Aug 18

 

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Aug 18, 2020  Week: 34  Day:                        Local:   H 89° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph                          Nearest lightning:  140mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record High: 87°[2002]   Record Low: 36°[1975]       Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

-Wayne Gretzky

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Random Tidbits

 The term "volcano" is from the Latin Volcanus or Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The Romans first used the term to describe Mt. Etna, a volcanic mountain they believed was the forge of Vulcan.

The myth of the lost city of Atlantis sinking beneath the waves may be based on the Greek island of Santorini, of which portions collapsed into the sea after a large volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age.

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A little humor

While fishing off Myrtle Beach, a Yankee tourist capsized his boat. Petrified, he yelled to an old guy standing on the shore, “Are there any gators around here?!”

“Naw,” the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”

Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming toward shore. Halfway there, he asked the guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”

“We didn’t do anything,” the old guy said. “The sharks got ’em.”

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State Name Origins

The state of Maryland, which as a colony, was founded as a haven for Catholics persecuted in England, was named to honor Queen Henrietta Maria, the Catholic wife of England's King Charles I.

The name "Massachusetts" is derived from the language of the Algonquian nation and translates as "at or about the great hill." The hill refers to the Blue Hills southwest of Boston.

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Observations This Week

Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico  Aug10-20, 1680

National Aviation Week: 15-21  
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22  Link   
Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24

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Observations for Today

Bad Poetry Day
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day
National Ice Cream Pie Day

Serendipity Day

World Daffodil Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Week starting off hot…again. Clouds appear late every day. That’s it they just appear…no moisture falls from them.

About a month ago someone shot a BB into my neighbor’s front window. Luckily our windows are double pain, so it just shattered the outside pane. Today, the replacement guy showed up and fixed it. Another neighbor moved in a couple of weeks ago. We have strict parking guidelines…must have a permit, no backing into parking spaces, two permits per household. The new neighbor has 2 vehicles…a Ram Pickup and a Lexus. The problem is that the Ram has a trailer too. So, this jerk pulls in every afternoon and takes up 5 parking spaces. Then he leaves the next day, only to return. Today a tow truck arrived and was ready to tow the truck/trailer. However, the driver could not hook up because of the way he parked. The driver stuck a note on the driver’s side window and left. While I was on my computer, the guy comes out, reads the note, crumples it up, throws it in his truck, goes back inside. Just before noon, he left in his truck. Hope he finds a new parking place.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez will be speaking at the Democrat Convention on Tuesday. Hope his speech is appreciated by all who hear it. He was born and raised in Shonto, where I started my career with the BIA. He was born in 1975 the same year I had moved to Tuba. Traditional Navajo appreciate his understanding of traditional beliefs. From what I have heard and seen, he is doing a very good job as President.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Which tire does not move when a car turns right?

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Historical Events

1587 – Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, became the first English child born in the Americas, to Ananias and Eleanor Dare. She and the rest of the colonists at Roanoke disappeared at some point before August 18, 1590. The only clue was the word “Croatoan” carved into a post.

1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium.

1783 – The 1783 Great Meteor was observed from the British Isles.

1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho may have flown his own airplane, four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.

1958 – Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita was published in the United States.

2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history, and lasted just over six hours.

2017 Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes

2017 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump

2019 1.7 million take part in pro-democracy protest peacefully in Hong Kong, a quarter of the population

2019 US President Donald Trump confirms he is interested in buying Greenland for the US

2019 Iceland holds a funeral for the first glacier lost to climate change at site of Okjökull glacier

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Birthdays Today

1587 – Virginia Dare, the first child born to English parents in the Americas (date of death unknown)

93 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States

@91 – Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (d. 1996)

87 – Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, and producer

@85 – Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)

84 – Robert Redford, Actor, founded Sundance Film Festival

77 – Martin Mull, American actor, and comedian

@71 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field’s (d. 1906; pneumonia)

59 – Bob Woodruff, American journalist, and author

@57 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, and dancer (d. 2009)

51 – Christian Slater, actor

51 – Edward Norton, American actor

42 – Andy Samberg, American actor, and comedian

@38 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 1972)

@35 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809; suicide<?>)

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Puzzle Answer

The spare tire

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