Jul 24

 

 

 

Jul  24, 2021 Week: 30 Day: 205

Ave. Sky Cover: 70%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  78°\ 50° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 15mph

Low risk of fire Active fire: 58mi. \ Lightning: 2mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

  




 

Random Tidbits

 

Windsor Castle is the largest royal home in the world. It is also the oldest continually inhabited royal residence in Britain, having been built by William the Conqueror around A.D. 1080.

The full, official name of the Tower of London is "Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of London." It is home to the Queen of England's jewels. Among the 25,578 gems is the 530-carat Cullinan diamond at the top of the Royal Scepter, the largest part of what was (until 1985) the largest diamond ever found.

 

True Things

 

Surprise!

Colin Steer, 70, of Plymouth, United Kingdom, was replacing some floor joists in the home he and his wife bought in 1988 when he noticed a dip in the floor near the bay window in the living room. "I immediately thought someone must have buried someone under there or that we had a sinkhole," Steer told the Mirror. Instead, he found a well. Since then, Steer has been digging down into the well, having cleared about 17 feet of debris from it, including a sword that he believes could date to medieval times. While the home was constructed in 1895, Steer believes the well may be 500 years old. "At the bottom of the well is about 4 feet of water," Steer said, which he has sampled and deemed crystal clear. He hopes to dig down another several feet and then extend the structure up into the living room and use it as a coffee table. [Mirror, 6/29/2021]

 

English Language Oddities

 

“THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Captive Nations Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Independent Retailers Week Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week Link  

18-24  

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

18-25

National Baby Food Week Link 

21-24  

Comic Con International

22-25

Hemingway Look-Alike Days Link

22-24    

Annie Oakley Days

Garlic Days Link

National Parenting Gifted Children Week Lin`k

 

23-25 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):

23-8/8  

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Amelia Earhart Day

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day Link
Cousins Day
International Self Care Day Link
lNational Day of the Cowboy Link  
National Day of Lament  Link
National Drive-Thru Day
National Frozen Margarita Day  
Link
National Tequila Day (US)  Link

National Thermal Engineers Day  Link  
Tell an Old Joke Day

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

Monsoon is dumping lots of rain. Some localized flash flooding. Nothing like Europe or China.

I taped the opening ceremony and watch the first hour before getting busy. It sure seems strange with no audience.

I had shopping to do this morning, then my blood docs appointment, then a phlebotomy. All good. But I got a strange phone transcribed message  from my Dr. that I missed while I was driving; ‘Hi, this is….it popped up that they wanted you to have a full body me today. Please call us back so we can do it.’ After my phlebotomy, I stopped at that office to see what it meant. Turns out my magic apple phone had transcribed phlebotomy as ‘full body me’. We had a good laugh.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Returns tomorrow.

 

Historical Events

 

1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI, after the sudden death of one husband and the quick marriage to another.

1701 – Detroit was founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

1823 – Slavery was abolished in Chile.

1847 – Brigham Young brought 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing Salt Lake City.

1901 – Writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

1935 – The Dust Bowl heatwave reached its peak, with temperatures of 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois, and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1974 – The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they ordered him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.

2002 – Democrat James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1 (CA Representative Gary Condit didn’t vote against him).

2009 FINA Congress votes to ban all body-length swimsuits; men's suits to maximally cover from the waist to knee, and women's from shoulder to knee; fabric must be a "textile" or woven material; effective 1 January 2010

2017 Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators

2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals "Nature" and "Nature Geoscience"

2019 Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission

 

Birthdays Today

 

85 – Ruth Buzzi, American comedic actress

@77 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998; heart disease)

75 – Gallagher [Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.], American comedian

70 – Lynda Carter, American actress, 1972 Miss World USA

@68 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (d. 1870; heart attack)

58 – Karl Malone, American basketball player and coach

57 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player

53 – Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer

39 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress

@39 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (disappeared, 1937)

 

 

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