Mar 25

 

 

Mar 25, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 84           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 47°\ L 21°                                      Ave. Sky Cover: 75%                      

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  9mph                        Nearest Lightning: 224mi.                                                          

Very Low Risk of Fire:                                    Active fire:  932mi

Record: 72°[1988]  Record: -1°[1913]  

Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

~John Galsworthy

Random Tidbits

Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.

A Little Something to Think About

If fatty means full of fat shouldn’t skinny mean full of skin?

If something valuable possesses value, shouldn’t something invaluable lack value?

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Passiontide

21-4/3

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

20-4/10

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination Passion Week
National Agriculture Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
 Link  Link
National Inhalant/Poisons Awareness Week 
Link   Link
National Poison Prevention Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
World Folktales & Fables Week

 

 

 

 

21-27

Wellderly Week

21-28

National Physicians Week  Link

25-31

 

Today’s Observations

 

Feast of the Annunciation

International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child 
 Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members 
Link
Lobster Newburg Day

Maryland Day [1634 with 1st arrival of Europeans]

Medal of Honor Day

National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National International Waffle Day

National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day

Tolkien Reading Day

Waffle Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

There was a little over an inch of snow when I woke up. Even though it is cloudy, it is warm enough to melt the snow quickly. I’m hoping it absorbs into the ground before it evaporates.

The Fiesta Bowl Kindness Arizona Caravan stopped by our town yesterday. They renovated the Flag High Teacher’s Lounge with a new refrigerator and furniture, they donated $10,000 to NACA [Native Americans for Community Action], and stopped at locally owned pizza place, ordered pizza and gave every employee there a $300 tip. Very nice for sure.

I’m hearing all the Republican senators dismissing any bill that might stop gun violence in America, even as they send their prayers to the survivors. Here’s an idea, save your prayers and come up with something that will stop this horrific violence.  

In the Genius Aretha episode I watched last night, Aretha is watching TV as RFK is speaking about the assassination of her friend MLK. It reminded me how long we have been dealing with unsettling killings by disturbed people…since I was an adolescent. There has to be an answer to stop needless killings.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

There are three crates, one with apples, one with oranges, and one with both apples and oranges mixed. Each crate is closed and labeled with one of three labels: Apples, Oranges, or Apples and Oranges. The label maker broke and labeled all the crates incorrectly. How could you pick just one fruit from one crate to figure out what’s in each crate?

 

Historical Events

421 – The city of Venice was founded.

1655 – Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, was discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory burned in New York City, killing 145 workers. The disaster helped bring forth more laws and regulations protecting employees.

1957 – United States Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl on grounds of obscenity.

1965 – Civil rights activists, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day, 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

1984 – Television Special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever introduced Michael Jackson’s ‘moonwalk’ during his performance of Billie Jean.

1990 – The Happy Land nightclub fire was an arson fire that killed 87 people in The Bronx, New York City.

1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki was published online by Ward Cunningham.

2001 – Bjork wore her now-famous ‘swan dress’ to the Oscars.

2006 Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

2017 Largest banana split ever, at 8,040 meters long, is made in Innisfail, Australia

2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

2019 NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women

2020 Spain's death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China's at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836

Birthdays Today

95 – Gene Shalit, American journalist and critic

78 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor

@77 – Howard Cosell, American broadcaster, journalist, author (d. 1995; heart attack)

@76 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter, Queen of Soul (d. 2018; pancreatic cancer)

74 – Sir Elton John, English singer-songwriter,

@61 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999; heart attack)

59 – Marcia Cross, American actress

39 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver

Puzzle Answer

Pick a fruit from the crate marked Apples and Oranges. If that fruit is an apple, you know that the crate should be labeled Apples because all the labels are incorrect as they are. Therefore, you know the crate marked Apples must be Oranges (if it were labeled Apples and Oranges, the Oranges crate would be labeled correctly, and we know it isn’t), and the one marked Oranges is Apples and Oranges. Alternately, if you picked an orange from the crate marked Apples and Oranges, you know that crate should be marked Oranges, the one marked Oranges must be Apples, and the one marked Apples must be Apples and Oranges.

 

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