Nov 12

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Nov. 12, 2019 Week: 46  Day: 316

86004:   H 62° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  181mi.  Nearest lightning:  734mi

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  14mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: 3°[1898]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“When all Americans are treated as equal,

no matter who they are or whom they love,

we are all more free.”

~ Barack Obama

Observances This Week

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

8-14

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link  
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week Link  
National Book Awards Week

9-13

National Young Readers Week Link

Observances for Today

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

Happy Hour Day

International Tempranillo Day  Link
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  Link
National French Dip Day Link
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

World Pneumonia Day

Young Readers Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Flag was up just after sunrise for Veteran’s Day. It’s a nice day for a long walk.

Australian fires are so much worse than the California fires. Even Sydney was issued a fire warning, which almost never happens. Sad.

CU won on Saturday against rival Stanford. Way to go. I watched most of the game and good to see a win. Then there are the Cards who lost again on Sunday.

I got a nice remembrance of Bob that is now on the Focus webpage, along with a picture of Bob from his granddaughter. It’s worth a look.

Just staying home and enjoying the holiday.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

My first two letters say my name.

My last letter asks a question.

What I embrace I destroy.

What am I?

Historical Events

1799 - Andrew Ellicott wrote the about first known record of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know they were the Leonids.

1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, the father of modern anesthetics, used chloroform ("perchloride of formyle") for the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.

1892 - William "Pudge" Walter Heffelfinger was the first professional (paid) US Football player. He got $25 and a $500 bonus for a single game.

1922 (Volcano Eruption & Tsunami) Chile/Argentina - over 1,000 people were killed.

1927 - The Holland Tunnel connecting NY and NY - the world's first underwater vehicular tunnel - officially opened.

1929 - Commander Richard E. Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole.

1933 - First known photo of so-called Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray.

1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic.

1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard killed nearly 150 people and stretched from Kansas to Michigan.

1946 - The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois, instituted the first drive in banking service in America.

1954 - Ellis Island in New York closed after providing entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1924.

1956 - The largest iceberg on record was sighted by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere. It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic. It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide.

1966 - #1 Hit: Johnny Rivers - Poor Side Of Town

1966 - The first photograph was taken from Earth's atmosphere by the satellite Gemini XII.

1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a beached eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with half a ton of dynamite. It mainly made a bigger mess.

1981 - Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

1981 - First balloon crossing of Pacific was completed. The Double Eagle V launched from Nagashima, Japan on November 10, 1981.

1983 - #1 Hit: Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)

1988 - #1 Hit: The Escape Club - Wild, Wild West

1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, was held in Denver, Colorado.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashed minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

2004 - A jury in Redwood City, California, convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.

2011 - #1 Hit: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love

2017 For the first time Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, replacing Queen Elizabeth

2018 Former US First lady Michelle Obama publishes her memoir "Becoming"

Birthdays Today

@91 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist

co-founded Reader's Digest,     

(died in 1981)

@83 – Charles Manson, American cult leader

(died in 2017)

@77 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator,

created The Thinker

(died in 1917)

75 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster

74 – Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist

producer

61 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer

58 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast

@52 – Grace Kelly, American actress,

later Princess Grace of Monaco

(died in 1982; stroke then auto crash)

51 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player

49 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater

40- Cote de Pablo, TV actress

39 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and singer

37 – Anne Hathaway, American actress

Puzzle answer:

Ivy. IV is pronounced ivy, y is pronounced why and fast- growing ivy can smother and kill trees, shrubs and grass.

Veteran's Day 2019

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Happy Veteran’s Day

Nov. 11, 2019 Week: 46  Day: 315

86004:   H 64° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 90%

Nearest active fire:  181mi.  Nearest lightning:  1656mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1973]   Record Low: 7°[1950]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“All genuine education

comes about through experience.”

