jUL 11

 

 

 

Jul  11, 2021 Week: 29 Day: 192

Ave. Sky Cover: 5%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  94°\ 60°

Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 9mph

EXTREME risk of fire

Active fire: 28mi. \ Lightning: 130mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Random Tidbits

 

English muffins aren't muffins and they weren't invented in England. They are really a form of crumpet, with the holes and pockets on the inside of the bread rather than the top. They were invented by Samuel Bath Thomas, an Englishman living in 1880s New York and didn't make their way to England until a century later.

World Population:

1804 – 1 billion people
1927 – 2 billion people
1960 – 3 billion people
1974 – 4 billion people
1987 – 5 billion people
1999 – 6 billion people
2012 – 7 billion people

True Things

 Crime Report

As 34-year-old Paul Kiyan let himself into the home of Mat and Monica Sabz in Bel Air, California, on June 20, Monica watched on Ring video and alerted her husband, who was at home. Kiyan was naked, KTLA-TV reported, and as he wandered around the house, he helped himself to a shower and a pair of shorts. When Mat Sabz confronted him, Kiyan said the house was his. While he was there, Kiyan killed the couple's two pet birds with his hands; police arrested him on several felony charges. [KTLA, 6/21/2021] 

Idioms Origins

 Listerine

Listerine was invented in the nineteenth century as a strong surgical antiseptic. It was sold in distilled form, as a floor cleaner. In the 1920s, a lot of people had bad breath. The marketing boys twisted an old Latin word into HALITOSIS to describe that bad breath. Developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, it was actually named after Joseph Lister, an early antiseptic surgeon. 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

Thru 7/18

Running of The Bulls (Spain)

6-14

Creative Maladjustment Week Link

7-14 

Sports Cliché Week: Link  

9-13 

 Family Golf Week Link

National Farriers Week

National Vodka Week Link

National Therapeutic Recreation Week Link

Operation Safe Driver Week Link

 

 

11-17  

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

All American Pet Photo Day

Bowdler's Day

Cheer Up the Lonely Day
Day of The Five Billion Link
International Essential Oils Day

Make Your Own Sundae Day
National Blueberry Muffin Day

National Mojito Day

National Rainier Cherries Day Link
National Swimming Pool Day

Slurpee Day or 7-11's Birthday Link
World Miniature Golf Day Link
World Population Day -- Previously Five Billion Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

Another scorcher. I got up at 6a because it was too hot to sleep. Headed out at 7a to turn on water at Andy’s place. Came home, had breakfast and about 9:30 returned to turn off the water. Thankfully I turned to cooler on when I left at 7a so the downstairs is staying cool…74°. It is usually in the high 80’s or low 90’s at this time in July for a couple of days. This year the first heat wave of over 90 lasted a full week. This second wave is expected to do the same. And all this at 7000 feet above sea level. Crazy.

I am staying inside, watching Netflix today. It is way too hot to be outside unless walking to and from a pool…and I don’t have one nearby.

The assassination in Haiti has raised lots of questions and very few answers. The assassinated leader was not popular. Several nations, including the US, have helped coups in Central and South America in the past. Those countries have always said they were innocent until the truth came out. The government there has been fragile for years. It will take time to find the truth. I hope the people of Haiti can hang on.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

HAHANDND

 

 

 

THUMB

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

1796 – The United States took possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

1798 – The United States Marine Corps was re-established (they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War).

1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, was founded.

1893 – The first cultured pearl was created under the direction of Kokichi Mikimoto, in Japan.

1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court – the only person ever to hold both offices.

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in the United States.

1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky began.

1975 – Chinese archeologists announced the uncovering of a 3-acre burial mound concealing 6000 clay statues of warriors. The “Terracotta Army” and their regalia dating from 221 to 206 BC, near the ancient capital of Xian.

1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1979 – America’s first space station, Skylab, was destroyed as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

1991 – The ‘eclipse of the century ‘ solar eclipse cast a shadow stretching 9,000 miles from Hawaii to South America, lasting nearly seven minutes in some areas.

2011 – Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun, completed its first full rotation of the sun since its discovery in 1846.

2012 – Astronomers announced the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.

2015 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house

2019 Last models of Volkswagen's Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years

 

Birthdays Today

 

@86 – E.B. White, American essayist and journalist (d. 1985)

87 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company

@86 – Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], actor and singer (d. 2018)

@80 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (d. 1848)

68 – Leon Spinks, American boxer

68 – Mindy Sterling, American actress

@65 – Yul Brynner [Yuliy Borisovich Briner], Russian-American actor, dancer (d. 1985; lung cancer)

62 – Richie Sambora, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

@54 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (died in 1329)

47 – Lil’ Kim, American rapper

 

Puzzles Answer

 

HAND IN HAND                                                                  GREEN THUMB

 

 

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