Week: 47
Day: 324
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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13-21 |
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: Link |
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14-20 |
International Fraud Awareness Week Link National Split Pea Soup Week Link |
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15-21 |
International Restorative Justice Week Link |
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15-22 |
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link |
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16-20 |
Medical Cannabis Week Link |
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18-25 |
National Farm-City Week |
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19-28 |
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link |
Daily Observations
Favorite Memes
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Have a laugh
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McDonalds was originally going to sell hot
dogs. They just
felt like nobody would buy the McWeenie |
Trivia
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Coin-operated gaming devices in the late 1800s
included games with large revolving wheels divided into color segments.
Players wagered on which
color the wheel would stop. They're considered the forerunners of modern slot
machines, even though they didn't have reels. The first recognizably modern
three-reel slot was the Liberty Bell, invented by Charles Fey in San
Francisco in 1899. The machine was so popular that for many years all slot
machines were referred to as bell machines. The game
of 21 got its common nickname, blackjack, from a practice in illegal casinos
in the early 1900s. Some casinos paid a bonus if a two-card 21 was made up of
an ace and jack of spades. Others paid bonuses if an ace of spades was
accompanied by a jack of either clubs or spades. The black jack was the key
to the bonus, and became the name of the game. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Another
nice fall day. Our retirement group met for a nice lunch at one of our favorite
local restaurants…Fat Olives. Good conversation, great food. I slept
through the lunar eclipse. Traditional Navajo say you should stay inside,
fast, and pray during any eclipse. I didn’t watch it because I was asleep. SMH…Rep
Paul Gosar, R-AZ, decided a few hours after his conviction, to repost his
violent video…and he has Republican support for that move. Crazy. Yesterday’s
phlebotomy went well. All good. Over 100,000
Americans died of overdoses so far this year. Fentanyl is the main culprit. Many
are also blaming the isolation of Covid.
Both are a very sorry commentary on the American experience. |
Historical Events
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Birthday
boy Chester Gould’s friend, Al Gross invented the walkie-talkie, and that was
the inspiration for Dick
Tracey’s wrist radio in January 1946. In 1789, New Jersey became the first
U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1820, An 80-ton sperm whale attacked
and sank the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Herman
Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story. 1945 – The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
began, finishing on October 10, 1946.1962 – In response to the Soviet Union
agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy
ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation, ending The Cuban Missile Crisis. November 20, 1985 – Microsoft Windows
1.0 was released. 1998 Court in Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a
sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania 2019 Snakes lived with hind legs for 70
million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera
Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances" |
Birthdays Today
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@63 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
and cosmologist (d. 1953; stroke) @95 – Alistair Cooke, British-American
journalist and author (d. 2004) @42 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician
(assassinated, 1968) 94 – Estelle Parsons, American actress
(The Golden Girls) 79 – Joe Biden, 47th Vice President; 46TH
President 65 – Bo Derek [Mary Cathleen Collins], American
actress, and producer |
