Sep 6

 

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Sep 6, 2020  Week: 37  Day: 250                    Local:   H 88° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph                              Nearest lightning:  143mi.; active fire:  306mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 87°[1977]   Record: 33°[1985]                 Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

-Henry Ford

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Random Tidbits

 In the mid-1980s, milk cartons with photos of missing children on them made their debut. The first child to appear on one of those milk cartons was Etan Patz, a 6-year-old from New York who disappeared walking to the bus stop in May 1975.

According to the U.S. Department of State, there are no statistics that track the number of Americans who go missing in a foreign country in a given year. The United Kingdom does, however. In 2008, 481 British disappeared abroad, an increase from 401 the previous year and 336 in 2006.

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A little humor

"Disorder in the Court" True statements from court records

  

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?

WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.

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State Name Origins

The state of Washington was named in honor of George Washington and is the only state named after the the nation's first president, or any U.S. president.

West Virginia split from Virginia when the 39 western counties of Virginia refused to secede from the Union during the Civil War. West Virginia came into being in 1863. For Virginia's name origin please look up Virginia on our list.

The Wisconsin Historical Society says Wisconsin was originally called "Meskonsing" and is the English rendering of a French version of a Miami Indian name for the Wisconsin River that runs through the center of the state. The society said that in the Miami people's language it meant, "this stream meanders through something red," a reference to the red sandstone bluffs of the Wisconsin Dells.

The name "Wyoming" is derived from the Delaware people's word "mecheweami-ing," meaning "at the big plains." Another possible origin for Wyoming's name is that it is an Algonquin word meaning "large prairie place."

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True Things

 A marriage proposal is a very special occasion, and some people put a lot of thought and planning into the moment they ask that special someone to be with them 'til death or irreconcilable differences do them part. One British man pulled out all the stops when he decorated his apartment with balloons and hundreds of candles to create the perfect romantic atmosphere. He then lit all of those candles... and then left the apartment to go pick up his girlfriend.

Albert Ndreu, 26, spent two weeks meticulously planning his perfect proposal after buying a ring for Valerija Madevic, 22. He had decided to surprise his sweetheart by filling their living room with several candles, around 100 tea lights and roughly 60 balloons.

He spent over four hours preparing his romantic setting - two of which were spent blowing up balloons and lighting up the candles.

Albert spelled out the words "Marry Me?" with tea lights, had a bottle of Chianti waiting for them, and had a nonstop romance playlist playing on a speaker.

Albert then went out to pick up his girlfriend to bring her home for the surprise. But after he left, the place caught on fire - completely destroying his surprise and his flat.

Three fire crews rushed to the scene after Valerija saw clouds of dark smoke emanating from their flat's door in Sheffield, Yorks. But upon returning and seeing the damage, Albert still insisted on going ahead with the proposal as planned and got down on one knee in the charred room and asked the love of his life if she would marry him.

With sirens wailing in the distance the love struck girlfriend still said 'yes'.

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Observations This Month

One-on-One Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
 
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Pain Awareness Month 
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Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month 
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Pet Health Insurance Month  
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Pleasure Your Mate Month
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month  
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Save The Koala Month 
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Save Your Photos Month  
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Sea Cadet Month
Self-Care Awareness Month 
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Self Improvement Month 
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September Is Healthy Aging Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month  
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Update Your Resume Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month 
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Women's Friendship Month
World Alzheimer's Month
World Animal Remembrance Month   
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World Beach Month
World Speak Out Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month 
(September 15-October 15)

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Observations This Week

Chuckwagon Races: Thru 9/6 
US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Enthusiasm Week: 1-7
National Nutrition Week: 1-7 
(UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week: 1-7 
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Golden Onion Week: 3-7
 
National Go-Kart Week: 3-6  Link
Sweet Corn Week: 3-7
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 4-8 
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International Air Ambulance Week: 5-13 
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Shetland Wool Week: 5-6  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week: 6-12 

Suicide Prevention Week: 6-12 
National Waffle Week: 6-12 

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Observations for Today

Bowling League Day Link 

Fight Procrastination Day

National Coffee Ice Cream Day

Read a Book Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

A warm Saturday with no precipitation in sight. It would be a great day to attend a concert, a fair, or any gathering. Covid has sure messed thing up.

I am taking a holiday from news channels until next week. I’m fed up with all the news that makes little or no sense. Covid is here. Wear a mask…I get it. Some were saying no vaccine until 2021, others by Nov. 1. Others ‘it’s a trap’. Just need a break. Same on the election. I am tired of both sides sending messages that ‘the end is near.’ A break will be nice.

My kidney doctor saw me in May through tele-conference. On Wednesday and Friday I got voicemail that I needed to make a new appointment. I remembered that the office couldn’t make my next appointment after the tele-conference. It took 3 calls to make the appointment in October, most likely another tele-conference. She said it was good I called since they are booking October quickly. I blame it on a crappy appointment application. My iPhone calendar lets me make appointments years in advance. Their program can’t do 3 months ahead.

I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry. Not my favorite task, but one that needs to be done so I can wear clean clothes. I know no one will see me, but I will feel good.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court.

What are we?

Bonus

The more places I be the less you see.

What am I?

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Historical Events

1620 – The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.

1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute became the first college to grant women equal status.

1866 – Frederick Douglass was the first US black delegate to a national political convention.

1901 – Leon Czolgosz shot and killed US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

1954 – WINS (New York City) began playing rock and roll music with the Alan Freed Show.

1955 – Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O’Brian debuted on ABC.

1963 – Baseball Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in professional baseball history.

1972 – September 5/6;  Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group.

1979 – National Grandparents Day was proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter to be celebrated on the Sunday following Labor Day.

1983 – The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, claiming that it did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

1991 – The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

1991 – The name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia’s second-largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.

1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.

1997 – The funeral for Princess Diana was broadcast across several networks and around the world. An estimated 2 billion people watched all or part of the funeral on television.

2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Sint Maartens and British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda damaged.

2018 New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states investigating

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Birthdays Today

83 – Jo Anne Worley, American comedic actress

@81 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman, diplomat (d. 1969)

@77 – Catharine Beecher, American educator, and activist (d. 1878)

77 – Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter, Pink Floyd

76 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress

@74 – Jane Addams, American sociologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

73 – Jane Curtin, American comedic actress

62 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian

58 – Chris Christie, American politician

56 – Rosie Perez, American actress

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Puzzle Answer

Vowels

Bonus

Darkness

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