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Sep 13, 2020 Week: 38 Day: 257 Local: H 72° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind:
mph\Gusts: mph Nearest lightning: 521mi.;
active fire: 59mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: °[. ] Record: °[. ]
Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"You miss 100%
of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne
Gretzky
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Random Tidbits
Famous owner/horse
partnerships that helped change world history include Alexander the Great and
his horse Bucephalus ("ox head"), El Cid and Babieca
("stupid"), and Napoleon and Marengo (named after a battle) who after
its death, had its skeleton displayed in London.
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True Things
A Massachusetts
man who bought a desk for $40 at an auction said a search for a missing knob
turned up at least $127,000 worth of bonds. Phillip LeClerc, 60, of Weymouth,
said he bought the desk for $40 on Nov. 19 at a Kelley Auctions sale and he
went searching through the desk's many compartments when a knob came loose from
a small drawer and fell off. LeClerc said he discovered the first envelope
poking out from a small gap beneath a drawer and he soon had a stack of bonds
that matured in 1992 and have since accumulated interest. He estimated the
stack of bonds is worth a total of at least $127,000. LeClerc contacted Marge
Kelley, president of the auction company. Kelley said the bonds were returned
to a man who said the money will go toward caring for his 94-year-old father.
"I've been doing this for 10 years and every day the stories get stranger
and better and [more] fabulous," Kelley told the Boston Globe. "The
gentleman whose family the bonds belong to, he can't even believe it. He said,
'I'm over the moon.'"
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Observations This Week
US Open
Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Air Ambulance Week: 5-13 Link
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: 9-15 Link
Popcorn Days: 11-13 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance: 11-13
Mushroom Days: 12-13 Link Cancelled due
to COVID-19
Balance Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
International
Housekeepers Week: 13-19 Link
Mitochondrial Disease
Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
National Assisted Living Week: 13-19
National Security Officer Appreciation Week: 13-19
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: 13-19 Link
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Observations for Today
9x13
Day
Bald is Beautiful Day
Grandparent's Day
International Chocolate Day Link
Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day Link
National Celiac Awareness Day
National Peanut Day Link
National Hug Your Hound Day
National Pet Memorial Day Link
Positive Thinking Day
Scooby-Doo
Day
Uncle Sam Day Link
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My Rambling Thoughts
Warming up nicely. Still a lot of high in the sky haze from the
fires. Not complaining, just hoping for the best for those affected by the fires.
Fire fighters from Guanajuato, Mexico have arrived in Oregon to
fight the fires. Thanks.
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program was designed
to help those unemployed by the pandemic. Great idea. Unfortunately, it has
been poorly carried out; it has messed up the count of unemployed, and now lots
of fraud has been found since the states were not prepared to distribute the
funds. So sad.
Another frightening statistic was release last week: Suicide rates
among 10-17- year-olds in the US has jumped 57% in the past decade. That is a
problem with statistics, they give numbers but not reasons. What is needed is
reasons and quickly.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A woman is reading a bedtime story to her
son, but the room is completely dark.
How is she able to read?
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Historical Events
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England
1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision
praying on Mount Verna
1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1845 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday
effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1940 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
1970 – The first New York City Marathon was won by Gary Muhrcke.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir
Arafat signed a historic peace agreement (true), ending centuries of discord in
the middle east (not true).
1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1989 Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest
march in South Africa
1997 Mother Teresa's State Funeral held in India
2012 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk
band Pussy Riot to be freed
2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown declares a State of
Emergency after wildfires devastate Lake and Napa counties
2017 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee
crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar
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Birthdays Today
@88 – Milton S.
Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
@82 – Lucy Goode
Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends’ Asylum for Colored
Orphans (d. 1900)
76 – Jacqueline
Bisset, English actress
@74 – Richard
Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014; heart attack)
@73 – Ray
Charles, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015; liver failure)
@73 – Mel Tormé,
American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1999; liver failure)
69 – Jean Smart,
American actress
@54 – Nell
Carter, American actress, and singer (d. 2003; heart disease)
@51 – Walter
Reed, American physician, and biologist (d. 1902; peritonitis)
51 – Tyler Perry,
multi-talented actor
40 – Ben Savage,
actor
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Puzzle Answer
She is reading braille.
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