Jun 14

 

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Jun 14, 2020 Week: 25  Day: 166

86004:   H 80° \ L 41° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   13mph\Gusts:  29mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  153mi.; Nearest active fire:  105mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire

Red Flag Warning          

Record High: 92°[1974]   Record Low: 25°[2001]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

 

Today’s  Quote

"The future belongs to those who

believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

Romans were highly superstitious and feared anything to do with the left, which is why their words for "left" and "left-handed"; sinister and sinstra, gave us the modern meaning of "sinister."

The first-ever shopping mall was built by the Emperor Trajan in Rome. It consisted of several levels and more than 150 outlets that sold everything ranging from food and spices to clothes.

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

"Blorft’ is an adjective I just made up that means completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum. I have been Blorft every day for the past seven years.

Tina Fey

Observations This Week

Superman Days: 11-14  Link
National Hermit Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 14-20  Link  Link
Greencare For Troops Week: 14-20
National Little League Week: 14-20   Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Play Catch Week: 14-20 
National Pet Wedding Week:14-20  Link
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 14-20 Link 
National Flag Week: 14-20 
National Waste & Recycling Workers Week: 14-20  Link 

Observations for Today

Army's Birthday
Bourbon Day Link

Family History Day
Flag Day

Hydranencephaly Awareness Day  Link
International Bath Day  Link
Monkey Around Day

Multicultural American Child Day
National Bourbon Day  
National Strawberry Shortcake Day

Pause for the Pledge Day
Race Unity Day
(World) Blood Donor Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Not excited about the wind today. It’s a Red Flag Day. Pine needles loading up my deck. Pollen covering my vehicle. And the weather guy sez to expect the same tomorrow. While out watering Andy’s planters, I had to try and keep the water in the pots as the wind was blowing it away of the planters. Crazy,

Good move…sort of…Trump has moved his Tulsa rally to June 20 for his Black supporters. He is still holding a rally with lots of people in a confined area. And the NFL makes June 19^th a company holiday to honor the final freeing of slaves in the south.

I have 2 friends living in Tucson. One is a HS classmate who is about 5miles from the fire. The other is a TC colleague who is about 15miles from the fire. Smoky for both. Scary for my classmate. Her area might be moving to the ‘set’ stage if the wind keeps up. I lived through that last year here in Flag.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What is the next number in this series?

 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …

Historical Events

1158 - Munich (in what is now Germany) was founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1775 -The Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 - The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. Today, June 14 is officially 'Flag Day' in the United States.
1789 - Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

1834 - The first sandpaper was patented (#X08244, #X08245, #X08246, #X08247) and issued to Isaac Fisher, Jr., of Springfield, Vermont

1872 - Trade unions were legalized in Canada.

1884 - New York was the first state in the US to enact legislation requiring the burying of utility wires.

1938 - Dr. Benjamin Gruskin of Philadelphia, Pa. patented (#2,120,667) chlorophyll as a "therapeutic agent for the use in the treatment of infection" of the blood stream, infected parts, and for open cuts and wounds.

1951 - The Univac1 was unveiled in Washington, DC. and dedicated as the world's first commercial computer.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill that placed the words 'under God' into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1959 - Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opened to the public in Anaheim, California.
1966 - The Vatican announced the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("Index of Prohibited Books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 - The People's Republic of China tested its first hydrogen bomb.

1968 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 2nd studio album by Iron Butterfly is released

1972 As of December 31, the insecticide DDT was banned from use in the US.

1972 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government

1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton

2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property

2019 Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete dayight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament

Birthdays Today

@85-Musician Burl Ives (d. 1995)

@85-Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (d. 1896)

77-Politician Newt Gingrich

74-45^th US President Donald Trump

52-Actor Yasmine Bleeth

51-Tennis star Stefanie Maria Steffi Graf
59-Musician Boy George [George Alan O'Dowd]
@39-Activist Che Guevara (d. 1967; executed)

Puzzle Answer

The next number is 34.  The numbers are the total of the two previous numbers.  This sequence is known as the Fibonacci Sequence.