~ John Dewey

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11

World Origami Days

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

8-14

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link  
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week Link  
National Book Awards Week

9-13

National Young Readers Week Link

Observances for Today

Death/Duty Day
GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems)  Link 
International Pathology Day Link
Forget-Me-Not Day Link  
National Homunculus Awareness Day  Link
National Sundae Day

Origami Day
Red Lipstick Day
Veteran's Day/ Armistice Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Thank you to all the Veterans for their service to this country. I learned that many Natives have served. When the Vietnam war ended, I was in Shonto, a small community with 8 miles of dirt road to get to the school of about 900 K-8 students. My 3^rd graders had lots of questions when the announcement was made. Most common was ‘Does that mean that my (uncle, brother, father, grandfather) is coming home’. Back then almost all the Natives serving had volunteered. Many of my students joined the military after high school. Our business manager at Tuba was a Purple Heart Vietnam Vet. My principal at Red Lake was a Vietnam medic. The Jr. High Department Secretary was married to a Code Talker. My dad was a Vet, serving in the Navy before the war and in the Army during WWII. My friend Bob was an Air Force Vet. And many more I know have served with honor.  I hope everyone flies their flag on Veteran’s Day to honor the many who have served.

Bob’s service will be on Saturday Nov 16 @ 1:30 at the Crown Hill Mortuary in Wheat Ridge. I’ll be there with his many friends and family.

While this country is basically inflation free, Trump is requesting fees for asylum seekers and raising the fees to apply for citizenship hugely as he would say. If they go through, the US will only be the fourth country in the world to charge asylum seekers a fee.

Cards and Buccaneers are having a good game. Could easily go to either team.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

A man was working the night shift when he received an urgent phone call, giving him information that caused him to dash home at breakneck speed.

On bursting into his bedroom quite breathless he found his informant was quite correct. His wife was in bed with someone he had never seen before.

However, far from being angry, he greeted them both with a smile and a few hours later brought them both breakfast in bed.

What is the explanation for this odd behavior?

Historical Events

1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council met, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function

1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first American college fraternity.

1775 Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war

1790 - Chrysanthemums were introduced to England from China by M. Cels (France).

1807 Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name "Gotham" with New York City

1839 - The Virginia Military Institute was founded in Lexington, Virginia.

1851 - The first U.S. patent (Patent #8,509) for a telescope design was issued to Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Mass.

1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea - General William Tecumseh Sherman began burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into ending WW I.

1921 - President Harding dedicated the Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. It is also known as The Tomb of the Unknowns.

1926 - U.S. Route 66 was established. It has also been called The Will Rogers Highway.

1930 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd got the patent (#1,781,541) for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1935 -A record 72,395 feet was reached by Lt. Col. Albert William Stevens and Captain Orvil Anderson, by helium balloon in a sealed gondola, Explorer II.

1938 - Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) died. Fifty-one original cases of typhoid and three deaths were directly attributed to her, although she was immune to the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhi).

1939 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's God Bless America on her radio show. Irving Berlin had originally written it in 1918.

1966 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church joined together as the United Methodist Church (USA)

1978 - #1 Hit: Donna Summer - MacArthur Park

1980 - Too Close for Comfort premiered on ABC. It was modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family'.

1987 - Van Gogh's Irises sold for record 53.9 million dollars at auction via Sotheby's, New York.

1989 - #1 Hit: Bad English - When I See You Smile

1994 - Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester for $30,800,000. It was an insightful overview on Leonardo's thoughts on a variety of topics. It was also the most expensive book or manuscript of all time.

2000 - #1 Hit: Creed - With Arms Wide Open

2004 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) confirmed the death of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

2015 Montreal begins a controversial dumping of raw sewage (2.1bn gallons) into the St Lawrence River

2017 Largest Singles Day sales ever - Alibaba says its sales alone were $25.3 billion

2018 On centenary of WWI Armistice Day French President Macron urges world to reject Nationalism in speech to under Arc de Triomphe in Paris

2018 Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba sets new record for their Singles Day sale, $1 billion in 85 seconds, $30.8bn in 24 hours

Birthdays Today

@92 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy

(died in 1996)

@87 – Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter

(died in 2013)

@84 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer

and essayist

(died in 2007)

@83 – Pat O'Brien, American actor

(died in 1983)

@79 – Stubby Kaye  

Bernard Solomon Kotzin, American entertainer

(died in 1997; lung cancer)

79 – Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician

@60 – George S. Patton, American general

(died in 1945; 12 days after vehicle accident)

59 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

57 – Demi Moore, American actress, director and producer

55 – Calista Flockhart, American actress

46 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer

Puzzle answer:

His wife had just given birth.