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Aug 3, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 216
86004:
H 88° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind:
16mph\Gusts: 24 mph
Visibility: 10mi
Nearest lightning: 162mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 91°[1994]
Record Low: 37°[1956]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Success usually comes to those who are too
busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
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Random
Tidbits
Food and sex have been linked throughout history. Some
foods are thought to have sexual powers because they resemble human genitals.
Casanova was said to offer oysters to his potential partners to whet their
sexual appetite.
Several ancient cultures
viewed the apple as a feminine symbol and found a resemblance between the two
halves of a vertically cut apple to the female genital system. Alternatively,
an apple cut horizontally resembled a pentagram, which was considered key in
revealing knowledge of good and evil.
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A little
humor
Question: Why is the letter B so cool?
Because it's sitting in the middle of the AC!
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Observations
This Month
National Breastfeeding Month Link
National Catfish Month Link
National Crayon Collection Month Link
National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month Link
National Panini Month Link
Nat’l Political Affiliation Discrimination Awareness Month Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month Link
National Water Quality Month Link (Also in May)
National Wellness Month Link
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
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Observations
This Week
World Rope Skipping Week thru 8/3 Link
National
Little League Baseball Week: Thru 23 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Gallup Internat’l Tribal Indian Powwow:
thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National
Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due
to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8 Link
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8 Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 Link
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link Link
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
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Observations
for Today
Friendship Day Link
Grab
Some Nuts Day
Watermelon Day Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday’s monsoon cooled things off nicely. Warming up now,
hoping for more monsoon later this afternoon.
Enjoyed the Sunday news programing. Dragon Capsule recover is remarkably
interesting. I thought it took a long time to get off an airplane after a long
international flight…guess I was wrong.
Several AZ school districts are getting ready for opening
classrooms. Parents must sign a waiver regarding Covid exposure and possible
illness before the child can attend class. I do not like this new normal.
RNC is keeping everyone guessing…about press coverage. At first,
they said there would be no press inside during the convention. Then it changed
to during voting, and now it is still to be determined. Guess we will all wait.
It is always difficult to live in Florida during hurricane season.
As Hurricane IIsaias moves to Florida, it is exceedingly difficult due to Covid.
I am sure they will do their best. I have several friends in Florida, but none
in the path.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?
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Historical
Events
1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera,
Spain towards, he expected, Asia.
1769 – The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California were
discovered.
1852 – Harvard University won the first Boat Race against Yale
University. The race was the first American intercollegiate athletic event
1926 – The first traffic lights in Great Britain were installed at
Piccadilly Circus.
1936 –
Jesse Owens won the 100-meter dash, beating ‘the world’s fastest man’ Ralph
Metcalfe at the Berlin Olympics.
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the first modern themed amusement park,
opened in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus traveled under the
Arctic ice cap.
1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world’s
first mass-produced personal computers. The basic model originally shipped with
4 KB of RAM.
1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern
Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opened.
2001 US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya
Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001
2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being
closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks
2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations
Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
2015 US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut
greenhouse gases
2015 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US
Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama
2019
Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart
store in El Paso, Texas; Gunman kills nine and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton,
Ohio, in 2nd mass shooting in 24 hours in the US
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Birthdays
Today
@94 – P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park], English author (d. 2014)
94 – Tony Bennett [Anthony Dominick Benedetto], singer
@80 – Gordon Scott [Gordon Merrill Werschkul], American actor
(died in 2007)
80 – Jimmie Nicol,
English drummer
80 – Martin Sheen,
American actor
79 – Martha Stewart,
American businesswoman, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
@70 – John T. Scopes,
American educator (d. 1970; cancer)
69 – John Landis,
American director, producer and screenwriter
42 – Tom Brady,
NFL
35 – Ryan Lochte,
American swimmer
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Puzzle
Answer
Forty
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