Week: 42
Day: 287
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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10-16 |
Death
Penalty Focus Week |
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10-17 |
Take
Your Medicine Americans Week |
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11-16 |
World Rainforest Week: Link |
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12-20 |
Bone
and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link |
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13-17 |
National
Police Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
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Kalashnikov,
or AK-47 Arguably
the most famous weapon in history, the AK-47 was designed from a hospital bed
by Mikhail Kalashnikov. Kalashnikov, who served in a Russian tank unit, had
been wounded during a battle against Germany in World War II. Jacuzzi The
Jacuzzi family emigrated from Italy to California in the early 1900s. They
worked in the agriculture sector, improving aviation devices and water pumps.
They invented the submersible pump, which was the first of its kind in the
world. When a family member developed arthritis, the brothers created a
portable hydrotherapy pump, which was the first type of Jacuzzi. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
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Sunny
day, snow gone. Still chilly. Fall as usual. So, Captain
Kirk went up into space, floated, came back down. All good. And is he 90
years old. Cool. Scammers
are part of our life. I’m amazed that nobody can end these guys. I have basically
given up answering my land line. If a human leaves a message and I’m interested
I call back. If not, I simply erase the message. My next step is to turn off
the ringer. I got 5 calls between 8am and 9a this morning. Not one left a
message, not one had a name with the phone number on my phone. Disgusted. My CPAP
provider called me to tell me my supplies were ready. I asked when they were going
to check the Oxygen machine I use with the CPAP. The guy checked and said
they would be out today. I put a reminder on my phone so I can call them next
year when it is time. They have gotten much better about supplies, but still
don’t have the machine checks figured out. Baby steps I guess. |
Historical Events
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1066 – The Battle of
Hastings – Normany forces defeated the Anglo-Saxons. 1888 – Louis Le Prince
filmed the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene. 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle
publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12
stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine" 1926 A. A. Milne's book
"Winnie the Pooh" released 1947 – Flying a Bell
X-1, pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the first supersonic
flight. 1964 – Dr. Martin
Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize. 1980 Presidential
nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to the US Supreme Court 2012 – Felix
Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon 24 miles up, falling for 9 minutes,
and reaching a speed of 844 miles per hour, breaking the sound barrier before
he landed safely with his parachute. 2020 A copy of William
Shakespeare's First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New
York |
Birthdays Today
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@96 @89 82 @78 @73 @67 @65 47 @46 43 |
C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon
General (d. 2013) Roger Moore, English actor, James Bond #4 (d.
2017) Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer,
founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the
United States (d. 1969) William Penn, an English businessman who
founded Pennsylvania (d. 1718) e e cummings, American poet, and playwright (d.
1962; stroke) Harry Anderson, American actor (d. 2018;
strokes) Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter,
Dixie Chicks George Floyd, (d.2020, by Cop) Usher, American singer-songwriter |
