2021…at last
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Jan
23, 2021 Week: 3
Day: 23 |
Local: H 40°\ L 31°\Ave. Sky Cover: 80% |
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Wind: 7 mph\Gusts: 14mph |
Today’s Ave.
Temp.: H 45°\ L 20° |
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Nearest
lightning:1636mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
Very Low Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 61°[1970] Record: -15°[1937] |
Jan
Averages: 44°/16° (4 days
with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
The earth laughs in
flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random Tidbits
In the early 1900s, black
people began to protest the Jim Crow laws that southern states were
implementing to enforce segregation. Several African-American leaders such as
W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells joined together to found the NAACP in 1909.
Another leader, Booker T. Washington, helped to form schools to educate
African-Americans in order to improve their status in society.
The civil rights movement
gained momentum in the 1950s when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in
schools was illegal in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Federal troops
were brought in to Little Rock, Arkansas to allow the Little Rock Nine to
attend a previously all white high school.
A Little Humor
If You Take A Mime To Court- Is It Still Called A Hearing?
True Things
Swan crashes into woman's
bathroom
Animal rescuers in
Britain said a swan crashed through a window into a woman's bathroom just
moments after she had left for another room. Animal rescue inspector Keith
Ellis, who responded to the scene to collect the swan, said it was a highly
unusual incident. "I have seen them crash-land on to busy roads thinking
they are rivers but nothing like this. It is so bizarre," Ellis said. He
said the swan underwent surgery at a local veterinary practice and is now
recovering Ellis said the swan will be released back into the wild once it is
back to full health. Ellis said it was lucky that the bathroom was unoccupied.
"The lady was so lucky when this happened as she had just been in the
bathroom," he said. "Had she still been there when this swan crashed
through the window, I am sure the glass shattering and the impact of the bird
hitting her would have caused serious injury." P.I. Staker was unavailable
for comment.
Interesting facts about AZ
Ø The westernmost battle of
the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in
Pinal County
Ø There are 11.2 million
acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.
Ø Wyatt Earp was neither
the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at
the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.
Weekly Observations
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International
Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link |
16-24 |
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National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week |
17-23 |
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Sugar Awareness Week |
18-23 |
Today’s Observations
Belly
Laugh Day
Eagle Day
Eskimo Pie Day
‘Just Do
It’ Day
Local
Quilt Shop Day
Measure
Your Feet Day
National
Compliment Day
National
Handwriting Day
National Lobster Day
National
Peanut Butter Day
National Pie Day
National Rhubarb Pie
Day
Paul Pitcher Day Link
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
Talk Like
a Grizzled Prospector Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Headed out early for a sonogram blood draw. The hospital hadn’t
received one of the orders, so that took time and phone calls. Then the machine
was busy. Finally got a draw, but the tech said it was one of the hardest she
had seen in quite a while. Total time from arriving to leaving the hospital
parking lot was 2 hours.
I have to say I am enjoying the many memes of Bernie that are
throughout social media. Bernie and his mittens have made quite a hit.
In 2007 AZ passed a law to allow voters to sign up for permanent
mail-in voting. While AZ voted for Biden, the state legislature is still very
Republican. So, the Republicans have introduced a bill to abolish permanent
mail-in voting. And if that bill fails, another bill was introduced to require
a notary public stamp would be required on the envelope. Hmmm
A Republican House member tried to enter the House Chambers with a
firearm, even though it is against House Rules, made by the House members
themselves. He was upset that the House had put in a metal detector just before
entering the House Chambers. Other Republicans simply walk around the detector
and get the ‘wand’ to check them. Silly.
Daily Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the
page
How can a man who shaves several times a day still sport a long beard?
Historical Events
41 – Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated.
1848 – Gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, Coloma, California by
James W. Marshall.
1899 – The US patent (#618128) for a rubber ‘safety heel’ was issued
to Humphrey O’Sullivan
1922 – The ‘Eskimo Pie’, an ice cream center covered in chocolate, was
patented (#1404539) by Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa.
1935 – The 1st beer in a can – ‘Krueger Cream Ale’ was sold by the
Kruger Brewing Company.
1950 – A microwave oven patent (#2495429) was issued to Percy LeBaron
Spencer under the title ‘Method of Treating Foodstuffs’.
1984 -- The Apple Macintosh was released.
2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially
began operation.
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba.
2001 The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen
Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2015 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is crowned King of Saudi Arabia, on
the death of this half-brother King Abdullah.
2016 Category 5 blizzard delivers record 3ft of snow to the
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US, killing 55 and incurring estimated $500m - $3bn
economic losses.
2016 8 museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for
prosecution for reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue.
2019 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disinvites President Donald Trump
from making a State of the Union address in Congress citing government shutdown
2020 Voice of a 3,000 year old Egyptian priest recreated by scientists
3D printing his vocal tract published in "Scientific Reports"
2020 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp
marked by an international forum in Jerusalem, Israel.
Birthdays Today
@95 – Ernest Borgnine, American
actor (d. 2012)
@91 – Oral Roberts, American
evangelist, founded Oral Roberts University, Oral Roberts Evangelistic
Association (d. 2009)
82 – Ray Stevens,
American singer-songwriter
80 – Neil Diamond,
American singer-songwriter
@75 – Edith Wharton, American
novelist, short-story writer (d. 1937; stroke)
70 – Chesley
Sullenberger, pilot
70 – Yakov Smirnoff
[Yakov Naumovich Pokhis], Ukrainian-American comedian, actor
@56 – John Hancock, politician
53 – Mary Lou
Retton, American gymnast
@33 – John Belushi, American comedic actor (d.
1982; OD)
Puzzle Answer
The man is a barber.
