Mar 20

 

Good bye Winter…Hello Spring

Mar 20, 2021   Week: 12    Day: 79           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 59°\ L 34°                                           Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                        

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  7mph                        Nearest Lightning: 561mi.                                                   Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  242mi

Record: 72°[2004]  Record: -1°[1935]   Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.

 Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

Random Tidbits

Many feminist scholars dismiss chivalry as a type of benevolent sexism because it relies on the assumption that women are weak and in need of protection while men are strong. They argue that chivalry perpetuates gender inequality.

In a 2010 survey of 9,617 women, 51% said they offer to pay on the first date, 32% offer to pay on the 2nd or 3rd date, 7% between 46 dates, 2% after 6 dates, and 7% believed that man should always pay.

A Little Something to Think About

If you don’t pay for your exorcist, do you get repossessed?

If you jump off a Parks bridge, are you in Seine?

Weekly Observations

 

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
Campfire USA Birthday Week Teen Tech Week	14-20
Native American Awareness Week   Link	15-19
Act Happy Week  International Brain Awareness Week Link International Teach Music Week National Fix A Leak Week Link Shakespeare Week Link	15-21
International Listening Association Week	17-20
American Council on Education	20-22
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link	20-4/10

 

Today’s Observations

Alien Abduction Day (Started in 2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
Corn Dog Day Link  
Day of Happiness

Free Cone Day (Dairy Queen)   Cancelled
Bed-in For Peace Day (Beatles - John and Yoko)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day

Great American Meat Out Day Link
International Astrology Day (Spring Equinox)
International Day of Happiness Link 

International Earth Day

International Sports Car Racing Day 

French Language Day Link
National Corn Dog Day Link 
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Quilting Day 

National Ravioli Day

National Tequila Day[Mexico] Link 
Naw-Ruz0
Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Play The Recorder Day
Save The Panther Day
Proposal Day

Rita's Free Italian Ice Day Cancelled
Snowman Burning Day
Spring (Vernal) Equinox 

Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link 
Walk In The Sand Day  Link  
World Flour Day Link
World Frog Day Link
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
World Sparrow Day  Link
World Storytelling Day Link 
Worldwide Quilting Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sun shining, warm day…a great day for a walk in the forest. It is supposed to get windy until Tuesday. Unfortunately, there isn’t any precipitation in the forecast so the wind will simply dry everything out.

I still have no reaction to my shot yesterday, except for a lightly sore arm. It did make me free a whole lot freer. I’ll still wear my mask, social distance, and remain vigil. I do think I am ready, next week, for an occasional lunch with friends.

If anyone is interested, I believe GOP Texas Representative to Congress Chip Roy should find another profession as soon as possible. During a hearing on the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, he veered off course to compare lynching in Texas’ history as justice. Lynching never was and never will be justice.

It is beginning to look like neither Russia/Putin nor China nor N. Korea are planning any big bash to welcome Biden to the world stage. I can’t say I’m surprised since all of them are only friendly with people who honor them. I don’t any of them are dumb enough to start a ‘hot’ war, but I’m sure they will push to find the limits. So immature.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?

Historical Events

1345 – According to scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death was created today, from what they called “a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius, occurring on the 20th of March 1345.” Actually, the bubonic plague came from infected fleas from sickened and dead rats.

1602 – The Dutch East India Company was established.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published.

1854 – In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party formed the Republican Party.

1900 – Nikola Tesla received a US Patent (#645,576) for the wireless transmission of electric power.

1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was established.

1985 – Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1987 – The FDA approved the sale of AZT (azidothymidine); AIDS drug

1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) cult released Sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people and sickening thousands.

1999 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opened in Carlsbad, California.

2001 Petrobras 36 Oil Platform, the world's largest oil rig, sinks with 400,000 US gallons of fuel and crude oil aboard, after suffering three explosions on March 15.

2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires.

2013 First Breakthrough Prizes, world's most generous science prize worth $3 million, awarded in Mathematics, Life Sciences and Physics established by Julia and Yuri Milner.

2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour.

2018 Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House.

2020 India hangs four men for 2012 gang rape and murder of woman on a bus in New Delhi, country's first hanging since 2013.

2020 Smoke from Australian bushfires killed more people than the fires - 417 vs 33 according to new study published in "Medical Journal of Australia".

Birthdays Today

@98 – Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2020)

90 – Hal Linden, American actor

@76 – Edgar Buchanan, American character actor (d. 1979; stroke)

@74 – Fred Rogers, children’s television host (d. 2003; stomach cancer)

73 – Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player

@69 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (d. 1975; liver cancer)

64 – Spike Lee, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

62 – Holly Hunter, American actress

Puzzle Answer

Seven has two syllables and the other numbers only have one syllable.