Jul 29

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Jul. 29, 2019 Week: 31 \ Day: 210

86004:   H 85° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Nearest wildfire:  4mi. Nearest lightning:  275mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  16mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[2002]   Record Low: 37°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\542° (8 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

Freedom is never given;

it is won.

A. Philip Randolph

Random Tidbits

Wonders of the Ancient World

4. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus outside of Izmir in Turkey.

Is it simply a temple? How could it take its place among other unique structures such as the Pyramid, the Hanging Gardens, and the Colossus of Rhodes? For the people who actually visited it, the answer was simple. It was not just a temple... It was the most beautiful structure on earth... It was built in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting, wild nature, and fertility. That was the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

5. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in the city of Bodrum in Turkey.

Similar to the Great Pyramid, we are now visiting the burial place of an ancient king. Yet the Mausoleum is different - so different from the Pyramid that it earned its reputation - and a spot within the list - for other reasons. Geographically, it is closer to the Temple of Artemis... And it was the beauty of the tomb rather than its size that fascinated its visitors for years.

Observances This Week

27-8/5
National Little League Baseball Week  Link

Observances for Today

Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary  Link
International Chicken Wing Day Link
International Tiger Day  Link
Lasagna Day
National Chicken Wing Day Link
National Lasagna Day

National Lipstick Day  
Rain Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I had a nice Sunday morning, reading the Sunday paper on my deck. There hasn’t been any monsoon rain since Thursday, and it isn’t returning until mid- week ahead.  That means everything is drying out quite quickly. This is becoming another concern. This morning my neighborhood was taken out of SET status and returned to normal (READY).  We were in that status for a week. Long enough for me. One of my brother’s half-sisters is about 7 miles from the Oregon fire. She posted yesterday that she was very nervous because she had just been placed in SET status. I reassured her of my experience in SET and she said she felt a little better.

Most of the Rez teachers are back to work, with students returning in two weeks. Most are posting that summer was too short. I sure get that. I look back fondly on my teaching/administration career at this time of year. I still walk slowly through the school supply aisles now. That does not mean I want to work again, just great fond memories.

I washed linens this morning. The 2^nd load should be dry soon.

Looking forward to a quiet week ahead. Two friends some the Rez are spending the week. Gas prices are too high for them to commute every day. They will stay here after work each day until Thursday. Easy-Peasy for me. And they always cook.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Can you Form a word from the letters?

A  B  C  D  E F  G  I.  (note; the word is hyphenated)

Today’s Highlighted Historical Events

1600’s

1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years

1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam

1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians

1700’s

1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by a hurricane

1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio

1800’s

1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police

1884 Society of Independent Artists founded in Paris by Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac

1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY

1900’s

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)

1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)

1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

1987 Ben & Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia

2000’s

2015 Over 3,500 immigrants over 2 days attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel at Calais, to cross into Britian

2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion

Highlighted Birthdays Today

0’s

1796 Walter Hunt,

American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, New York (d. 1859: @62)

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville,

French statesman/writer (Democracy in America: @53: TB)

1883 Benito Mussolini

[Il Duce],

Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy (d. 1945: @61: shot escaping)

1888 Vladimir K. Zworykin,

Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian Empire (d. 1982: @94)

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld,

Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1961: @56: plane crash)

1907 Melvin Belli,

American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996: @88)

1910 Dorothy Hodgkin,

British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1994: @84)

1914 "Professor" Irwin Corey,

comedian (Car Wash, Doc), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017: @102)

1924 Robert Horton

[Meade Howard Horton Jr.],

American actor and singer (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016: @91)

1938 Peter Jennings,

Canadian-American news anchor (ABC Evening News), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2005: @67: lung cancer)

80’s

86- Robert Fuller,

actor (Laramie, Wagon Train), born in Troy, New York

82- Charles Schwab,

American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California

60’s

66- Ken Burns,

American director and documentary film producer (The Civil War, Baseball), born in Brooklyn, New York

66- Tim Gunn,

American television and fashion personality (Project Runway), born in Washington D.C.

40’s

47- Wil Wheaton,

American actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me), born in Burbank, California

Highlighted Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-1983 Raymond Massey,

Canadian actor (Dr Kildare)

70’s

@73-1983 David Niven,

British actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Rugues), dies in Switzerland of Lou Gehrig's disease

@71-2007 Tom Snyder,

American television personality (The Tomorrow Show), dies from leukemia

50’s

@51-1986 Gordon Mills,

British songwriter (Tom Jones - "Its not Unusual"), dies of cancer

30’s

@37-1890 Vincent van Gogh,

Dutch painter (Sunflowers), dies 2 days after shooting himself

@32-1974 "Mama" Cass Elliot,

American rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas), dies from a heart attack

Puzzle answer:

Big-Faced