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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
15-24 National Ballroom Dance Week Link
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24-30 Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link )
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Daily Observations
Cherries Jubilee Day
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National Professional Baseball Day
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Today’s Thoughts
Rain
started around 9p, continues throughout today.
It’s light rain with periods of no rain.
Colorado
is playing Oregon. A big test for the Buffs. I’m hoping Coach Prime and the
Buffs show their strength and win today.
Enjoy
Unique National Treasures for the US …
Chocolate
Chip Cookie
It’s the ultimate comfort food—warm, soft,
sweet, homey. And it turns 79 this year. In 1938 Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House
restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, added cut-up bits of chocolate to the
cookie she served with ice cream. A year later, she sold the rights to use her
cookie recipe and the Toll House name to Nestle for $1. The cookie’s popularity
was boosted by the hard times of the Great Depression and then WWII. Now it’s
engrained in America, from care packages shipped to soldiers and college
students to Pillsbury refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough to Chips Ahoy,
Famous Amos, Mrs. Fields and Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice
cream.
Random Trivia…
Shakespeare originated the “yo
momma” joke. In his play, Titus Andronicus, one of the characters,
Chiron, exclaims, “Thou has undone our mother,” to which another character,
Aaron, replies, “Villain, I have done thy mother.”
Hollywood moved from New York to Los Angeles to escape Edison’s
patents. Thomas Edison had patents on over 1,000 different things, including
most of the technology needed to make high-end movies. So independent
filmmakers moved to California, an area of the country where the judges weren’t
as friendly to Edison and his patents.
Historic Events
- 1890 –
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced
polygamy.
- 1906 –
President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the
nation’s first National Monument.
- 1960 –
USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was
launched.
- 1991 –
Influential album, Nevermind, by Nirvana was released.
- 2019 – An impeachment inquiry was initiated by the United
States House of Representatives against President Donald Trump.
Birthdays with some quotes
@89 – Georges Claude, French chemist, and engineer, invented
Neon lighting (d, 1960)
@86 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster, and journalist (d, 2008)
78
– Lou Dobbs, American journalist, and author
“Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For
the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it
can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at
every opportunity.”
77
– ‘Mean Joe’ Greene (Charles
Edward Greene),
American football player, coach, and actor
“In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real
thing. A hero stands up for himself, for herself, but most importantly for
others.”
60
– Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress, and screenwriter
“You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one,
and that’s why I tend to just jump into things. I’m sort of a fearless idiot
that way.”
@56 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer and
activist (d, 1998’ breast cancer)
@53 – Jim Henson, puppeteer (d, 1990)
@49 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American comedic actor (d, 1998;
shot)
“The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and
weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday
Night Live.”
@44 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short-story
writer (d, 1940; heart attack)
“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what
people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that
listens.”
…The End for today…
