Aug 6

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Aug. 6, 2019 Week: 32 \ Day: 218

86004:   H 81° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest wildfire:  100mi. Nearest lightning:  0.9mi

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  25mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1983]   Record Low: 36°[1953]

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

Random Tidbits

A pistol is a handgun - but not all handguns are pistols.

The defining factor that makes a handgun a pistol is a chamber that is integral with the barrel. Semi-automatic handguns have a barrel with the chamber built in, which means they are pistols. Revolvers, on the other hand, are not pistols, because a revolver contains a cylinder that's separate from the barrel and contains multiple chambers.

Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week  Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week
World Breastfeeding Week Link

1-9

International Mathematicians Week

2-11

Gallup International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-7

Rock for Life Week Link

4-10

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link  
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Button Week Link
National Farmers' Market Week Link 
National Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Health Center Week Link  
National Psychic Week Link  Link   
Single Working Women's Week Link
Stop on Red Week Link

5-9

Exhibitor Appreciation Week

5-11

National Bargain Hunting Week
Old Fiddlers' Week
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money)

Observances for Today

Hiroshima Day
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis)  Day
National Night Out Link 
National Root Beer Float Day Link 
Wiggle Your Toes Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Another nice rain cooled things off quickly by about 10° in about 5 minutes. No sign of any flooding. Good news all around.

A friend came by and we watched Netflix until 2a. Great new show, ‘Basketball or Nothing’ follows the Chinle Wildcats, from the Navajo Rez on their quest for State Champs. No spoilers, but they sure do a great job of showing the Rez as it is today.  Worth a watch. Even if you aren’t a basketball fan, it shows what the High School kids do on a daily basis, their dreams, their worries…their lives.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

You had 10lbs of cucumbers, each of which consisted of 99% water. After leaving them in the sun, some of the water in the cucumbers evaporated. If the cucumbers ended up with 98% water in them, how much of their weight did they lose?

Today’s Highlighted Historical Events

1787 - 60 copies of the Constitution of the United States were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler was the first person to be executed by electric chair.

August 6, 1921 Birthday (fictional) Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, TV

1926 - Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1926 - In New York, New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone sound system premiered with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore, with music and sound effects.

1945 - Hiroshima, Japan was largely destroyed when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped by the B-29 Enola Gay. August 6th, 1945 at 8:16 a.m. was the deadliest moment in history, killing over 70,000 people in 5 seconds.

August 6, 1952 (fiction) Hellboy was granted honorary humas status by the United Nations, Comic Books

1956 - The DuMont Television Network made its final broadcast, A Boxing Match from the St. Nicholas Arena series.

1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, at least 4862 years old, was cut down in Nevada.

1966 - In a post-fight interview, Howard Cosell honors Muhammad Ali's wishes to no longer be referred to as Cassius Clay, making his new name more acceptable by everyone.

1970 - 200 'yippies' invaded Disneyland, putting on a circus (acting like fools), climbing buildings, and singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme.

1986 - Rain fell a record 13 inches of rain in a single day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1988 - Yo! MTV Raps premiered on MTV

1992 - Harold Russell sold his 1946 Best Supporting Actor award for $65,000.

1994 - #1 Hit August 6, 1994 - August 26, 1994: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You)

1996 - NASA announced that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars and found in Antarctica, contained evidence of primitive life-forms.

2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.

Highlighted Birthdays Today

Soliel Moon Frye actress (43)

Andy Warhol artist

(d. 1987 @58: irregular heart beat)

M. Night Shyamalan, film maker (48)

Lucy 'Lucille Ball' comedian

(d. 1989 @ 77: abdominal aortic aneurysm)

Robert Mitchum actor

(d. 1997 @79: emphysema)

Geri Halliwell English singer, songwriter, author, actress, fashion designer, model and television personality (47)

Puzzle answer:

The cucumbers lost half of their weight.

If the water was 99% of the total weight, the remaining substance must have weighed 0.1lbs. If after the evaporation the substance comprises 2% = 1/50 of the cucumbers, the total weight must be 50 x 0.1lbs = 5lbs.