Aug 21

 

Aug 21, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 233
Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   75°\ 48° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 11mph
Low risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 530mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  


 

Weekly Observations

 

National Aviation Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week
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15-21  

Minority Enterprise Development Week

18-24

National Little League Week Link

19-29    

 

Daily Oberservations

 

 

Brazilian Blowout Day

Poet’s Day

Senior Citizens Day

Spumoni Day

 

  

Favorite Memes

 

 






 

 





 

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice warm day, clouds in the west say rain, weather guy says no moisture…I’ll wait and see.

Heavy snow last night on several Colorado mountain passes. WOW. Seems a tad early, but moisture is moisture.

Colleges and Universities are having ‘double’ orientation week this year. Since both freshman and sophomores have not been on campus for living or classes. During my freshman year, soon after the University had just dropped the requirement that students had to carry at least two quill pens and their own ink bottle, I learned a lot from upperclassmen. The virus has certainly changed campus life for years to come.

The Afghan withdrawal is not going as well as hoped for. This is an ongoing endeavor and one that I certainly hope will save Americans and those who helped us. The pictures are horrifying.                      

 

Historical Events

 

1264 Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the end of the Mongol civil war

1541 Ottoman Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom and go on to dominate central Hungary for 150 years

1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

1911 – The Mona Lisa was stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. It was returned to the Louvre on January 4, 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison for the crime.

1939 – 5 young African-Americans were denied library cards at the Alexandria, VA Library and arrested after sitting down and reading books. The civil disobedience was one of the earliest in the American Civil Rights Movement.

1961 – Motown released what would be its first #1 hit, Please Mr. Postman by The Marvelettes.

1968 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols

1986 – The Lake Nyos, Cameroon disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,800 people when a volcano suddenly burst with a wave of carbon dioxide.

1996 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released

2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges including illegal payment at direction of Trump to women Trump had affairs with

2019 74,155 fires caused by land clearing are burning in the Amazon rain forest, the most ever recorded, according the Brazil's National Institute for Space Research

 

Birthdays Today

 

@85 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer, and inventor, created gas-powered lighting (d. 1839)

@81 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, actor (d. 2020)

80 – Jackie DeShannon [Sharon Lee Myers], American singer-songwriter

@79 – [William James ] Count Basie, pianist, composer, bandleader (1984; cancer)

65 – Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress

@63 – Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player, coach (d. 1999; heart failure)

35 – Usain Bolt, runner

32 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress

 

 

 

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