Week: 40
Day: 279
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Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
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Month of
Free Thought National
Aesthetician Month National
AIDS Awareness Month National
Animal Safety and Protection Month National
Arts & Humanities Month National
Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month National
Bake and Decorate Month National
Bullying Prevention Awareness Month National
Caramel Month National
Chili Month National
Chiropractic Health Month National
Cookbook Month National
Crime Prevention Month National
Critical Illness Awareness Month National
Cyber Security Awareness Month National
Dental Hygiene Month National
Disability Employment Awareness Month National
Depression Education & Awareness Month National
Disability Employment Awareness Month National
Domestic Violence Awareness Month National
Down Syndrome Month National
Dwarfism Awareness Month National
Ergonomics Month National
Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk! |
Weekly Observations
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Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link |
22-10/21 |
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National
Walk Your Dog Week Link Link Universal Children's Week |
1-7 |
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National
Storytelling Weekend: 1-3 Albuquerque International
Balloon Fiesta Link |
2-10 |
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Fire Prevention Week Link International Post Card Week Link 4-H Week Link |
3-9 |
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No Salt Week |
3-10 |
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World
Goat Days Link |
3-8 |
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Customer
Service Week: Link |
4-8 |
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4-11 |
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Primary
Care Physicians Week Link |
5-8 |
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World
Dairy Expo |
5-10 |
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National
Physicians Assistant Week |
6-12 |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
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Aluminum is pretty amazing. Not only
is it naturally non-toxic and durable, but of the most commonly recycled
materials, aluminum is the only material that is infinitely recyclable. What
this means is that once produced, it can be recycled over and over and over
without any loss in quality. What are the other qualities and abilities of
this miracle metal? Aluminum is the third most common
element in the Earth's crust and the most abundantly available metal on
Earth. Two-thirds of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Aluminum is very difficult to refine
from its natural form. A method wasn't discovered until 1825, and for decades
it was so expensive that aluminum was worth more than gold. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
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I was
awakened about 2am to lots of lightning and thunder. Soon there was lots of
rain. It has been raining on and off all day. This is making the forest very
happy. It has
been way too long since my last pedicure. The lady who has been doing my toes
for years was upset and in her broken English said things at the salon were
not good. When I went in this morning there was a totally new staff. A young
lady did a nice job, and my feet are very happy. She said the new staff came
in about 3 weeks ago. Hmmm. Tomorrow
I get my booster. Things are going well. From the
posts, the first Focus Travel Club adventure of 2021 was a big success. They
went to New England to see the fall colors. Lots of beauty for sure. And a
great start to the return of Focus post Covid. |
Historical Events
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1927 – Opening of The
Jazz Singer with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, in New York City. 1948
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of
Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya 1952 Agatha Christie's
play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running) 1973 – Yom Kippur War
between Egypt/Syria and Isreal (October 6-25) 1979 Pope John Paul II
is 1st Pope to visit The White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in
Washington, D.C. 1981 – Anwar Sadat was
assassinated in Cairo, Egypt. 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 2019 Tens of thousands
of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks |
Birthdays Today
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@87 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian
ethnographer, and explorer (d. 2002) @67 – Jenny Lind, Swedish opera
singer, “The Swedish Nightingale” (d.1887) |
