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Nov
19, 2020 Week: 47 Day: 324 |
Local:
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65°\ L 39°\Average Sky Cover: 15% |
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Wind: 11mph\Gusts: 24mph |
Nearest
lightning: 676mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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High Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 69°[1949] Record: -6°[1985] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
I
would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and
that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert
K. Chesterton
Random Tidbits
The rare metal gallium melts at 86 degrees F. It is
safe to touch. If you hold a piece of it in your hand and wait, your body heat
will melt it.
A little humor
Q:Why did the chicken cross the
basketball court?
He heard the referee calling fowls!
True Things
With so many licensed owners gun accidents aren't
unusual in the state of Texas, but having a person injured after their dog
opens fire on them is something new.
According to police, the shooting happened recently in
Plano when the unidentified man picked up his dog while wearing a pistol tucked
in his waistband.
Somehow the dog's paw somehow got caught on the
trigger and the pistol fired. The bullet hit the owner in the thigh.
The shot reportedly went straight through the leg and
didn't cause a lot of damage. The owner will fully recover.
Plano police offered the following safety tips for gun
owners:
When you are carrying your firearm, make sure you have
a holster that is safe and protects the trigger from any inadvertent
discharges.
When you are not carrying your firearm, store it in a
gun safe or other locking device to keep it out of the hands of others.
Observations This Week
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Nat’l
Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link |
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link |
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Geography Awareness
Week: 15-21 Link |
American Education Week: 16-20 Link |
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Internat’l Fraud
Awareness Week: 15-21 Link Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness
Week: 15-22 Link |
Nat’l Drone Safety
Awareness Week: 16-22 Link |
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nterNat’l Restorative
Justice Week: 16-22 Link |
Nat’l Farm-City Week:
19-26 |
Observations for Today
American
Made Matters Day
Beaujolais
Nouveau Day
Children's
Grief Awareness Day
Educator
For A Day
Equal
Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day)
Great
American Smokeout
International
Men's Day
National
Parental Involvement Day
National
Rural Health Day
Rocky
and Bullwinkle Day
Women's
Entrepreneurship Day
World
Pancreatic Cancer Day
World
Philosophy Day
World
Toilet Day
My Rambling Thoughts
And
the wind arrived…not a day to be out and about.
The
Cardiac Cardinals strike again with a touchdown in the last 2 seconds to win
the game. What a game.
I
truly wish there was a National Response to Covid. What happened to One Nation,
Indivisible? Right now, every state government is doing something to stop this
virus. Since there is little coordination between states there is no plan…it’s
like roping off a section of the swimming pool for peeing. Technology has
developed apps that can show us about the infection in our area. Don’t
understand it, but it can be helpful. The problem is that each state is
developing its own app for their state and neighboring states don’t share information.
Crazy.
How
about a motel room for $775/night/person? That is what the US Gov’t is spending
for each detainee in an immigration tent camp in Texas. Wow!
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I have no voice, yet I speak to you. I tell of all
things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree. I have
pages, but I am not a bride. I have a spine, but I am not a man. I have hinges,
but I am not a door. I have told you all. I cannot tell you more. What am I?
Historical Events
1805
Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches
the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west
1850
Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1863
US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning;
"Four score and seven years ago..."
1873
William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed", of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of
defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1944
World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan
Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war
effort.
1959
Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
1985
In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion
judgement against Texaco
1998
Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at
auction for $71.5 million
2017
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe refuses to resign in a TV speech after being
ousted as leader of ruling ZANU-PF party
2018
Ivanka Trump sent "hundred" of emails from her personal account about
government business according to Washington Post report
Birthdays Today
87 Larry
King [Lawrence Harvey Zeiger], Talk
show
84 Dick
Cavett, Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
@80 Hiram
Bingham III, American archaeologist; re-discovered Machu Picchu, (d. 1956)
78 Calvin
Klein, American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK)
@66
Indira Gandhi, 4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in
Allahabad India (d. 1984; assassinated)
61
Allison Janney, Actor
59 Meg
Ryan [Margaret Mary Emily Hyra], Actor
57 Jodie
Foster, Actor
@49 James
A. Garfield, 20th US President (Republican: 1881), (d. 1881; assassinated)
44 Jack
Dorsey, American computer programmer, co-founder of Twitter
Puzzle Answer
A book
