Week: 50 Day: 340
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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28-12/6 |
Chanukah |
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1-7 |
Cookie Cutter Week Link |
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3-10 |
Clerc-Gallaudet
Week |
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5-24 |
Andisop
(Meterological Fiddling) Link |
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5-11 |
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week |
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6-10 |
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link |
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6-12 |
Computer Science Education Week: Link |
Daily Observations
Favorite Memes
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Have a laugh
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What do you call a skeleton that makes you
laugh? A funny
bone. |
Trivia
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Because tigers usually attack their prey from
the side or rear, some
people living in rural India wear masks on the back of their heads. Over the
past one hundred years, over 95 percent of the tiger population has
disappeared, leaving just 5,000 tigers in the world today. Their population
is still decreasing due to poaching and habitat loss. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Another nice fall day…blue sky and no clouds. I did two
loads of laundry…getting ready for the week. I was a
fan of Chris Cuomo. I enjoyed his friendly banter with Don Lemon between their
shows. I now get why other journalists don’t do that kind of banter. Sorry to
hear another icon has passed…Bob Dole at 98. I didn’t always like his
political views but he worked hard to get consensus during his many years in
Washington. The AZ
Cards beat the Bears. The Broncos game will be on my TV tonight as Sunday
Night Football. Marjorie
Taylor Greene is a piece of work. Yesterday she reminded her constituents that
more kids die of cancer than of Covid and we aren’t shutting schools for
cancer. She didn’t mention that cancer is not contagious. |
Historical Events
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1825
US President John Adams
suggests establishment of a national observatory 1862 US President Abraham Lincoln
orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians 1897 – London became the world’s first
city license taxicabs. 1933 Ban on James Joyce's
"Ulysses" in US lifted 1969 – The Altamont Free Concert,
featuring Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Rolling Stones. It also had several
deaths, and hundreds were injured. It was the focus of the 1970 documentary
film titled Gimme Shelter. 1973 --Gerald Ford was sworn in as US
Vice President. 2010 Record price for a printed book
when a first edition of "The Birds of America" by John James
Audubon auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250 2018 Oldest-known plague sample found
in 4,900-year-old remains of 20-year old woman in Gökhem, southern Sweden
published in "Cell" |
Birthdays Today
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@31 – Joyce Kilmer, American
soldier, author, poet (d. 1918; in battle) @86 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter
(d. 1983) @91 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist,
and composer (d. 2012) 73 – JoBeth Williams, American actress 54 – Judd Apatow, American director,
producer, and screenwriter |
