Nov 20

 

 

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Nov 20, 2020  Week: 47 Day:325	Local:  H 63°\ L 33°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  20mph	Nearest lightning:1554mi.; active fire:  59mi
High Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 71°[1976]   Record: -5°[1964]	Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen

 

Random Tidbits

Although new metals are being produced and some metals were difficult to isolate in pure form, there were seven metals known to ancient man. These were gold, copper, silver, mercury, lead, tin, and iron.  

 

A little humor

When one door closes and another door opens,

you are probably in prison.

 

True Things

A Chinese martial artist broke a Guinness World Record when he used his nunchucks to volley 34 table tennis balls in 1 minute. Xie Desheng, who previously used his nunchucks -- also known as nunchaku -- to break records for lighting matches, extinguishing candles and unscrewing bottle caps, broke his own table tennis world record in Jinan, Shandong. Xie previously set the record at 32, and was able to advance the record during his most recent attempt to 34. Xie, who teaches nunchuck classes in Shanghai, has won numerous awards at martial arts events across the globe.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link	Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link
Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link	American Education Week: 16-20 Link Medical Cannabis Week: 16-20 Link
Internat’l Fraud Awareness Week: 15-21 Link Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 15-22 Link	Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Nat’l Global Entrepreneurship Week: 16-22 Link
InterNat’l Restorative Justice Week: 16-22 Link	Nat’l Farm-City Week: 19-26

 

Observations for Today

African Industrialization Day

Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D.

Name Your PC Day

National Absurdity Day

National Peanut Butter Fudge Day

Substitute Educators Day

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Universal Children's Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Another windy day…not quite as bad as yesterday. Took a short drive around but no shopping. I had to get out of the house.

Congratulations to Joy Harjo, Muskogee (Creek) Nation for being named Poet Laureate by Library of Congress for the third straight year. Check out her poetry on the internet machine.

While on my drive I checked out Right Wing Radio. It is amazing and frightening the election result lies they are perpetrating over the radio. Rush and his gang were demanding that everyone in America, who is an American, must stand up and demand a truthful recount to prove that Trump won by a landslide. In the 20+ minutes I listened, not one fact was given, only vague references. I couldn’t take it anymore and switched back to NPR.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can't operate on him he is my son. Who is the doctor?

 

Historical Events

1866 – US patent (#59,745) for a yoyo, called a “Whirligig” or “Bandalore” in the paperwork, was issued to James L. Haven and Charles Hettrick of Cincinnati, Ohio.

1866 – The US patent (#59,918) on a rotary crank bicycle was issued to Pierre Lallemont of Paris, France.

1888 – Willard LeGrand Bundy was issued the first U.S. patent (#393,205) for a time recording clock. His company went on to help start TCR in 1911, which evolved into IBM.

1906 – Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce formed Rolls-Royce.

1945 – The Nuremberg Trials with an International Military Tribunal made up of four judges one from each country United States, Soviet Union, Britain, and France begin when charges against Germany’s Nazi leaders.

1962 – USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifted the blockade.

1969 – Cleveland, Ohio’s The Plain Dealer published explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

1973 – A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on CBS for the first time.

1982 – Drew Barrymore, at age 7, hosted Saturday Night Live. She was starring in the hit film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at that time.

1985 – A successful heart transplant to a 4-day-old infant, Eddie Anguiano, known then as Baby Moses, was performed by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey of the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Eddie is still living and living in Las Vegas as far as we know.

2013 – Two campus police officers who pepper-sprayed peaceful student protesters at a close range at the University of California were suspended.

2014 Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes

2018 Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank

2018 More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan

2019 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is "climate emergency"

2019 Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances"

 

Birthdays Today

@95 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)

92 – Estelle Parsons, American actress (Bonnie & Clyde)

@84 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, creator of Dick Tracy (d. 1985)

78 – Joe Biden, American lawyer, and politician, President-Elect

73 – Joe Walsh, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

64 – Bo Derek [Mary Cathleen Collins], American actress, and producer

@63 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953 stroke)

@42 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968 assassinated)

 

Puzzle Answer

The doctor is the boy’s mother.