Nov 15

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Nov 15, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 319

86004 Today: H 47° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1999]   Record Low: 2°[1985]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates

Random Tidbits

When used to make ethyl alcohol, an acre of potatoes will produce enough fuel to fill 25 cars.

The maximum speed limit you'll see on US highway signs depends on the state. In Iowa, New Mexico, and North and South Dakota, 75 mph is posted on some stretches of interstate highways. But in Hawaii, 60 mph is the maximum statewide, and in the District of Columbia, 55 mph is still the law.

Observances This Week

           

9-17

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  

10-16

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16  Link  
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

15-17

National Donor Sabbath (organ donation)

Observances for Today

           

America Recycles Day
George Spelvin Day or More Than One Role Day
Great American Smokeout 

I Love to Write Day
National Bundt (Pan) Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

National Philanthropy Day Link
National Raisin Bran Cereal Day

Rock Your Mocs Day Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1660 First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)

1700’s                                         

1720 Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial

1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens

1800’s                                         

1835 Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle, the location where he would formulate his ideas later written in The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system

1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY

1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)

1900’s                                         

1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade

1920 League of Nations holds first meeting in Geneva

1939 FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1939 The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board

1959 Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood)

1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States

1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990

2000’s                                         

2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

2014 The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case

2017 The Zimbabwean Army detains Robert Mugabe and the first family and appoints sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as interim president

2017 Pakistan unveils remains of 1,700-year-old sleeping Buddha in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

My Rambling Thoughts

Dentist and hygienist both happy with my teeth. Yeah!

So I had 3 medical appointments this week. All were around 8A. Every morning it was in the 20’s when I had to leave. Now that my early appointments are over I expect the weather to warm up a little in the mornings.

On the drive home, I saw a guy driving a 1960 Caddy in pristine condition. It was shiny black with a black & white interior. We were side by side at several lights. I just stared. Then I looked at my ride and realized it really needed a good wash and wax.

The Parkland shooter was back in court today for attacking a guard at the prison and taking his stun gun. Some take a long time to learn a lesson.

At my complex, about ½ of us have storm doors (now called security doors). We all have black storm doors. They must be approved by the HOA, which takes months. So yesterday afternoon I find a note on my security door that the paint crew is going to be painting the doors this morning. I figure it was too cold, as they haven’t shown up yet. They have already painted the trim on the doors without security doors and it matches the other trim. I’m just wondering what they will do with our security doors, are they going to just paint the frame to match the trim or are they really going to paint the entire door (as the note says). If I were in charge, they would paint the frame to match the trim and paint the security door to match the front door. Guess I’ll find out when they start working.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Joseph Wapner,

American judge (People's Court), born in Los Angeles, (d. 2017)

@96- Georgia O'Keeffe,

American sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull), born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (d. 1986)

80’s

89- Edward Asner,

American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant), born in Kansas City, Kansas

86- Petula Clark,

Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)

@83- William Herschel,

German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), born in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1822)

@83- Gerhart Hauptmann,

German author (Before Dawn - Nobel 1912), born in Obersalzbrunn, Silesia, Prussia (d. 1946)

79- Yaphet Kotto,

African-American actor (Alien, Homicide: Life on the Street), born in NYC

78- Sam Waterston,

American actor (Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

61- Kevin Eubanks,

bandleader (Tonight Show)

@52- Erwin Rommel,

German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign), born in Heidenheim, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1944) suicide @ Hitler’s orders

46- Jonny Lee Miller,

English actor (Trainspotting, Elementary), born in London

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76-1954 Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe],

American actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), heart attack

@76-1978 Margaret Mead,

American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), pancreatic cancer

50’s

@58-1630 Johannes Kepler,

German astronomer (discovered laws of planetary motion)