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Nov
22, 2020 Week: 48 Day: 327 |
Local:
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65°\ L 33°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 12mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1009mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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Moderate Risk of Fire
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Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 68°[1903] Record: -2°[1931] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.
Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.
Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Random Tidbits
Not long ago a 1962 Ferrari 250
GTO became the most expensive car ever when it was sold in the United Kingdom
to a private collector for $35 million.
A little humor
It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a
herd of turtles.
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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Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness
Week: 15-22 Link |
Nat’l Farm-City Week: 19-26
InterNat’l Games Week: 21-28 |
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InterNat’l Restorative Justice
Week: 16-22 Link |
Church/State Separation Week: 22-28
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Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week:
16-22 Link |
Nat’l Bible Week: 22-29 |
Observations for Today
Crystal
Skull World Day
Do
Dah Day (Pasadena)
Humane
Society Day
Mother
Goose Day Cancelled Due to COVID-19
National
Family Pajama Night
Stir
Up Sunday
My Rambling Thoughts
A change linens, wash, dry, and fold the dirty ones. Pulled out one of my star quilts for the bed.
Getting ready for winter.
Street names are usually given for a reason. My friend, Bob E., spent
part of his career with Jefferson County and his job was to name the streets in
a new development. I don’t remember the names but remember that he had a good system
of alphabetical names of foliage in one area. Downtown Flagstaff doesn’t have
such a simple system. One of the main streets is named after an early scientist
who visited the area. The guy also got one of our peaks named after him. He did
have some weird ideas about non-Whites, deciding that white people were at the
top of the intelligence scale and all other colors were below. So, being 2020,
the city council decided it was time to rename the street. So it is so long ‘N Agassiz St’
and the new name will be determined soon. Probably a good idea, but it will
take decades to update all the maps and GPS services.
I was in shop class when I heard that JFK had been shot. I was in
Algebra I when they announced he died and everyone was sent home.
I usually have Thanksgiving with a group of friends where each of us
brings a dish filled with our favorites…mine is blueberry pie and a fancy fresh
green bean thingy. Not this year. I’m still deciding if I will fix a turkey breast
with some trimmings. It is so weird this year.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What can you hold without ever touching it?
Historical Events
1809 – The (#1168) patent was issued in the U.S. for a metallic
writing pen to Peregrine Williamson.
1858 –
Denver, Colorado was founded.
1859 – The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin was published.
1910 – The patent (#976,267) for a steel-shafted golf club was issued
to Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, NY.
1927 – The patent (#1,650,334) for a snowmobile (motor toboggan) was
issued to Carl J.E. Eliason of Saynor, Wisconsin.
1928 – Bolero by Maurice Ravel, was first performed publicly (Paris).
The original title for the music was ‘Fandango.’
1935 – First commercial crossing of Pacific Ocean by plane (China
Clipper). On November 29, the airplane reached its destination, Manila, after
traveling via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam, and delivered
over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1941 – The US Food and Drug Administration specified the first minimum
daily requirements for dietary supplements for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D,
thiamine, riboflavin, calcium, iron, iodine, and phosphorus.
1951 – Pope Pius XII declared, at the opening meeting of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with
the Catholic concept of creation.
1954 – Humane Society of the United States formed.
1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas
1965 – Muhammad Ali TKO’ed Floyd Patterson in 12 rounds for the
heavyweight boxing title.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) observer status.
1986 – Mike Tyson became the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history
today with a second-round knockout win over Trevor Berbick.
1987 – WGN-TV Channel 9 and PBS affiliate WTTW-TV Channel 11 broadcast
signals were hijacked by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask. The
hijacker was never caught.
1995 – Pixar’s Toy Story was released. It was the first feature-length
film created completely using computer-generated animation.
2005 – Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2012 – 2 people were killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle
pile-up in dense fog near Beaumont, Texas, on interstate 10.
2016 US President Barack Obama posthumously awards the Presidential
Medal of Freedom to pioneering computer scientist and Navy Admiral Grace Hopper
2017 Uber admits hackers stole personal information affecting 57
million people worldwide and paid $100,00 to keep quiet
2018 Leaning Tower of Pisa's tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project
to stabilise it
Birthdays Today
@83 – Thomas Cook,
English, founded Thomas Cook Group, (d. 1892)
@82 – Rodney Dangerfield,
American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. 2004)
@79 – Charles de Gaulle, 18th
President of France, (d. 1970)
77 – Billie Jean King,
American tennis player, and sportscaster
62 – Jamie Lee Curtis,
American actress
53 – Mark Ruffalo,
American actor, and activist
36 – Scarlett Johansson,
American actress (Black Widow, Avengers)
34 – Oscar Pistorius,
runner who killed girlfriend.
Puzzle Answer
Your breath
Enjoy
the Holiday
