)
Fragile X Awareness Day
Global Hug Your Kid Day
Hammock Day

National Penuche Day

Pi Approximation Day

Rat-catcher's Day
Spooners (Spoonerism) Day

My Rambling Thoughts

 Another warm day, thank goodness for open windows, slight breeze, and efficient swamp cooler. A forest fire just broke out about 6miles from where I live, with a mountain between me and the fire. Lots of smoke, lots of dark sky, just announced evacuations of residents near the fire. I knew it was dry, but the amount of smoke from this 5+ acre and growing fire is unbelievable. Outside is suddenly looking like we are in the middle of an eclipse. Looks like several planes are dropping water. Facebook is blowing up with updates for us locals. Several offering corrals for livestock from the fire area. Such great people live here.

Our discussion group recognized that nuclear weapons are here to stay. Those countries that have them won’t give them up, those countries that don’t have them still want time. Holding a nuclear weapon does help prevent attacks.  Nuclear treaties are the only answer, for without them, the world be more chaotic. No treaty is ever perfect, just ask the indigenous people of this continent. Remember physics? For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction…same is true when one country withdraws from a treaty. Good discussion.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Analogies are comparisons. Complete each analogy below. Here is an example: Ear is to hearing as eye is to?   Sight.

1. Cardinals is to St. Louis as Dodger is to?

2. A.M. is to before noon as P.M. is to?

3. Three is to triangle as 8 is to?

4. Tear is to tore as see is to?

5. Springfield is to Illinois as Austin is to?

Today’s Highlighted Historical Events

1500’s

1515 First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire - rise of the Habsburgs influence

1600’s

1686 City of Albany, NY chartered

1800’s

1864 Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman's Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties

1900’s

1933 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)

1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1960 Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories

1963 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule

1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour

1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

2000’s

2015 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to AD568 - AD645

2018 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Highlighted Birthdays Today

1763 James Geddes, 

American Engineer (Erie Canal), born in Carlisle Pennsylvania (d. 1838: @75)

1844 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England (d. 1930: @86)

1849 Emma Lazarus, 

American poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty), born in NYC, (d. 1887: @38: cancer)

1890 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 

American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK & Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995: @104)

1898 Stephen Vincent Benét, 

American author (d. 1943: @44: heart attack)

1908 Amy Vanderbilt, 

American authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette, Complete Cook Book), born in NYC, (d. 1974: @66: fall from buiding)

1922 Dan Rowan 

[Daniel Hale Rowan], 

American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), born in Beggs, Oklahoma (d. 1987: @65: lymphoma)

1932 Oscar de la Renta, 

Dominican American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (d. 2014: @82)

90’s

91- Orson Bean,

American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), born in Burlington, Vermont

80’s

85- Louise Fletcher,

actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest), born in Birmingham, Alabama

70’s

79-Alex Trebek,

game show host, Jeopardy

73- Danny Glover,

American actor and activist (Lethal Weapon, The Color Purple), born in San Francisco, California

72- Don Henley,

Rock singer, The Eagles

72- Albert Brooks,

comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America), born in Los Angeles, California

60’s

64-Willem Defoe,

actor

50’s

56- Rob Estes,

American actor

55- David Spade,

American comedian and actor (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep), born in Birmingham, Michigan

55- John Leguizamo,

Colombian American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark), born in Bogotá, Colombia

0’s

6- Prince George of Cambridge,

son of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, England (3rd in line to the English throne), born in London, England

Highlighted Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2001 Frances Horwich,

American educator and television personality (Ding Dong School)

80’s

@89-1967 Carl Sandburg,

poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years)

@84-2008 Estelle Getty,

American actress (The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace), dies of Lewy body disease

60’s

@69-2013 Dennis Farina,

American actor, dies from a pulmonary embolism

@65-1932 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.,

American theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies)

Puzzle answer:

1. Los Angeles

2. Afternoon

3. Octagon

4. Saw