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Week: 9 Day: 57 |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Visibility: 10 miles |
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Local Temp:
36°\ 1° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 9mph |
Low risk
of fire Active fire: 346mi.
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Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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19-26 |
National FFA Week Link |
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20-26 |
National Sauna Week Link |
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23-26 |
American Birkenbreiner Race (ski race)) |
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It warmed up
enough to start melting the snow and icicles.
Judge
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated to the Supreme Court. She has a wide
variety of experience. Hope the conformation goes smoothly. The first Black woman to be nominated.
History!
Ukraine is
certainly taking over the news…until Judge Jackson was nominated. Poland has
been dealing with thousands of refugees from Ukraine. Now they are setting up
refugee centers as the mass of humanity crosses the border. And now it looks
like Russian ships are going to land at Mariupol…just outside Crimea. What a
mess. This is looking more and more like the beginnings of a big war.
My brother
took his passport and residence card (for Mexico) to the studio for some information
for the accountant. Then he promptly misplaced both. Now he must fly to nearest
American consulate to get a new passport and then take that to the Mexican
officials to get a new residency card. His plan to fly to Guatemala with Laura
on business in now not happening because they were to fly out on Monday. How frustrating.
Interesting:
highest temp in Colorado is 115° was near Lamar in 2019. Highest temp in AZ is
128° in Lake Havasue City in 1994.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
Why do
archaeologists get all the girls?
Because they
have the best dating techniques.
Trivia
Question:
What two cities represent letters in the phonetic alphabet?
Question:
What were clocks missing before 1577?
Question:
What is the number one seller at Walmart?
Q: What was
the third country to get the atomic bomb?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
Lima and Quebec
Answer 2:
Minute hands
Answer 3:
Bananas
Answer 4: Britain
Historical Events
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1616 –
Galileo Galilei was formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching
or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
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1829 – Levi
Strauss was born. He never married, so, ironically, he didn’t get to pass his
genes on to the next generation.
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1848 – The
Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published.
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1919 –
800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon, already a national monument, was designated
a national park under President Woodrow Wilson
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1993 – The
World Trade Center was the target of a bombing, injuring over 1,000 people and
killing six more.
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2012 –
Trayvon Martin, an African American teen walking home from a trip to a
convenience store, was fatally shot in an altercation with George Zimmerman, a
Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer patrolling the townhouse community of the
Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida.
Birthdays Today
@89 – Fats Domino [Antoine Dominique Domino Jr.], singer-songwriter, pianist (died in 2017)
@83 – Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1885)
@79 – William Frawley, American actor and
vaudevillian (d. 1966; heart attack)
@73 – Levi Strauss, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (d.
1902)
@71 – Jackie Gleason, American actor (d. 1987; colon
cancer)
@71 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (died in 2003)
@70 – William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody,
soldier, showman, hunter (d. 1917)
69 – Michael
Bolton, American singer-songwriter
@29 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d.
1593; murder<?>)
