Jul 24

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Jul 24, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 206

86004:   H 84° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: %

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  13mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  6mi.; Nearest active fire:  66mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 91°[1937]   Record Low: 39°[1995]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"Success is not final;

failure is not fatal:

It is the courage to continue that counts."

-Winston S. Churchill

 

Random Tidbits

There is a bubble of debris in Earth's orbit. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network and other organizations track roughly 750,000 pieces of "space junk" as they orbit the Earth, some moving as fast as 17,000 miles-per-hour.

Human activity and interference on the Earth's surface, from mining activities to shipwrecks, have led to the creation of over 200 new minerals. Simonkolleite, a glowing mineral first discovered in a mine in Arizona, was formed by the mixture of natural properties like water and mining artifacts.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#4       "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

Judy Garland              The Wizard of Oz    1939

 

Observations This Week

National Scrabble Week: 18-25  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Moth Week: 18-26 Link
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25 
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25 Link 
National Independent Retailers Week: 19-25 Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week:19-25 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
RAGBRAI: 19-25
Women in Baseball Week: 19-25 
International Lace Week: 20-24  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Baby Food Week: 22-25  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 23-25  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comic Con International: 23-26 Cancelled due to COVID-19 To be virtual
Garlic Days: 24-26 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 24-26 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Rope Skipping Week: 24-8/3  Link
National Little League Baseball Week: 25-8/23  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Amelia Earhart Day

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day Link
Cousins Day

International Self Care Day  Link
Lumberjack Day 
National Drive-Thru Day
National Tequila Day
National Thermal Engineers Day  Link  
Tell an Old Joke Day

Tequila Day  Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Monsoon weather has brought rain this week to our parched forest. Looks like today will be no different. Yeah!

The United Daughters of the Confederacy have asked our governor to return their monuments here in AZ. They were given to AZ in 1961 on the 109^th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. 1961, by coincidence <?>, was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. This also gives Gov. Ducey a reprieve from having to make any decision on the monuments. I’m sure he is relieved since he is a great supporter of President Trump’s agenda. It should be noted that AZ was not even a state until 1912, long after the Civil War.

I have some acquaintances who live in Portland. The husband is a lawyer, the wife a well-known freelance photographer. They have 2 pre-teen boys. They seem even more confused than I am about what the Federal Troops are doing in Portland. According to them, the news stories are not telling a true story. It is not as bad as some news organizations (FOX) are saying. However today, the Mayor met with protesters in open space. Someone decided that tear gas would help. The mayor said “I’m not afraid, I’m pissed off.” I sure hope this is worked out sooner than later.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Looking at a telephone, and looking at the 3 letters for each number, decode this phone number to see what celebrity is named: 623-6662

 

Historical Events

1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI, after the sudden death of one husband and the quick marriage to another.

1701 - Detroit was founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

1823 - Slavery was abolished in Chile.

1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1847 - Brigham Young brought 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing Salt Lake City.

1901 - Writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas

1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers

1935 - The Dust Bowl heat wave reached its peak, with temperatures of 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1950 - Cape Canaveral Air Force Station opened with the launch of Bumper rocket 8. The first 7 Bumpers were launched from White Sands, New Mexico.

1967 First modern hospice St Christopher's founded by Dr. Cicely Saunders in London, England, beginning of modern palliative care and the hospice movement

1974 - The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they ordered him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor,

2002 - Democrat James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1 (CA Representative Gary Condit didn't vote against him).

2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya

2019 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump

2019 Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission

 

Birthdays Today

84 - Ruth Buzzi, American comedic actress

@77 - Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998; heart disease)

74 – Gallagher [Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.], American comedian

69 - Lynda Carter, American actress, 1972 Miss World USA

@68 - Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (d. 1870)

52 - Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer

@39 - Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (disappeared 1937)

38 - Elisabeth Moss, American actress

38 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress

 

Puzzle Answer

Madonna

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