Jul 7

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Jul 7, 2020 Week: 28 Day: 188

86004:   H 88° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  225mi.; Nearest active fire:  68mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1905]   Record Low: 32°[1955]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance;

it is the illusion of knowledge.”

-Stephen Hawking

 

Random Tidbit

Ten common, extremely high fiber foods include; Bran, Cauliflower & Broccoli, Cabbage, Berries, Leafy Greens, Celery, Squash, Beans, Mushrooms and Oranges

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

You can never trust an atom... they make up everything.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#89   "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American      1940

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11 
National Farriers Week: 5-11 
National Theraputic Recreation Week: 5-11  Link  
Nude Recreation Weekend: 5-12 
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 

 

Observations for Today

Chocolate Day Link
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day Link
National Strawberry Sundae Day

National Macaroni DayTell the Truth Day
Victims of The Dallas, Texas Attack Day  Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

A warm day; temps really went up after sunrise. By 9am it was already 85. No rain clouds in site.

For some reason, I read many articles on Blacks in America. Two cities with high Black populations have high levels of lead in their water. Flint for over 5 years and still not solved. Newark, this year.  No affluent communities have this issue.

As a linguist I’m fascinated by word use and word history. Here are some interesting…at least to me…ones:

Master Bedroom is being changed to Primary Bedroom due to connotation of slavery.

In computer talk: Many programs are set up as Master & Slave. They are changing it to Leader/Follower

Web Browsers have a ‘white’ list that allows sites to be visited; Blacklist sites can not be easily visited.

In Golf: the Masters started in Atlanta, Georgia and some are calling for a new name.

‘The Peanut Gallery’…during vaudeville days was where the Blacks had to sit in the theater.

‘Grandfathered In’…used in many laws, began where newly freed Blacks in the South couldn’t vote without a literacy test.

‘Cakewalk’ dance…started when Black enslaved people would mock how their Master’s danced.

Other terms: lynch mob, uppity, black mark, and sold down the river.

Wild Javelins have been spotted around Flagstaff, looking for water. So now I must watch for bear and javelins…Hmmm.

A judge ruled that the Dakota Oil pipeline [DAPL]must be shut down and remove oil until many environmental studies are complete. A few years ago, the Trump administration opened the pipeline while Natives and Environmentalists protested.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Each of the three lines of letters below spells the names of dance styles, but the letters have been mixed up. Four letters from the first word are now in the third line, four letters from the third word are in the second line and four letters from the second word are in the first line. The remaining letters are in their original places. What are the words?

 

C B A R A E K T N N

T R E R E D A L C E

H A L A N T S L O A

 

Historical Events

1456 - A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy, authorized by Pope Callixtus III, 25 years after her death.

1520 - Spanish conquistadores defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

1898 - US President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Ziegfeld Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1928 - Sliced bread was sold for the first time, by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1930 - The construction of the Hoover Dam began. It was completed/dedicated on September 30, 1935

1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

1946 - Howard Hughes crashed his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

1947 - The Roswell Incident, a reported crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his recording for Sun Records, That's All Right.

1981 - US President Ronald Reagan (R) appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

2005 - A series of four explosions occurred on London's transportation system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

2006 - Psych premiered on USA

2007 - The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

2017 Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3

2019 Nigeria, Africa' biggest economy, joins the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in attempt to create world's largest free trade area

 

Birthdays Today

93 - Carl Hilding ‘Doc’ Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor

@80 - Otto Frederick Rohwedder, Am. engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)

80 - Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, Beatles' drummer, and actor

@75 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982; heart attack)

71 - Shelley Duvall, American actress

@63 - Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007; colon cancer)

55 - Mo Collins [Maureen "Mo" Ann Collins], American comedic actress

54 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian

 

Puzzle Answer

Answer: Charleston, breakdance, tarantella.

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