Nov 16

 

 

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Nov 16, 2020  Week: 47 Day: 321  

Local:  H 60°\ L 21°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  4mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1367mi.; active fire:  59mi

high Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 70°[1981]   Record: -1°[1964]              

Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes. Eckhart Tolle

 

Random Tidbits

 Isn't indigo basically blue? Why is it even in Roy G. Biv (Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)? We have Isaac Newton to thank for this one: He wanted the number of colors in the spectrum to match Rene Descartes' seven-tone musical scale, and indigo brought the color count to seven.

 

A little humor

On a repair shop door:

WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING.

(PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK.)

 

True Things

 The mayor of a Japanese town said he was initially confused as to why his name was trending on social media after the U.S. presidential election, until family members pointed out the characters in his name also spell out "Jo Baiden."

Mayor Yutaka Umeda of Yamato, Kumamoto prefecture, said the Chinese kanji characters that spell out his name can also be pronounced as "Jo Baiden," a name strikingly similar to that of President-elect Joe Biden.

"Although there are differences in the positions of a U.S. presidential candidate and the mayor of Yamato here in the center of Kyushu, our passion is the same. We continue working to fulfill our duty to ensure the happiness and spiritual richness of our residents," Umeda was quoted as saying by Japanese newspaper The Mainichi.

Umeda said he is considering ways of using his newfound Internet fame to bring extra attention to Yamato, a town of 14,418 people.

"I would like to think of ways to promote the town," he told local.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link

InterNat’l Restorative Justice Week: 16-22 Link 

Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link

Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link

Internat’l Fraud Awareness Week: 15-21 Link

American Education Week: 16-20 Link
Medical Cannabis Week: 16-20 Link

Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 15-22 Link

Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week: 16-22 Link
Nat’l Global Entrepreneurship Week: 16-22 Link

 

Observations for Today

Have a Party With Your Bear Day

International Tolerance Day

National Button Day

National Fast Food Day

Teddy Bear Day (Historic)

 

My Rambling Thoughts

A nice Sunday. Warm, great day for a walk around the neighborhood.

The roofers finished their work at Andy’s and took all their stuff. I let him know while he is in Indiana.

No great revelations on the Sunday News programs.

I’ve done some thinking since Ellie’s phone call about Tahiti. I love travel, but I want to be safe. I’ll be OK if it moves to 2022 and a little relieved.

Chris Rock: There are only 2 rules to the President of the US…born in the US and be 35 years old. Game shows have more requirements to get on the show.

Looking forward to a great week. And hoping the Cards and the Broncos both win today. Cards on TV, Broncos on internet.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Before Mount Everest was discovered,

what was the highest mountain in the world?

 

Historical Events

1620 – The first corn (maize) was found in North America by British settlers, including Myles Standish and William Bradford, in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

1676 – First colonial prison was organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts. William Bunker was the first warden.

1801 – The first edition of the New York Evening Post was published. It is the US’ oldest continuously published daily newspaper.

1822 – Missouri trader William Becknell arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1841 – The first patent (#2,359) for a US life preserver of cork was issued to Napoleon E. Guerin of New York City for his “Improvement in Buoyant Dresses or Life-Preservers.”

1855 – David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1910 – The first American driver to exceed the speed of ‘a mile a minute’ (60 mph) was of A.C. Bostwick on the Ocean Parkway Racetrack in Brooklyn, New York.

1907 – Oklahoma became the United States’ 46th state.

1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opened.

1938 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky set his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. He planted at least 33 over his career. He had gotten injured while working for Con Ed.

1945 – Two new elements were announced in Chicago: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96).

1945 – United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.

1965 – Venera 3 launched, and was the first to land on another planet (it crashed into Venus).

1965 – Walt Disney launched Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

1973 – President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

1992 – The Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

2006 – Great Firewall of China began, giving the Chinese government much control over what could be seen online by its citizens.

2012 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time

2018 CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

2018 Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago

2019 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba

 

Birthdays Today

@89 – Burgess Meredith, actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)

@84 – W.C. Handy, American trumpet player, and composer: Saint Louis Blues, (d. 1958)

57 – Dwight Gooden, American baseball player

53 – Lisa Bonet, American actress, and director

43 – Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress, and singer

27 – Pete Davidson, American comedian, and actor

 

Puzzle Answer

Mount Everest. It was still the highest in the world, it just hadn't been discovered yet.

 

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