Sep 8,
2021 Week: 37 Day: 251
Ave.
Sky Cover: 5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local
Temp: 83°\ 51° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Today’s
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Weekly
Observations
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US Open Tennis Championships |
30-9/12 |
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International
Air Ambulance Week Link |
4-12 |
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Substitute Teacher
Appreciation Week |
5-11 |
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National Payroll Week |
6-10 |
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Play Days |
7-11 |
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World Orienteering Days Link |
8-14 |
Daily Observations
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Ampersand Day Date-Nut Bread Day Literacy Day Pardon Day
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Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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Why do bakers
always carry extra cash? Because they
never know when a bit of extra dough might be kneaded
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My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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My dentist was
in, so I got an appointment for 10:00. After an X-ray I got the news that it
had to be extracted. At that point, I just wanted the pain to go away. It was
an easy extraction. I was out before 11:00, picked up an antibiotic and pain
med and came home. Took a long nap. All good. The Afghan airport
is open again for domestic flights. No international flights because there is
no radar, so all flights are what the pilot sees out his window. Ida sure did damage.
Just read that there were over 350 reported oil spills in the waters around
Louisiana. Expect gas price to go up again. When I filled with gas this morning
before the dentist Sam’s Regular was $3.09. AZ has a state
senator, Wendy Rogers, who ran twice for office before getting a seat. She is
a conservative’s conservative. On
Labor Day she tweeted: “Labor Day is a Communist Holiday”. She gave no
explanation as to why she believes that horse pucky.
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Historical Events
1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in
Florence
1858 Abraham Lincoln
supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of
the people all the time"
1921 The First ‘Fall
Frolic” was held in Atlantic City, and won by Margaret Gorman. Herb Test coined
the term for the winner: “Miss America.”
1935 – US Senator
from Louisiana was shot by Carl Weiss, a political rival. He died from the
wounds 2 days later.
1941 WWII: Siege of
Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle
lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives
1952 Ernest
Hemingway's novel "The Old Man & the Sea" published
1974 US President
Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
1986 "The Oprah
Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally
1998 – Mark McGuire
hit his 62nd home run, breaking Roger Maris’s record. He finished the season
with a total of 70.
2015 Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church
2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current
Biology" reveals there are 4 species not just 1, as previously assumed
Birthdays Today
@96 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician, and activist (d. 2019)
@91 – Sid Caesar, American comedic actor (d. 2014)
80 – Bernie
Sanders, American politician
@62 – Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer and academic (d. 1904;
influenza)
@54 – Peter Sellers, English comedic actor (d. 1980; heart attack)
42 – Pink
(Alecia Beth Moore), American singer-songwriter
34 – Wiz
Khalifa, Haitian rapper
@30 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963; plane crash)
@28 – Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish EDM
artist (d. 2018; suicide)
