Week: 45
Day: 305
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Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
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Adopt A Senior Pet Month Link Link |
Weekly Observations
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25-11/11 |
World
Origami Days |
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1-7 |
National Fig Week |
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1-5 |
National Patient Accessibility Week |
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1-6 |
World Karaoke Championships Link |
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
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Number
of copies sold 7. The
Dream of the Red Table by Cao Xueqin: 100 million copies sold This
popular Chinese novel has an entire literary field dedicated to its study. 8. The
Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien: 100 million copies sold When
this book was adapted to a movie, the film crew used all the gold paint in
New Zealand when creating Smaug's lair. They had to import more from Germany
in order to finish the project. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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It’s a
nice fall day. College towns
lost population in the 2020 census due to the pandemic. Many students were
living at home while taking classes in other cities. Now as the final figures
are released, college towns are trying to deal with the consequences of
smaller than expected population. What a mess. Lots of big government
meetings: In Rome, they couldn’t agree on climate initiatives to save OUR
planet…Now it is off to Glasgow to try again. A human’s ‘normal temperature’
is 98.6°. If our internal temperature rose 1.5°C it would be 101.3°F. At that
temperature we would call a physician. Scientists are saying we must keep the
earth’s temperature rise below 1.5°C per year. Why politicians won’t deal with
this is unconscionable and very detrimental. Broncos are playing,
Cards aren’t. Still can’t have the Broncos game on my TV. Crazy. Broncos are beating the Washington Football team at halftime.
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Historical Events
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1512 Michelangelo's paintings on
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited 1848 WHSmith opens its 1st railway
bookstall, at Euston Station in London, England 1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises
the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981 1993 – The European Union was
established. 2020 Slovakia completes testing
two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06%
test positive out of 3.625 million *Mexico’s Day of the Dead is
celebrated, honoring deceased children and infants on November 1, and
honoring dead adults on November 2. |
Birthdays Today
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72 @70 64 61 49 @28 |
– David Foster, Canadian Musician – Marcia Wallace, American actress, comedian (d. 2013; sepsis) – Lyle Lovett, American Musician – Tim Cook, American Businessman,
current CEO of Apple Inc. – Jenny McCarthy, American actress, model – Stephen Crane, American Author (d. 1900; TB) |
