FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Aug.
23, 2019 Week: 34 Day: 235
86004: H 84° \ L 55° \ Average Sky
Cover: 30%
Nearest
wildfire: 21mi. Nearest lightning: 176mi
Wind: 20mph\Gusts:
33mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 90°[1985] Record Low: 24°[1968]
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Random Tidbits
During an average
lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood, enough to
fill 200 train tank cars.
In 1929, German
surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904 - 1979) examined the inside of his own heart by
threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches and into his
heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.
Observances This Week
15-25
Little League World Series
18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Observances for Today
Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition
Valentino Day
My Rambling Thoughts
The stronger
winds are making the temps a little cooler. Enjoying it.
Our retirement
group had a nice lunch at our favorite local Mexican place…locally owned. Good
conversation, good times, great food, and good service. The greeter turns out
to be a neighbor. Somehow we always find solutions to the world’s problems…just
can’t get anyone else to listen to our solutions. Haha.
So difficult to
listen to our President. One day he wants meaningful background checks, then
says we have strong background laws already. He wants to hold children longer
than 20 days in detention, but wants to protect children. Guess we all just
wait to see what happens, then take action.
The past few days
I have had itching on my legs. Benadryl gel is working fairly well, when I
remember to use it. I’m blaming it on the heat, and hoping it isn’t some kind
of allergic reaction to something. Skin is not dry, as I use lotion on my legs
daily. It’s only the legs and now the arms or body. Strange, hope it stops very
soon.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
A couple went to
Hawaii for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, the husband returned home alone
because his wife had died in a horrible boating accident. The police contacted
the travel agent he booked the trip with and arrested him for murdering his
wife. How did they know he did it?
Historical Events
79 - Mount
Vesuvius began stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1305 - Sir
William Wallace was executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1775 - King
George III delivered his 'Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St.
James's' stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open
and avowed rebellion.
1913 - The Little
Mermaid statue was dedicated in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark
1948 - World
Council of Churches was formed.
1965 - The Sound
of Music was released, starring Julie Andrews
1966 - Lunar
Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1969 - #1 Hit: The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
1973 - A bank
robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the
next five days the hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to
the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1975 - #1 Hit:
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Fallin' in Love
1991 - Tim
Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web opened the WWW to new users.
1996- The Price
Is Right celebrated its 25th anniversary special on CBS
1998 - That 70's
show premiered on FOX
2007 - The
skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich,
Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia were discovered
near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2008 - #1 Hit:
Rihanna - Disturbia
2011 (Earthquake)
Virginia/East Coast, USA
Birthdays Today
Barbara Eden,
actor (88)
Gene Kelly,
dancer, actor
(d.
1996 @83)
Rick Springfield,
Rock star (70)
Scott Caan, TV actor
(43)
Kobe Bryant, NBA
star (41)
Keith Moon,
drummer (The Who)
(d.
1978 @32 OD)
Seth Curry, NBA
star (29)
River Phoenix,
actor, musician
(d.
1993 @23 OD)
Puzzle answer:
The travel agent
revealed that he had only booked a one-way ticket for his wife.
