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Aug 5, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 218
86004:
H 85° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind:
15mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 216mi.; Nearest active fire: 59mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 90°[1944]
Record Low: 35°[1976]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow
will be our doubts of today."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Random
Tidbits
Beer is the second most
popular drink on Earth after tea. The third-most popular if you include water.
In 2018, people consumed nearly 50 billion gallons of beer worldwide.
Beer is as old as human
history. Beer brewing and drinking predate written language.
The earliest evidence of
beer making was found in western Iran, dating back to 3,500 BC.
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A little
humor
Question: What do you
call a wet poodle?
A puddle.
What do frogs drink?
Part 2
Croaka Cola
Puns aren't funny.
They're punny.
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Observations
This Week
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
North American Organic Brewers Days: 4-8 Link Moved from June.
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money): 4-8
Rock for
Life Week: 4-7 Link
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Observations
for Today
International Albarino Day [Wine Festival]
National Oyster Day Link
National
Underwear Day Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Primary Election Day in AZ. Made it through the construction to
get to my polling place…an abandoned restaurant at our only Mall. Everyone…me
and the 8 workers…all wore masks. In and out in less than 5 minutes. They had a
new machine for ‘Express voting’. You get a blank card, insert it, vote to a
touch screen with an individual ‘straw’ like thing to touch the screen. When
you have checked all the votes, confirmed your votes, it prints a ballot that
goes into the ballot box machine, you discard the straw and get the I Voted
sticker. Very cool and easy. As I was leaving, another voter was coming in. It
is an important primary as there are several close races this fall, and it is
important to get the right people running. Time will tell if my vote helped.
I messed up the other day when I said no friends were in the
hurricane path. I had a senior moment. My colleague/friend Camille returned to
Florida a few months ago. She emailed and said she was in the path, but thankfully
it moved enough to miss her area.
Yesterday’s clouds chose not to drop any moisture, but I’m hopeful
that the monsoon will soon return.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
When
it is alive, all but one sings. When it dies, all but one cheers.
What
is it?
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Historical
Events
1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against
England, was captured, tried, and executed near Glasgow. Mel Gibson starred in
a dramatization of the story in Braveheart.
1620 – The Mayflower departed from Southampton, England, headed
towards North America.
1812 War of 1812:
Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at
Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat
1861 – In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States
government levied the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3%
over $800)
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay,
won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the
torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)
1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey was established.
Standard+Oil=SO=Esso, now Exxon.
1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty, a gift from
France, was laid on Bedloe’s Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
1891 world's 1st traveler's cheques issued (American Express)
1914 – Cleveland, Ohio, installed the first electric traffic
light.
1921 – KDKA of Pittsburgh broadcasts first baseball game over
radio, the Pittsburgh Pirates beating the Philadelphia Phillies (8-5).
1924 – 1st appearance Little Orphan Annie, Comic Strip
1926 – Harry Houdini performed one of his greatest stunts,
spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1957 – American Bandstand debuted on the ABC television network,
with host Dick Clark. The show began locally on Philadelphia television station
WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV) in 1952.
1963 Craig Breedlove sets world land speed record of 407.477 mph
in Spirit of America at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan fired 11,359 striking
air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
2011 – Standard & Poor’s lowered the United States’ AAA credit
rating by one notch, to AA-plus.
2014 Obama signs The Iron Dome Bill providing $225 million in
additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome defense
2019 Widespread strike in Hong Kong and demonstrations against
Chinese policy towards the territory bring huge disruption, including
cancelling 200 flights
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Birthdays
Today
@84 – Conrad
Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, poet (d. 1973)
@82 – Gertrude
Rush, American lawyer, founder: Nat’l Bar Assoc. (d. 1962)
@82 – Neil
Armstrong, American astronaut (d. 2012)
@83 – John Saxon,
American character actor (d. 2020)
75 – Loni Anderson,
American actress
73 – Rick
Derringer, American singer-songwriter [Hang on Sloopy]
58 – Patrick
Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player
54 – James Gunn,
American director, producer, and screenwriter
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Puzzle
Answer
Birthday
candles
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