Sep 15

 

Sep 15, 2021 Week: 38 Day: 258
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   79°\ 46° Wind:5 mph\ Gusts: 8mph
High risk of fire Active fire:178 mi. \ Lightning: 286mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link

9-15  

International Housekeepers Week: Link
National Assisted Living Week

National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
Link

 

12-18 

Be A Mench Week
Line Dance Week  

National NeoNatal Nurses Week  
Link

 

13-19

 

National Championship Air Races
National Guitar Flat-Picking Days
Link

 

15-19

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Creme de Menthe Day

Greenpeace Day

Greenpeace was founded in 1973 after a number of activists traveled the world on an old fishing boat, Phyllis Cormack, in protest against the planned underground nuclear tests by the US. Greenpeace has been collecting donations since its inception and checking all major donations to ensure they do not receive unwanted donations. Any donations from political parties that finance the foundation, which receives the bulk of its funding from its governments and intergovernmental organizations, have been rejected.

 

The organization was founded by a group of students, with the initial protests, incidentally, focusing on the US military’s ending of nuclear tests in North Korea. The effort was unsuccessful, but the act had enough impact on the media to eventually prevent the United States from testing more atomic bombs there. Takeaway: The organization’s first protest, in which they sailed across the Atlantic to stop a nuclear bomb test in the Pacific off the coast of South Korea, was successful.

 

This was the beginning of a later international movement by Greenpeace and led to the comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1996. In 1971, the newly formed Wave Committee (not called Wave) chartered a ramshackle old fishing boat in Vancouver and set out to oppose the US atomic bomb attempts off Amchitka, Alaska

Linguine Day

Make a Hat Day

Online Learning Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 




 


 


 

 

A quick smile!

 

 

What's the leading cause of dry skin?

Towels

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

I’m healing very slowly. Still having a slight temperature and a headache.

Last night was the first OT on opening of Monday Night football since the 1970’s. Good game. Ravens won.

Have you travelled to Palisades Tahoe? That the name of the place we grew up calling Squaw Valley. Only surprise that it took this long to change from that offensive name…

Another set of hearings where everyone picks a side and learns very little. There has got to be a better way to get information and make plans to have such a mess happen again.

 

 

Historical Events

 1795 "Lyrical Ballads" published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date)

1830 – The first National Convention for Blacks was held in Bethel Church, Philadelphia, PA.

1851 – Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia.

September 15, 1892 Birthday (fictional) C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza

1971 – Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court

1982 – USA Today began publication.

2020 Scientific American issues its 1st ever presidential endorsement in 175 years by backing Joe Biden

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress, Hollywood’s first Scream Queen (d. 2004)

@87 – Nipsey Russell, American comedic actor (d. 2005)

@85 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, playwright (d. 1976)

75 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor

75 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, producer

@72 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)

60 – Dan Marino, American football player, and sportscaster

37 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

 

 

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