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
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 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
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Running of The Bulls (Spain) |
6-14 |
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Creative Maladjustment Week Link |
7-14 |
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Sports Cliché Week: Link |
9-13 |
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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
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All American Pet Photo Day Bowdler's Day Cheer Up the Lonely Day Make
Your Own Sundae Day National
Rainier Cherries Day Link Slurpee
Day or 7-11's Birthday Link |
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
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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 JoaquÃn "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
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