Jul 14

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Jul 14, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 196

86004:   H 89° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 35%

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  11mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  89mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1902]   Record Low: 38°[1962]

Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)

 

Today’s  Quote

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

-Ray Bradbury

 

Random Tidbits

 German Chocolate Cake

German chocolate cake is tricky. Most people believe that it’s named for its origin, but really, it’s named after its inventor. Sam German was an American baker who invented a new style of baking chocolate in 1852. The recipe stayed under the radar until 1957 when it was published in a Dallas newspaper. That’s right, German chocolate cake hails from Texas.

Originally, the cake was called German’s chocolate cake, which would have helped ease some of the confusion. Over years of reprints and publications, the name lost its apostrophe and “s,” and now people everywhere believe that it’s a fancy foreign dessert. Maybe that helped it become so popular?

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#14                 "The stuff that dreams are made of."

Humphrey Bogart                  The Maltese Falcon  1941

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 
National Vodka Week: 12-18  Link
Operation Safe Driver Week: 12-18  Link
Sports Cliché Week: 12-18 Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19 cancelling the MLB Games.
Democratic National Convention: 13-16 Postponed until Aug 17-20

 

Observations for Today

Bastille Day

Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day Dress Like a cow and get free entree! Link
International Nude Day Link
National Grand Marnier Day

National Macaroni and Cheese Day Link
National Nude Day

National Tape Measure Day

Pandemonium Day

Shark Awareness Day Link
Victims of The Nice, France Attack Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

A warm day with no moisture in sight. The monsoon needs to start dropping moisture.

Now that the world is awaiting the new name and logo for the 87-year-old NFL team ‘Redskins’, some are showing their disappointment. Even a few of my Native acquaintances are saying it is a bad move. Currently in America, it is necessary to remember, change is always difficult. No matter how large or small the change, some will remain upset. One should listen and act by the moral teachings believed and deal with the fallout.

I’m still listening to Dr. Fauci as he tells it like it is.

The town of Alamosa, CO just set a one-day temperature range with a low of 37 and a high of 92 in a 24 hour period. That is AC during the day, furnace at night weather.  

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I can bring tears to your eyes;

resurrect the dead,

make you smile,

and reverse time.

I form in an instant;

but I can last a lifetime.

What am I?

 

Historical Events

1789 - Bastille Day. Tens of thousands of the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille, the Paris fortress used as a prison to hold political prisoners and released the seven prisoners inside at the onset of the French Revolution.

1791 - The Priestley Riots drove Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution and religious dissenter, out of Birmingham, England.

1798 - The Sedition Act became law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

1853 - Opening of the first major US World's Fair - the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

1874 - The 'Little Chicago Fire' of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20. The October 10, 1871 'Great Chicago Fire' was bigger.

1881 - Billy the Kid was shot and killed by frenemy Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

1911 - Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, landed his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House.

1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties were outlawed except the Nazi Party.

1933 - The Nazi eugenics plan began with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which called for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffered from alleged genetic disorders.

1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

1960 - Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.

1969 - The United States' $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills were officially withdrawn from circulation.

2000 - A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, caused a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

2015 - NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, completing the initial survey of the Solar System.

 

Birthdays Today

@99 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2007)

@93 - Gerald Ford [Leslie Lynch King Jr.], 38th President (d. 2006)

88 – Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier, American football player, actor

@84 - Tom Carvel, Greek-American businessman, founded Carvel (d. 1990)

@71 - Kate M. Gordon, American suffragette (d. 1931; stroke)

@68 - John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996; stomach cancer)

60 – Jane Lynch, Actor

@56 - Jerry Rubin, American activist, businessman (d. 1994; accident/heart attack)

@55 – [Woodrow Wilson]Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967; Hunington’s)

32 - Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist

 

Puzzle Answer

A memory

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