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Dec. 1, 2019 Week: 49 Day:335
86004: H 32° \ L 14° \
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest active fire: 297mi. Nearest lightning: 928mi
Wind: 3mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[2008] Record Low: -7°[1905]
Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
“Don’t ever forget
that you’re a citizen of this world,
and there are things
you can do to lift the human spirit,
things that are easy,
things that are free,
things that you can do
every day:
civility, respect,
kindness, character.”
~ Aaron Sorkin
Random Tidbits
Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb.
Edison had a record number of patents - 1,093, to be exact - and the vast
majority of them weren't his own inventions. He was just a guy smart enough to
find real inventors and steal their ideas before they could take the credit.
Edison got the patent for the light bulb in 1880, but
its true father was Warren de la Rue, a British astronomer and chemist, who
created the first light bulb forty years earlier.
Observances This Month
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Aids
Awareness Month Link
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Bingo's
Birthday Month
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Buckwheat
Month Link
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Car
Donation Month Link
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Egg
Nog Month
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Fruit
Cake Month
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National
Drunk & Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
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National
Impaired Driving Prevention Month
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National
Pear Month
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National
Tie Month
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National
Write A Business Plan Month
Observances This Week
Thru
12/1
National
Deal Week
Thru
12/4
American
Sand Sculpting Competition Link
1-7
Cookie
Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
Observances for Today
Antarctica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the
Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Clark Kent's Birthday
(Superman)
Day With(out) Art Day
Rosa Parks Day
World Aids Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Sun is shining, no clouds, very chilly. This storm brought
about 18” of very wet snow over two days. Much needed and much appreciated. Shovelers
were here around 7a, I dug out about 9a, for the second time during this storm.
Much easier today as we only got about 6” since I last dug out. Main roads are
wet. Surprisingly, the grocery store had very few customers. I figured more
people would be picking up stuff after the holiday and yesterday’s snow. Sounds
like it will take a long time for this mess to melt. The weatherman predicts
highs in the low 30’s until Friday.
I was very disappointed to read about the University
of Farmington in Detroit. First is was a fake university set up by Homeland
Security during the last months of Obama’s term. It offered fairly cheap
tuition for foreign students on Student Visas. They had a nice website, and
everything had to be done on-line. They didn’t list any staff or class
schedules. After registering and paying students were monitored by Homeland
Security. Then, the students learned it was not a real university they were
deported because their student visas were revoked. Over 250 students from India
were deported. It was finally shut down but any foreign student who registered
and paid is still on the hook for the money and will be deported. Very slimy
and disgusting.
During the recent impeachment hearings, it was
pointed out by Republicans the Ambassador Yovanovitch had not hung up President
Trumps official photo in the embassy…suggesting that she was a Never-Trumper.
Turns out that the official portrait was not reproduced for Embassy and other
Federal Building use for 15 months after the inauguration…as Trump and/or his
staff didn’t approve an official photo. And
Yovanovitch hung the official photo on the day it arrived at her embassy. Seems
a little sleazy on the part of the Republican member who brought it up at the
hearing.
Getting in the Christmas mood. Stores and a few of
the neighbors have their outdoor decorations out for all to see. I’m used to
shopping for stuff that can be in a suitcase so it should not be that difficult
to find what I need. I talked to my brother in Mexico on Thanksgiving. One of
his specialties for Thanksgiving is Mincemeat pie. In today’s world, and actually
my whole life, mincemeat pie never had meat, but lots of fruit and spices. When
he made it in NYC, most of the guests had never had it, and were a little leery
of trying it. After one bite, it was a success.
Well, he can’t find any mincemeat in Mexico, so I’m taking a few jars of
NoneSuch Mincemeat to we can have the pie for Christmas.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
Historical Events
800 - Charlemagne judged the accusations against Pope
Leo III in the Vatican, and decided in the Pope's favor.
1783 - The first manned voyage of a lighter-than-air
hydrogen balloon left Paris carrying Professor Jacques Alexander Cesar Charles
and Marie-Noel Robert to almost 500 feet and landed 28 miles away after about 2
hours in the air.
1841 - The first steamboat engine built in America
for a screw-propelled vessel, designed by John Ericsson and built by Captain
Sylvester Doolittle, installed on the ship Vandalia, was launched.
1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st
exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's
"Bathers at Asnières"
1885 - Invented by Charles Alderton, Dr Pepper was
first served at the W.B. Morrison & Co. Old Corner Drug Store in Waco,
Texas.
1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in
"Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle
1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduced the
continuously moving assembly line, producing a complete automobile every
two-and-a-half minutes. It was the first true "mass production"
system.
1913 - The first U.S. drive-in automobile service
'filling station' opened at the traffic intersection of Baum Boulevard and St.
Clair Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1952 - The New York Daily News reported that
Christine Jorgensen was the first case of sexual reassignment surgery.
1953 - The first issue of Playboy was published.
1955 - Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a
public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
1958 - #1 Hit: The Teddy Bears - To Know
Him Is to Love Him
1958 - A fire at Our Lady of Angels School elementary
school in Chicago killed 90 children.
1968 - Broadway Show - Promises, Promises (Musical)
opened
1973 - #1 Hit: The Carpenters - Top of the
World
1974 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 crashed
northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport; also TWA Flight 514,
another Boeing 727, crashed northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing
all 92 people on board.
1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's
Republic of China
1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles
national park system size
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister
of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
1990 - #1 Hit: Whitney Houston - I'm Your
Baby Tonight
1990 - The Chunnel between England and France was
connected and celebrated when and Englishman and Frenchmen broke their respective
sides. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the French president,
François Mitterrand, in a ceremony held in Calais on May 6, 1994.
1991 - Britney Spears appeared on Star Search.
1992- The Young and The Restless aired the 5,000th
episode. In honor of the event, The Price Is Right (also CBS) even featured
Y&R themed showcases.
1994 - The Game Show Network, the 24-hour channel
dedicated to game shows, made its debut
1994 - Home & Garden Television (HGTV) made its
debut.
1997 - 8 planets in our Solar System lined up from
West to East beginning with Pluto, followed by Mercury, Mars, Venus, Neptune,
Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn, along with a crescent moon, in a rare alignment
visible from Earth that lasted until December 8.
2007 - #1 Hit: Alicia Keys - No One
2012 - #1 Hit: Rihanna - Diamonds
2017
President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty
to lying to the F.B.I.
Birthdays Today
@88 - Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor,
founder of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
(died in 1850)
84 - Woody Allen, American actor, director, and
screenwriter
80 - Lee Trevino, American golfer
@76 - Mary Martin, American actress and singer
(died in 1990; cancer)
75 - John Densmore, American drummer, The Doors
74 - Bette Midler, American singer and actress
@72 - Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter
(died in 2006; brain cancer)
@65 - Richard Pryor, American comedian
(died in 2005; heart attack)
68 - Treat Williams, American actor
@44 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist
(died in 1993 ; gunshot)
31 - Zoë Kravitz, American actress
Puzzle answer:
Once: 100-10=90, after that you are subtracting from
the previous answer.
