Aug 18

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Aug. 18, 2019 Week: 34  Day: 230

86004:   H 82° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest wildfire:  28mi.  Nearest lightning:  394mi

Wind:   18mph\Gusts:  28mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[2002]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

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

Today’s Quote

Let your tongue speak

what your heart thinks.

Davy Crockett

Random Tidbits

An estimated 1 million spiders live in one acre of land. The number might be closer to 3 million in the tropics. It is estimated that a human is never more than 10 feet away from a spider--ever. Spiders are vital to a healthy ecosystem. They eat harmful insects, pollinate plants, and recycle dead animals and plants back into the earth. They are also a valuable food source for many small mammals, birds, and fish.

The silk in a spider's web is five times stronger than a strand of steel that is the same thickness. A web made of strands of spider silk as thick as pencil could stop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet in flight. Scientists still cannot replicate the strength and elasticity of a spider's silk.

Observances This Week

12-18

US Amateur Golf Week

14-18

Navajo Nation Code Talker’s Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

15-25

Little League World Series

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  )

Observances for Today

Bad Poetry Day

Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day
National Ice Cream Pie Day

Serendipity Day

World Daffodil Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet and peaceful here. Nice walk this morning.

Santa Fe Indian Market is in full swing. Didn’t go this year, but lots of posts of Facebook. Post from the 1^st time sellers are the best. Being an artist seller is expensive to get a booth with good traffic, but hopefully all will do well.

Mary, from the retirement group, grew up in Portland. Watching the demonstrations there. Hope it stays as peaceful as it is now. Honestly, I don’t get either sides rhetoric. Who are these radicals? Both sides have some very out-of-the-box ideas that I just don’t understand.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Nicole went to the police to report that someone had stolen her vintage ring. When the police got to her house they notice that the window was broken, there was a total mess inside, and there were dirty footprints on the carpet. But, there were no other signs of a break-in.

The next day, the police arrested Nicole for fraud. Why?

Historical Events

1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, became the first English child born in the Americas, to Ananias and Eleanor Dare. She and the rest of the colonists at Roanoke disappeared at some point before August 18, 1590. The only clue was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post.

1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium.

1783 - The 1783 Great Meteor was observed from the British Isles.

1877 - Asaph Hall discovered the Martian moon Phobos.

1903 - German engineer Karl Jathoa may have flown his own airplane, four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

1956: Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog

1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita was published in the United States.

1958 - August 24, 1958: Domenico Modugno - Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)

1962 - Ringo Starr joined the Beatles, replacing Pete Best

1973: Diana Ross - Touch Me in the Morning

1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the 'Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967' in King William's Town, South Africa. He died from injuries that occurred during his arrest. Peter Gabriel released a tribute to him, Biko, which became a hit in 1980.

1979: Chic - Good Times

2001: Alicia Keys - Fallin'

2005 - A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history, and lasted just over six hours.

Birthdays Today

Hal Foster, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)

(d. 1982 @89)

Roman Polanski, director, producer (86)

Shelley Winters [Shirley Schrift], actor

(d. 2006 @85)

Robert Redford, actor (83)

Denis Leary, actor (62)

Patrick Swayze, actor

(d. 2009 @57, pancreatic cancer)

Edward Norton, actor (50)

Christian Slater, actor (50)

Andy Samberg, comedian, actor (41)

Roberto Clemente, baseball player

(d.1972 @38; plane crash)

Mika (Michael Penniman), pop singer (35)

Mika Boorem, actor (32)

Puzzle answer:

As soon as the police got to the “crime scene,” they knew that Nicole has most likely staged the break-in. The glass from the broken window was all outside of the house, meaning that it had been broken from the inside.