Jul 19

                                                          

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Jul 19, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 201

86004:   H 85° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 70%

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  3mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[2009]   Record Low: 34°[1987]

Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)

 

Today’s  Quote

"If you really look closely,

most overnight successes took a long time."

-Steve Jobs

 

Random Tidbits

 A number of researchers argue that while the human body is capable of digesting meat, our bodies are actually designed to be herbivores. For example, the human molars are similar to those of an herbivore, flat and blunt, which make them good for grinding, not gnashing and tearing.

Several studies show that a plant-based diet increases the body's metabolism, causing the body to burn calories up to 16 percent faster than the body would on a meat-based diet for at least the first 3 hours after meals.

Some research suggests that if a man avoids red meats, it improves the sex appeal of his body odor.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#9       "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Bette Davis

All About Eve          1950

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Rabbit Week: 15-21
Hemingway Look-Alike Days: 16-20   Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Scrabble Week: 18-25  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Moth Week: 18-26 
Link
*Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25 

Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25 Link 
National Independent Retailers Week: 19-25 Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week:19-25 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
RAGBRAI: 19-25
Women in Baseball Week: 19-25

 

Observations for Today

Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day 
Celebration of The Horse Day

Flitch Day Link

Lake Superior Day  
National Daiquiri Day

National Ice Cream Day
National Raspberry Cake Day

Stick Out Your Tongue Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Monsoon continues. Happy Camper here! I so enjoy the cool breeze and the smell of fresh rain.

The House Education and Labor Committee requested the head of the CDC and a few others from the CDC to testify about school opening this fall. The Trump administration response was that the CDC must remain focused on the pandemic and will not be available for the hearing. Hmmm

I did some laundry, including washing several of my masks made by friends. I wasn’t sure how the masks would do but all 3 turned out fine.

Shaving has been my least favorite ‘adulthood’ task. I was shaving every day at 16. When I got to college, I switched from an electric to a safety razor. I still have an electric that I take on adventures, just in case. I have tried almost every safety razor when they come on the market…the two blade, the three blade, even a five blade. They were OK, but not spectacular. I’ve also tried shaving cream, a shaving cream heater, gels, oils, everything. Again, they were OK, but not spectacular. A few months ago, I tried Harry’s razor and shaving cream. Combined they are spectacular. Daily shaving now lasts the entire day with no 5:00 shadow. Finally! That doesn’t mean I shave everyday during this pandemic, and that is obvious during the second afternoon. But a quick shave with Harry’s and I’m good for a couple more days.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

With only two days left on your prescription, you accidentally drop the four remaining pills and they get mixed up. Unfortunately, the pills look exactly the same and you have no way to tell them apart. 

How can you be sure you take the correct medication?

 

Historical Events

64 - Great Fire of Rome occurred, destroying half of the city. Contrary to rumors, Nero did not play the fiddle while it burned, but he did blame "the Christians."

1799 - Indentified today, The Rosetta Stone, which was found July 19,1799, is now the most visited object in the British museum.

1845 - The last great fire (Great New York City Fire of 1845) to hit Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.

1848 - A two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York.

1900 - The Paris Métro opened for operation.

1952 - The Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

1954 - Elvis Presley's first single was released. That's All Right Mama.

1969 - Senator Ted Kennedy crashed his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

1977 - The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill

1982 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon

1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination

1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle

1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William s. Sessions

2009 The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet

2015 World Health Organization puts world's Ebola death toll at 11,284

2017 US scientists calculate total amount plastic ever produced - 8.3 billion tonnes, equal to weight of 1 billion elephants

2017 US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer

2018 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared

2019 Largest wind farm in Africa opens at Lake Turkana, Kenya, generating 310 megawatts

2019 Heat wave begins across the eat of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York city declaring a state of emergency

 

Birthdays Today

@89 - Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, producer (d. 1972)

@89 - Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer screenwriter (d. 2014)

@83 - Edgar Degas, French painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d.  1917)

73 - Brian May, English singer-songwriter, astrophysicist and guitarist [Queen]

@66 - Lizzie Borden, acquitted of murder of her parents (d. 1927; pneumonia)

58 - Anthony Edwards, American actor

@47 - Samuel Colt, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company (d. 1862; gout)

44 - Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor

 

Puzzle Answer

Cut all for pills in half and take half of each pill.

                                                         

 

 


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