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Nov. 4,
2019 Week: 44 Day: 308
86004: H 67° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest
active fire: 87mi. Nearest lightning: 1207mi
Wind: 7mph\Gusts:
8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 73°[1975] Record Low: -1°[1922]
Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation;
it means understanding that something
is what it is
and that there’s got to be a way
through it.”
~ Michael J Fox
Observances This Week
10/25-11/11
World Origami Days
1-7
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week
Link
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation
Week Link
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week
World Communication Week
2-6
National Patient Accessibility Week
Observances for Today
My Rambling Thoughts
Not
too cold last night and has warmed up nicely. Just had to deal with the pine
needles on my deck and on the front walk.
I
figured out my problem with the APS website…I usually use Chrome but also have
Edge. When I was on Edge this morning, I tried the link and everything worked
just fine. Crazy, but now I know that I used the same amount of electricity in
Oct 2018 as I did in 2019. Both years I used more than in September of the
year.
I
watched the Sunday morning news shows. I wish all the shows would give a 3-minute
summary of the weeks impeachment news, then spend the rest of the time talking about
other news. I’m getting very burned out. I doubt that it is going to happen and
the only way it will end is with the 2020 elections…over a year away. The more
the Dems stay in the news, the less chance he will be defeated and the country
will probably move way to the right. The only way is a campaign to get the
liberals to vote in 2020.
Samantha
Bee did an interesting segment of advertising on the internet machine. When
there is a pharmaceutical commercial advertisement on TV or radio, it is
required by law to list side effects. When an actor is used in an insurance
advertisement it has to state that in the commercial. However; when someone on Social
Media talks about the same products, they don’t have to say if they are being
paid by the company that makes the product nor do they have to list side
effects. Just another reason not to trust social media.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
The most impressive boundary’s not a wall.
It’s not a manufactured thing at all.
Moving towards it won’t reduce the gap
and nothing marks its presence on a map.
Historical Events
1667 (Earthquake) Shamakhi (now Azerbaijan) estimated 80,000 people killed.
1841 - First wagon train arrived in California. They left Independence,
Missouri on May 1, 1841.
1846 - The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for an artificial leg was granted to
Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire.
1873 - A patent (#144,182) for a gold crown was issued to Dr. John B. Beers
of San Francisco, California on "artificial crowns for teeth".
1879 - James Jacob Ritty and his brother John invented the first cash
register, to stop the stealing by his bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant
saloon in Dayton, Ohio.
1904 - First stadium built specifically for football opened (Harvard
Stadium). Officially, when referring to more than one stadium, they should be
called 'stadia.' But 'stadiums' works too.
1914 - Vogue held the first model show ("Fashion Fete" in New
York City), although individual American stores had shown models wearing the
latest fashions since the early 1900s.
1921 The Sturmabteilung
or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established by Adolf Hitler
1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt, in
the Valley of the Kings, by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
1929 Richard E. Byrd,
Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month,
1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first
exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
1939 - First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) was exhibited, Chicago,
Ill. The A/C option was available for $274 until 1941. WW II stopped production
of many luxury items. It wasn't until 1953 that air conditioning was
commercially available in cars again.
1946 - UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) was founded.
1948 American-born
British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1948 - TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature "for his
outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."
1952 - The United States government established the National Security
Agency, or NSA.
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1960 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments
(OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov forms Human Rights Committee
1972 - #1 Hit: Johnny
Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seized the US embassy, took 90 hostages
(444 days) in the "Iran hostage crisis".
1978 - #1 Hit: Anne
Murray - You Needed Me
1979 - Blockbuster film Jaws was shown on TV for the first time, on ABC.
Originally released in 1975, it was the first modern day
"blockbuster." When released, critic Roger Ebert called it "a
sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the
better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into
human beings".
1989 - #1 Hit: Roxette
- Listen To Your Heart
2008 - Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.
2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet
split equally between men and women
2018 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd
fastest men's time in history; Kenya's Mary Keitany captures her 4th women's
NYC crown in 2:22:48
Birthdays Today
@92 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, and producer
(died in 2009)
@90 – Doris Roberts, American actress
(died in 2016)
@85 – Art Carney, American actor
(died in 2003)
82 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer
79 – Delbert McClinton, American Singer/Songwriter
73 – Laura Bush, American educator and librarian,
45th First Lady of the United States
69 – Markie Post, American actress (Night Court)
59 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress
58 – Ralph Macchio, American actor (Karate Kid)
58 – Jeff Probst, American TV host and producer
@55 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter
(died in 1935; plane crash)
50 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer and actor
50 – Mathew McConaughey, actor
@42 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer
(died in 1989; HIV/AIDS)
Puzzle answer:
The horizon.
