Oct 11 indigenous People's Day

 

Week: 42 Day: 284
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:  55 °\ 28° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 8mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 281mi. \ Lightning: 475mi.
Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

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Weekly Observations

 

4-11 

Spinning & Weaving Week  Link  
World Space Week
Link

6-12

National Physicians Assistant Week

10-16 

Death Penalty Focus Week
National Metric Week
Drink Local Wine Week
Earth Science Week
Link 
Emergency Nurses Week
National Chestnut Week  
National Food Bank Week
  
Teen Read Week  

10-17

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

11-16 

World Rainforest Week: Link  
Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week  
Link  
National School Lunch Week  
 

 

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Favorite Memes

 

 






 

 



 


 

Trivia

 

 

Fred A. Birchmore, 25, circled the globe by bicycle in 1935. The entire trip, through Europe, Asia, and the United States, covered forty thousand miles. He pedaled about 25,000 miles. The rest was traveled by boat. He wore out seven sets of tires.

Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips. Europeans bike in cities a lot more often - in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle, 30 percent in the Netherlands, and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Cool evening…woke up cold about 3am, had to pull up the blanket. Guess it is really fall.

 

Broncos are having a tough day.  Cards are starting off well in 1st Q.

Have a great Indigenous People’s Day. That sounds so much better than the old name. I hope this brings more education in schools as to the many contributions of Indigenous People of America.

Science is saying that Covid cases are declining in much of the US. Too soon to get careless.

The La Palma volcano is tossing lava as large as 3-story buildings.  And there were 21 seismic events today…the largest was 3.8. There have been 1186 buildings destroyed since it began Sept. 19. WOW!

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

 

1887 – The first adding machine (the Comptometer) was patented, by Dorr Eugene Felt.

1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

1962 – Vatican Council II, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church was convened by Pope John XXIII, in four sessions that concluded on December 8, 1965.

1975 – Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC.

1984 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC

2002 A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.

2020 India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

 

@78

 

@74

@58

@52

44

29

 

Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, politician, 39th First Lady (d. 1962; cardiac failure)

Henry J. Heinz, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d, 1919; pneumonia)

Dottie West, singer-songwriter (d. 1991; auto accident)

Luke Perry, American actor, producer (d. 2019; stroke)

Matt Bomer, American actor

Cardi B [Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar], American rapper

 

 

 

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