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Nov
20, 2020 Week: 47 Day:325 |
Local:
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63°\ L 33°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 20mph |
Nearest
lightning:1554mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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High Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 71°[1976] Record: -5°[1964] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
No duty is more urgent than that of returning
thanks.
James Allen
Random Tidbits
Although new metals are being
produced and some metals were difficult to isolate in pure form, there were
seven metals known to ancient man. These were gold, copper, silver, mercury,
lead, tin, and iron.
A little humor
When one door closes and another door opens,
you are probably in prison.
True Things
A Chinese martial artist broke a Guinness World Record
when he used his nunchucks to volley 34 table tennis balls in 1 minute. Xie
Desheng, who previously used his nunchucks -- also known as nunchaku -- to
break records for lighting matches, extinguishing candles and unscrewing bottle
caps, broke his own table tennis world record in Jinan, Shandong. Xie
previously set the record at 32, and was able to advance the record during his
most recent attempt to 34. Xie, who teaches nunchuck classes in Shanghai, has
won numerous awards at martial arts events across the globe.
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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InterNat’l Restorative
Justice Week: 16-22 Link |
Nat’l Farm-City Week:
19-26 |
Observations for Today
African
Industrialization Day
Globally
Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D.
Name
Your PC Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge
Day
Substitute
Educators Day
Transgender
Day of Remembrance
My Rambling Thoughts
Another
windy day…not quite as bad as yesterday. Took a short drive around but no
shopping. I had to get out of the house.
Congratulations
to Joy Harjo, Muskogee (Creek) Nation for being named Poet Laureate by Library of
Congress for the third straight year. Check out her poetry on the internet
machine.
While
on my drive I checked out Right Wing Radio. It is amazing and frightening the
election result lies they are perpetrating over the radio. Rush and his gang
were demanding that everyone in America, who is an American, must stand up and
demand a truthful recount to prove that Trump won by a landslide. In the 20+ minutes
I listened, not one fact was given, only vague references. I couldn’t take it
anymore and switched back to NPR.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A father and son were in a car accident
where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He
needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at
the little boy and said I can't operate on him he is my son. Who is the doctor?
Historical Events
1866
– US patent (#59,745) for a yoyo, called a “Whirligig” or “Bandalore” in the
paperwork, was issued to James L. Haven and Charles Hettrick of Cincinnati,
Ohio.
1866
– The US patent (#59,918) on a rotary crank bicycle was issued to Pierre
Lallemont of Paris, France.
1888
– Willard LeGrand Bundy was issued the first U.S. patent (#393,205) for a time
recording clock. His company went on to help start TCR in 1911, which evolved
into IBM.
1906
– Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce formed Rolls-Royce.
1945
– The Nuremberg Trials with an International Military Tribunal made up of four
judges one from each country United States, Soviet Union, Britain, and France
begin when charges against Germany’s Nazi leaders.
1962
– USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifted the blockade.
1969
– Cleveland, Ohio’s The Plain Dealer published explicit photographs of dead
villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1973
– A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on CBS for the first time.
1982
– Drew Barrymore, at age 7, hosted Saturday Night Live. She was starring in the
hit film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at that time.
1985
– A successful heart transplant to a 4-day-old infant, Eddie Anguiano, known
then as Baby Moses, was performed by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey of the Loma Linda
University Medical Center. Eddie is still living and living in Las Vegas as far
as we know.
2013
– Two campus police officers who pepper-sprayed peaceful student protesters at
a close range at the University of California were suspended.
2014
Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation
deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes
2018
Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank
2018
More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet
Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
2019
Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is "climate emergency"
2019
Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according
to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in
"Science Advances"
Birthdays Today
@95 –
Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
92 –
Estelle Parsons, American actress (Bonnie & Clyde)
@84 –
Chester Gould, American cartoonist, creator of Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
78 – Joe
Biden, American lawyer, and politician, President-Elect
73 – Joe
Walsh, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
64 – Bo
Derek [Mary Cathleen Collins],
American actress, and producer
@63 –
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953 stroke)
@42 –
Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968 assassinated)
Puzzle Answer
The doctor is the boy’s mother.
